Software Product Line Conference

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The Software Product Line Conference SPLC is an international conference which is held annually.

The conference was started based on previous conferences, a Software Product Line Conference organised by Software Engineering Institute in the US and Product Family Engineering Workshops. [1] Today the SPLC is established as knowledge exchange for existing and new software product lines within different industries such as automotive, avionics, medicine which share the same targets such as reducing development cost, increasing quality and at the same time to maintain flexibility.

Previous conferences were held in Denver, Bilbao, San Diego, Siena, Boston, Rennes, Baltimore, Kyoto, Limerick, San Francisco, Jeju Island, Munich, [2] Salvador, Tokyo, Florence, Nashville, Beijing, and Sevilla. [3]

The following companies have been elected in the Hall of Fame [4] for their achievement in software product line engineering: Boeing, Robert Bosch GmbH, CelsiusTech, Cummins, Danfoss, [5] Ericsson, FISCAN, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, HomeAway, [6] Lockheed Martin, LSI Logic, Lucent, Market Maker, Nokia, Philips, Salion, Siemens, Toshiba, [7] U.S. Army Live Training Transformation, and U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Since 2016 an award for the most influential paper has been established. 2016 Don Batory [8] was awarded, 2017 the award was given to Krzysztof Czarnecki, Ulrich Eisenecker of the University of Leipzig. [9]

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References

  1. Software Product Line Conferences, History. http://splc.net/history/, last check 17th of January 2016.
  2. https://www.openpr.de/news/555476/Internationale-Experten-fuer-Effiziente-Softwareentwicklung-treffen-sich-in-Muenchen.html SPLC in München 2011 - Pressemitteilung der Universität Hildesheim
  3. http://inpro.dipusevilla.es/actualidad/noticias/La-Diputacion-y-la-Universidad-de-Sevilla-organizan-el-Foro-Industrial-de-lineas-de-productos-software-SPLC-2017/ SPLC in Sevilla 2017 - Noticias en Español
  4. Software Product Line Conferences, Hall of Fame, http://splc.net/hall-of-fame/, last check 17th of January 2016
  5. "News | Danfoss".
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  7. "News Release (1 Dec, 2008): Toshiba Inducted into Software Product Line Hall of Fame at Carnegie Me | News | Toshiba".
  8. "Don Batory wins Test of Time award for most influential paper in software product line research – The Daily Texan".
  9. "Universität Leipzig: Professur Wirtschaftsinformatik, insbesondere Softwareentwicklung für Wirtschaft und Verwaltung".