Prof. Manfred Reichert is co-chair of the Int'l Workshop on Variability Support in Information Systems (VarIS). VarIS'13 will be held in conjunction with the 25th Int'l Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'13) and will take place in Valencia in June 2013. Manfred shares this task with his colleagues Victoria Torres (Universidad Politécnica de Valenica, Spain) and Félix García (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain).

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields (e.g., requirements engineering, software product line engineering, business process management, software engineering, product data management) who need to deal with variability issues in information systems (IS) not from an isolated point of view, but as an integrated part of a development project. The workshop will look at variability issues in a wider perspective, trying to understand not just the techniques and languages that allow capturing and representing IS variability, but also to understand IS variability including, for example, its drivers and economic implications. VarIS will discuss the current state of ongoing research, industry needs, future trends, and practical experiences.

Further details and the call for papers can be found on the workhop's website.