General talk about software patterns

["Wang Ye" <ai_4869 AT zju.edu.cn>]

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                                                **** POD 2009 ****
                   First International Workshop on Problem-Oriented Development

                       Co-located with TOOLS-EUROPE 2009, June 29-30 2009
                                                 ETH Zurich, Switzerland

                                                 http://poc-workshop.eu             

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Problem-Oriented Development (POD) is an umbrella term that

encompasses a range of Software Engineering (SE) approaches that

focus explicitly on the modelling and analysis of business problems (as

opposed to their solutions). POD approaches facilitate formalisation

and analysis of problems, provide effective tool support for problem

elicitation and analysis, and support the automated derivation of

requirements and solutions from problem models.

 

 

Past examples of POD research include empirical and scientific

approaches to describing software problems or patterns to support

knowledge reuse during problem analysis. Other approaches might,

for example, focus on understanding why the current system does not

meet organisational goals, on finding appropriate graphical

representations for SE problems, or on identifying specific classes of SE

problems.

 

 

POD approaches are, themselves, typically domain-independent,

although they may be geared towards certain classes of problem. For

example, an approach may be geared towards modelling problems

involving transactional business processes, but without considering the

application domain of the processes themselves. Instead a framework

may be provided for formalising domain knowledge which may then

be incorporated into the approach.


Scope

POD 2009 will address topics related to POD including (but not limited to):

 

* Analysis of the fundamental structures of SE problems;

 

* Pattern languages and libraries to support problem analysis;

 

 

* Approaches, techniques and formalisms for modelling SE problems;

 

* Tool support for problem analysis;

 

* Mappings between problem patterns and design patterns;

 

* Techniques for transforming problem models to solution models;

 

* Future challenges facing POD.

We are interested in position papers arguing in favour of specific stances in relation

to workshop topics, vision papers arguing for research to take a specific direction,

problem statements and experience reports. Papers may discuss both mature

research and preliminary results or work in progress.

Workshop Format

The workshop will be divided into sessions which will address the

various workshop topics. During sessions, authors will have 15

minutes to present their work, followed by a 20 minute panel

discussion, and 20 minutes for questions from the floor. Authors

will sit on two panels, one of which will be during their own

session.

 

A short, open brainstorming session will conclude the workshop

to encourage a free exchange of ideas.

 

A keynote talk will be given by Professor Joost Breuker who,

with Bob Wielinga, founded the CommonKADS methodology for

developing knowledge-based systems, and this experience has

allowed Professor Breuker to gain significant understanding of

problem abstractions and problem-solving methods.

 

Publication

 

A number of reputable journals, including Springer’s journal on

Software Tools for Technology Transfer, have expressed interest

in publishing a selection of the best papers from the workshop.
 

Important Dates

Deadline for Submissions: 11th May 2009

 

Notification of Acceptance: 1st June 2009

 

Camera-Ready Papers/Registration: 15th June 2009

Submissions

 

Papers should be submitted in the Springer LNIB format and should be no

longer than ten pages. Check our website at http://poc-workshop.eu for

further details.

 

 

 

 

Organising Committee

 

James Naish, University of Manchester

 

Kawther Saeedi, University of Manchester

 

Sun Jie, Zhejiang University

 

Wang Ye, Zhejiang University

 

 

 

Program Committee

 

 

James Naish, University of Manchester

 

Liping Zhao, University of Manchester

 

Jon Hall, Open University, UK

 

Lucia Rapanotti, Open University, UK

 

Alistair Sutcliffe, Manchester Business School

 

Ulrich Eisenecker, University of Leipzig

 

Xiaohu Yang, Zhejiang University

 

Pedro Sampaio, University of Manchester

 

Xinyu Wang, Zhejiang University

 

Hans Körber, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserlauten

 

Christopher Harrison, University of Manchester

 

Paul Verschueren, IBM, UK

 

José Manuel Gómez-Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de

Madrid