The International Workshop on Software Architectures and Mobility

In conjunction with

The 30th International Conference on
Software Engineering
Leipzig, Germany, 10 - 18 May 2008

 

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Call for Papers in PdF

There is an increasing demand for porting e-services to mobile settings across various sectors. Unfortunately, industrial practices are providing evidences that such evolution is not straightforward, often breaks the architecture of the software system, and tends to require costly changes. Likewise, the lack of systematic software engineering methods and techniques for the development specifically of mobile software systems is likely to result in the adoption of unstable software architectures, unable to cope with the likely changes in requirements of a running system.

The topics to be covered by this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:

-Requirements for mobile computing;

-Relating non-functional requirements to architectures for mobile environments;

-Patterns and architectural styles for mobility;

-Model-Driven Architectures and mobility;

-Software Product Line Architectures and mobility;

-Aspects-Oriented Software Architectures for mobile environments;

-Service-Oriented Software Architectures and mobility;

-Middleware-induced software architectures for mobile environments;

-Security, trust and privacy issues in software architectures for mobile environments;

-Performance, reliability, heterogeneity, scalability, and dependability issues in software architectures for mobile systems;

-Architectural stability and related technical/ economical issues in porting distributed architectures to mobile settings;

-Architectural-centric maintenance and evolution in mobile environments;

-Architectural-centric testing for mobility;

-Maintenance and evolution of mobile systems;  

-Empirical and industrial studies (e.g., architectural changes upon moving from fixed distributed to mobile environments), positive/negative results, and pitfalls.

Workshop Audience

 

The intended audience for this workshop is software engineering researchers and practitioners. The workshop aims to facilitate information exchange and collaboration between practicing software architects, software architecture researchers, and mobile systems practitioners and researchers. Other audiences may include practitioners and researchers from domain engineering, technology strategies, communication industries and dynamics. We aim for a workshop with approximately 30 participants to promote effective interaction and collaboration among participants.

Submission Information and Selection

We are soliciting workshop papers of 6 pages maximum in the ICSE double-column format. Papers will be asked to present novel contributions, critiques of existing work, industrial studies, as well as negative results and pitfalls. Papers will be reviewed by three program committee members and be selected depending on their originality, quality and relevance to the workshop. Each accepted paper will have to be presented in person by (one of) the author(s). To foster lively and productive discussions, each author will be encouraged to present open questions to the forum and one or two main statements for discussion at the workshop brainstorming session.

 

 

Workshop Proceedings & Journal Issue

 

Accepted papers will be published in ICSE companion workshop proceedings, will be distributed to the participants before the workshop and will also be made available through the workshop website. We aim to arrange for a special thematic journal issue, featuring the best papers presented in the workshop.

 

 

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