General talk about software patterns

[Paris Avgeriou <paris AT cs.rug.nl>]

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Call for papers
First Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK'2006)
June 11, 2006, Torino (Italy)
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/SHARK2006

Hosted at the 9th International Conference on Software Reuse
ICSR 2006 - http://softeng.polito.it/ICSR9
June 11-15, 2006, Torino (Italy)
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Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge
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Software architecture plays an increasingly important role to manage the
complex interactions and dependencies between the stakeholders and to
provide a central artifact that can be used for reference by them. It
also supports early analysis of the system, especially with respect to
quality attributes and successful evolution of the system. Existing
approaches on software architecting typically focus on components and
connectors and fail to document the design decisions that resulted in
the architecture as well as the organizational, process and business
rationale underlying the design decisions. This results in high
maintenance cost, high degrees of design erosion and lack of information
and documentation of relevant architectural knowledge.
This workshop focuses on current approaches, tackling this problem:
methods, languages, notations, tools to extract, represent, share, use
and re-use architectural knowledge. Architectural Knowledge (AK) is
defined as the integrated representation of the software architecture of
a software-intensive system (or a family of systems), the architectural
design decisions and their rationale, and the influences of the external
context/environment.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners that
are interested in sharing and reusing architectural knowledge.
Attendance will be limited to a maximum of 30 participants.

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

-    Notations to model architectural knowledge
-    Ontologies, domain models and meta-models for architectural knowledge
-    Communicating, sharing and using architectural knowledge
-    Case studies for sharing and reusing architectural knowledge
-    Tools to extract, represent, share or use architectural knowledge
-    Knowledge grids for sharing architectural knowledge
-    Methods and tools to master the evolution of architectural knowledge
-    Software patterns as a form of architectural knowledge
-    Sharing architectural knowledge in the context of service-oriented
architectures (SOA) or Model-Driven Engineering (MDE)
-    Communicating architectural knowledge in open, inner and private
communities
-    Traceability between requirements, architectural design decisions
and architectural models

Workshop Organizers:
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Patricia Lago
Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Software Engineering Group
patricia AT cs.vu.nl
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~patricia/

Paris Avgeriou
Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen
Software Engineering and Architecture (SEARCH) Group
paris AT cs.rug.nl
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/

Program committee
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Jan Bosch, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Torgeir Dingsoyr, Sintef, Trondheim, Norway
Dieter Hammer, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada
Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Uwe Zdun, Vienna University of Economics, Austria

Guidelines for Submission
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Papers in three distinct categories are solicited: future trend papers
describing ongoing research, new results, and future trends (maximum 5
pages); research papers describing the state-of-the art in the field
(maximum 10 pages); industrial papers describing industrial experience,
case studies, challenges, problems and solutions (maximum 10 pages).

Please email your submission to the organizers 
(patricia AT cs.vu.nl,
paris AT cs.rug.nl).
 Submissions should be original and unpublished work.
Each submitted paper will undergo a rigorous review process by three
members of the Program Committee.

All submissions must be received by April 30th, 2006.

Special issue
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their papers to the
new Section on "Software Architecture" of the Journal of Systems and
Software (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jss).


Important dates
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April 30th, 2006: Paper Submission
May 20th, 2006: Author Notification
June 1st, 2006: Camera-Ready Copy & Early-registration deadline
June 11th, 2006: Workshop