Joint Call for Contributions to Satellite Events at the 28th Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2024)

JOINT CALL for CONTRIBUTIONS to SATELLITE EVENTS at SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE CONFERENCE (SPLC 2024) 

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https://2024.splc.net/

September 2nd to 6th, 2024

Venue: Parc Alvisse Hotel, Luxembourg

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The ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC) is a premier forum where researchers, practitioners, and educators can present and discuss the most recent ideas, trends, experiences, and challenges in the area of software and systems product line engineering. Conference events include opportunities to hear industry leaders' real-world experiences and researchers' latest ideas and to learn from both.

SPLC 2024 includes the following satellite events and side tracks:

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1st International Workshop on Reverse Variability Engineering and Evolution of Software-Intensive Systems (Re:Volution)

https://sites.google.com/view/re-volution2024/home 

Event: September 2nd or 3rd

Submission Deadline: June 4th (full & short papers), June 28 (position & industrial papers)

Topics of interest:

• Techniques on feature and constraint identification and feature model synthesis
• Extraction of reusable components and clone detection
• Metrics, measurements, and visualization techniques during product-line migration
• Tacit knowledge and collaboration in product-line migration
• Product line architecture reengineering
• Refactoring theories and techniques for product-line engineering
• Mining variability in space and time from software repositories
• Conceptual approaches and technical solutions towards uniform, i.e., chronological and logical versioning
• Variation control systems
• Concepts enabling software product line modernization
• Evolution problems concerning specific variability mechanisms (e.g., delta-oriented, annotation-based)
• Variability- and evolution-friendly software development processes (e.g., reactive, incremental, agile)
• Investigation and classification of real-world problems caused by a combination of variability and evolution
• Case studies, benchmarks, industrial challenges, and lessons learned
• Tools implementing previously listed concepts

Seventh International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability (MODEVAR@SPLC 2024)

https://modevar.github.io/

Event: September 2nd or 3rd

Submission Deadline: June 4th

Topics of interest:

• Concepts: domain modelling, language constructs, mapping to other artefacts.
• Usages: writing, reading, generating, reverse engineering, (de-)composition, benchmarking.
• Tools: (collaborative) editing, storage/repositories, exchange, translation to other representations, analyses and testing.
• Analysing existing languages and approaches: Feature Modelling, Decision Modelling, OVM, UML-based, KConfig, Delta-Oriented Modelling, CVL, TVL, etc.

Challenges and Solutions Track

https://variability-challenges.github.io/

Event: September 2nd - 6th

Challenge Solution Submission: June 10, 2024

Solutions to the following cases are welcome:

• Resource Interaction Failures in Mobile Applications: A Challenge for the Software Product Line Testing Community

• Generating Pairwise Covering Arrays for Highly Configurable Software Systems

• A Benchmark for Active Learning of Variability-Intensive Systems

• Variability Fault Localization: A Benchmark

• Managing Systems Evolving in Space and Time: Four Challenges for Maintenance, Evolution and Composition of Variants

• Testing Configurable Software Systems: The Failure Observation Challenge

• Variability Management meets Microservices: Six Challenges of Re-Engineering Microservice-Based Webshops

• A BDD for Linux? The Knowledge Compilation Challenge for Variability

• Applying Product Line Engineering Concepts to Deep Neural Networks

• Product Sampling for Product Lines: The Scalability Challenge

• Apo-Games – A Case Study for Reverse Engineering Variability from Cloned Java Variants

• Feature Location Benchmark with ArgoUML SPL

• Interoperability of Software Product Line Variants

• Localizing Configurations in Highly-Configurable Systems

Demonstrations and Tools Papers 

https://2024.splc.net/calls/call-for-data-demonstrations-and-tools/

Event: September 4th-6th

Paper submissions: June 9, 2024

This track expects live demonstrations of product-line tools and of practices tackling current industrial challenges.

Doctoral Symposium  

https://2024.splc.net/calls/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/

Event:  September 2nd or 3rd

Submission Deadline: June 9, 2024

This track highlights doctoral proposals, both early and mid-phase, to be reviewed and commented on by a panel of experts.

Tutorial Proposals 

https://2024.splc.net/calls/call-for-tutorial-proposals/

Event: September 2nd or 3rd

Deadlines submission: June 9, 2024

Tutorials provide a valuable opportunity for participants to expand their knowledge and skills in product line engineering. Tutorials may focus on introductory product lines topics, or on advanced tools, approaches, methods, and best practices.

Journal First Papers

https://2024.splc.net/calls/call-for-journal-first-papers-2/

Event: September 2nd - 6th

Paper submissions: June 9, 2024

Authors of journal-first papers are invited to submit their publications to present their work at SPLC. This is an opportunity to speak directly to the community and offer SPLC attendees a richer set of presentations.