[ ARCHIVE ] 7th International Workshop On System/Software Architectures

Monterrey, Mexico, Nov 9 - 14, 2008

Proceedings published by Springer Verlag

  
THEME

Development of software systems that help support social systems is of vital concern to industry, society, and government. However, software systems that help achieve the goal of a deferential integration of natural, human and material resources will be possible only when their architectures are designed to accommodate this requirement in the first place. Designing such software architectures requires that high-level picture be taken into account wherein the scenarios of usage for systems that employ the developed software are actively considered. Needless to say, in order to meet requirements and their constraints, innovative techniques need to be adopted to develop such software architectures. In this workshop papers that address specifically the techniques, methodologies and processes to develop software architectures for socio-technical systems will be presented and discussed.


WORKSHOP

This will be the 7th workshop in the series - the 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd International Workshops on System/Software Architectures respectively were held in the 2007-2003 years in the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP series), and the 1st Workshop as a session on Adaptable Software Architectures in 2002 as part of SERP'02. All received excellent responses and the top papers were published not only in the conference proceedings but also in special journal issues.

  
TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics, with special emphasis on architectures satisfying requirements in specific domains, include but are not limited to:

  • roles of enterprise/system architectures;
  • Requirements and software architectures for specific application domains and case studies, especially, complex systems that use technology in organizational and social contexts;
  • Architectural models in model-driven approaches;
  • Traceability of requirements in architectures ;
  • Engineering quality in architectures to include non-functional requirements such as security, interoperability, adaptability, responsiveness, ubiquity, reliability, dependability, self-healing ability, performance, usability, safety, etc;
  • Methodologies and techniques applied to the construction of high-quality system/software architectures ;
  • Models and design theories for software architectures;
  • Software architecture maintenance, evolution and management;
  • Validation of requirements and verification techniques of properties in architectural design;
  • Metrics and architectures;
  • Service-oriented / object-oriented / aspect-oriented / goal-oriented / agent-oriented / scenario-based approaches to enterprise/software architecture development;
  • COTS / GOTS / Component / Middleware-Based development for architectures;


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Lawrence Chung
University of Texas at Dallas
USA
Email: chung at utdallas dot edu

José Luis Garrido (contact co-chair)
University of Granada
Spain
Email: jgarrido at ugr dot es

Nary Subramanian
University of Texas at Tyler
USA
Email: nsubramanian at uttyler dot edu

Manuel Noguera (contact co-chair)
University of Granada
Spain
Email: mnoguera at ugr dot es


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Philippe Aniorte, LIUPPA IUT de Bayonne, France
Hernán Astudillo, Federico Sta. María Technical University, Chile
Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea
Jaelson Castro, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brasil
Roger Champagne, Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada
Francois Coallier, Ecole de technologie superieure, Canada
Kendra Cooper, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Rafael Corchuelo, University of Sevilla, Spain
Lirong Dai, Seattle University, USA
Sergiu Dascalu, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Yannis A. Dimitriadis, University of Valladolid, Spain
Jing Dong, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Jesús Favela, CICESE, Mexico
Juan Fernández-Ramil, Open University, UK and University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Paul Gruenbacher, University of Linz, Austria
Lars Grunske, University of Queensland, Australia
Fred Harris, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Michael Hinchey, NASA, USA
María V. Hurtado, University of Granada, Spain
Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Li Jiang, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Carlos Juiz, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii and SEI/CMU, USA
Pericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, UK
María D. Lozano, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Chung-Horng Lung, Carleton University, Canada
Stephen J. Mellor, Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics, USA
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Masaki Murakami, Okayama University, Japan
Sergio F. Ochoa, University of Chile, Chile
Patricia Paderewski, University of Granada, Spain
Sooyong Park, Sogang University, Korea
Óscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Fabio Paternò, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Juan Pavón, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
María Luisa Rodríguez, University of Granada, Spain
Gustavo Rossi, University of La Plata, Argentina
Vespe Savikko, Elektrobit, Finland
Michael Shin, Texas Technical University, USA
Yeong Tae Song, Towson University, USA
Sebastian Uchitel, Imperial College London, UK
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Andrea Zisman, City University London, UK