Ninth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of
<br>Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS)
<br>
<br>Hildesheim, Germany, January 21 -- 23, 2015
<br>
<br>Paper submission deadline: November 10, 2014
<br>Notification of acceptance: December 08, 2014
<br>
<br>Featuring keynotes by:
<br>
<br>Jean-Marc Jézéquel, University of Rennes 1, FR
<br>Stefan Kuntz, Continental Automotive GmbH, DE
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<br>http://www.vamos-workshop.net
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<br>
<br>== Description ==
<br>
<br>Managing variability is a major issue in the development, maintenance, and
<br>evolution of software-intensive systems. To be managed effectively and
<br>efficiently, variability must be explicitly modelled. As in VaMoS~'14,
<br>the upcoming workshop goes beyond its predecessors by addressing variability
<br>more widely, including variability in requirements, architecture, implementation,
<br>validation, and verification as well as evolution o...
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Ninth International Workshop on Variability Modelling of
<br>Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS)
<br>
<br>Hildesheim, Germany, January 21 -- 23, 2015
<br>
<br>Paper submission deadline: November 10, 2014
<br>Notification of acceptance: December 08, 2014
<br>
<br>Featuring keynotes by:
<br>
<br>Jean-Marc Jézéquel, University of Rennes 1, FR
<br>Stefan Kuntz, Continental Automotive GmbH, DE
<br>
<br>-------------------------------
<br>http://www.vamos-workshop.net
<br>-------------------------------
<br>
<br>
<br>== Description ==
<br>
<br>Managing variability is a major issue in the development, maintenance, and
<br>evolution of software-intensive systems. To be managed effectively and
<br>efficiently, variability must be explicitly modelled. As in VaMoS~'14,
<br>the upcoming workshop goes beyond its predecessors by addressing variability
<br>more widely, including variability in requirements, architecture, implementation,
<br>validation, and verification as well as evolution of variability -- just to
<br>name the most important of the related issues.
<br>
<br>The aim of the VaMoS workshop series is to bring together researchers from
<br>various areas dedicated to mastering variability to discuss advantages,
<br>drawbacks, and complementarities of various approaches, and to present new
<br>results for mastering variability throughout the whole life cycle of systems,
<br>system families, and product lines.
<br>
<br>The workshop will feature invited keynotes by Jean-Marc Jézéquel and Stefan Kuntz
<br>as well as peer-reviewed paper presentations.
<br>
<br>
<br>== Important Dates ==
<br>
<br>Paper submission deadline: November 10, 2014
<br>Notification of acceptance: December 08, 2014
<br>Camera-ready version deadline: December 19, 2014
<br>Early registration deadline: January 5, 2015
<br>Workshop in Hildesheim: January 21 -- 23, 2015
<br>
<br>
<br>== Workshop Format ==
<br>
<br>VaMoS '15, like the previous VaMoS workshops, will be a highly
<br>interactive event. Each session will be organized such that discussions among
<br>presenters of papers, discussants and other participants are stimulated.
<br>Typically, after a paper is presented, it is immediately discussed by
<br>pre-assigned discussants, after which a free discussion involving all
<br>participants follows. Each session is closed by a general discussion of all
<br>papers presented in the session.
<br>
<br>The workshop language is English. Attendance is open to authors of accepted
<br>papers, invited speakers, organizers, PC members, and to guest visitors who
<br>commit to become assigned as discussants of papers.
<br>
<br>
<br>== Topics (non-exclusive) ==
<br>
<br>- Variability across the software life cycle
<br>- Separation of concerns and modularity
<br>- Variability evolution
<br>- Variability mining
<br>- Reverse engineering for variability
<br>- Feature, aspect, and service orientation
<br>- Software configuration management
<br>- Architecture and design approaches for variability
<br>- Software economic aspects of variability
<br>- Visualization and management of variability
<br>- Adaptivity at runtime and development time
<br>- Formal reasoning and automated analysis of variability
<br>- Programming languages and tool support
<br>- Case studies and empirical studies
<br>
<br>
<br>== Submissions ==
<br>
<br>We look forward to receiving the following types of submissions:
<br>
<br>- Research papers describing novel contributions to the field of variability.
<br>
<br>- Problem statements describing open issues of theoretical or practical nature.
<br>
<br>- Reports on positive or negative experiences with techniques and tools related
<br>to VaMoS.
<br>
<br>- Surveys and comparative studies that investigate pros, cons and
<br>complementarities of existing VaMoS-related approaches.
<br>
<br>- Research-in-progress reports including research results at a premature stage.
<br>
<br>- Vision papers stating where the research in the field should be heading
<br>towards.
<br>
<br>- Tool demonstrations describing the variability-related features of CASE tools.
<br>
<br>The length of the submitted papers should be between 4 and 8 pages in ACM
<br>proceedings format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).
<br>Details on how to submit will be available on the VaMoS web site:
<br>http://www.vamos-workshop.net
<br>
<br>
<br>== Publication ==
<br>
<br>The proceedings of the workshop will be published in ACM's International
<br>Conference Proceedings Series, which includes a publication in the ACM digital library.
<br>Previous editions of VaMoS have been indexed in the DBLP repository
<br>(http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/vamos/index.html).
<br>
<br>
<br>== Venue ==
<br>
<br>VaMoS will be hosted by Software Systems Engineering Group at the University of Hildesheim, Germany.
<br>
<br>== Committees ===
<br>
<br>Program Co-chairs
<br>
<br>Øystein Haugen, SINTEF, NO
<br>Johannes Müller, Bosch SI, DE
<br>
<br>General Chair
<br>
<br>Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, DE
<br>
<br>Program Committee
<br>
<br>Eduardo Almeida, BR
<br>Vander Alves, BR
<br>Sven Apel, DE
<br>Martin Becker, DE
<br>Maurice ter Beek, IT
<br>David Benavides, ES
<br>Thorsten Berger, CA
<br>Danilo Beuche, DE
<br>Jan Bosch, SE
<br>Goetz Botterweck, DE
<br>Manfred Broy, DE
<br>Philippe Collet, FR
<br>Krzysztof Czarnecki, CA
<br>Oscar Diaz, ES
<br>Martin Erwig, US
<br>Alessandro Fantechi, IT
<br>Jeff Gray, US
<br>Paul Gruenbacher, AT
<br>Hassan Gomaa, US
<br>Patrick Heymans, BE
<br>Veit Jahns, DE
<br>Jean-Marc Jezequel FR
<br>Isabel John, DE
<br>Christian Kästner, US
<br>Tomoji Kishi, JP
<br>Andreas Korff, DE
<br>Vinay Kulkarni, IN
<br>Jaejoon Lee, UK
<br>Frank van der Linden, NL
<br>Richard Pohl, DE
<br>Christian Prehofer, DE
<br>Rick Rabiser, AT
<br>Mark-Oliver Reiser, DE
<br>Camille Salinesi, FR
<br>Ina Schaefer, DE
<br>Vanessa Stricker, DE
<br>Salvador Trujillo, ES
<br>Karina Villela, DE
<br>Eric Walkingshaw, US
<br>Andrzej Wasowski, DK
<br>Matthias Weber, DE
<br>Claudia Werner, BR
<br>Thorsten Weyer, DE
<br>
<br>Steering Committee
<br>
<br>Ulrich Eisenecker, University of Leipzig, DE
<br>Patrick Heymans, PReCISE, University of Namur, BE
<br>Kyo-Chul Kang, Samsung Electronics, KR
<br>Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
<br>Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
