IEEE*/IFIP WICSA/ECSA 2009 Joint Working International Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) & European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) 2009 14-17 September 2009, Cambridge, UK http://www.wicsa.net The Conference for Software Architects by Software Architects IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Paper abstract due: April 3, 2009 - Paper submission due: April 10, 2009 - Workshop proposal submission due: April 20, 2009 - Tutorial submission due: April 28, 2009 - Notification of acceptance: May 29, 2009 - Camera-ready paper due: June 30, 2009 - Conference: 14-17 September 2009 VENUE: Robinson College Cambridge http://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/conferences/ (*) IEEE CS approval pending SCOPE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 8th Working International Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) and the 3rd European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) have merged for 2009 to provide a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the latest R&D outcomes, experiences, trends, and challenges in the field of software architecture. This synergistic coupling of WICSA and ECSA for the first time promises an even more inspiring and productive event in 2009. WICSA/ECSA 2009 is the premier gathering of researchers and practitioners interested in becoming familiar with and improving the state-of-the-art and the state-of-practice of software architecture. The conference's primary goal is to provide a forum for discussion among researchers and practitioners. It focuses on making progress through a combination of presentations, working sessions, workshops, and tutorials. WICSA/ECSA 2009 will include three conference keynotes, paper presentation sessions, and interactive working sessions where researchers and practitioners discuss their advances and experiences to understand the current state of architectural practice, and identify opportunities to make a difference in the future. This environment means that WICSA/ECSA 2009 is the ideal venue for researchers and software architecture practitioners to discuss successes, failures, and ideas with each other, with these insights helping to identify how best to move the state of both research and practice forward. TOPICS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- As in previous years, WICSA/ECSA 2009 encourages submission of papers and reports related to all aspects of software architecture, but this year we are encouraging increased emphasis on the relationship between software architecture and "higher" level concerns, e.g. system of systems, enterprise architecture, value of architecture. Topics include, but are not limited to: - architecture description languages, metamodels, ontologies - architectural models, patterns and styles - quality-based architecture analysis - architecture transformation, model-driven architecture - architectural concerns of emerging systems - requirements engineering and software architectures - architecture reengineering, discovery and recovery - architecture conformance, run-time monitoring - process and management of architectural decisions - process models, tools, environments and frameworks - service-oriented architectures and web services - product-line architectures - enterprise systems vs. software architecture - cultural, economic, and managerial aspects of software architecture - software architects' roles and responsibilities, training, education and certification TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WICSA/ECSA 2009 seeks different types of contributions to foster the active participation of researchers and practitioners: * Research Papers (max. 10 proceedings pages) which describe novel contributions to software architecture research. They will be judged by the prevailing norms of the research community and as such must clearly make a contribution to the body of research knowledge. All papers should explicitly state the goals of systems or approaches described, highlight its contributions to advance the state-of-the-art, and clearly support claims of novelty with citations to the relevant literature. * Working Session Papers (max. 4 proceedings pages) which present promising achievements from work-in-progress in a topic of software architecture. They are intended to stimulate discussion related to ideas and experiences, rather than to present fully validated research results. Normally they will describe positive and negative characteristics of existing methods and techniques; identify gaps in the state-of-practice; or propose new research directions to fill those gaps. The accepted contributions will form the basis of the conference's interactive working sessions. * Experience Papers (max. 10 proceedings pages) or Experience Presentations (1-page abstract + max. 20 slides) which describe significant experiences related to software architecture practice. Submissions should present case studies, real-life experiences or survey reports of benefit to practitioners and researchers. For example, best and worst experiences of applying software architecture research results, required adaptations to make it work in industry, research gaps which should be filled in, etc. Presentations should include a full professional biography of the presenter. Experience Papers and the one-page abstracts of the accepted Presentations will be included in the conference proceedings and the presentations will be distributed via the conference web site. Given the time and space limits, Experience Papers and Presentations should focus on the software architecture lessons that can be drawn from the experiences described rather than exhaustive descriptions of systems or organizational context. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness, and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. In addition to peer reviewed full and working paper sessions, the conference will also provide a dynamic forum to allow researchers and practitioners to get together in a constructive environment to exchange ideas and experiences and discuss subjects not on the main program (see the Call for Workshops and Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions in the conference web site). PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press . All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings. In addition, authors of best papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions of their papers for the Special Section on Software Architecture of the Journal of Systems and Software . PAPER SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submit your paper electronically in PDF via the Conference Management System at the conference web site using the IEEE CS proceedings format. Formatting Instructions: All submissions must be formatted according to the IEEE CS proceedings format (8.5" x 11" two-column format). Templates and instructions can be downloaded from the IEEE CS Press web site at Information for Authors. Length of Submissions: Papers (properly formatted in IEEE CS proceedings format) must not exceed the following size limits: - Research and Experience Papers: 10 pages (max 8000 words), - Working Session Papers: 4 pages (max 3000 words). Experience presentations should be suitable for delivery in 25 minutes. The precise number of slides is left to the discretion of the author, but successful submissions are unlikely to exceed 20 slides. