[ecoop-info] CFP: 3rd Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2008)

[Paris Avgeriou]

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Call For Papers
Third Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2008)
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/SHARK2008

In conjunction with the 30th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 
2008) http://icse08.upb.de/
Leipzig, Germany, 10 - 18 May 2008
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Workshop theme and goals
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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.
Existing notational and documentation approaches to software 
architecture typically focus on the 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 the external context/environment.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners 
(especially architects) that are interested in sharing and reusing 
architectural knowledge. It will foster a presentation of the latest 
approaches in the field, both from industry and academia, as well as a 
creative discussion between the participants in specific themes
Attendance will be limited to a maximum of 30 participants.

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
-	Types of architectural knowledge in industrial settings
-	Notations and languages to model or visualize architectural knowledge
-	Ontologies, domain models and meta-models for architectural knowledge
-	Communicating, sharing and using architectural knowledge – approaches 
and case studies
-	Tools to extract, visualize, share or use architectural knowledge
-	Evolution of architectural knowledge
-	Sharing architectural knowledge in the context of service-oriented 
architectures (SOA) or Model-Driven Engineering (MDE)
-	Architectural knowledge in Global Software Engineering
-	Communicating architectural knowledge in open, inner and private 
communities
-	Architectural knowledge for requirements engineering
-	Traceability between requirements, architectural design decisions and 
architectural solutions (e.g. patterns, tactics, reference architectures)
-	Architectural knowledge in the process of architecting.


Workshop Organizers:
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Paris Avgeriou
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
paris at cs.rug.nl
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/

Patricia Lago
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
patricia at cs.vu.nl
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~patricia

Philippe Kruchten
University of British Columbia, Canada
pbk at ece.ubc.ca
http://philippe.kruchten.com


Program committee
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Pierre America, Philips Research, the Netherlands
Muhammad Ali Babar, LERO, Ireland
Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Jan Bosch, Intuit, Mountain View, California
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Torgeir Dingsoyr, Sintef, Trondheim, Norway
Rich Hilliard, independent consultant, USA
Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Axel van Lamsweerde, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Ivan Mistrik, independent consultant, Germany
Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University, UK
Eltjo Poort, LogicaCMG, The Netherlands
Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Uwe Zdun, Technical University of Vienna, 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 4 
pages); research papers describing innovative and significant original 
research in the field (maximum 8 pages); industrial papers describing 
industrial experience, case studies, challenges, problems and solutions 
(maximum 8 pages). A special kind of industrial paper submission is an 
example of a document that shares some kind of architectural knowledge, 
together with an evaluation of it or a description of the techniques 
that it uses.

Please submit your paper online. Information about the submission URL 
will be given soon at the workshop website 
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/SHARK2008. Submissions should be original 
and unpublished work. Each submitted paper will undergo a rigorous 
review process by three members of the Program Committee. All types of 
papers must conform to the ICSE2008 submission format and guidelines 
(http://icse08.upb.de//calls/fsguidelines.html). All accepted papers 
will appear in the IEEE Digital Library.


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


Important dates
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24th January 2008 - paper submission
7th February 2008 - notification of acceptance
21st February 2008 - camera-ready
13th May 2008 - Workshop