VACE 2016 - First International Workshop on Variability and Complexity in Software Design

The workshop addresses software engineering issues related to requirements, design, implementation, evaluation, deployment and maintenance of variability-intensive systems. By "variability-intensive" we mean any system that needs to accommodate diverse application and deployment scenarios. Here, variability is the ability of software or software artifacts to be changed for a specific context. Examples of such systems include product families, self-adaptive systems, configurable or customizable single systems, open platforms, context-aware mobile apps, or service-based systems that dynamically compose services. These systems range from small-scale embedded systems to large-scale enterprise software systems to ultra-large systems of systems.
Topics
The workshop addresses software engineering issues related to requirements, design, implementation, evaluation, deployment and maintenance of variability-intensive systems. Topics include (but are not limited to):
Flexible and lightweight approaches to support variability in problem and solution space and to develop large-scale variability-intensive software
Conflict between flexibility (agile / lean) and the need for bigger up-front design and design space exploration
Challenges to balance business value and effort spent on anticipating variability
Design solutions to enable continuous delivery of variability-intensive systems
DevOps for developing, deploying and maintaining variability-intensive systems
Approaches to limit unintentional variability and to better scope intentional variability to manage complexity
Variability in emerging and maturing domains with potentially large problem and design spaces
Integration of functional and qualitative variability in general development practices
Training and tools