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The First Software Product Line Conference (SPLC1) was held August 28-31, 2000, Denver, Colorado.

The Proceedings of the SPLC1 were published by Kluwer as part of the Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science:

Software Product Lines
Experience and Research Directions
Edited by Patrick Donohoe

Contact Kluwer to obtain a copy of the proceedings.

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The SEI held the first Software Product Line Conference in Denver, CO the week of Aug 28-31. We had hoped for at least 100 participants. We had 185.

The participants came from North America (US and Canada), Europe (8 countries represented), Asia, Africa, and Australia. Most were from commercial organizations, but academia and government (especially through government contractors) were well represented. Representatives from the software product line leaders were all there (HP, Nokia, Philips, Bosch, Lucent, Avaya, Cummins Engines, Motorola, Ericsson, Thomson, General Motors, etc.).

The conference program included ten tutorials, seven workshops, a keynote presentation, two panels, twenty-seven technical paper presentations (fifty-nine papers were submitted), an event we called the Software Product Line Hall of Fame at which we had the participants nominate the software product line elite (A7 Avionics, CelsiusTech SS2000, HP Owen Printer Product Line, and Nokia mobile cell phones got inducted), a reception, and BOF sessions. All events were well attended.

The SEI was certainly not the first to discover or to succeed with software product lines. There were many innovators who paved the way. Though there are still lots of problems and hence areas in which to mature software product line practices, there is now a critical mass of influential players who recognize software product lines as an approach to engineering software systems whose time has come. There is now an official international software product line community.

The SEI will be hosting SPLC2 in 2002. We are currently planning on a format similar to SPLC1: workshops, tutorials, technical papers, panels, product line Hall of Fame, and a keynote speaker.

SPLC1 Summary

The following information summaries the SPLC1. The SPLC1 workshop summaries are available to the product-line community.

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Conference Committee

Linda M. Northrop
Software Engineering Institute
SPLC1 Chair 		Paul Clements
Software Engineering Institute
SPLC1 Program Co-Chair		 Alexander Ran
Nokia
SPLC1 Program Co-Chair

Program Committee

Conference Contacts

Paul Clements
Software Engineering Institute
SPLC1 Program Co-Chair & Panel Chair

Gary Chastek
Software Engineering Institute
Tutorial Chair

Felix Bachmann
Robert Bosch Corp.
Workshop Chair

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