DE 2012 - The fifth workshop on Domain Engineering

Domain Engineering aims at developing, maintaining, and managing the creation and evolution of domains, which are areas of knowledge that use common concepts for describing phenomena, requirements, problems, capabilities, and solutions that are of interest to a specific set of stakeholders. Domain Engineering is used, researched, and studied in various fields, such as Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE), Domain-Specific Language Engineering (DSLE), and Conceptual Modeling & Knowledge Engineering (CMKE).
In SPLE, Domain Engineering deals with specifying, designing, implementing, and managing reusable assets, such as specification sets, patterns, and components, that may be suitable, after customization, adaptation, or even extension, to families of software products. The commonality and variability of different products are analyzed and represented usually in feature models or utilizing UML profiles.
In DSLE, Domain Engineering aims at designing and developing languages that support the terminologies of domains and at defining, implementing, and validating syntactic and semantic rules that enable combinations of terms.
In CMKE, the focus of Domain Engineering is on capturing, representing, analyzing and processing knowledge about the domain and how this knowledge can contribute to software engineering.
Domain Engineering methods and approaches have become of special interest to the Information Systems and Software Engineering communities for several reasons. These reasons include: the need to manage increasing requirements for variability of information and software systems (reflecting variability in customer requirements); the need to minimize accidental complexity when modeling the variability of a domain; and the need to obtain, formalize, and share expertise in different evolving domains. Furthermore, Domain Engineering as a discipline has practical significance as it can provide techniques and technologies that may help reduce time-to-market, product cost, and projects risks on one hand, and help improve product quality and performance on a consistent basis on the other hand.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of Domain Engineering in order to identify possible points of synergy, common problems and solutions, and visions for the future of the area.