SAHVA 2019: 1st International Workshop on Software Architectures and Human Values Paris, France, September 9-10, 2019 |
Conference website | http://sahva2019.icmc.usp.br/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sahva2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | June 8, 2019 |
Submission deadline | June 8, 2019 |
Building sustainable software systems requires an in-depth understanding about the role that software systems play in our society at a scale and along timeframes that are often difficult to grasp and envisage. We argue that a values ‘first’ software engineering (SE) perspective can offer new insights not only about the human and social aspects that shape SE decision-making processes, but also the potential uses, misuses, and vulnerabilities of complex socio- technical systems afforded by high-level design decisions. While the area of values-based SE has explored means for identifying and making sense of values in the analysis of software production, more effort is required to investigate how values are ultimately instantiated in the architectural structuring of software systems, and the long-term implications of such design decisions.
In this workshop, we aim to understand the impact of values in software architectures, discuss the relationship of values to high-level decisions, identify potential tensions that require methods for value negotiation, and offer practical advice for value management within software processes. We also look for contributions that demonstrate how software architectures have been designed to meet a specific set of values or where values tensions may have led to systems failures or to mechanisms that have addressed or mitigated such tensions.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Regular papers limited to 6 pages, presenting new or tailored methods, processes, and tools supporting values 'first' in software architectures or systematic reviews and mapping on any of the themes of this workshop
- Position papers limited to 4 pages, reporting preliminary results of ongoing studies in the themes of this workshop or identifying relevant challenges and/or promising directions for research
- Case studies limited to 4 pages, describing software designs where values tensions may have led to systems failures
List of Topics
- Requirements engineering
- Methods for requirements elicitation, representation, and validation
- User centered approaches
- Participatory design
- Scenarios
- Design rationale
- Problems in requirements - Software processes
- Methods for analysis, design, development, and evaluation of values in software architectures
- New models for collaboration and participation
- Impact of human values in new software, systems, and services models
- Challenges and directions for continuous improvement of software, systems, and services driven by human values
- Impact of human values to project management
- Software evolution and maintenance
- Challenges and directions for value-based software architectures - Societal aspects of software engineering
- Human and social aspects shaping SE decision-making processes
- Studies on the long-term implications of architectural design decisions to individual, social, technical, economical, and/or environmental sustainability dimensions
- Studies on ethics, privacy, and informed consent
- Potential uses, misuses, and vulnerabilities of complex social-technical systems afforded by high-level design decisions
Committees
Program Committee
- Pauline Anthonysamy, Lancaster Universit and Google Switzerland
- Stefanie Betz, Furtwangen University
- Coral Calero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
- Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama
- Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Bristol
- Leticia Duboc, La Salle Universitat Ramon Llull
- Lina Garcés, University of São Paulo
- Lorenz Hilty, University of Zurich
- Shihong Huang, Florida Atlantic University
- Lucy Hunt, Lancaster University
- Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Rick Kazman, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, and University of Hawaii
- Patricia Lago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Grace Lewis, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
- Stefan Naumann, University of Applied Sciences Trier, Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld
- Pablo Oliveira Antonino, Fraunhofer
- Birgit Penzenstadler, California State University Long Beach
- Emily Winter, Lancaster University
Organizing committee
- Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Maria Angela Ferrario, Lancaster University, UK
- Colin C. Venters, University of Huddersfield, UK
- Milena Guessi, University of Toronto, Canada
Publication
All papers must be written in English and follow the ACM formatting instructions and templates for conference papers, as specified under https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
by ACM
Venue
This workshop will be held in Paris, France, during ECSA 2019.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to sahva2019@googlegroups.com