ENASE 2012 - 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

MISSION AND MOTIVATIONrThe mission of the ENASE (Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering) conferences is to be a prime international forum to discuss and publish research findings and IT industry experiences with relation to evaluation of novel approaches to software engineering. By comparing novel approaches with established traditional practices and by evaluating them against software quality criteria, ENASE conferences advance knowledge and research in software engineering, identify most hopeful trends and propose new directions for consideration by researchers and practitioners involved in large-scale software development and integration.rrSCOPErENASE provides a yearly forum for researchers and practitioners to review and evaluate emerging as well as established SE methods, practices, architectures, technologies and tools. An important underpinning and assumption of ENASE is that in software engineering "novel" turns out frequently to be just new hype. An objective of ENASE is to reveal any such hype as soon as feasible. This means that ENASE does not exclude more traditional approaches to software development and integration. On the contrary, ENASE endeavors to compare novel with traditional, also to discover if novel is not just traditional in disguise. Consequently, ENASE accepts also papers concentrating on a critique of more traditional and entrenched SE approaches.rAgainst that background, ENASE undertakes to provide fast but careful scientific and empirical evaluation of new as well as more established approaches to software engineering. Of particular interest are experience reports and evaluations (qualitative and quantitative) of existing approaches as well as new ideas and proposals for improvements. The conference solicits experiments, case studies, surveys, meta-analyses, empirical studies, systematic reviews, conceptual explorations, innovative ideas, critical appraisals, etc. related to the following topics list:rrCONFERENCE TOPICSrService-Oriented ArchitecturesrProcess-centric paradigmsrApplication integration technologiesre-Business technologiesrCollaborative requirements management systemsrBusiness and software modeling languagesrSoftware quality managementrSoftware change and configuration managementrGeographically distributed software development environmentsrFormal methodsrMeta programming systems and meta-modelingrDesign thinking as a paradigm for software developmentrCross-feeding between data and software engineeringr"3A" (agile, aspect-oriented and agent-oriented) software engineeringrcomponent-based software engineering and Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systemsrservice-oriented software engineering and managementrsoftware and systems development methodologiesrService sciencerEnterprise integration strategies and patternsrSoftware process improvementrModel-driven engineeringrKnowledge management and engineeringrArchitectural design and meta architecturesrRequirements engineering frameworks and modelsrBusiness process management, engineering and reengineeringrADVOCATUS DIABOLI FORUM (ADF)rThe Advocatus Diaboli Forum “court proceedings” play an important role in the mission of the ENASE conferences. The ADF is directly inspired by an ancient, now discarded, mechanism within the Catholic Church whereby a so-called "Devil's Advocate" (AD) would assemble a prosecution case against candidates for canonization to sainthood. The AD was not required to necessarily believe the prosecution case they prepared, but was required to list every possible reason to reject the candidate's elevation. Proponents for canonization would then mount a defense, addressing each of the points raised by the AD. rrConsistently with the motivating philosophy of ENASE conferences, the main agenda for ADF-s is defined as to adversarially assess claims to novelty and utility for selected software engineering approaches or perspectives. The perspective on ADF trial at ENASE 2012 will be announced in April 2012.rrRESEARCH STUDENTS FORUM (RSF)rENASE 2012 will feature the Research Students Forum (RSF) ? a kind of doctoral consortium. The forum will accept papers authored by research students, most likely PhD candidates. Papers will be evaluated along the usual conference criteria, but the presentations will be given to a doctoral consortium consisting of experienced PhD supervisors and research leaders. rrThe RSF recognizes that what research students usually lack in their initial stages are the research techniques and “best practices” that more seasoned researchers often have at their disposal. We are referring to the ability to:rrFormulate a well-defined research question and express it concisely.rDifferentiate between what is novel and must be done from what is superfluous and already done.rAvoid making bold statements, back their claims with facts or other research and construct evidence from analytical reasoning and/or empirical observation.rCommunicate in a clear and simple way, avoiding unnecessary phrases and obscure language constructs.rAll accepted RSF papers will be published in the main ENASE Proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper and in CD-ROM support.rPAPER SUBMISSIONrAuthors should submit an original paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The