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Software Engineering and Data Engineering Conference 2010
June 16-18, 2010, San Francisco, California

Call for Papers—Special Session:
Modularization and Reuse in Software Architecture: Is it time to look outside the box?

The discipline of software architecture has been maturing for over 40 years. The challenging problems of how to systematically modularize and reuse software engineering artifacts in software architecture continue to be open research issues. Recently, these problems have been considered from multiple paradigms in distinct, active communities including:

  • agent-oriented
  • aspect-oriented
  • component-based
  • product line engineering
  • service-oriented
  • and others

Although the re-usable artifacts are specific to each paradigm (e.g., agents, aspects, components, core assets, services), from a broader perspective they share key characteristics. Methodologies (processes, tools, techniques, heuristics) are needed to systematically specify/model, evaluate, store, select, and compose the re-usable artifacts with respect to functional and non-functional/quality of service attributes.

Interesting and useful results have been achieved within research sub-communities, but they tend not to be widely disseminated across sub-communities. The purpose of this session is to provide a forum to share knowledge across different sub-communities, to explore commonalities and differences. More specifically, this session is intended to provide an opportunity to consider the potential benefits of a more general approach, with a reuse meta-model. 

For this session, roadmap-style papers on individual paradigms are preferred, which address technical topics related to modularization and reuse in software architecture. The papers should include a discussion on the current state-of-the-research and important future directions for the paradigm. As much as possible, topics such as but not limited to the following are anticipated to be of great interest to the participants, from either process or product perspectives:

  • specification (meta-models, modeling) and analysis
  • selection, composition techniques (design time, runtime)
  • repositories
  • tool support
  • plan-driven agile methods
  • applications, empirical studies, case studies
  • . . .

The session will be organized around interactive presentations and discussions. 

Submissions should comply with the SEDE 2010 submission format and deadline (February 12, 2010), e-mailed to Kendra Cooper (kcooper@utdallas.edu) as a pdf attachment. Selected papers will be considered for extension into chapters for a planned CRC Press book on software reuse. Please contact Kendra Cooper (kcooper@utdallas.edu) for additional information.

Ground System Architectures Workshop 2010
March 1-4, 2010, Manhattan Beach, California

The Ground System Architectures Workshop (GSAW), in its 14th year, provides a forum for the world's spacecraft ground system experts to collaborate with other ground system users, developers, and researchers through tutorials, presentations, working groups, and panel discussions on issues and solutions.

This year the program committee is looking for presentations covering all aspects of spacecraft ground systems, with a special focus on innovative ground system architectures that can respond to user needs and deliver capabilities through creative solutions. Sessions will address methodologies, lessons learned, business cases, and advanced technologies.

Academy on Software Engineering Education and Training (ASEET) 2010, to be held in conjunction with the 23rd Annual IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training
March 9-12, 2010, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development
March 15-19, 2010

The International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is the premier conference on software modularity, with an emphasis on modular structures that cut across traditional abstraction boundaries. The conference offers several tracks, including the Research and Industry Tracks, which bring together leading researchers and practitioners working in such fields as software engineering, programming languages, systems, and others.

15th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (UML&AADL'2010)
March 22-26, 2010,  University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, practitioners and leading experts from academia and industry, to advance the state of the art in the specification, development, validation and verification, and management of complex computer systems. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original, unpublished research results, case studies and tools; and poster papers describing ongoing and PhD research.

Workshop held in conjunction with the 15th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2010)
March 24, 2010, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

The purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity to gather researchers and industrial practitioners to survey existing efforts related to behaviour modelling and model-based analysis of DRE systems.

2010 SEI Architecture Technology User Network Conference (SATURN 2010). The theme will be "architecting for change."
May 17-21, 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Embedded Real-Time Software and Systems Conference (ERTS 2010)
May 19-21, 2010, Toulouse, France

2010 International Conference Series on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA)
June 23-25, 2010, Prague, Czech Republic

International Conference on Software Composition 2010
June 28-July 2, Malaga, Spain

Call for papers: 5th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, co-located with ICSOFT 2010
July 22 - 24, 2010, Athens, Greece

Submitted papers will be subject to double-blind review process and all accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper format, and on CD-ROM. After the conference, a book containing all ENASE full papers (modified and extended) will be edited and published as post-proceedings by Springer in the CCIS (Communications in Computer and Information Science) series.

  • paper submission: February 1, 2010
  • author notification: April 6, 2010
  • final submission and registration: April 20, 2010

4th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) 2010
August 23-26, 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European software engineering conference, which provides researchers, practitioners, and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. In 2010, the conference will feature keynotes, sessions for technical papers, industrial experience reports, workshops, tutorials, a doctoral symposium, and tools demonstrations.

The Journal of Systems and Software solicits papers for its software architecture section, which appears in each issue of the journal. This section provides a platform for academic and industrial research in Software Architecture. Topics of interest include architecture in industrial software engineering, software architecture techniques, and architecture centric reuse. 

The Microsoft Architecture Journal is a platform for "free thinkers and practitioners of IT architecture" and regularly issue calls for authors to submit papers. 

Special Issue of Empirical Software Engineering journal will provide an authoritative reference on systematically selecting and rigorously applying suitable empirical methods for evaluating methods, techniques, and tools developed for supporting the software architecture process.

  • submission: November 30, 2009
  • notification to authors: February 15, 2010
  • tentative date of publication: Summer/Autumn 2010

Call for papers: Special Issue of IEEE Software: Software Architecture: Framing Stakeholders' Concerns

This special issue will explore the state of the art and current industrial practice in framing architectural concerns. We especially welcome case studies, lessons learned, success and failure stories in introducing viewpoints, frameworks and models to organizations, mature and innovative approaches, and future trends. For general author guidelines: www.computer.org/software/author.htm; for submission details: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/swcfp6.

  • submission deadline: 1 April 2010
  • publication: November/December 2010

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