Second Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge - Architecture, rationale, and Design Intent (SHARK/ADI 2007)

29th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007)
ICSE 2007
May 20-26, 2007, Minneapolis, MN, USA

http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/SHARK-ADI2007
The workshop program is now online. See you in Minneapolis!
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Software architecture plays an increasingly important role to manage the complex interactions and dependencies between the stakeholders and to provide a central artifact that can be used as a reference by them. It also supports early analysis of the system, especially with respect to quality attributes and successful evolution of the system. Existing approaches on software architecting typically focus on components and connectors and fail to document the design decisions that resulted in the architecture as well as the organizational, process and business rationale underlying the design decisions. This results in high maintenance cost, high degrees of design erosion and lack of information and documentation of relevant architectural knowledge. This workshop focuses on current approaches, tackling this problem: methods, languages, notations, tools to extract, represent, share, use and re-use architectural knowledge. Architectural Knowledge (AK) is defined as the integrated representation of the software architecture of a software-intensive system (or a family of systems), the architectural design decisions and their rationale, and the influences of the external context/environment.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners (especially architects) that are interested in sharing and reusing architectural knowledge. Attendance will be limited to a maximum of 40 participants.

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
  • Notations and languages to model or visualize architectural knowledge
  • Ontologies, domain models and meta-models for architectural knowledge
  • Tools to extract, visualize, share or use architectural knowledge
  • Evolution of architectural knowledge
  • Technical, social, and management factors in communicating architectural knowledge
  • Architectural knowledge as decision support for both new and evolving designs
  • Traceability between requirements, architectural design decisions and architectural solutions (e.g. patterns, tactics, reference architectures)
  • Reconstructing architectural knowledge and rationale from legacy systems
  • Using architectural knowledge to coordinate system architecture in a global context
  • Empirical studies of the use and reuse of architectural knowledge and design rationale
  • Impact of intent and rationale for design evaluation, change analysis, component reuse, and project communication
  • Using intent and rationale to manage evolution
  • Documenting dependencies between design decisions and projecting impact of change
  • Design and design intent recovery and reverse engineering
  • Decision support and capture tools
  • Design of empirical studies for measuring the impact of intent and rationale in design and maintenance activities

Workshop Organizers

Paris Avgeriou
Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Groningen
Software Engineering and Architecture (SEARCH) Group
paris@cs.rug.nl
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/

Paul S. Grisham
University of Texas at Austin
grisham@ece.utexas.edu
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~grisham

Philippe Kruchten
University of British Columbia, Canada
pbk@ece.ubc.ca
http://philippe.kruchten.com

Patricia Lago
Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Software Engineering Group
patricia@cs.vu.nl
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~patricia/

Dewayne E. Perry
University of Texas at Austin
perry@ece.utexas.edu
http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~perry

Program committee

Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Jan Bosch, Nokia Research Center, Finland
Janet Burge, Miami University, USA
Jeff Conklin, CogNexus Institute
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Torgeir Dingsoyr, Sintef, Trondheim, Norway
Muhammad Ali Babar, National ICT Australia
Mike Evangelist, The University of Texas at Austin
Paul S. Grisham, The University of Texas at Austin
Jim Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University
Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Axel van Lamsweerde, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California
Dewayne E. Perry, The University of Texas at Austin
Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jeff Tyree, CapitalOne, Canada
Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Uwe Zdun, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

Guidelines for Submission

Papers in three distinct categories are solicited: future trend papers, describing ongoing research, new results, and future trends (maximum 4 pages); research papers describing innovative and significant original research in the field (maximum 7 pages); industrial papers describing industrial experience, case studies, challenges, problems and solutions (maximum 7 pages). A special kind of industrial paper submission is an example of a document that shares some kind of architectural knowledge, together with an evaluation of it or a description of the techniques that it uses.

Please submit your paper online at http://shark-adi2007.no-ip.org/submissions/. Submissions should be original and unpublished work. Each submitted paper will undergo a rigorous review process by three members of the Program Committee. All types of papers must conform to the ICSE2007 submission format and guidelines. All accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Digital Library.

All submissions must be received by January 23rd, 2007.

Special issue - Journal of Systems and Software

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their papers to the new Section on "Software Architecture" of the Journal of Systems and Software http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jss.

Important dates

23 January 2007 - Paper Submission

20 February 2007 - Notification of acceptance

2 March 2007 - Camera-ready copy

19-20 May 2007 - Workshop takes place