The current trend of globalization is pressuring industries to explore ways to meet diverse needs of the global market most effectively and efficiently. Over the last decade or so, software product line has emerged as one of the most promising software development paradigms in drastically increasing the productivity of IT-related industries, and the product line community has grown and is still growing rapidly. At this very important juncture, the Software Engineering Center (SEC) of Information-Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), Japan is proud to sponsor the Eleventh International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2007) in Kyoto, Japan, the first ever software product line conference held in Asia.

SPLC is the most prestigious and leading forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators in the field. SPLC 2007 will provide a venue for exchanging, sharing, and learning technologies and industrial experiences to the community. The conference will feature research and experience papers, tutorials, workshops, panels, and demonstrations. Especially, we will organize special workshops to address the needs of specific industrial segments, including automobile, mobile communications, embedded controllers, and enterprise software.

We encourage you to submit technical papers, and proposals for panels, tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations. We look forward to interacting with you at SPLC 2007.