WCOP @ CompArch 2015

20th International Doctoral Symposium on Components and Architecture

Doctoral Symposium of CompArch 2015
May 4, 2015, Montreal, Canada

http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers/events/WCOP2015/

In the frame of the CompArch 2015 conference, WCOP is organized as a Doctoral Symposium for young researchers in the area of component based software engineering, software architecture and software quality. The opportunity for WCOP participants goes far beyond the event day and includes the possibility to network and exchange ideas with leading researchers in the field, who gather at CompArch every year.

The doctoral symposium is aimed to give feedback from established researchers to promising new ideas in the field of component based software engineering, software architecture and software quality to young researchers in all phases of their Phd career. Therefore we intentionally encourage PhD students, young Post-Doc researchers, and junior academics to submit their proposal statements with potentially unfinished and not yet validated ideas.

Announcements

Mar 08, 2015: The PhD students (CompArch & WICSA participants) willing to participate at WCOP with a short talk (5-10 minutes) introducing the topic of their PhD research to others, are invited to email an abstract of the talk to Bara Buhnova (buhnova@fi.muni.cz) by March 27, 2015. At the same time, all CompArch&WICSA participants are wellcome at WCOP, irrespective of wheter they are students or not, and whether they plan to give a short talk or not.
Mar 02, 2015: WCOP programme is available, featuring a keynote by Clemens Szyperski, interactive platform to share PhD topic ideas, and group discussions involving top experts in the field.
Mar 01, 2015: Clemens Szyperski (Microsoft, USA) agreed to give a keynote at WCOP'15 on "Maintaining composure: The long journey along the path of compositional software engineering".
Jul 13, 2014: WCOP'15 website was launched.

Topics

Areas of interest are component based software engineering, software architecture and software quality in general. More specifically, this includes:

software-services (as deployed components),
specification and analysis of quality of service properties,
predictable assembly of components / compositional reasoning,
component-oriented development processes,
traceability between architecture, components and code,
components as a means to implement architecture,
mobile and ubiquitous components for pervasive computer applications,
security and privacy of component based architecture,
performance/efficiency and reliability of component-based systems,
specification and analysis of component-based architecture,
deployment attribution / constraints,
COP and Model-driven Development (MDA),
addressing variability requirements in component-based solutions,
system design for independent extensibility,
maintainability and evolution of component based systems,
component versus application evolution,
management of component based systems,
domain-specific (vertical) standards,
organizational and business aspects of components and software architecture.

Guidelines for Talk Registration

The PhD students (CompArch & WICSA participants) willing to participate at WCOP with a short talk (5-10 minutes) introducing the topic of their PhD research to others, are invited to email an abstract of the talk to Bara Buhnova (buhnova@fi.muni.cz) by March 27, 2015.

Publication

Please note that there will be no publication of the talks or their abstracts.

Important Dates

Talk registration deadline: March 27, 2015.
Notification deadline: before April 4, 2015.

Workshop Programme

08:30-09:00	Registration
09:00-09:10	Workshop opening
09:10-10:00	Keynote
	Clemens Szyperski (Microsoft, USA) Maintaining composure: The long journey along the path of compositional software engineering
10:00-10:30	Panel discussion
	WCOP organisers & guests How far did we get in the past 20 years of CBSE and SW architecture research and engineering
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:15	Introductory round
11:15-12:15	Short student talks
	Max E. Kramer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) A Generative Approach to Change-Based Consistency in Multi-View Modeling
	Angelika Musil (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Design and Trade-Off Analysis of Architecture Style Variations in Collective Intelligence Systems
	Darko Bozhinoski (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy) Managing safety and adaptability in Mobile Multi-Robot Systems
	Gowri Sankar Ramachandran (KU Leuven, Belgium) Dynamic Optimization of Component-Based IoT Applications
	Wilfried Daniels (KU Leuven, Belgium) Effective Runtime Support of In-Network Reactive Reconfiguration
12:15-12:30	Planning of Break-out groups
12:30-13:30	Lunch break
13:30-15:00	Discussion in Break-out groups
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-16:45	Presentations of Break-out groups
16:45-17:00	Workshop closing

Organisers

Barbora Buhnova
Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno
buhnova(at)fi.muni.cz
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~buhnova

Ralf Reussner
Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
reussner(at)kit.edu
http://sdq.ipd.kit.edu

Clemens Szyperski
Microsoft
clemens.szyperski(at)microsoft.com
http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers

Wolfgang Weck
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
School of Engineering
wolfgang.weck(at)fhnw.ch
www.fhnw.ch/people/wolfgang-weck

Workshop contact address: wcop2015(at)easychair.org

Programme Committee

Steffen Becker (University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany)
Ivica Crnkovic (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
Ian Gorton (Pacific North West National Laboratory, USA)
Jan Kofron (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Heiko Koziolek (ABB Corporate Research, Germany)
Grace A. Lewis (Software Engineering Institute, USA)
Raffaela Mirandola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Sven Overhage (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Ipek Ozkaya (Carnegie Mellon University, SEI, USA)
Heinz Schmidt (RMIT University, Australia)
Jean-Guy Schneider (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Judith Stafford (Tufts University, USA)

History

WCOP, formerly the Workshop on Component Oriented Programming, was founded in 1996 and organized subsequently by Clemens Szyperski, Cuno Pfister, Wolfgang Weck, Jan Bosch, and Ralf Reussner. It has ran in a series of highly successful workshops, mainly at ECOOP and later with CompArch. WCOP has traditionally attracted a healthy mix of advanced PhD students, junior academics, and industrial researchers - all presenting their latest work in progress. After WCOP'96 focused on the fundamental terminology of COP, the subsequent workshops expanded into the many related facets of component software. In conjunction with CompArch, where the most established conferences of the field are bundled, WCOP will play the role of an entry level scientific event, targeting submissions with innovative ideas in their early state, where established members of the community give feedback by reviews and the discussions during the symposium. The high number of experienced researchers traditionally attending WCOP makes WCOP a particularly interesting workshop for young researchers seeking feedback from the scientific and industrial community.