CfP: PLEASE Workshop at ICSE'15 - submission deadline is Jan 23

CALL FOR PAPERS

PLEASE 2015 - The 5th International Workshop on Product LinE Approaches in Software Engineering
>> PLE for a Sustainable Society <<

May 19, 2015, Florence, Italy, held in conjunction with ICSE 2015

Deadline for submissions: January 23, 2015
More info at http://lero.ie/please2015/

INTRODUCTION

Software drives most systems designed to address contemporary societal challenges. These systems are expected to be highly customizable and delivered in numerous variants. For example, consider families of implanted devices that are customized for the specific condition of each patient, intelligent buildings and resource control centers in smart cities that need customization for each municipal area, or driverless control functions customized for a range of car models.

Product Line Engineering (PLE) emerged as a sub-area of Software Engineering that helps developing families of related systems. In this edition of the PLEASE workshop, we intend to explore the interrelation between societal challenges and PLE.

The goal of the workshop is to identify new opportunities for PLE adoption and new challenges posed by emerging societal trends. As in previous years, PLEASE will be conducted in a highly interactive manner and will include a set of lightning talks and speed-dating sessions.

SUBMISSIONS

We invite short 4 page papers that focus on either
1) an opportunity posed by a specific societal challenge for PLE research and practice or
2) a concrete solution exemplifying successfully application of PLE techniques to a societal challenge.

Submissions in the second category might be based on PLE technologies that have been published earlier, but must emphasize aspects related to their applicability for solving a particular societal challenge. Please see the workshop website for more details about the topics of interest and submission guidelines:
http://sites.lero.ie/please2015/submissions.html

Submissions will be selected based on their relevance to the workshop topics and objectives. Accepted papers will be published in the ICSE
2015 electronic proceedings collection and on the workshop website. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present the work at the workshop for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: January 23, 2015
Notification: February 18, 2015
Camera-ready: February 27, 2015
Workshop: May 19, 2015

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia and RiSE, Brazil Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany Danilo Beuche, pure-systems, Germany Coral Calero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Christoph Elsner, Siemens, Germany Paul Gruenbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Oystein Haugen, SINTEF, Norway Ferghal McCaffery, Lero, Ireland Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open University, United Kingdom Birgit Penzenstadler, University of California, Irvine, USA Klaus Pohl, University of Duisburg-Essen, USA Andreas Rummler, SAP Research, USA Ina Schaefer, TU Braunschweig, Germany Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany Frank van der Linden, Philips Healthcare, The Netherlands (and the workshop organizers)

ORGANIZATION
Julia Rubin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Goetz Botterweck, Lero, Ireland Andreas Pleuss, Lero, Ireland David M. Weiss, Iowa State University, USA