IWSSA 2012 - International Workshop on System/Software Architectures

Far from being residual in its importance, Systems and Software Architectures prevail as a touchtone for many System and Software Engineering (SSE) projects in achieving a certain level of quality. The successive emergence of new development approaches and the advent of new technologies and computation paradigms, such as Cloud Computing, Model and Ontology driven Engineering, Lean Software Development, Agile, etc., lend new opportunities for academicians, practitioners and even politicians to steadily strive to come up with new system designs or even revisit old ones. In recent years, service oriented and/or service-driven architectures are gaining momentum within the SSE community and even changing the way in which system operation is conceived. Indeed, thinking of services almost means not developing any more, but orchestrating and choreographing functionalities developed in the past through well-defined interfaces. Interoperability, heterogeneity, etc. are commonplaces in this context. IWSSA workshop specially focuses on the enactment/connection of the different kinds of system and software requirements into/to concrete design issues (decisions, guidelines, paradigms, etc.) for system/software architectures. In particular, the workshop stresses the importance of non-functional requirements analysis for successful architectural designs. Techniques, methodologies and processes to address this issue will be presented and discussed at the workshop.
The topics, with special emphasis on architectures satisfying requirements in service oriented and service driven environments, include but are not limited to:
? architecting critical systems for diversity and collaborative operationality
? roles of enterprise/system architectures in system/software lifecycle
? requirements and software architectures for specific application domains and product lines
? case studies especially for complex systems in organizational and social settings
? architectural models in model-driven approaches
? traceability and dependency among requirements, system architectures and software architectures
? engineering quality in architectures to address non-functional requirements such as security, interoperability, adaptability, responsiveness, ubiquity, reliability, dependability, self-healing ability, performance, usability, safety, functionality, etc.
? methodologies and techniques applied to the construction of high-quality system/software architectures
? models and design theories ? both evolutionary and revolutionary - for system architectures and software architectures
? software architecture maintenance, evolution and management
? validation of requirements and verification techniques for architectural design
? metrics for architectures
? service-oriented / object-oriented / aspect-oriented / goal-oriented / agent-oriented / scenario-based approaches to enterprise/software architecture development
? COTS / GOTS / Component / Middleware-Based development for architectures
? Ontology-driven architectures