The 15th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE-2012)
Bertinoro, Italy, June 26-28, 2012.
http://cbse-conferences.org/2012/

CBSE is an ACM SIGSOFT event, part of the CompArch federated conference series -- see at http://www.comparch-events.org/index/ for more information.

Important Dates
Papers submission deadline: February 24, 2012
Notification to authors: April 9, 2012
Camera-ready version: May 1, 2012
Conference: June 26-28, 2012

Goals
Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) continues to attract interest and evolve as a discipline for the rapid assembly of flexible software systems. CBSE combines elements of software requirements engineering, architecture, design, verification, testing, configuration and deployment. The CBSE symposium has an established track record of bringing together researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to promote a better understanding of CBSE from diverse perspectives, and to engage in active discussion and debate. CBSE 2012 is open to all participants from universities and industry interested in CBSE and related areas

Scope
The CBSE symposium has emerged as the flagship research event for the component community. CBSE 2012 encompasses research (both theoretical and applied) that extends the state-of-the-art in component specification, composition, analysis, testing, and verification. Experience reports, empirical studies and presentation of component-based benchmarks and case studies are also within scope. Participants from industry and academia have the opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences in a variety of sessions involving invited and technical presentations, panels, and so on.
New trends in global services, distributed systems architectures, dynamically adaptable systems, and large-scale software systems often cross organizational boundaries and push the limits of established component-based methods, tools and platforms. Innovative solutions from diverse paradigms (e.g., service-, aspect-, and agent-oriented) are needed to address these emerging trends.

Topics of interest for CBSE 2012 therefore include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Specification, architecture, and design of component models and component-based systems
- Software quality assurance for component-based engineering
- Verification, testing and certification of component-based systems
- Component composition, binding, and dynamic adaptation
- Component-based engineering with agents, aspects, or services
- Component-based product line engineering
- Non-functional properties (quality of service attributes) in component-based engineering
- Patterns and frameworks for component-based engineering
- Tools and methods for component-based engineering
- Industrial experience using component-based software development
- Empirical studies in component-based software engineering
- Teaching component-based software engineering

Special Theme: Components for Achieving Long-Lived Systems
Many industrial systems have very strict requirements for uninterrupted operation. There are examples of systems that have aimed to provide continuous operation for more than 15 years. Such requirements place significant demands on the underlying architecture, mandating that the architecture be very well understood and carefully designed. In turn, the architecture—if implemented correctly—forms a foundation for achieving critical quality attributes such as dependability, robustness, usability, and flexibility. The principles of component-based software engineering offer a promise for achieving effective architectures for long-lived systems. This is especially so since this approach natively provides the ability to add, remove, replace, and/or modify components during operation. A related class of approaches deals with self-management in component-based systems in order to ensure continuous operation.
We especially solicit research and experience that highlights the applicability and value of CBSE for achieving long-lived systems.

Program Co-Chairs
Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA
Magnus Larsson, Mälardalen University & ABB, Sweden

Vincenzo Grassi, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Steering Committee
Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
George Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Grace A. Lewis, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Heinz Schmidt, RMIT University, Australia
Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA
Matthew Dwyer, University of Nebraska, USA

Program Committee
Franck Barbier University of Pau, France
Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany
Jan Carlson, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Laurence Duchien, University of Lille & Inria, France
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
Lars Grunske, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
George Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Mikael Åkerholm, CrossControl, Sweden
Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Jakob Axelsson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science and Mälardalen University, Sweden
Anders Caspar, Ericsson Research, Sweden
Ivica Crnkovic, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Aldo Dagnino, ABB Corporate Research, USA
Eric Dashofy, Aerospace Corporation, USA
Jörgen Hansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Oliver Hummel, University of Mannheim, Germany
Kung-Kiu Lau, University of Manchester, UK
Grace A. Lewis, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA
Marija Mikic-Rakic, Google, USA
Noel Plouzeau, IRISA - University of Rennes, France
T V Prabhakar, IIT Kanpur, India
Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
David S. Rosenblum, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Cecília M. F. Rubira, University of Campinas, Brazil
Antonino Sabetta, SAP Research Sophia-Antipolis, France
Kristian Sandstom, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden
Jean-Guy Schneider, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Webmaster
Joshua Garcia, University of Southern California, USA