Managing variability is a major issue in the development, maintenance and evolution of software-intensive systems. To be managed effectively and efficiently, variability must be explicitly modelled. The upcoming workshop goes beyond its predecessors by addressing variability more widely, including variability in requirements, architecture, implementation, validation and verification as well as evolution of variability – just to name the most important of the related issues.
The aim of the VaMoS workshop series is to bring together researchers from various areas dedicated to mastering variability to discuss advantages, drawbacks and complementarities of various approaches and to present new results for mastering variability throughout the whole lifecycle of systems, system families, and product lines.
The workshop will feature an invited keynote by Markus Völter (itemis AG) as well as peer-reviewed paper presentations.
You may also consider to participate to EVOLUMONS 2011, a one-day seminar on research advances in software evolution, that will take place in Mons, Belgium. Since this seminar is just before VaMoS, and since Mons is very close to Namur, why not combine both events together?
Important Dates
Submission deadline: November 10th, 2010 November 17th, 2010
Notification of acceptance: December 10th, 2010
VaMoS’11 in Namur: January 27th-29th, 2011
Workshop Format
VaMoS 2011, like the four previous VaMoS workshops, will be a highly interactive event. Each session will be organized in a way to stimulate discussions among presenters of papers, discussants and other participants. Each paper presentation will be first discussed by pre-assigned discussants, followed by an open discussion with all participants. Each session will end with a general discussion of all papers presented in the session.
The workshop language is English. Attendance is restricted to authors of accepted papers, invited speakers, organisers, PC members, and to guest visitors who commit to become assigned as discussants of papers.
Topics (non-exclusive)
- Modelling variability in functional, quality and economics requirements
- Modelling variability in architecture and non-code artifacts
- Evolution of variability
- Analyzing and debugging variability
- Reverse engineering of variability from legacy
- Implementing variability in all artifacts of software development and maintenance
- Variability in open systems, e.g., dynamic reconfiguration, plugins
- Testing, analyzing, and debugging of software with variability
- Feature oriented software development
- Visualization of variability
- Formal reasoning and automated analysis on variability
- Configuration in variability management
- Applications, e.g., embedded systems, information systems, service-based systems
- Variability and its management in non-software related fields
- Tool support
Submissions
We look forward to receiving the following types of submissions:
- Research papers describing novel contributions to the field of variability,
- Problem statements describing open issues of theoretical or practical nature,
- Experience reports which report on positive or negative experiences,
- Surveys and comparative studies that investigate pros, cons and complementarities of existing approaches to master variability,
- Research in progress including research results at a premature stage,
- Vision papers stating where the research in the field should be heading towards,
- Tool demonstrations describing the variability-related features of CASE tools.
The length of the submitted papers should be between 4 and 10 pages in IEEE CS proceedings format. Paper submission will be done via the VaMoS 2011 online submission system [closed].
The submission deadline is November 17th, 2010 at 23h59 (Samoa Time).
Publication
The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a research report. VaMoS proceedings are indexed in the DBLP database.
