We had three wonderful *keynote speakers
<http://splc2018.net/program/
· *Judith Bishop*, who shared her experience regarding the success of
software reuse in industry.
· *Markus Völter*, who presented the importance of domain-specific
languages as the middle-ground between programming and configuration in
SPLE.
· *Martin Hiller*, who presented some of the challenges Volvo Cars has
faced to become a car manufacturer in which software is a key difference
with its competitors.
*TUTORIALS*
We ran 8 *tutorials <http://splc2018.net/program/
*WORKSHOPS*
We had 4 workshops <http://splc2018.net/program/
· *REVE: *6th International Workshop on Reverse Variability Engineering
· *IWODPLE: *1st International Workshop on Documentation of Industrial
Product Line Examples*.*
· *VariVolution: *1st International Workshop on Variability and Evaluation
of Software-intensive Systems.
· *SPLTea: *3rd International Workshop on Software Product Line Teaching
* INDUSTRY FORUM*
This year the forum included:
· Presentations of industry best practice reports.
· A round table and a panel where practitioners debated the main
challenges to tackle in the near future by the product line community
*PROCEEDINGS*
All papers are published in the SPLC 2018 proceedings that are available on
the ACM website <http://splc2018.net/
*AWARDS <http://splc2018.net/program/
*Most influential paper award*
Conferred to *Christian Prehofer*, for the paper:
*Feature-Oriented Programming: A Fresh Look at Objects. In ECOOP 1997 ( p.
491-503). LNCS 1241, Springer, 1997.*
*Best paper award*
Conferred to *Christian Kröher, Lea Gerling and Klaus Schmid* for the paper:
*Identifying the Intensitive of Varibility Changes in Software Product Line
Evolution.*
*Distinguished reviewer awards*
Conferred to three of our reviewers:
*Leopoldo Teixeira*. Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
*Rick Rabiser*. Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
*Sandro Schulze*. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Congratulations to the winners.
SPLC 2019 WILL BE HELD IN PARIS <http://www.splc2019.net/> together with
ECSA 2019 <https://ecsa2019.univ-lille.
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS <https://splc2019.net/call-
· Research papers
· Industrial systems and Software Product Line papers
· Challenges and Solutions papers
· Journal First papers
· Workshop proposals
· Demonstration and tools
· Doctoral Symposium
· Tutorial proposals
· Panel proposals
IMPORTANT DATES FOR SUBMISSIONS <https://splc2019.net/
· 25- 01 – 2019 — Challenges
· 08- 02 – 2019 — Workshop proposals
· 18- 02 – 2019 — Challenges solutions
· 12- 03 – 2019 — Abstract deadline research and industry papers
· 19- 03 – 2019 — Submission deadline research and industry papers
· 28- 05 – 2019 — Submission artifacts, workshop papers, journal
articles, tools, tutorials, challenge solutions and doctoral symposium
+INFO: www.splc2019.net and https://ecsa2019.univ-lille.