initial submission must have between 3 to 13 pages otherwise it will be rejected without review. Please check the paper formats page so you may be aware of the accepted paper page limits. rThe guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference web ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable.rrPapers that are out of the conference scope or contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Please read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism. rrRemarks about the on-line submission procedure:r1. A "double-blind" paper evaluation method will be used. To facilitate that, the authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper, WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors. This means that is necessary to remove the authors personal details, the acknowledgements section and any reference that may disclose the authors identity. rLaTeX/PS/PDF/DOC/DOCX/RTF format are accepted. r2. The web submission procedure automatically sends an acknowledgement, by e-mail, to the contact author. rrPaper submission types:rRegular Paper SubmissionrA regular paper presents a work where the research is completed or almost finished. It does not necessary mean that the acceptance is as a full paper. It may be accepted as a "full paper" (30 min. oral presentation) , a "short paper" (20 min. oral presentation) or a "poster". rrPosition Paper SubmissionrA position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topic areas. The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster", i.e. a position paper is not a candidate to acceptance as "full paper".rrCamera-ready: rAfter the reviewing process is completed, the contact author (the author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the result, by e-mail. Authors are required to follow the reviews in order to improve their paper before the camera-ready submission. rrAll accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM. rrPUBLICATIONSrAll accepted papers (full, short and posters) will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. rAll papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SciTePress Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/). rSciTePress is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). rRevised and extended versions of all full papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a CCIS Series book rThe proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP and EI (Elsevier Index).rrIMPORTANT DATESrConference Date: 28 June - 1 July, 2012 rRegular Paper Submission: February 14, 2012 rAuthors Notification (regular papers): March 26, 2012 rFinal Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 20, 2012 rSECRETARIATrENASE Secretariat rAddress: Av. D. Manuel I 27A 2º Esq. rr2910-595 Setúbal - Portugal rTel.: + 351 265 520 185 rFax: +44 203 014 8816 re-mail: enase.secretariat-AT-insticc.org rWeb: http://www.enase.orgrrVENUErrThe Wroclaw University of Economics was originally established in 1947 as a private business school. In 1974 it was nationalized and is now one of the ten public universities in Wrocław. Located in the center of Wrocław, within a compact campus in Komandorska Street, Wroclaw University of Economics has about 17000 students divided into four faculties, namely:rr- Economic Sciencesrr- Management, Computer Science and Financerr- Engineering and Economicsrr- Regional Economy and TourismrrCONFERENCE CHAIRrJoaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal / INSTICC, Portugal rPROGRAM CHAIRrLeszek Maciaszek, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland / Macquarie University ~ Sydney, AustraliarrORGANIZATION CHAIRSrHelder Coelhas, INSTICC, Portugal rArtur Rot, University of Economics, Poland rPROGRAM COMMITTEErRebeca Cortazar, University of Deusto, Spain rMassimo Cossentino, National Research Council, Italy rAgata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland rRene Hexel, Griffith University, Australia rAkira Imada, Brest State Technical University, Belarus rStefan Jablonski, University of Bayreuth, Germany rSlinger Jansen, Utrecht University, Netherlands rPericles Loucopoulos, Loughborough University, United Kingdom rGraham Low, University of New South Wales, Australia rAndré Ludwig, University of Leipzig, Germany rCristiano Maciel, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil rLech Madeyski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland rSascha Mueller-Feuerstein, Ansbach University of Applied Sciences, Germany rAndrzej Niesler, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland rMarcin Paprzycki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland rNaveen Prakash, MRCE, India rLutz Prechelt, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany rElke Pulvermueller, University of Osnabrueck, Germany rRick Rabiser, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria rGil Regev, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland rKrzysztof Sacha, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland rHeiko Schuldt, University of Basel, Switzerland rStephanie Teufel, University of Fribourg, Switzerland rRainer Unland, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany rOlegas Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania rIgor Wojnicki, Agh University of Science and Technology, Poland