CfP - WCOP 2015 - 20th International Doctoral Symposium on Components and Architecture

[Davide Falessi]

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                              WCOP 2015                  

           20th International Doctoral Symposium           

               on Components and Architecture              

                                                           

                         May 4, 2015                       

                      Montreal, Canada                     

                                                           

           http://wcop.ipd.kit.edu/wcop2015/      

                                

                                                           

                       CALL FOR PAPERS            

                                                           

                                                           

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IMPORTANT DATES:

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Submission deadline: January 9, 2015.

Notification deadline: February 9, 2015.

Submission of camera ready version: February 23, 2015.

GOALS & SCOPE

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In the frame of the CompArch 2015 conference, WCOP is organised as a

Doctoral Symposium for young researchers in the area of component 

based software engineering, software architecture and software quality. 

The doctoral symposium is aimed to give feedback from established 

researchers to promising new ideas in the field of component-based 

software engineering, software architecture and software quality to 

young researchers in all phases of their Phd career. Therefore we 

intentionally encourage PhD students, young Post-Doc researchers, and 

junior academics to submit their proposal statements with potentially 

unfinished and not yet validated ideas.

CompArch YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

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Each year, the CompArch Young Investigator Award may be given to an 

outstanding paper accepted for WCOP and written by a PhD student(s). 

The award includes free registration to CompArch and the presentation

of the paper during the main CompArch program.

TOPICS

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Areas of interest are component based software engineering, software

architecture and software quality in general. More specifically, this

includes:

  * software-services (as deployed components), 

  * specification and analysis of quality of service properties,

  * predictable assembly of components / compositional reasoning,

  * component-oriented development processes,

  * traceability between architecture, components and code,

  * components as a means to implement architectures,

  * mobile and ubiquitous components for pervasive computer

    applications,

  * security and privacy of component based architectures,

  * performance/efficiency and reliability of component-based systems,

  * specification and analysis of component-based architectures,

  * deployment attribution / constraints, 

  * COP and Model-driven Development (MDA),

  * addressing variability requirements in component-based solutions,

  * system design for independent extensibility,

  * maintainability and evolution of component based systems,

  * component versus application evolution,

  * management of component based systems,

  * domain-specific (vertical) standards,

  * organizational and business aspects of components and software

    architectures.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

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Submitted research proposals should not be longer than 6 pages in

double column ACM format. The submitted research proposal should

address motivation, idea, benefits and planned next steps as well as

related work and potential ideas of validation. It is well admitted,

if a proposal primarily aims at discussion than at the presentation 

of solutions. Papers are to be submitted via the EasyChair conference

system.

PROCEEDINGS:

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Accepted proposals will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The 

acceptance of a paper requires at least one author to register, 

present and to participate during the discussions of the workshop. 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

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Barbora Buhnova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA

Wolfgang Weck, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

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Steffen Becker (University of Paderborn, Germany)

Ivica Crnkovic (Mälardalen University, Sweden)

Ian Gorton (Pacific North West National Laboratory, USA)

George Heineman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

Jan Kofron (Charles University, Czech Republic)

Grace A. Lewis (Software Engineering Institute, USA)

Raffaela Mirandola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Sven Overhage (University of Bamberg, Germany)

Ipek Ozkaya (Carnegie Mellon University, SEI, USA)

Heinz Schmidt (RMIT University, Australia)

Jean-Guy Schneider (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Judith Stafford (Tufts University, USA)

MORE INFORMATION:

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http://wcop.ipd.kit.edu/wcop2015/