Important changes in the society are being predicted for a very near future. Governments look ahead by increasing reserve funds and budgets for specific areas in order to find effective solutions, thereby avoiding forthcoming problems. Not surprisingly, many institutions are launching research and development programmes focused on health-care, elderly people, quality of life, social inclusion, energy, education, ecology, etc. Innovation is required for systems supporting such a new assisted, interactive and collaborative world. System and software designers have to be able to address how to reflect in the same system/software architecture a great amount of (sometimes conflicting) requirements. In particular, non-functional and development requirements, and constraints take special relevance due to the new environments in which the systems have to operate, e.g., in the presence of Internet and pervasive systems, and/or embedded medical or cyber physical systems. In this workshop, contributions addressing the connection between requirements and architectural models through innovative techniques, methodologies and processes will be presented and discussed.
This will be the 8th workshop in the series - the 7th International Workshop on System/Software Architectures was held in 2008 within the OTM Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM’08), while the 6th, 5th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd editions were held in 2007-2003 with 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 journal special issues.
The topics, with special emphasis on architectures satisfying requirements in specific domains, include but are not limited to:
Papers should explore open research problems, as well as provide advances in the areas of architectures, requirements and development. Papers submitted to IWSSA’09 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members. Two types of papers in English are invited from academia and industry:
Accepted papers will be published in a LNCS Proceedings Volume by Springer Verlag. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. Submissions should be in PDF format according to the detailed formatting instructions at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Paper submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/iwssasub
This time again, authors of selected quality papers, from those presented at IWSSA'09, will be invited to submit significantly extended versions to the review process for a special issue of an International Journal, agreement in course with the journal publisher.
Lawrence Chung, University of Texas at Dallas (USA), chung (at) utdallas (dot) edu
Nary Subramanian, University of Texas at Tyler (USA), nsubramanian (at) uttyler (dot) edu
Manuel Noguera, University of Granada (Spain), mnoguera (at) ugr (dot) es (contact co-chair)
José Luis Garrido, University of Granada (Spain), jgarrido (at) ugr (dot) es (contact co-chair)
• Philippe Aniorte, LIUPPA IUT de Bayonne, France
• Hernán Astudillo, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
• Doo-Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea
• Joseph Barjis, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• 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, The Open University, UK
• Rubén Fuentes, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
• Paul Gruenbacher, University of Linz, Austria
• Lars Grunske, Swinburne University, Melbourne, 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
• 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
• María Luisa Rodríguez, University of Granada, Spain
• Gustavo Rossi, University of La Plata, Argentina
• Vespe Savikko, Elektrobit, China
• Michael Shin, Texas Technical University, USA
• Yeong Tae Song, Towson University, USA
• Andrea Zisman, City University London, UK