Joint Workshop of the 5 th International Workshop on Model-driven Approaches in Software Product Line Engineering and the 4 th Workshop on Scalable Modeling Techniques for Software Product Lines (MAPLE/SCALE 2013) Goetz Botterweck Lero, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland goetz.botterweck @lero.ie Deepak Dhungana Siemens AG Österreich, Vienna, Austria deepak.dhungana @siemens.com Natsuko Noda Shibaura Institute of Technology, Saitama, Japan nnoda @ieee.org Rick Rabiser Johannes Kep- ler University Linz, Austria rick.rabiser @jku.at Hironori Washizaki Waseda University Tokyo, Japan washizaki @waseda.jp ABSTRACT One of the greatest barriers on the way to the efficient creation, handling, and evolution of product lines is the complexity and scale of the underlying artifacts. In this context, the MA- PLE/SCALE workshop focuses on the investigation of scalability issues and the application of model-driven concepts and tech- niques in software product line engineering (SPLE). The work- shop explores how to handle product lines of realistic complexity and how to facilitate systematic and efficient product derivation. Categories and Subject Descriptors D.2 [Software Engineering]: General General Terms Documentation, Theory Keywords Product Line Engineering, Model-driven Software Engineering, Variability Modeling, Product Derivation, Scalability. 1. MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES To exploit the benefits of product lines (e.g., increased productivi- ty, shorter time to market) all SPLE activities need to be per- formed in an efficient and systematic manner [1, 2]. Product lines (and their products) are often part of complex system structures and exhibit a high degree of interdependencies. In this context, the MAPLE/SCALE workshop focuses on the application of model- driven concepts and techniques in SPLE and explores how they can help to handle product lines of realistic complexity and facili- tate the systematic and efficient derivation of products [3]. The workshop particularly aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to (1) tackle problems of practical relevance and realistic complexity and (2) allow the evaluation and refine- ment of conceptual results in an industry context, with a special focus on investigating scalability. 2. TOPICS • Modelling SPLs and Variability • Scalability issues • Product derivation/configuration • Handling of large and complex SPLs • Visualisation and interactive techniques for SPLE • Model-based approaches to computationally complex SPLE problems, e.g., heuristics • Feature-oriented approaches for modelling/implementation • Mapping problem-oriented concepts to solution-oriented artefacts, traceability across abstraction levels • Evolution and Change • Reverse engineering and mining of SPL models from artefacts • Variability-aware techniques, e.g., for validation/verification • Integration of heterogeneous modelling languages/techniques • Runtime variability, dynamic SPLs, adaptive systems and variability • Collaborative and distributed SPLs • Non-technical issues in model-based SPLE and scalability • Tools and environments 3. PREVIOUS EVENTS The MAPLE workshop was held at SPLC from 2009 to 2012. In 2011 MAPLE was held as a joint workshop with SCALE. SCALE was held in 2009 at SPLC 2009 and in 2010 at SPLC 2010. 4. REFERENCES [1] P. Clements and L. Northrop, Software Product Lines: Prac- tices and Patterns: SEI Series in Software Engineering, Ad- dison-Wesley, 2001. [2] F. van der Linden, K. Schmid, and E. Rommes, Software Product Lines in Action - The Best Industrial Practice in Product Line Engineering: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. [3] R. Rabiser, P. Grünbacher, and D. Dhungana, Requirements for Product Derivation Support: Results from a Systematic Literature Review and an Expert Survey, Information and Software Technology, 52(3): 324-346, 2010. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. SPLC’13, August 26–30, 2013, Tokyo, Japan. Copyright 2013 ACM 978-1-4503-1968-3/13/08. 268