DSPL 2012 - Sixth International Workshop on Dynamic Software Product Lines (DSPL)

Software systems are addressing an increasing range of requirements; requirements that in turn evolve over time. If systems are expected to operate successfully under these circumstances, they need to be able to autonomously adapt to the various constraints and situations autonomously. Software product line (SPL) techniques can be successfully used to provide such flexibility, but in order to be effective their capabilities need to be fully automatized and be made to work at system runtime. Over the last few years, this branch of software systems has established itself as dynamic software product lines (DSPL).
In a DSPL various software variants are managed, variation points are bound flexibly, but all this is done at runtime, this may even mean that the whole product derivation is fully automatic. DSPL is strongly related to current research topics like self-managing systems, autonomous and ubiquitous systems, etc. However, it adds product line engineering techniques, methods and processes to the mix as a conceptual basis.
The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, to establish cooperations, and to bring industry and research together .
Workshop Organizers
? Svein Hallsteinsen, SINTEF ICT, Norway
? Mike Hinchey, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Limerick, Ireland
? Sooyong Park, Sogang University, South Korea
? Klaus Schmid, University of Hildesheim, Germany