Tutorials provide a valuable opportunity for conference participants to expand their product line knowledge and skills. Tutorials may focus on introductory product line topics, such as introducing a product line approach into an organisation, or on advanced topics that fit the conference’s scope. Such tutorials provide a valuable opportunity for conference participants to expand their product line knowledge and skills. Tutorials may focus on introductory product line topics, such as how to introduce a product line approach into an organisation, or on advanced topics that fit the conference’s scope, such as tools, emergent approaches, methods, and best practices. We also welcome tutorials focusing on cross-disciplinary product line-related topics such as applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning, software ecosystems, domain-specific languages, model-driven engineering, self-adaptive systems, systems of systems, and cyber-physical systems. However, for these topics, make sure to clearly explain the relation to product lines. We particularly encourage tutorials with a practical (tool) aspect to make the presentations more engaging. Authors from previous editions of SPLC are invited to propose tutorials that explain practically how to use their product-line approach. Tutorials that illustrate the combined use of several existing languages/tools/methods to expand each approach’s applicability are also welcome.
Tutorials will be held during the first two days of the conference week in full-day or half-day sessions.
Submission/Publishing
A tutorial proposal consists of two pages describing the topic, the plan for conducting the tutorial, and the backgrounds of the presenters and the tutorial:
- Topic: This section should include the title, goals, and intended audience of the tutorial (practical vs academic; beginner vs advanced). The topic should be described in detail, emphasising its importance and timeliness.
- Plan: This section should include: a preliminary schedule of events including estimated times and length of the tutorial (half-day/full-day); a detailed description of what the tutorial will cover; a justification of the tutorial for SPLC 2024; an explanation of how the tutorial will be conducted (lecture, hands-on training or any combination of them); and a link to sample material or notes, especially if the topic is being proposed for the first time.
- Presenters’ Background: This section should include relevant biographical information and summaries of the presenters’ technical presentation and tutorial experience.
- Tutorial Background: This section should include a description of where and when the tutorial has been offered previously and any evaluations that were done.
The page limit for tutorial proposals is 2 pages.
Submissions must adhere to the latest ACM Master Article Template
Latex users should use the “sigconf” option, so they are recommended to use the template that can be found in “sample-sigconf.tex”. In this way, the following latex code can be placed at the start of the latex document to create a double column layout:
\documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}
\acmConference[SPLC'24]{28th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference}{September 2--6, 2024}{Luxembourg, Luxembourg}The SPLC proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
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Submissions will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs and assisted by the other SPLC track chairs in case of conflicts.
All people giving an accepted tutorial must register and attend SPLC 2024.
A one-page description of all accepted tutorials will be published in the SPLC 2024 conference proceedings. Proceedings of SPLC’24 will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Submission link
Submissions must be sent using EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=splc2024 (Tutorial Track)
Important Dates
- Tutorial submission: June 9th, 2024 (23h59, AoE)
- Notification: June 30th, 2024 (23h59, AoE)
- Final version of the 1-page description for the proceedings: July 10th, 2024 (23h59, AoE)
- Tutorials: September 2/3, 2024
Chairs
