Call for Workshop Proposals

The Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) is the premier forum for practitioners, researchers and educators to present and discuss the most recent ideas, innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the area of software product lines, software product family engineering and, more in general, systems family engineering.
SPLC 2014 will be the 18th official gathering of the product line community and will take place in Florence, Italy, 15-19 September.

We invite you to submit proposals for one or two day workshops in the field of software product lines. In particular workshops on challenging, emerging areas related to the conference topics are sought.
We encourage workshop proposals that are highly interactive, rather than mini-conferences.
Workshops usually take place on the first and second day of the conference, 15th and 16th September 2014.

Traditionally, SPLC workshop papers are published in volume 2 of the SPLC conference proceedings published by ACM. A one-page summary of each accepted workshop will be published in volume 1.

Workshop proposals should be authored by at least two organizers, preferably from different institutions, and they should contain the following three sections:

    1 Organizers
  • Name: organizers' full names
  • Contact information: affiliations, job titles, postal addresses, e-mail addresses, URLs, and phone
  • Brief biography: 100-200 words, focusing on the organizers' expertise in the field and experience as workshop organizers
  • Primary contact: identify one organizer as the primary contact

    2 Workshop content
  • Title: workshop title and acronym.
  • Abstract: max 150 words describing the workshop, suitable for the conference's website and the advance program (the shorter the better)
  • Topics and motivation:
    • What are the topics, themes, and areas of interest of the workshop?
    • How is the workshop relevant to SPLC?
    • How does the workshop connect SPLC to other research communities?
  • Goals and expected results:
    • Explicitly state the goals of the workshop and how you intend to reach them
    • What are the expected results of the workshop?
    • How will these results be disseminated?
  • Format:
    • What is the planned workshop format (paper presentations, working sessions, etc.)?
    • What will be done to stimulate collaborative interaction?
    • What are the planned pre- and post-workshop activities?
    • Provide a preliminary schedule for the workshop
  • Participants: List a preliminary program committee (if applicable)
    • What is the expected number of participants? Provide a plan for attracting submissions and promoting attendance
    • Explain how this workshop will attract a sufficient number of attendees
    • If applicable, specify the participant selection process
  • Previous workshops:
    • Have there been previous workshops on the same or a closely related topic?
    • When, where and with how many participants?
  • Required equipment: Overhead projector, PC projector, whiteboard, flip charts, microphone, etc.

3 Preliminary Call for Papers
This will necessarily repeat some of the information from the previous sections, but should be targeted towards prospective participants
The workshop call for papers should address the following items:
  • Overview of the motivation, topics, and goals
  • Workshop format
  • Deadlines of the workshop (see dates in this call for proposals)
  • Submission guidelines and review process
  • References to previous workshops (websites)

Submission

The deadline for submissions is April 4, 2014

Please send your workshop proposals using EasyChair
(login as author to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=splc14 and select SPLC 2014 Workshop).
Proposals must be submitted in PDF or ASCII text format.
Relevant supporting material, such as proceedings from previous offerings of the proposed workshop or other workshops run by the proposal authors, should be included if available but are not required for submission.
A workshop proposal must be at most 3 pages.

Each workshop proposal will be evaluated according to the relevance of its topic, the expertise and experience of the workshop organizers, and the workshop's potential for attracting participants and generating useful results.

We underline the importance of active and creative workshops that foster a collaborative environment of interest to both practitioners and researchers, aiming, e.g., to evolve the field of software product lines and to identify elements of joint future work.

Notifications will be sent by April 20, 2014.

    If accepted, the following deadlines are set by the SPLC organization:
  • CfP incl. finalized PC, workshop website:  May 10, 2014.
  • Paper submissions (strongly suggested):  June 10, 2014.
  • Paper notifications (strongly suggested):  July 10, 2014.
  • Final version of papers (hard deadline):  July 20, 2014.

All workshop organizers and participants must register for SPLC 2014.

Further enquiries can be made to the workshop chairs:
    Maurice ter Beek (maurice.terbeek@isti.cnr.it)
    Goetz Botterweck (goetz.botterweck@lero.ie)