Conference announcements

Call for Papers -
4th Nordic Workshop on Software Architecture (NOSA'2001)

Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 11:22:03 -0600 (MDT)
From: Torben Worm <tworm@mip.sdu.dk>
To: seworld@cs.colorado.edu
Subject: (SEWORLD) NOSA 2001 - Call for papers and participation

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

NOSA 2001
Fourth Nordic Symposium on Software Architecture
August 23-24, 2001
The Maersk Institute, University of Southern Denmark
http://www.mip.sdu.dk/nosa2001


NOSA 2001
NOSA 2001 is the fourth in a series of software architecture events organized
by universities based in the Nordic countries.  NOSA 2001 is organized by
University of Southern Denmark and is hosted at The Maersk Institute in
Odense.  The aim of the symposium is to bring together professionals from
academia and industry to exchange ideas, experiences and identified
obstacles in the domain of software architecture.  The program for NOSA 2001
aims to focus on Software Architecture from Different Perspectives, by
encouraging discussion on different themes and topics of interest with
alternative session formats.

History
NOSA 2001 is the fourth symposium in a series. Previous events include: a
national Swedish workshop in 1997 and nordic workshops (NOSA) in 1998 and
1999, organized at the University of Karlskrona/Ronneby.  No event was held
in 2000.

The workshops were hosted by the NOSAR (Nordic Network on Software
Architecture Research) network. The network consists of industrial and
academic partners.  Industrial partners include Ericsson Software
Architecture Research Lab (SARC), the software engineering group at ABB
Corporate Research, Ericsson Software Technology and Q-Labs.  Academic
partners include research groups at the University of Karlskrona/Ronneby,
Lund University, Linköping University, Mälardalen University, Tampere
University of Technology and University of Southern Denmark.


Themes
The themes for the symposium are especially motivated by interaction between
industry and academia:

1. Industrial Practice and Challenges, where industrial participants give
overviews of the current practice in their organization and outline the
challenges they are facing.

2. Academic Results and Challenges, which are traditional paper sessions in
which academia and industry present research and development results,
including their visions for the future.

3. Academic Solutions to Industrial Problems, where participants report on
actual cooperation between industry and academia, either explicitly through
cooperative projects or implicitly by other means.


Topics of interest
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  * Architecture evaluation
  * Designing architectures
  * Software product lines
  * Composition of architectures
  * Architecture documentation
  * Architectural issues in software development processes
  * Component technologies and architectures
  * Object-oriented frameworks
  * Architectures for dynamic/adaptive systems
  * Architecture recovery/mining
  * Architecture reengineering
  * Architecture-related metrics
  * Case studies and empirical studies
  * Experiences and examples
  * Tool support

Session formats
The symposium will be two days. The program will be a combination of
sessions with presentations of papers, invited speakers and working groups
focusing on particular topics.


Participation
Participation in the workshop can be achieved in three ways:

* Submit a long paper (length: 10-12 pages)
Accepted papers will be presented during the symposium as part of the
program. The university will publish these papers in a set of proceedings,
with the best papers being considered for publication in a special issue of
the Journal of Systems and Software.

* Submit a short paper (length: 1-3 pages)
Accepted short papers (position papers) will be included in the proceedings.
The symposium organizers will request authors of position papers to present
their work.

* Workshop participation
Industrial and academic software architects who are unable to submit papers
are encouraged to participate in the symposium by signing up for workshops.

Registration fee: 500 Danish Kr. (to be paid upon arrival)


Deadlines
* Long Papers
  June 1, 2001: Submission due
  June 29, 2001: Notification of acceptance
  August 5, 2001: Camera-ready copy & registration due

* Position Papers
  August 5, 2001: Submission & registration due
  August 13, 2001: Request for presentation confirmed

* Workshop participation
  August 5, 2001: Registration due

Papers and other communication should be sent to: nosa2001@mip.sdu.dk


Committee
Program co-chairs
* Bent Bruun Kristensen (bbk@mip.sdu.dk), University of Southern Denmark
* Bo N. Jørgensen (bnj@mip.sdu.dk), University of Southern Denmark

Program committee
* Lars Bratthall (lbr@ifi.uio.no) Oslo University
* Jan Bosch (Jan.Bosch@cs.rug.nl) University of Groningen
* Kim Harding Christensen (khc@eos.dk) Eastfork Object Space
* Görel Hedin (Gorel.Hedin@cs.lth.se) Lund University
* Hans Peter Jepsen (hans_peter_jepsen@danfoss.com) Danfoss
* Kai Koskimies (kk@cs.tut.fi) Tampere University of Technology
* Juha Kuusela (juha.kuusela@nokia.com) Nokia Research Center
* Lars Lundberg (Lars.Lundberg@ipd.hk-r.se) University of Karlskrona/Ronneby
* Michael Mattsson (michael.mattsson@bth.se) Blekinge Institute of Technology
* Kasper Østerbye (kasper@it-c.dk) IT University of Copenhagen

Kind regards

--
Torben Worm, M.Sc.Eng, Ph.D.      mailto:tworm@mip.sdu.dk
The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Inst., SDU, Odense University
Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M,
Tel.: +45 65 50 35 67, Fax: +45 66 15 76 97

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