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Fifth Australasian Workshop on Software and System
Architectures
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The aim of the 2004 Australasian Workshop on Software and System Architectures
is to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss ideas, exchange
experiences and explore future directions in the area of software
architectures and component-based software engineering. In particular, the
workshop encourages submissions reporting industrial experiences (positive and
negative) when using software components for architecting, configuring, or
reengineering software and system architectures.
Following the success of the first four workshops held in Melbourne and Sydney
in past years, we again plan to have to two day programme, starting early
afternoon on April 13, 2004.
In order to maximize interactions between participants and enable discussions,
but also giving participants the opportunity to present their areas of
interest, this event will contain both sessions with paper presentations as
well as discussion sessions. Depending on the number of participants, we also
plan to organize a workshop dinner on Tuesday April 13 (not included in the
workshop fees) to give the participants the opportunity to discuss topics of
interest in further detail outside scheduled workshop sessions.
Submissions should not exceed 4 pages (for extended abstracts) or 12 pages
(for full papers) and must have a cover page including the paper title,
abstract, names and affiliations of authors, postal contact addresses, email
addresses, and telephone numbers. In addition, we ask the authors to include a
list of critical questions and/or some, perhaps provocative, statements at the
end of their submission which will assist the organizers to define topics for
discussion in advance. Submissions should be sent in an electronic format (PDF
or PostScript) to
awsa2004@it.swin.edu.au and
preferably prepared prepared in IEEE Proceedings
format (formatting instructions available from
computer.org).
All accepted position statements will be made available to the participants at
the workshop's web-site prior to the event. The proceedings containing all
accepted submissions will be published by Swinburne University Press.
Furthermore, we are currently investigating avenues for further publication of
selected papers.
For further information about the workshop, please refer to the
workshop home page at
http://mercury.it.swin.edu.au/ctg/AWSA04/ or contact
Jean-Guy Schneider.
Call for Papers
Motivation
A current trend in software architecture is to make use of the benefits of
software components (i.e., software units with well defined requires and
provides interfaces which contractually specify component deployment and
inter-component dependencies and interactions). One of the expected benefits
from a linkage of software architecture and components is the use of
contractual interfaces specifications which allow the inference of global
system properties (e.g., quality attributes) from local component properties
and architectural interaction patterns. However, practice has shown that this
linkage is not as straightforward as it seems and, therefore, further
investigations are needed to overcome the respective problems.
Topics
Authors are encouraged to address any aspects of software architecture and
components in their contributions. Suggested topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:
Submissions and Participation
In order to get a suitable number of participants, participation at the
workshop is by invitation only, mainly based on acceptance of a position
statement/paper submitted prior to the event. Submissions can be extended
abstracts (up to 4 pages) or full papers (up to 12 pages). All submissions
will be fully peer-reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee
and/or other experts working in the field. Based on the quality and
originality, the best submissions will be presented at the workshop. It is
expected that at least one author of each accepted paper will register for the
workshop. To make the discussion effective, workshop attendance will be
limited to 15 to 30 people.
Important Dates
Paper submission:
February 15, 2004 (extended)
Notification of acceptance:
February 29, 2004
Camera ready copy:
March 22, 2004
Workshop:
April 13 and 14, 2004
Workshop Organizers
School of Information Technology, Swinburne University of Technology,
Melbourne, Australia
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Departments of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Microsoft Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
School of Information Technology, Swinburne University of Technology,
Melbourne, Australia
Program Committee:
Previous Events:
For information about previous Australasian Workshop on Software and
System Architectures, please refer to the following web-sites: