ICSE’06 Workshop

Shanghai, China - May 23rd, 2006

Problem Frames are a promising approach to early life-cycle software engineering. Their focus moves the

engineer back to the problem to be solved rather than forward to the software and premature solution of a

poorly defined problem. The influence of the Problem Frames approach and related work is spreading in

the fields of domain modelling, business process modelling, requirements engineering, and software

architecture as well as in software engineering in general. The 2nd International Workshop on Advances

and Applications of Problem Frames will continue the success of IWAAPF’04, held at ICSE’04.

IWAAPF’04 attracted 35 attendees and resulted in a highly successful workshop, one major outcome

being a special issue on Problem Frames of the international journal Information and Software Technology.

Workshop Objectives

To understand and improve upon the current state of practice of the Problem Frames approach in industry,

research and education.

To report on the investigation and development of new applications for Problem Frames.

To report on the empirical evaluation of the Problem Frames approach.

To continue to bring the Problem Frames research and practice communities closer together.

Submissions

All submitted papers must involve or address or consider the Problem Frames approach. We would

especially encourage real world application and experience of problem frames. Papers should relate to, but

are not restricted to, the following topics:

♦ foundations of Problem Frames

♦ Problem Frames and requirements quality

♦ applications of Problem Frames

♦ Problem Frames for describing business needs

♦ Problem Frames within software development processes

♦ relating problem and solution structures via Problem Frames

♦ empirical and comparative evaluations of Problem Frames

♦ feature-based development with Problem Frames

Workshop Organisers

Jon G. Hall, Computing Research Centre, The Open University, UK, J.G.Hall@open.ac.uk

Lucia Rapanotti, Computing Research Centre, The Open University, UK, L.Rapanotti@open.ac.uk

Karl Cox, National ICT Australia Ltd., karl.cox@nicta.com.au

Zhi Jin, Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, zhijin@amss.ac.cn (local organiser)

Registration

Please refer to the corresponding ICSE2006 web pages.