First International Workshop on Variability and Complexity in Software Design (VACE 2016)
When : 2016-05-15
Where : Austin, TX
Submission Deadline : 2016-01-29
Categories : Software Engineering & Security , Computer Science & Information Technology
First International Workshop on Variability and Complexity in Software Design (VACE 2016)
May 15, 2016
Austin, TX
Call For Papers
The workshop addresses software engineering issues related to requirements, design, implementation, evaluation, deployment and maintenance of variability-intensive systems. By "variability-intensive" we mean any system that needs to accommodate diverse application and deployment scenarios. Here, variability is the ability of software or software artifacts to be changed for a specific context. Examples of such systems include product families, self-adaptive systems, configurable or customizable single systems, open platforms, context-aware mobile apps, or service-based systems that dynamically compose services. These systems range from small-scale embedded systems to large-scale enterprise software systems to ultra-large systems of systems.
Topics
- Flexible and lightweight approaches to support variability in problem and solution space and to develop large-scale variability-intensive software
- Conflict between flexibility (agile / lean) and the need for bigger up-front design and design space exploration
- Challenges to balance business value and effort spent on anticipating variability
- Design solutions to enable continuous delivery of variability-intensive systems
- DevOps for developing, deploying and maintaining variability-intensive systems
- Approaches to limit unintentional variability and to better scope intentional variability to manage complexity
- Variability in emerging and maturing domains with potentially large problem and design spaces
- Integration of functional and qualitative variability in general development practices
- Training and tools