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CALL FOR PAPERS

Second International Workshop on the Twin Peaks of Requirements and Architecture (TwinPeaks 2013)
May 21, 2013, San Francisco, USA

In conjunction with the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013)

http://re.cs.depaul.edu/twinpeaks
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WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Separating requirements engineering and architecture design is neither feasible nor reasonable as requirements and architecture impact each other. The Twin Peaks draws attention to this synergistic relationship between requirements and architectural design. It emphasizes the need to progressively discover and specify requirements while concurrently exploring alternative architectural decisions. Bridging requirements engineering and software architecture has been explored in the requirements and architecture communities, but mostly independently. Thus, TwinPeaks 2013 provides a forum for practitioners and researchers from both communities to jointly explore the issues and challenges related to the interplay between requirements and architecture across all phases of the software development lifecycle. These challenges are particularly evident in agile and lean development environments, or when new requirements are introduced into existing and well-established architectures. The workshop will explore techniques for specifying architecturally significant requirements, for creating, and assessing architectures, and for managing and visualizing the interplay between requirements and architectures. It will also identify open research challenges for delivering robust and effective architectures that satisfy stakeholders concerns, at continually increasing levels of scale, complexity, and delivery speed.

PAPER CATEGORIES
We welcome research papers (6 to 8 pages), position papers (3 to 5 pages), experience papers (4 to 6 pages), and pedagogical papers (4-6 pages).

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission date: February 7, 2013
Notification: February 28, 2013
Camera-ready: March 7, 2013
Workshop: May 21, 2013

ORGANIZERS
General chairs:
Paris Avgeriou, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA
Program board and co-organizers:
Janet Burge, Miami University, USA
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Matthias Galster, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Mehdi Mirakhorli, DePaul University, USA
Roshanak Roshandel, Seattle University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITEE
Daniel M. Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Len Bass, NICTA, Australia
Muhammad Ali Babar, ITU Copenhagen, Denmark
Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Remo Ferrari, Siemens, USA
Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Robert Hanmer, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Michael Jackson, The Open University, UK
Rick Kazman, University of Hawaii, USA
Anne Koziolek, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada
Axel van Lamsweerde, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Patrick Maeder, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA
Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA
Robert L. Nord, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Ipek Ozkaya, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Eltjo Poort, Logica, The Netherlands
Michael Stal, Siemens, Germany
Sam Supakkul, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Richard N. Taylor, University of California, Irvine, USA
Eoin Woods, Artechra, UK
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada
Yijun Yu, The Open University, UK
Leyna Zimdars, University of California, Irvine, USA
Didar Zowghi, Sydney University of Technology, Australia
Liming Zhu, NICTA, Australia
Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA