SHARK 2011 - Sixth Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2011)

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Category SHARK 2011

Deadline: January 21, 2011 | Date: May 24, 2011

Venue/Country: Hawaii, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-12-30 12:58:36 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

33rd Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011)

ICSE 2011

Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 21-28, 2011

http://www.shark-workshop.org/

We look forward to seeing you in Hawaii!

SHARK focuses on current and emerging methods, languages, notations, technologies and tools to extract, represent, share, use and re-use architectural knowledge. Architectural Knowledge (AK) is 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. It is recognized as the means for architecture governance; it facilitates and supports collaboration and the transfer of expertise. In this sixth SHARK edition we will investigate the approaches for AK personalization, where knowledge is not codified through templates or annotations, but it is exchanged through the discussion between the different stakeholders. Therefore, the emphasis does not lie on resource-intensive documentation but on lightweight, just-in-time conversations facilitated by 'knowledge yellow pages' (who knows what). The AK community has not explored AK personalization in depth, even though it has acknowledged its value as a viable approach.

In good tradition, SHARK aims to bring together researchers and practitioners that are interested in sharing and reusing architectural knowledge. The workshop will kick-start with short position statements from the paper authors. The main focus will be on fostering creative discussion between the participants, on 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; use of viewpoints and ADL to transfer AK

Ontologies, domain models and meta-models for architectural knowledge

Communicating, sharing and using architectural knowledge approaches and case studies, especially in an industrial setting

Tools to extract, visualize, share or use architectural knowledge

Evolution of architectural knowledge

Sharing architectural knowledge in the context of SOA or MDE

Architectural knowledge in Global Software Engineering

Communicating architectural knowledge in open, inner and private communities

Sharing architectural knowledge in agile development projects

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

AK reasoning techniques

Methods and tools for AK personalization

Hybrid approaches: making the best of both personalization and codification

Industrial case studies of AK personalization

Applying knowledge management theory on knowledge personalization

Workshop Organizers

Patricia Lago

Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam

Software Engineering Group

patriciacs.vu.nl

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~patricia/

Paris Avgeriou

Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Groningen

Software Engineering and Architecture (SEARCH) Group

pariscs.rug.nl

http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/

Philippe Kruchten

University of British Columbia, Canada

pbkece.ubc.ca

http://philippe.kruchten.com

Program committee

Pierre America, Philips Research, The Netherlands

M. Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Remco de Boer, ArchiXL, The Netherlands

Janet Burge, Miami University, USA

Jan Bosch, Intuit, Mountain View, California

Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

Paul Clements, Software Engineering Institute, USA

Torgeir Dingsoyr, Sintef, Trondheim, Norway

Peter Eeles, IBM, United Kingdom

Davide Falessi, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway & University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Bart van den Hooff, U University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rich Hilliard, independent consultant, USA

Anton Jansen, ABB Research, Sweden

Kai Koskimies, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China

Ivan Mistrik, independent consultant, Germany

Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Eltjo Poort, Logica, The Netherlands

Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Hans van Vliet, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Eoin Woods, BlackRock, UK

Uwe Zdun, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Research, Switzerland

Guidelines for Submission

We are soliciting papers in three distinct categories:

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 at the ICSE cyberchair site. 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 ICSE submission format and guidelines. All accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

Special issue

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

Important dates

21st January 2011 - paper submission

10th February 2011 - notification of acceptance

10th March 2011 - camera-ready

24th May 2011 - workshop