Variability 2011 - First International Workshop on Software Variability Management (Variability@ER'11)

Th First International Workshop on Software Variability Management (Variability-AT-ER'11)
As software requirements constantly increase in size and complexity, the need for methods, formalisms, techniques, tools and languages for managing and evolving software artifacts become crucial. One way to manage variability when dealing with a rapidly growing variety of software products is through developing and maintaining families of software products rather than individual products. Variability management is concerned with controlling the versions and the possible variants of software systems. Variability management gained a special interest in various software-related areas in different phases of the software development lifecycle. These areas include conceptual modeling, product-line engineering, feature analysis, software reuse, configuration management, generative programming and programming language design. The purpose of this workshop is to promote the theme of variability management from different perspectives. In particular, it aims at providing a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in software variability management, in order to identify possible points of synergy, common problems and solutions, and visions for the future of the area.

Workshop Chairs:

Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa, Israel
Arnon Sturm, Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Kim Mens, Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium