THE 18TH INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGSOFT SYMPOSIUM ON COMPONENT BASED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CBSE 2015) Montreal, Canada, May 4 to May 8, 2015 http://cbse-conferences.org/2015/ CBSE is an ACM SIGSOFT (http://www.sigsoft.org/) event, part of the CompArch federated conference series -- see at http://comparch2015.org/ for more information. SUBMISSION DEADLINES The following deadlines are intended to be relative to the UMT/GMT time zone. Abstract submission deadline: December 14, 2014 Papers submission deadline: December 21, 2014 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 2015 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 2015 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, posters, and panels. New trends in global services, distributed and cloud-based 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. MAIN TOPICS Topics of interest for CBSE 2015 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 * Formal methods for automated component composition and integration * 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 * Migration to and evolution of component-based software systems SPECIAL THEME: Components for physical services Software systems increasingly control processes which reside outside traditional computing devices. These processes are constrained by physical laws. Examples of such systems are smart grids to control energy distribution, autonomous vehicles which drive without driver interaction and coordinate with other cars to avoid traffic jams, or robot fleets which are deployed in search and rescue missions. All these systems became only feasible because of their software parts which relieve humans from interactions. However, such systems are also often mission or safety critical and hence have to comply to strict quality requirements. Component-based software development allows to keep the increased complexity and analysability due to the interaction with the physical world in manageable ranges due to encapsulation and strict interface focus. Such encapsulation allows to verify the properties of single components and then reason on the properties of their composition independently. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee. They should be in ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates - please use the Option 2 template, i.e., the Tighter Alternate style) and describe, in English, original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. PDF versions of papers should be submitted through the CBSE 2015 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbse2015 We solicit two categories of papers: * Regular papers, not exceeding 10 pages (including appendices), describing fully developed work. Authors of papers reporting experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available for use by reviewers. Similarly, case study papers should describe significant case studies and the complete development should be made available for use by reviewers. * Short papers of a maximum of 6 pages should describe novel ideas that have not been fully evaluated, or operational tools and their contributions. Tool papers should explain enhancements made compared to previously published work. Authors of tools papers should make their tool available for use by reviewers. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. A paper must be personally presented at the CBSE 2015 conference by one of the authors in order to appear in the proceedings. The best contribution of the conference will receive the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, given by the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering. IMPORTANT DATES The following deadlines are intended to be relative to the UMT/GMT time zone. Abstract submission deadline: December 14, 2014 Papers submission deadline: December 21, 2014 Notification to authors: February 9, 2015 Camera-ready version: February 23, 2015 Conference: May 4 - May 8, 2015 GENERAL CHAIR Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia (Canada) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Steffen Becker, University of Technology Chemnitz, Germany Jean-Guy Schneider, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia PROGRAM COMMITTEE Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) Carlos Canal, University of Malaga (Spain) Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen University (Sweden) Jan Carlson, Malardalen University (Sweden) Jens Dietrich, Massey University (New Zealand) Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio (Brazil) Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France) Serban Gheorghe, Edgewater Computer Systems Inc (Canada) Antonio Filieri, University of Stuttgart (Germany) Imed Hammouda, Chalmers & Gothenburg University (Sweden) Gang Huang, Peking University (China) George Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) Paola Inverardi, University of L'Aquila (Italy) Magnus Larsson, ABB (India) Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego (USA) Grace A. Lewis, CMU Software Engineering Institute (USA) Yan Liu, Concordia University (Canada) Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Rob van Ommering, Philips Research (Netherlands) Noel Plouzeau, IRISA/University of Rennes 1 (France) Frantisek Plasil, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) Houari Sahraoui, Universite de Montreal (Canada) Wilhelm Schaefer, University of Paderborn (Germany) Judith Stafford, University of Colorado (USA) Lionel Seinturier, University of Lille (France) Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila (Italy) Michael Wahler, ABB Corporate Research (Switzerland) STEERING COMMITTEE Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen University (Sweden) Ian Gorton, Software Engineering Institute (USA) George Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) Grace A. Lewis, CMU Software Engineering Institute (USA) Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) Heinz Schmidt, RMIT University (Australia) Judith Stafford, University of Colorado (USA) Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research (USA) CBSE is kindly supported by ACM SIGSOFT (http://www.sigsoft.org/)