SCArVeS 2012 - Second International Workshop on Services, Clouds, and Alternative Design Strategies for Variant-Rich Software Systems (SCArVeS)

Software systems are essential for any business operation today and, even more important, have been the drivers of innovation and business process improvement in several sectors. Government, healthcare and banking are just three examples of domains in which software systems have changed the status quo, for instance, by enabling mobile banking and retail shopping.
However, the variability level of average-size business software systems is high enough for making the design of this kind of system a complex task. By means of strategic reuse and variability management, Software Product Line (SPL) Engineering offers an answer to the need to develop variant-rich software systems efficiently, with predictable quality, and in increasingly shorter time-to-market.