Track: Software Technology
Minitrack: Variability Management in Software-Intensive Systems

Design, implementation, and re-engineering of system software (esp operating systems, database systems, and middleware) is still an ambitious undertaking. Despite, or even because, of the long history of theory and practice in this field, adapting existing solutions to environments of different conditions and requirements as originally specified or assumed, in terms of functional and non-functional respects, is anything but simple. Especially this is true for the embedded systems domain which, on the one hand, calls for highly specialized and application-aware system abstractions and, on the other hand, cares a great deal for easily reusable implementations of these abstractions. Embedded systems software needs to be designed for variability.

The minitrack discusses dimensions of variability that need to be considered in the software development for embedded systems, it presents approaches that aid construction and maintenance of evolutionary system software.

Please visit http://ess.cs.tu-dortmund.de/workshops/vamisis/2009/ for more information.

Co-chairs:
Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat (Primary Contact)
Department of Computer Science 4
Chair in Distributed Systems and Operating Systems
Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Martensstr. 1, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
Phone: +49-9131-8527278
Fax: +49-9131-8528732
Email: wosch@cs.fau.de
URL: http://www4.cs.fau.de/~wosch

Olaf Spinczyk
Department of Computer Science 12
Embedded Systems Software Group
University of Dortmund
Otto-Hahn-Str. 16, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
Phone: +49-231-7556322
Fax: +49-231-7556116
Email: olaf.spinczyk@udo.edu
URL: http://ls12-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~spinczyk