PAPER SUBMISSION
Two types of submissions are invited:
Regular paper (up to 7 pages): technical contributions from both academia and industry; and
- Position paper (up to 4 pages): new ideas, positions, or perspectives of research that are not fully validated.
All papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished work and must not be simultaneously
under review or submitted elsewhere. All papers will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality,
and contribution. All submissions must be in English, formatted according to the ECSA Workshops 2018 Format and Submission Guidelines
(ACM template) and submitted in either PDF or
Postscript format through online upload to the workshop submission website at
http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wdes2018.
Best Paper Award: author(s) of the best paper will be granted a certificate. The author(s) will be invited to submit an extended version of the best paper for evaluation/publication in a special issue of a selected journal (to be confirmed).
Best Paper Award: author(s) of the best paper will be granted a certificate. The author(s) will be invited to submit an extended version of the best paper for evaluation/publication in a special issue of a selected journal (to be confirmed).
TOPICS
- The workshop will focus on the following (and similar) themes for theoretical foundations and practical implications of architecture of complex systems:
- Systems-of-Systems (SoS)
- SoS analysis & architecture (requirements, architectural design, evaluation, and evolution)
- SoS model-based engineering
- SoS construction and evolution
- SoS experience from industrial perspectives and successful case studies
- SoS general issues including SoS characterization, quality, development processes and project management, challenges and directions for SoS architecture
- Software Ecosystems (SECO)
- Platform development
- Ecosystem architectures
- Requirements engineering for SECO
- Ecosystem governance
- SECO modelling and analysis
- Business and social aspects of SECO
- SECO classes (open source, mobile, etc.)
- Developer ecosystems
- Business models and collaboration
- Empirical studies for SECO
- Challenges and directions for SECO architecture
- Distributed Software Development (DSD)
- DSD processes and methods
- Cloud computing and Crowdsourcing in DSD
- Communication and coordination for DSD
- Agile development in DSD
- Business models for DSD
- Project management in DSD
- Social and human aspects of DSD
- Social network analysis and mining for DSD
- Open source in DSD
- Security and privacy in DSD
- Challenges and directions for DSD architecture
- SoS & SECO & DSD
- Strategies, relationships and applications of the three topics
- Technical, economical and social issues associated to software engineering
- Reuse-based development
- Knowledge management
- Decision-making process
- Diversity management
- Sustainability in software systems
- Case studies, experiments and industrial experience reports
- Systematic reviews and mappings