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the WICSA/ECSA 2009 Program Committee. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIR: - Rick Kazman, SEI/CMU and University of Hawaii, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS: - Flavio Oquendo, European University of Brittany - UBS/VALORIA, France - Eltjo Poort, Logica, The Netherlands - Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: - Chris Cooper-Bland, Endava, UK - Eoin Woods, Barclays Global Investors, UK - Peter Eeles, IBM, UK - Mark Dalgarno, Software Acumen, UK - Nick Rozanski, Barclays Global Investors, UK - Andy Longshaw, Barclays Bank, UK - Davide Falessi, Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - Yamine Ait Ameur, ENSMA/LISI, University of Poitiers, France - Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Ali Babar, LERO, Ireland - Ana Paula Terra Bacelo, Catholic Univ. of Rio Grande do Sul,PUC, Brazil - Dharini Balasubramaniam, University of St. Andrews, UK - Thais Batista, University of Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN, Brazil - Nelly Bencomo, Lancaster University, UK - Marco Bernardo, University of Urbino, Italy - Antonia Bertolino, ISTI- CNR, Italy - Antoine Beugnard, TELECOM Bretagne, France - Jan Bosch, Intuit, USA - Alan W. Brown, IBM Rational, USA - Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA - Paul Clements, Software Engineering Institute, USA - Chris Cooper-Bland, Endava, UK - Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden - Carlos E. Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain - Paulo Roberto Freire Cunha, Federal Univ. of Pernambuco, UFPE, Brazil - Rogerio de Lemos, University of Kent, UK - Khalil Drira, LAAS- CNRS, University of Toulouse, France - Laurence Duchien, INRIA and University of Lille, France - Peter Eeles, IBM, UK - Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria - George Fairbanks, Rhino Research, USA - Katrina Falkner, University of Adelaide, Australia - José Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK - Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland - David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Jeff Garland, CrystalClear Software, USA - Carlo Ghezzi, Polytechnic of Milano, Italy - Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA - Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany - John Grundy, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Kiel, Germany - Rich Hilliard, Software Systems Architect, USA - Christine Hofmeister, East Stroudsburg University, USA - Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Valérie Issarny, INRIA Rocquencourt, France - John Klein, Software Engineering Institute, USA - René Krikhaar, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada - Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Frédéric Lang, INRIA Grenoble Rhône- Alpes, France - Nicole Levy, Univ. of Versailles St,Quentin en Yvelines, PRiSM, France - Yan Liu, National ICT, Australia - Thomas Lonski, Jeppesen, USA - Antonia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal - Francisca Losavio, Central University of Venezuela, Venezuela - Jas Madhur, Sierra Systems, Canada - Esperanza Marcos, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain - Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA - Paulo Merson, Software Engineering Institute, USA - Marija Mikic, Rakic Google, USA - Carlo Montangero, University of Pisa, Italy - Eila Niemela, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland - Robert L. Nord, Software Engineering Institute, USA - Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University, UK - Mourad Oussalah, University of Nantes - LINA, France - Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland - George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus - Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands - Jennifer Pérez, Technical University of Madrid - UPM, Spain - Dewayne Perry, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Frantisek Plasil, Charles University, Czech Republic - Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg- Essen, Germany - Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano- Bicocca Italy - Isidro Ramos, Polytechnic University of Valencia - UPV, Spain - Alexander Ran, Intuit, USA - Ralf Reussner, University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Claudio Riva, Nokia Research, Finland - Neeraj Sangal, Lattix, USA - Juha Savolainen, Nokia Research Center, Finland - Clemens Schäfer, IT Factum GmbH, Germany - Bradley Schmerl, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Dilip Soni, USA - Drasko Sotirovski, Raytheon, USA - João Pedro Sousa, George Mason University, USA - Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research, USA - Richard Taylor, University of California at Irvine, USA - Nicole Tedesco, Tectura, USA - Miguel Toro, University of Sevilla, Spain - Jeff Tyree, Capital One, USA - Rob van Ommering, Philips Research, The Netherlands - Hans van Vliet, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Brian Warboys, University of Manchester, UK - Kathryn Anne Weiss, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA - Michel Wermelinger, Open University, UK - Claudia Werner, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro - UFRJ, Brazil - David Wile, Teknowledge, USA - Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia, Canada - Eóin Woods, Barclays Global Investors, UK - Angela Yochem, Dell, USA - Liming Zhu, NICTA/UNSW, Australia PREVIOUS ECSA & WICSA CONFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) is the premier European conference dedicated to the field of Software Architecture. It is the follow-up of a successful series of European Workshops on Software Architecture held in the United Kingdom in 2004 (Springer LNCS 3047 ), Italy in 2005 (Springer LNCS 3527 ), and France in 2006 (Springer LNCS 4344 ). The first European conference in the series was held in Madrid, Spain in 2007 (Springer LNCS 4758 ) and the second in Paphos, Cyprus in 2008 (Springer LNCS 5292 ). For 2009, the third has merged with WICSA in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The fourth is planned in Leipzig, Germany in 2010. The Working International Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) is the premier Worldwide conference dedicated to the field of Software Architecture. The first conference in the series was held in San Antonio, Texas, USA (WICSA 1999), the second in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (WICSA 2001), the third in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (WICSA 2002), the fourth in Oslo, Norway (WICSA 2004), the fifth in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (WICSA 2005), the sixth in Mumbai, India (WICSA 2007), and the seventh in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (WICSA 2008). For 2009, the eighth has merged with ECSA in Cambridge, United Kingdom, when WICSA comes back to Europe 5 years after its fourth edition.