Topics

The following topics are relevant to the conference but are not exclusive of other relevant issues. Contributions extending beyond the list and addressing other issues related to the feature interaction problem (e.g. classification, taxonomy or benchmarking) are also welcome.

Feature interactions in software systems/applications

Components and compositional systems
Service brokering and mediation systems
Social network and market systems
Medical systems
Vehicular and transport systems


Feature interactions in emerging telecom and network architectures

Next generation Internet
Overlay and converged networks
Service and network virtualization in clouding computing
Policy-based services and architectures
Ad hoc, peer-to-peer, sensor networks
Agent, web services and service-oriented architecture
Home networks


Cross domains and cross layers interactions

Inter-working across existing networks and domains
Interaction across network and service layers
Cross layers design
Networks partition and joint
Multi-provider environment


Current industrial practice and experience

New applications and services
Feature interaction management
Organizational and operational solutions
Software and architecture frameworks
Business models and processes
Legal and regulatory aspects
Service-level agreement
Needs and Status of Standards


Mechanisms for interaction detection and resolution

Off-line methods
feature and service modeling, formal validation, testing techniques, software tool support, scalability and efficiency, filtering methods
On-line management solutions
runtime detection and resolution mechanisms, signaling capabilities, inter-working of domains and platforms


User-centric view on the interaction problem

Service personalization
Usage scenarios and profiles
Behavior modeling
User-specified features
Quality of experience
Service reliability
Presence/location/contextual services


Software-engineering view on the interaction problem

Notations and languages
Requirements engineering
Service software design
Feature modularity and modeling
Quality aspects
Privacy and security concerns
Agile programming
Aspect and feature oriented programming
Software superimpositions
Software product lines