Call for Papers

COMPARCH 2008 
Industrial Experience Report Track

October 14-17, 2008
University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

http://comparch2008.ipd.uka.de/IndustrialExperienceReportTrack
comparch2008@ipd.uka.de

Jointly with CBSE, QoSA, CBHPC (formerly CompFrame), and the 
CompArch Industrial Day (as Federated Events on CompArch 2008).

Motivation
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Today, a system's software quality plays an increasingly important role. 
It is commonly accepted that crucial quality attributes including 
performance metrics, scalability or availability, but also 
maintainability are heavily influenced by the software architecture. 
However, a systematic and comprehensive understanding of how 
architectural design decisions affect the system's quality is lacking. 
Nevertheless, to treat software design as an engineering discipline 
rather than an art, we need the ability to address the quality of the 
software architecture directly on the model level, not simply as it 
is reflected in the implemented system.

Therefore, in the Industrial Experience Track of COMPARCH we explicitly 
ask for reports on projects where the architecture plays or should play 
a central role for software quality or is used in the development 
process to control the quality. The goal of the Industrial Track is 
exchanging experience in the role of software architectures of 
existing or currently built systems
 
Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
	
* Software Architectures
* Software Development Processes
* Quality of Software
* Evolution of Software

Paper Submission & Proceedings
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Experience reports are up to 4 pages LNCS style. 

Accepted contributions will be published in the COMPARCH conference 
volume. All Papers must be written in English and are to be prepared 
according to Springer's LNCS style (guidelines are available at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Paper submission is possible via email: experience-reports@ira.uka.de

Important Dates
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Papers due: 				May 15, 2008
Notification of acceptance:		June 05, 2008
Camera-ready versions due:		June 23, 2008
Industrial experience report track:	October 14-17, 2008

Venue
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The industrial experience report track will be located in Germany and 
hosted by the University of Karlsruhe (TH). It will run jointly with 
QoSA 2008, CBSE 2008, CBHPC 2008, and the CompArch 2008 Industrial 
Day as the Federated Events on Component-Based Software Engineering 
and Software Architecture (CompArch 2008).
(see http://comparch2008.ipd.uka.de for further details).

CompArch General Chair
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Ralf Reussner, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, GER

Program Committee
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Ivica Crnkovic, Real Time Research Centre, Maelardalen, SWE
Ian Gorton, Pacific North West National Laboratory, USA
George Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Sven Overhage, Oversoft, GER
Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), GER
Heinz Schmidt, RMIT University, AUS
Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA