| Michal Glomba 2006-01-27, 9:57 pm |
| ENASE'06 CALL FOR PAPERS
1ST INTERNATIONAL 2-DAY WORKSHOP ON
EVALUATION OF NOVEL APPROACHES TO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
(ENASE'06)
19-20 SEPTEMBER 2006, ERFURT, GERMANY
http://www.e-informatyka.pl/ENASE/2006/index
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
NETOBJECTDAYS NODE'2006 (18-21 SEPTEMBER 2006, ERFURT, GERMANY)
http://www.netobjectdays.org/en/index.html
Mission
The mission of ENASE (Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software
Engineering) workshops is to be a prime international forum to discuss
and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation
to evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. By comparing
novel approaches with entrenched traditional practices and by evaluating
them against software quality criteria, ENASE workshops advance
knowledge and research in software engineering, identify most hopeful
trends and propose new directions for consideration by researchers and
practitioners involved in large-scale software development and integration.
Background and Goals
ENASE provides a yearly forum for researchers and practitioners to
review and evaluate new software development methodologies, practices,
architectures, technologies and tools. The background body of knowledge
for ENASE are novel approaches to software engineering with emphasis on
software product and process improvement. Against that background, ENASE
undertakes to provide fast but careful empirical evaluation of such
approaches as agile software development, aspect-oriented software
development, model driven engineering, component software,
service-oriented architectures, evolutionary design, intentional
software, example centric programming, language workbenches,
agent-oriented software engineering, etc.
An important underpinning and assumption of ENASE is that in software
engineering "novel" turns out frequently to be just new hype. An
objective of ENASE is to reveal any such hype as soon as feasible. This
means that ENASE does not exclude more traditional approaches to
software development and integration. On the contrary, ENASE endeavors
to compare novel with traditional, also to discover if novel is not just
traditional in disguise.
Motivation
Many software projects fail to meet their initial objectives. The
reality of software production is plagued by exceeded deadlines and
budgets, faulty solutions, unsustainable systems, cancelled projects,
etc.. The paramount questions are: What causes software projects to
fail? What are the symptoms of project problems and how to address them?
How to model, design and program successful system solutions? How to
construct and integrate systems so that they are supportable (i.e.
understandable, maintainable and scalable)?
Today's enterprise information systems are rarely developed in-house
from scratch. Most systems are the results of evolutionary maintenance
of existing systems. Occasionally new applications and systems are
developed, but practically always with the intent to integrate them with
existing software. New technologies emerge to facilitate development and
integration of enterprise systems. Assistance comes from component
technology standards, such as J2EE/EJB, and .NET. A related technology
of web services advocates constructing systems from services, i.e.
running software instances (as opposed to components, which are units of
composition with contractually specified interfaces and which need to be
loaded, installed, composed, deployed and initialized before they can be
run).
The main motivation for the ENASE workshops is to explain fundamental
conditions for achieving (developing and integrating) supportable
enterprise and business-to-business information systems. The workshops
concentrate on software product and process improvement, architectural
design, engineering principles, and organizational approaches for
developing supportable systems. A supportable system delivers desired
functionality and satisfies other system qualities with understandable,
maintainable and scalable design. The complexity of modern systems is
"in the wires" rather than in the mere size of the code. Accordingly,
the necessary condition of supportability is the minimization of
dependencies between code elements (subsystems, services, components,
objects, methods).
The workshops will propose how to harness the complexity of large
software models, manage large system production, ensure supportable
architectural design, use metrics to improve software products and to
measure supportability, take advantage of design and integration
patterns and frameworks, use intentional and example centric
programming, manage forward and reverse-engineering cycles, etc. so that
a measurably-supportable system can result.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include theoretical and/or empirical contributions
related to novel approaches to software engineering. Of particular
interest are experience reports and evaluations (qualitative and
quantitative) of existing approaches as well as ideas and proposals for
improvements or for brand new approaches. Of various software qualities,
the workshop emphasizes software supportability (understandability,
maintainability and scalability). The workshop solicits experiments,
case studies, surveys, meta-analyses, empirical studies, systematic
reviews, conceptual explorations, innovative ideas, critical appraisals,
etc. related to:
* Software product and process improvement
* Agile software development practices and methodologies (e.g. XP)
* Aspect-oriented software development
* Model driven engineering
* Component software
* Web services and service-oriented architectures
* Multi-agent systems and agent-oriented software engineering
* Generative software development
* Evolutionary design
* Intentional software
* Example centric programming
* Meta programming systems and language workbenches
* Competitive systems engineering
* Knowledge based systems engineering
* Architectural design and meta-architectures
* Enterprise integration strategies and patterns
* Frameworks and models on requirements engineering
* Cross-feeding between data engineering and software engineering
* Design thinking as a paradigm for software development
* Amalgamation of applications and data sources
* Implementing business transactions and object/relational mapping
* Team based distributed software production
* Other novel approaches and lifecycle models
* New methodologies, practices, architectures, technologies, tools, metrics
Workshop Format
Each paper will be a 10-minute presentation, followed by a 10-minute
debate. There will be up to 30 papers presented over the two days of
the workshop (plus up to 20 poster papers available for viewing and
discussions).
Each day following the paper presentations a forum will be conducted to
discuss key questions and topics that arise from the presentations and
from the poster papers.
Each day of the workshop will conclude with a pre-organized panel on a
selected workshop theme. The two panels will consist of 3-4 panel
position papers presented by invitation of the respective Panel Chair.
An open discussion will follow and will be summarized on conclusion by
the Panel Chair.
About Publications
Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings, arranged with the
assistance of the hosting conference.
To facilitate preparations for the workshop, all papers will be
available to the participants before the workshop (through the
workshop's website).
Following the workshop, the authors of full and position papers (ref.
below) will be asked to consider the workshop's findings and prepare
improved and/or extended versions of their papers for the Post-Workshop
Publications in journals or in post-proceedings likely to be published
as a Springer LNCS title.
A Journal Special Issue dedicated to evaluation of novel approaches to
software engineering will be published by
"Journal of Systems and Software"
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/jo...732/description
Five journals will fast track selected ENASE papers of interest to their
readership:
* "Requirements Engineering"
http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/fro...16135-0,00.html
* "Journal of the AIS"
http://jais.isworld.org/
* "Journal of Database Management"
http://www.idea-group.com/journals/details.asp?id=198
* "Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Architectures - An
International Journal"
http://www.wi-inf.uni-essen.de/Mobi...entType=Profile
* "LNCS Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development"
http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/fro...09318-0,00.html
Paper Submission
The workshop accepts three kinds of papers - Full papers, Position
papers, and Poster papers. The authors must declare in which category
their paper is submitted. However, the authors of some full and/or
position papers that would otherwise be rejected for the lack of space
may be invited to re-submit their work as a poster paper.
Full papers should be original research work, present analysis of data
and discussion of research findings.
Full papers must not have been previously published or submitted for
publication. Full papers must not exceed 5000 words (excluding appendixes).
Position papers should describe preliminary research findings or propose
research ideas drawn from experience and existing research. They should
contribute a specific discussion position and can present radical and
controversial ideas. Position papers must not exceed 2500 words
(excluding appendixes).
Poster papers should relate to an ongoing research or experience. They
must not exceed 1500 words and must not include appendixes. Poster
papers will be published in the Proceedings for the workshop, but not in
the Post-Proceedings. Also, the authors of the poster papers will be
explicitly encouraged and offered help to submit a full/position paper
to the next ENASE workshop.
Papers must be submitted in the form of a PDF file through the workshop
submission system http://openconf.e-informatyka.pl AND the Original
version of paper (e.g. LaTeX source, graphics, MS Word) must be
submitted to submission@e-informatyka.pl.
The papers should be submitted in the format specified by LNCS. Full
details, including more specific guidelines on the preparation of
papers, as well as styles for LaTeX2e, Tex, and MS Word, can be found
the Springer LNCS Web site.
Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper
formats. The submission should clearly relate to the topics of the
workshop. All submitted papers will be judged on their quality and
relevance. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the
workshop to present their work.
About Registration and Participation
Registration to ENASE constitutes part of the overall registration to
NODe and allows access to all NODe events, including keynotes and
invited talks. Registration fees include everything from proceedings to
banquet, public transport within Erfurt (for free with NODe badge),
lunch for all days and coffee/soft drinks.
NODe is a four day event including the tutorials day. Although ENASE is
formally a two day event, participants are encouraged to join in the
ENASE discussions on the third day (September 21st) to provide feedback,
give directions and offer involvements in the successive ENASE workshops.
Important Dates
Submission of papers: May 5, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2006
Camera-ready papers: July 7, 2006
Workshop: September 19-20, 2006
Post-workshop papers: November 16, 2006
General Chair
Maciaszek, Leszek A. (Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia)
http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~leszek/
leszek@ics.mq.edu.au
Program Chairs
Loucopoulos, Peri (The University of Manchester, UK)
http://www.informatics.manchester.ac.uk/~pl/
p.loucopoulos@manchester.ac.uk
Lyytinen, Kalle (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
http://home.cwru.edu/~kjl13/
kjl13@cwru.edu
Panels Chairs
Aksit, Mehmet (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~aksit
M.Aksit@ewi.utwente.nl
Gorton, Ian (NICTA, Australia)
http://www.ug.it.usyd.edu.au/~iango/home/IGHome.htm
Ian.Gorton@nicta.com.au
Industrial Chair
Staniszkis, Witold (Rodan Systems S.A., Poland)
http://www.rodan.pl/en/
Witold.Staniszkis@rodan.pl
Proceedings Editors
Huzar, Zbigniew (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Madeyski, Lech (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
Unland, Rainer (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Editors/Facilitators of Post-Workshop Publications
Loucopoulos, Peri (The University of Manchester, UK)
Lyytinen, Kalle (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Maciaszek, Leszek A. (Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia)
Publicity Chairs
Madeyski, Lech (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
http://madeyski.e-informatyka.pl/
lech.madeyski@pwr.wroc.pl
Seruca, Isabel (Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal)
iseruca@mail.uportu.pt
Organizing Committee
Huzar, Zbigniew (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
zbigniew.huzar@pwr.wroc.pl
Maciaszek, Leszek A. (Macquarie University ~ Sydney, Australia)
leszek@ics.mq.edu.au
Madeyski, Lech (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)
lech.madeyski@pwr.wroc.pl
Owoc, Mieczyslaw L. (Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland)
mieczyslaw.owoc@ae.wroc.pl
Program Committee
Abrahamsson, Pekka (University of Oulu, Finland)
Aksit, Mehmet (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Bailes, Paul (The University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia)
Berio, Giuseppe (University of Torino, Italy)
Chung, Lawrence (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Coplien, James (DAFCA Inc., USA)
Dustdar, Schahram (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Edwards, Jonathan (MIT, USA)
Ferreira, Maria Joao (Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal)
Filipe, Joaquim (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal)
Franczyk, Bogdan (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Frank, Ulrich (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Fraser, Steven (QUALCOMM, USA)
Gilb, Tom (Independent Consultant, Norway)
Glass, Robert (Computing Trends, USA/Australia)
Gonzalez-Perez, Cesar (European Software Institute, Spain)
Gorton, Ian (NICTA, Australia)
Gorski, Janusz (Gdansk University of Technology, Poland)
Henderson-Sellers, Brian (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Jablonski, Stefan (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
Jarzabek, Stan (National University of Singapore)
Jeffery, David Ross (Ross) (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Kangassalo, Hannu (University of Tampere, Finland)
Kruchten, Philippe (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Lanza, Michele (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Liu, Kecheng (The University of Reading, UK)
Magott, Jan (Wroclaw Technical University, Poland)
Mazur, Zygmunt (Wroclaw Technical University, Poland)
Mellor, Stephen (Mentor Graphics, USA)
Nawrocki, Jerzy (Poznan Technical University, Poland)
Noble, James (University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Orlowska, Maria (The University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia)
Parsons, Jeffrey (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Prakash, Naveen (Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, India)
Ramesh, Bala (Georgia State University, USA)
Regev, Gil (EPFL, Switzerland)
Rolland, Colette (Universite de Paris I - Sorbonne, France)
Saeki, Motoshi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Schewe, Klaus-Dieter (Massey University, Palmerston North, New
Zealand)
Siau, Keng (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Solvberg, Arne (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway)
Thalheim, Bernhard (University of Kiel, Germany)
Thomas, Dave (Bedarra Research Labs, Canada)
Unland, Rainer (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
van Solingen, Rini (Drenthe University, Emmen, The Netherlands)
Vasilecas, Olegas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University,
Lithuania)
Wangler, Benkt (University of Skövde, Sweden)
Whang, Kyu-Young (KAIST/AITrc, Korea)
Zendulka, Jaroslav (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
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