10th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM/SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES (IWSSA'12)

http://www.ugr.es/~iwssa/

co-located with 24rd International Conference on Advanced Information
System Engineering (CAiSE’12)

http://www.caise2012.univ.gda.pl/

25-29th June, 2012, Gdańsk, Poland
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Far from being residual in its importance, Systems and Software Architectures prevail as a touchtone for many System and Software Engineering (SSE) projects in achieving a certain level of quality. The successive emergence of new technologies and computation paradigms, and the advent of new development approaches, such as Cloud Computing, Model and Ontology driven Engineering, Lean Software Development, Agile, etc., to mention a few, lend new opportunities for academicians, practitioners and even politicians to steadily strive to come up with new system designs or even revisit old ones.
In this context, service oriented and/or service-driven architectures are gaining momentum within the SSE community in recent years and even changing the way in which system operation is conceived. Indeed, thinking of services almost means not developing any more, but orchestrating and choreographing functionalities developed in the past through well-defined interfaces. Interoperability, heterogeneity, etc. are commonplaces in this context.
IWSSA workshop specially focuses on the enactment/connection of the different kinds of system and software requirements into/to concrete design issues (decisions, guidelines, paradigms, etc.) for system/software architectures. In particular, the workshop stresses the importance of non-functional requirements analysis for successful architectural designs. This year, particular attention will be put on the satisfaction of requirements in service-oriented systems.
Techniques, methodologies and processes to address this issue will be presented and discussed at the workshop.
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TOPICS

The topics, with special emphasis on architectures satisfying requirements
in specific domains, include but are not limited to:

architecting critical systems for diversity and collaborative operationality
roles of enterprise/system architectures in system/software lifecycle
requirements and software architectures for specific application domains and product lines
case studies especially for complex systems in organizational and social settings
architectural models in model-driven approaches
traceability and dependency among requirements, system architectures and software architectures
engineering quality in architectures to address non-functional requirements such as security, interoperability, adaptability, responsiveness, ubiquity, reliability, dependability, self-healing ability, performance, usability, safety, functionality, etc.
methodologies and techniques applied to the construction of high-quality system/software architectures
models and design theories -both evolutionary and revolutionary- for system architectures and software architectures
software architecture maintenance, evolution and management
validation of requirements and verification techniques for architectural design
metrics for architectures
service-oriented / object-oriented / aspect-oriented / goal-oriented / agent-oriented / scenario-based approaches to enterprise/software architecture development
COTS / GOTS / Component / Middleware-based development for architectures
Ontology-driven architectures

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PAPERS

Papers should explore open research problems, as well as provide advances
in the areas of architectures, requirements and development. Papers
submitted to IWSSA’12 must not have been accepted for publication
elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All
papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members. Two types of papers are invited
from academia and industry:

• Short paper: maximum 6 pages (according to workshop instructions) for
position paper or work-in-progress
• Full paper: maximum 12 pages (according to workshop instructions) for
research results or experience

Accepted papers will be published in a LNBIP Proceedings Volume by
Springer Verlag. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference
automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Camera Ready papers
must comply with the Springer formatting rules. Further authoring
instructions are available at:

http://www.springer.com/series/7911#

After each workshop edition, IWSSA chairs have edited a special issue in a
Software Engineering journal with significantly improved and extended
versions of papers accepted. Previous special issues related to IWSSA have
been published in the Journal of Science of Computer Programming (four
special issues), the Journal of Systems Architecture, Computer Standards &
Interfaces and the Journal of Systems and Software.

This time again, authors of selected quality papers, from those presented
at IWSSA'12, will be invited to submit significantly extended versions to
the review process for a special issue of an International Journal,
agreement in course with the journal publisher.

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DEADLINES

Paper Submission Deadline: March 11, 2012 (strict)
Acceptance Notification: March 27, 2012
Camera Ready Due: March 31, 2012
CAiSE Conference: 25th – 29th June 2012

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WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Lawrence Chung, University of Texas at Dallas (USA), chung@utdallas.edu
Nary Subramanian, University of Texas at Tyler (USA),
nsubramanian@uttyler.edu
José Luis Garrido, University of Granada (Spain), jgarrido@ugr.es (contact
co-chair)
Manuel Noguera, University of Granada (Spain), mnoguera@ugr.es (contact
co-chair)


For more information, please send an e-mail to both contact co-chairs.