===================================================================5th
International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures
(QoSA 2009)
East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania, USA
June 22-26, 2009
http://qosa.ipd.uka.de/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers:
February 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance:
March 14, 2009
Camera-ready paper due:
April 11, 2009
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CALL FOR PAPERS - ARCHITECTURES FOR ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
The goal of QoSA (Quality of Software Architectures) is to address
aspects of software architecture focusing broadly on quality
characteristics and how these relate to the design of high quality
software architectures. Specific issues of interest are defining
quality measures, evaluating and managing architecture
quality, linking architecture to requirements and implementation,
and preserving architecture quality throughout the lifetime of the
system.
This year, the main topic of QoSA is architectures for adaptive
software systems. Modern software systems must often reconfigure
their structure and behavior to respond to continuous changes in
requirements and in their execution environment. In these settings,
quality models are helpful at an architectural level to guide
systematic model-driven software development strategies by
evaluating the impact of competing architectural choices. At run
time, quality models can play an important role in enabling
calibration and validation of a system model to accurately reflect the
properties of the executing system. This leads to the idea that models
should continue to exist at run time to facilitate the necessary
dynamic changes that can support self-adaptation of the implemented
system. We welcome technical reports on both scientific novel results
and industrial case studies.
TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to
Architecture Design and Implementation:
* design decisions and their influence on the quality of
software architecture
* architectural patterns and their quality impacts
* architectural standards and reference architectures
* model-driven architecture (MDA) and quality aspects
* relationship between quality attributes and architectural
design properties
Architecture Evaluation:
* lessons learned and empirical validation of theories and
frameworks on architecture quality
* empirical validation of testing, prototyping, simulation for
assessing architecture quality
* models and specification techniques to evaluate the quality
attributes of software architectures
* languages for architectural modeling including quality
characteristic evaluation
* processes for evaluating architecture quality
* evaluating the effects of architectural adaptations
at run-time
Architecture Management:
* coordination of business architecture, business processes,
and software architecture
* assessment and enforcement of architectural conformance,
especially in the face of run-time adaptation
* traceability of software architecture to requirements and
implementation
* integration of heterogeneous software architectures
* architecture evolution and architecture governance
* use of architectural models at run-time
Application Domains:
* component-based and service-oriented systems
* software product-lines
* pervasive and autonomic systems
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PUBLICATION
Accepted contributions will be published in a volume of the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should
not exceed 16 pages, must be written in English, and prepared
according to Springer's LNCS style (guidelines are available at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers must
not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. If
accepted, the paper must be personally presented at the QoSA 2009
Conference by the author or one of the co-authors.
Paper submission system is available online at http://
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qosa2009
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ORGANIZATION
Programme Chairs
Ian Gorton
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raffaela Mirandola
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
General Chair
Christine Hofmeister
East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania, USA.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Program Committee
Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Muhammad Ali Babar, Lero Ireland
Len Bass, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Steffen Becker, FZI, Germany
Jan Bosch, Intuit, USA
Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University,Sweden
Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent, UK
Antinisca Di Marco, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Anirüddhā Gokhālé, Vanderbilt University, USA
Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Jens Happe, SAP/University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Darko Huljenic, ERICSSON, Croatia
Samuel Kounev, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Heiko Koziolek, ABB, Germany
Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada
Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA
Jose' Merseguer, University of Saragoza, Spain
Robert Nord, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Boyana Norris, MCS Division, USA
Sven Overhage, University of Augsburg, Germany
Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada
Frantisek Plasil, Charles University, Czech Republic
Sasikumar Punnekkat, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Ralf Reussner, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Roshanak Roshandel, Seattle University, USA
Antonino Sabetta, ISTI-CNR PISA, Italy
Raghu Sangwan, Penn State, USA
Anne-Marie Sassen, EU Commission
Jean-Guy Schneider, Swinburne University, Australia
Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA
Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic
Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Wolfgang Weck, Independent Software Architect, Switzerland
Michel Wermelinger, Open University, UK
Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada
Steffen Zschaler, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
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Steering Committee
Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Steffen Becker, FZI, Germany
Ian Gorton, Pacific North West National Laboratory, USA
Sven Overhage, University of Augsburg, Germany
Frantisek Plasil, Charles University, Czech Republic
Ralf Reussner, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA
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VENUE
QoSA 2009 will be located at the East Stroudsburg University,
Pennsylvania, USA. It will run jointly with CBSE 2009 and WCOP as
Federated Events at CompArch 2009.
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Dr. Jose Merseguer
Dpto. de Informatica e Ingenieria de Sistemas, Universidad de Zaragoza
Maria de Luna 1, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cps.unizar.es/~jmerse/
phone: (+34) 976 762336 fax:(+34)976761914
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