SHARK 2011 - Sixth Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2011)

Sixth Workshop on SHAring and Reusing architectural Knowledge (SHARK 2011)

33rd Int. Conf. on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011)
ICSE 2011
Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 21-28, 2011

http://www.shark-workshop.org/

We look forward to seeing you in Hawaii!
SHARK focuses on current and emerging methods, languages, notations, technologies and tools to extract, represent, share, use and re-use architectural knowledge. Architectural Knowledge (AK) is the integrated representation of the software architecture of a software-intensive system (or a family of systems), the architectural design decisions, and the external context/environment. It is recognized as the means for architecture governance; it facilitates and supports collaboration and the transfer of expertise. In this sixth SHARK edition we will investigate the approaches for AK personalization, where knowledge is not codified through templates or annotations, but it is exchanged through the discussion between the different stakeholders. Therefore, the emphasis does not lie on resource-intensive documentation but on lightweight, just-in-time conversations facilitated by 'knowledge yellow pages' (who knows what). The AK community has not explored AK personalization in depth, even though it has acknowledged its value as a viable approach.
In good tradition, SHARK aims to bring together researchers and practitioners that are interested in sharing and reusing architectural knowledge. The workshop will kick-start with short position statements from the paper authors. The main focus will be on fostering creative discussion between the participants, on specific themes. Attendance will be limited to a maximum of 30 participants.

Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

Types of architectural knowledge in industrial settings
Notations and languages to model or visualize architectural knowledge; use of viewpoints and ADL to transfer AK
Ontologies, domain models and meta-models for architectural knowledge
Communicating, sharing and using architectural knowledge approaches and case studies, especially in an industrial setting
Tools to extract, visualize, share or use architectural knowledge
Evolution of architectural knowledge
Sharing architectural knowledge in the context of SOA or MDE
Architectural knowledge in Global Software Engineering
Communicating architectural knowledge in open, inner and private communities
Sharing architectural knowledge in agile development projects
Architectural knowledge for requirements engineering
Traceability between requirements, architectural design decisions and architectural solutions (e.g. patterns, tactics, reference architectures)
Architectural knowledge in the process of architecting
AK reasoning techniques
Methods and tools for AK personalization
Hybrid approaches: making the best of both personalization and codification
Industrial case studies of AK personalization
Applying knowledge management theory on knowledge personalization

Workshop Organizers

Patricia Lago
Department of Computer Science, VU University Amsterdam
Software Engineering Group
patricia-AT-cs.vu.nl
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~patricia/

Paris Avgeriou
Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Groningen
Software Engineering and Architecture (SEARCH) Group
paris-AT-cs.rug.nl
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~paris/

Philippe Kruchten
University of British Columbia, Canada
pbk-AT-ece.ubc.ca
http://philippe.kruchten.com

Program committee
Pierre America, Philips Research, The Netherlands
M. Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Remco de Boer, ArchiXL, The Netherlands
Janet Burge, Miami University, USA
Jan Bosch, Intuit, Mountain View, California
Rafael Capilla, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Paul Clements, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Torgeir Dingsoyr, Sintef, Trondheim, Norway
Peter Eeles, IBM, United Kingdom
Davide Falessi, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway & University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Bart van den Hooff, U University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rich Hilliard, independent consultant, USA
Anton Jansen, ABB Research, Sweden
Kai Koskimies, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Peng Liang, Wuhan University, China
Ivan Mistrik, independent consultant, Germany
Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Eltjo Poort, Logica, The Netherlands
Antony Tang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Hans van Vliet, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eoin Woods, BlackRock, UK
Uwe Zdun, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Research, Switzerland

Guidelines for Submission

We are soliciting papers in three distinct categories:

future trend papers, describing ongoing research, new results, and future trends (maximum 4 pages);
research papers describing innovative and significant original research in the field (maximum 8 pages);
industrial papers describing industrial experience, case studies, challenges, problems and solutions (maximum 8 pages). A special kind of industrial paper submission is an example of a document that shares some kind of architectural knowledge, together with an evaluation of it or a description of the techniques that it uses.
Please submit your paper online at the ICSE cyberchair site. Submissions should be original and unpublished work. Each submitted paper will undergo a rigorous review process by three members of the Program Committee. All types of papers must conform to the ICSE submission format and guidelines. All accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library.

Special issue

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit their papers to the Journal of Systems and Software http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jss.
Important dates

21st January 2011 - paper submission
10th February 2011 - notification of acceptance
10th March 2011 - camera-ready
24th May 2011 - workshop