CfP: WICSA 2015 - The 12th Working IEEE / IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
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Davide Falessi
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WICSA 2015
12th Working IEEE / IFIP Conference
on Software Architecture
May 4 - 8, 2015
Montreal, Canada
CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE : January 15, 2015
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstracts due: 6 January 2015
Full papers due: 15 January 2015
Notification of acceptance: 12 February 2015
Camera-ready due: 3 March 2015
GOALS & SCOPE
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WICSA is the premier gathering of practitioners and researchers interested in
finding out about and improving the state of practice of Software Architecture.
Since its inception, WICSA has functioned as a working conference, where
researchers meet practitioners and where practicing software architects can
explain the problems that they face in their day-to-day work and so influence
the future of the field. In addition to traditional conference keynotes and paper
sessions WICSA includes interactive working sessions where practitioners
and researchers discuss their experiences to understand the current state of
the field, and identify opportunities to make a difference in the future.
For WICSA 2015 the theme is “Architecting in context” – exploring the relations
between software architecture, organizational and global, ever-changing and
pervasive contexts. This conference looks at how context influences architecting
and determines novel architecture solutions. Architects work in many different
contexts and these contexts have an impact both on their design decisions and
their organizational responsibilities. An architect working in a financial institution
must comply with a variety of regulations. An architect working in a gaming
company has very different concerns, as do architects working in automotive
domains. Development that is geographically distributed affects both the design
of the architecture and the structure of the developing organization. We are
interested in original papers that place architecture and architects in context
and explain how that context affects their work and their output.
TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS
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We solicit two types of submissions from the software architecture community:
full papers and short papers.
Full papers should describe original and significant results of theoretical, empirical,
conceptual, or experimental research and industrial practice in software
architecture. Full papers are limited to 10 proceedings pages, at most 8000 words.
Papers must not have been previously published nor submitted or under
consideration elsewhere for publication. All papers should explicitly state the goals of
systems or approaches described, discuss relationships to previous work, and
should use accepted, standard terminology. We especially welcome submissions of
papers addressing practical evaluation and industrial application, as well as
innovative approaches and ideas discussing emerging challenges.
Short papers are focused pieces of writing intended to stimulate discussion related to
experiences and ideas, rather than to present mature results. Short papers are
limited to 4 proceedings pages, at most 3000 words. Papers should trigger discussion
and raise awareness and reflection on specific topics, in both research and industrial
practice, such as: insights on existing methods and techniques; identifying gaps in the
state of the practice; and proposals to fill those gaps. Depending on their ability to trigger
discussion, both full and short accepted papers can be clustered and discussed in
working sessions, always an integral part of the WICSA program.
We are also actively soliciting proposals for tutorials, workshops and birds-of-a-feather
sessions to be part of the conference program. Further details on submission of each
type of contribution can be found on the conference website.
TOPICS
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Topics of interest for the conference include (but are not limited to) the following themes:
*Software architecture/architecting in organizational and/or global contexts
*Software architecture and (software) qualities
*Reusable architectural solutions
*Architecture description languages and model driven architecture
*Software architecture modeling, analysis methods and tools
*Software architecture/architecting, energy-awareness and sustainability
*Software architecture knowledge management
*Software architecture of ultra large to very small systems
*Software architectures for emerging systems
*Software architecture discovery and recovery
*Software architecture for legacy systems and systems integration
*Software architecture for service-oriented and cloud-based provisioning
*Open architectures, product-line architectures, software ecosystems, systems of systems
*Cultural, economic, business and managerial aspects of software architecture
*Software architects' roles and responsibilities
*Training, education, and certification of software architects
*State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software architecture
*Industrial experiments and case studies
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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General Chair – Philippe Kruchten (University British Columbia)
Program Chairs – Len Bass (NICTA), Patricia Lago (VU University Amsterdam)
MORE INFORMATION:
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