SPLC: Software Product Lines

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Event When Where Deadline
SPLC 2022 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference
Sep 12, 2022 - Sep 16, 2022 Graz, Austria Apr 22, 2022 (Apr 8, 2022)
SPLC 2021 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference
Sep 6, 2021 - Sep 11, 2021 Leicester / Online Apr 23, 2021 (Apr 16, 2021)
SPLC 2020 24th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference
Oct 9, 2020 - Oct 23, 2020 Montréal, Canada TBD
SPLC 2019 23rd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference
Sep 9, 2019 - Sep 13, 2019 Paris, France Mar 19, 2019
SPLC 2018 Software Product Lines
Sep 10, 2018 - Sep 14, 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden Mar 23, 2018 (Mar 16, 2018)
SPLC 2017 21st International Systems and Software Product Line Conference
Sep 25, 2017 - Sep 29, 2017 Sevilla, Spain Mar 24, 2017 (Mar 17, 2017)
SPLC 2016 International Systems and Software Product Line Conference
Sep 19, 2016 - Sep 23, 2016 Beijing, China May 16, 2016
SPLC 2015 Software Product Line Conference 2015
Jul 20, 2015 - Jul 24, 2015 Nashville, TN Apr 17, 2015 (Mar 27, 2015)
SPLC 2014 Software Product Lines
Sep 15, 2014 - Sep 19, 2014 Florence, Italy Apr 11, 2014 (Apr 4, 2014)
SPLC 2013 2013 International Software Product Line Conference: Call for Research and Industry Papers
Aug 26, 2013 - Aug 30, 2013 Tokyo, Japan Mar 8, 2013 (Mar 1, 2013)
SPLC 2012 16th International Software Product Line Conference
Sep 2, 2012 - Sep 7, 2012 Salvador, Brazil Feb 20, 2012
SPLC 2010 14th International Software Product Line Conference
Sep 13, 2010 - Sep 17, 2010 Jeju Island, South Korea Feb 28, 2010
SPLC 2008 12th International Software Product Line Conference
Sep 8, 2008 - Sep 8, 2008 Limerick, Ireland Feb 22, 2008
 
 

Present CFP : 2022

Context

The International Systems and Software Product Lines Conference (SPLC) is the leading conference on variability and configuration of hardware and software systems. Researchers, practitioners, and educators present and discuss the most recent research breakthroughs, ideas, trends, experiences, challenges and solutions to advance the state-of-the-art. SPLC is ranked as a top conference and for this 26th edition, we strive to continue the success of previous years by welcoming high-quality submissions for the research track.

SPLC started 26 years ago with a focus on software product lines, but by now it has become a main event for numerous closely related areas, such as configurable systems, product configuration, and software variability.

We are negotiating a special issue with a top-tier journal. In addition, each accepted full paper of the research track is considered for the Best Research Paper Award, and the authors are encouraged to submit an extended version of their paper to the special issue. The Best Student Research Paper Award is reserved for papers with a PhD student as the main author.

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Topics

The following is a list of topics of interest to SPLC, but we also invite submissions to related topics. If in doubt, feel free to ask the track chairs (see below).

AI: genetic algorithms, neural networks, and machine learning for product lines
Architecture, design, and visualization of product lines
Dynamic software product lines, reconfigurable systems, (self-)adaptive systems
Evolution, maintenance, and continuous integration for product lines (e.g., DevOps)
Formal methods and SPL verification techniques (e.g., program analysis, model checking)
Green and sustainable technologies for variation
Human, organizational and social aspects of product lines (e.g., BPM, collaborative modeling and development, cooperative configuration processes, economics, program comprehension)
Language product lines, and domain-specific and programming languages for product lines
Multi product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software ecosystems
Non-functional properties: modeling, analysis, and optimization (e.g., performance, energy)
Reverse engineering, variability mining and refactoring (e.g., migration from clone-and-own)
Recommender systems for configurators and feature models (e.g., CSP/SAT/SMT solvers)
Specification and modeling of SPL (e.g., domain-specific modeling, model-driven engineering)
Testing product lines (e.g., product sampling, test-case selection and prioritization, mutations)
Variability management and variability modeling (e.g., feature models, decision models)

Submission Guidelines

The research track is open to submissions in two categories:

Full papers describing original results of conceptual, theoretical, empirical, or experimental research. The papers in this category must rely on theoretical or empirical evaluation.
Short papers describing emerging ideas or outstanding challenges along with possible approaches for resolving them.

In this 26th edition of SPLC, we will follow a double-blind review process. The identity of authors will not be known to the program committee at any time during the process. The papers submitted must not reveal the authors’ identities in any way.

Authors should leave out author names and affiliations from the body of their submission.
Authors should ensure that any citation to related work by themselves is written in the third person, that is, “the prior work of XYZ” as opposed to “our prior work”.
Authors should avoid providing URLs to author-revealing sites (tools, data sets). The paper can mention the existence of such sites, but the visit of such sites should not be needed to conduct the review.
Authors should anonymize author-revealing company names, yet can provide general characteristics of the organizations involved needed to understand the context of the paper.

Authors having further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged to contact the Program Chairs by email. Papers that do not comply with the double-blind review process will be desk-rejected.

Each submission will be carefully reviewed by at least three members of the research track program committee. The page limit is 10 pages of content (+ 2 pages for references) for full papers and 5 pages of content (+ 2 pages for references) for short papers. Submissions must adhere to the latest ACM Master Article Template: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template

Latex users should use the “sigconf” option, so they are recommended to use the template that can be found in “sample-sigconf.tex”. In this way, the following latex code can be placed at the start of the latex document to create a double column layout:

\documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}

\acmConference[SPLC’22]{26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Lines Conference}{12-16 September, 2022}{Graz, Austria}

The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted submission must register and participate in SPLC 2022 in order for the submission to be published. Submissions need to be sent using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=splc22
Artifact Evaluation

Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit the artifacts associated with the paper for evaluation. To do so, they should submit a PDF via Easychair (select the Research Artifacts track). The PDF should contain a stable URL (or DOI) to the artifacts. The URL must contain the steps or general instructions to execute/analyze the artifact. Each artifact submission will be reviewed by at least two reviewers.

According to ACM’s “Result and Artifact Review and Badging” policy, an “artifact” is “a digital object that was either created by the authors to be used as part of the study or generated by the experiment itself [… which can include] software systems, scripts used to run experiments, input datasets, raw data collected in the experiment, or scripts used to analyze results.”

Accepted artifacts will receive one of the following badges on the first page of the paper, table of contents, and in the ACM Digital Library:

Artifacts Evaluated

• Functional: The artifacts are complete, well-documented and allow obtaining the same results as the paper.

• Reusable: As above, but the artifacts are of such a high quality that they can be reused as is on other data sets or for other purposes.

Each accepted research paper associated with an accepted artifact must provide a link to the artifact in the camera-ready version of the paper. The authors must ensure that the artifacts are available from a stable URL or DOI. Please note that these badges exclude proprietary data or tools.
 

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