CfP-I: Development of Product Software (DoPS'03)
17 Dec 2002, submitted by Sjaak Brinkkemper (sbrinkkemper at emendas.com)
Call for Papers and Call for Involvement for the CaiSE'03 Workshop
Development of Product Software (DoPS'03)
20 and 21 June 2003, Velden, Austria
Workshop description and overall objectives:
Usage of standard software products is an everyday phenomenon all over the
world. Text editing, bookkeeping, project management, and manufacturing
cannot be thought of not to be performed using of-the-shelf products, where
just some years ago many organizations had tailor made software to support
these tasks. Thousands of companies, such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Baan,
and Corel, have been established worldwide to develop and market these
software products. Product software accounts for substantial economic
activity all over the world, according to the Organization for Economic
Co-Operation and Development (OECD). In 2001 (1999) the total market of the
product software industry was estimated to be 196 (154.9) billion USD, which
is just 9% of the overall ICT spending of 2.1 trillion USD worldwide.
We define a software product as a packaged configuration of software
components with auxiliary materials, which is released for and traded in a
specific market. This implies that a software product may include code,
executables, and web pages, but also user manuals, training material,
brochures and the like. The squeezed concurrent development of these
artefacts and their packaging for a certain target market are aspects that
distinguish product software development from tailor made software.
Today, very few scientific studies are reported on the development of
product software in particular. We claim that a scientific body of knowledge
for product software still has to be accumulated in the years to come. The
objective of the DoPS workshop is to provide a first forum for researchers
active in this area to exchange ideas and publish results.
Topics of interest include:
- Product life-cycle management
- Requirements Management
- Product definition and program management
- Product families and product line strategies
- Architecture and design of software products
- Software coding conventions
- Test strategies and test tools
- Call management and maintenance organization
- Configuration and delivery
- Documentation, internationalization, and translation.
Note: All topics are to be understood in relationship to the definition and
development of product software. Selection and implementation of software
products by customers is explicitly excluded from the scope of this
workshop, as this is sufficiently covered elsewhere.
Call for papers
The workshop committee solicits papers in the research and practice of the
development of Product Software. Papers should not exceed 5,000 words. They
must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or
journal. Full submission details will be published on the workshop website
(URL to be provided) and on the conference website
http://www.isys.uni-klu.ac.at/caise03
To encourage industrial participation we also welcome short position papers
(1 or 2 pages).
The workshop organizers will edit a special section of the Elsevier Journal
of Systems and Software. Selected papers of the workshop will be nominated
for publication in this special issue.
Call for Involvement
The workshop organizers seek to enlarge the involvement of academia and
industry in the exchange of research contributions in the field of Product
Software. As this field is relatively new, the workshop organizers wish to
establish a research community of researchers active in this area.
Representatives from the product software community are invited to contact
the workshop organizers to propose and discuss ways to be involved.
Workshop organizers:
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Emendas and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL
Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL
Members for the workshop program committee (to be extended):
Colette Rolland, Universite Paris 1 - Sorbonne, France
Bjorn Regnell, Lund University, Sweden
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Jan van den Ende, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands,
Rinus Plasmeijer, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
Michiel van Genuchten, Eindhoven University of Technology
Important dates:
Submission date: 15 March 2003
Notification date: 1 May 2003
Final Versions due: 1 June 2003
Workshop dates: Friday 20 and Saturday 21 June
The Workshop will start directly after the closing session of CaiSE'03 in
the afternoon.
Addresses of the organizer(s)
Dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper
Process Consultant and Chief Scientist tel: +31.341.375.632
Emendas mobile: +31.655.171.985
Vanenburgerallee 13 fax: +31.341.375.610
3882 AE Putten home: +31.55.506.4306
the Netherlands email: Sjaak.Brinkkemper@Emendas.com
<mailto:Sjaak.Brinkkemper@Emendas.com>
www.emendas.com <http://www.emendas.com>
Also:
Professor in Product Software tel: +31.20.444.7757
Department of Computer Science fax: +31.20.444.7728
Vrije Universiteit secr: +31.20.444.7718
Amsterdam email: Sjaak@cs.vu.nl
the Netherlands http://www.cs.vu.nl/~sjaak
<http://www.cs.vu.nl/~sjaak>
Prof.dr. Hans van Vliet
Professor in Software Engineering tel: +31.20.444.7768
Department of Computer Science fax: +31.20.444.7728
Vrije Universiteit secr: +31.20.444.7718
Amsterdam email: hans@cs.vu.nl
<mailto:hans@cs.vu.nl>
the Netherlands http://www.cs.vu.nl/~hans
<http://www.cs.vu.nl/~hans>
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