Track: Software Technology
Minitrack: Software Product Lines: Engineering, Service, and
--------------- Management

Software product line engineering is an industrially validated methodology for developing software products and software-intensive systems and services faster, at lower costs, and with better quality and higher end-user satisfaction.

This minitrack welcomes contributions from the mainstream product line research and especially encourages authors with a strong software engineering focus to interrelate their work with the relevant work (e.g., on agile methods) in the other minitracks of the Software Technology track.

The business, economic, organizational, process, service, and knowledge management related issues have not been systematically and comprehensively investigated from the viewpoint of software product lines. For example, product lines are seldom viewed in the literature as services to customers that require the design of dedicated service systems. Organizations often fail in leveraging the product line strategy partly because the extant body of knowledge provides them with limited and fragmented guidance for adopting and enacting the strategy.

Topics and research areas include, but are not limited to:
* Business models and strategies for product lines
* Economic valuation of product lines
* Organizational and process designs for product lines
* Knowledge management practices and systems for product lines
* Service systems and their implications for product lines
* Theory building and/or validation from the viewpoints of design and/or behavioral science
* Industrial experiences in product line engineering

Chair:
Timo Käkölä (Primary Contact)
School of Information Systems and Technology
Claremont Graduate University
Claremont, 91711 CA, USA
Phone: +1-909-297-9527
Email: timokk@jyu.fi