Submission Guidelines for SATURN Presentation and Tutorial Proposals

All participants are encouraged to submit a proposal, including a title and an abstract, for a 20-minute presentation about their work and its relation to software architecture technology. We are especially interested in presentations regarding the following topics:

case studies and lessons learned in applying SEI software architecture technology
efforts to improve the state of architectural practices across an organization
the relationship of enterprise and software architecture
future directions in software architecture technology
evolving an architecture parallel to business and mission goals
the relationship of software and system architecture
the value or ROI of software architecture practices

We encourage you to address some of these questions in your presentation:

When you're following your current architecture practices, what is particularly hard to do? Why?
How is your organization currently using architecture? What lessons have you learned from your experience? What advice would you give to other architects?
How do you get the information you need about software architecture? What would a good course or book on software architecture cover? What would an effective Web site look like?
What research is needed to make progress in the field? What new methods would you like to see created? How do we improve the technology base? How do we package technology for greater impact?

We also invite submissions to present half-day (three-hour) tutorials on advanced-topics ranging from practical techniques, guidelines, standards, and surveys to theoretical issues related to software architecture. Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction on a topic of relevance to software architecture. Therefore, no commercial or sales-oriented presentations will be accepted.

Proposals for both presentations and tutorials are due by December 7, 2007. Authors of selected proposals will be notified by January 18, 2008. Submissions should be no longer than two pages and include a title, brief biographies of the presenters, and the abstract of the presentation or tutorial not to exceed 500 words. For tutorial submissions please also include an outline of the tutorial. For all selected presentations, submitters grant the SEI permission to reproduce the abstract and full presentation on the SATURN Web site. Presenters are responsible for ensuring that all submissions are cleared for public release.

Please send inquiries about the workshop to saturn@sei.cmu.edu.