Third Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2008)

30th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2008)
ICSE 2008
Leipzig, Germany, 10 - 18 May 2008

http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/SHARK2008
  The program is now online! We look forward to meeting you at Leipzig! 
Supported by  GPR 
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 for reference by them. Existing notational and documentation approaches to software architecture typically focus on the 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 the external context/environment.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners (especially architects) that are interested in sharing and reusing architectural knowledge. It will foster a presentation of the latest approaches in the field, both from industry and academia, as well as a creative discussion between the participants in specific themes Attendance will be limited to a maximum of 30 participants.

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:
  • Types of architectural knowledge in industrial settings
  • Notations and languages to model or visualize architectural knowledge
  • Ontologies, domain models and meta-models for architectural knowledge
  • Communicating, sharing and using architectural knowledge – approaches and case studies
  • Tools to extract, visualize, share or use architectural knowledge
  • Evolution of architectural knowledge
  • Sharing architectural knowledge in the context of service-oriented architectures (SOA) or Model-Driven Engineering (MDE)
  • Architectural knowledge in Global Software Engineering
  • Communicating architectural knowledge in open, inner and private communities
  • Architectural knowledge for requirements engineering
  • Traceability between requirements, architectural design decisions and architectural solutions (e.g. patterns, tactics, reference architectures)
  • Architectural knowledge in the process of architecting

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/

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

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

Program committee

Pierre America, Philips Research, the Netherlands
Muhammad Ali Babar, LERO, Ireland
Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Jan Bosch, Intuit, Mountain View, California
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Torgeir Dingsoyr, Sintef, Trondheim, Norway
Rich Hilliard, independent consultant, USA
Ralph Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Axel van Lamsweerde, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Ivan Mistrik, independent consultant, Germany
Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University, UK
Eltjo Poort, LogicaCMG, The Netherlands
Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
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 8 pages); industrial papers describing industrial experience, case studies, challenges, problems and solutions (maximum 8 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://cyberchairpro.borbala.net/sharkpapers/submit/. 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 ICSE2008 submission format and guidelines. All accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Digital Library.

All submissions must be received by January 24th, 2008.

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

24th January 2008 - paper submission

7th February 2008 - notification of acceptance

21st February 2008 - camera-ready

13th May 2008 - Workshop