Call for Contribution and Participation Second International Workshop on Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain February 26 & 27, 1998 Scope: Many companies are looking for ways to minimise the costs of developing new products and to maximise sharing and reuse of software structure and components used in a product family. The primary focus of this workshop will be on methods, techniques and tools to manage the diversity of products in a family at the level of software architecture. Topics of interest also include specification of software architecture, architecture recovery, assessment of software architecture, and other subjects related to development and evolution of software architecture for product families. Organisers: This workshop is organised by the ESPRIT IV project no. 20.477, ARES (Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Software). ARES is a joint project between Philips, Nokia, ABB, London Imperial College, Technical University of Vienna and Polytechnical University of Madrid. The main objective is to enable the software developers to explicitly describe, assess and manage architectures of embedded software families. The intended results of ARES will help to design reliable systems with embedded software that satisfy important quality requirements, evolve gracefully and may be built in-time and on-budget. ARES also addresses the problem of relating the features which differentiate the members of a product family to an architecture for that family. The current state-of-the-art addresses variance at the code-level whereas ARES aims to address the variance required by a product family at the architectural level and to map a feature selection to an instance of an architecture. Submissions: We encourage submissions that describe complete work, research in progress, problem analysis, position statements, and experience reports >from all the scopes of the workshop. Submissions should be no longer than six pages. A description of the contribution towards the architecture of product families should be clear from the submission. Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. The authors of the selected papers will be requested to submit a final paper before February 1, 1998. Those authors will also be invited to attend the workshop in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 26 & 27, 1998. Selected contributions may be included in a special issue of IEE Software Engineering journal. These contributions have to follow the normal journal procedures. Because of our aim to publish the contributions on the ARES web pages, the authors of the selected are requested to transfer the copyrights of their paper to the ARES consortium. Submission deadline: November 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance/rejection: December 15, 1997 Final paper due: February 1, 1998 Gran Canaria is located in the center of the Canary islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, at a subtropical latitude. As a result, the island enjoys a pleasant, warm climate all year round, without extreme temperatures (an average yearly temperature of 22o C.) It has a surface area of 1,532 square km and it is 1,150 km away from the Iberic peninsula. It boast the best beaches of fine, white sand. Some of them have natural lava barriers some hundred meters away from the beach, which makes them a kind of natural swimming-pools. The whole island has several European Union "blue flags" for the quality of its beaches. The region's geography also includes wild landscapes and mountain peaks. 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Send submissions to Frank van der Linden flinden@natlab.research.philips.com Philips Research Laboratories tel. +31.40.274.2921 Prof. Holstlaan 4 fax. +31.40.274.3741 5656 AA Eindhoven The Netherlands preferably electronic submissions ____________ General Chair: Henk Obbink, Philips obbink@natlab.research.philips.com Research, Co-Chair: Paul Clements, Software pclement@sei.cmu.edu Engineering Institute, Program Coordinators: Frank van der Linden, Philips Research flinden@natlab.research.philips.com Juha Kuusela, Nokia Research juha.kuusela@research.nokia.com Program Committee: Wolfgang Eixelsberger, ABB Research wolfgang@nocrc.abb.no Mehdi Jazayeri, TU Vienna M.Jazayeri@infosys.tuwien.ac.at Jeff Kramer, Imperial College jk@doc.ic.ac.uk Juha Kuusela, Nokia Research juha.kuusela@research.nokia.com Frank van der Linden, Philips Research flinden@natlab.research.philips.com Jeff Magee, Imperial College jnm@doc.ic.ac.uk Henk Obbink, Philips Research obbink@natlab.research.philips.com Juan Antonio de la UPM jpuente@dit.upm.es Puente, Alex Ran, Nokia Research alexander.ran@research.nokia.com Local Coordinators: Juan Carlos Duenas, UPM jcduenas@dit.upm.es Alejandro Alonso, UPM aalonso@dit.upm.es Javier Miranda, ULPGC jmiranda@grancanaria.teleco.ulpgc.es Francisco J. Guerra, ULPGC fguerra@grancanaria.teleco.ulpgc.es ____________ ARES web sites: http://hpv17.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/ARES/ (Vienna) http://www.dit.upm.es/~ares/ (Madrid)