Call for Demonstration and Tool Proposals

The SPLC 2013 Demonstrations and Tools track provides an opportunity for live demonstrations of product line tools and practices tackling current industrial challenges. We invite proposals for demonstrations of academic, open source, in-house and commercial tools that support and automate any aspect of product line engineering. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, feature modeling, variant management, derivation and generation of products, and product line testing. Demonstrations of original, novel tools, of existing tools with a clearly identifiable new contribution, and of customized extensions of standard tools are welcome. Commercial tool vendors are encouraged to demonstrate their tools together with an industrial customer using concrete examples. Each tool demonstration should explain how the tool could be used to solve real-life problems.

In addition to tool demonstrations, we are interested in proposals for demonstrations of industrial product line practice. Demonstrations should illustrate the state of the practice in product line engineering and should communicate the existing practice, assumptions behind the approach, and actual or potential limitations and challenges. Both successful and unsuccessful practices may be shared. We invite demonstrations of early implementations of novel product line engineering concepts as well as mature implementations.

Submission:

Papers describing the tool or practice and how it will be demonstrated should be submitted electronically as PDF files through the Demonstrations and Tools track using EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=splc2013. Submissions must not exceed 4 pages in the ACM SIGS proceedings format including all text, references and figures, and must have an appendix of at most 2 pages providing a brief description of how the presentation will be conducted.

Review and Evaluation Criteria:

Submissions will be evaluated according to the relevance and originality of the work as well as presentation quality. Work that has not been previously presented at SPLC is given a priority. Tools previously presented at SPLC should include a description of new features of the tool or new aspects to be presented. The proposal should highlight what insight the audience would get from the presentation.

Presentation and Publication:

Accepted proposals will appear in the SPLC 2013 Proceedings (second volume). At least one author of each accepted submission must register and attend SPLC 2013 in order for the submission to be published in the second volume of the proceedings. For each accepted submission a formal presentation will be scheduled into the conference program.

For further information, please contact Steve Livengood, (s.livengood{at}samsung.com).