[aosd-announce] Call For Papers - Aspect-Oriented Modeling Workshop

[Aldawud, Omar M (Omar)]

The 5th Aspect-Oriented Modeling Workshop
In Conjunction with UML 2004
October 11-15, 2004 Lisbon, Portugal 
WS2: Monday, October 11


Workshop Home Page: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~oaldawud/AOM/
The Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from two communities, aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) and software model engineering. This workshop provides a forum for presenting new ideas and discussing the state of research and practice in modeling various kinds of crosscutting concerns at different levels, software architecture, detailed design, and testing, and mapping the models onto aspect-oriented programs. Important goals are to identify and discuss the impacts of aspect-oriented technologies on model engineering, especially UML, and to set up a shared agenda for future research in aspect-oriented modeling of software systems.

Topics
We are interested in submissions on all topics relating Aspect-Oriented Software Development and UML, including, but not limited to:
· Defining requirements on Aspect-Oriented modeling 
· Characteristics of a crosscutting concern that need to be modeled in an aspect 
· Modeling intra-object and inter-object crosscutting concerns 
· Verification and validation of Aspect-Oriented models 
· Composition of Aspect-Oriented models
· Making UML support Aspect-Oriented Modeling 
· Extending or "tailoring" UML to fit the needs of AOSD systems 
· Is a UML profile the best way to encapsulate extensions to the UML for AOSD? 
· UML templates for AOSD 
· Identification of UML elements that can be used to model aspects
· Architectural descriptions using UML and AOSD 
· Aspect-oriented behavioral modeling with UML
· Method and Tool Support 
· Using existing UML tools in AOSD life-cycles 
· Methodological issues related to the application of the UML in AOSD 
· Tool support for modeling AOSD artifacts with the UML
· Aspects in Software Architecture 
· Limitations of existing ADLs regarding the modeling of crosscutting concerns 
· Representation of crosscutting architectural concerns using aspects 
· Use of aspects to capture crosscutting concerns in design and architectural patterns 
· Composition of architectural aspects 
· How can we relate the UML, AOSD, and the IEEE recommended practice on architectural modeling (which promotes a multi-dimensional view of a system under construction)?
· Identifying and modeling aspects in distributed computing environments 
· Aspects in middleware 
· Communication aspects (e.g., protocols, etc.) 
· Security aspects (e.g., authentication, authorization, etc.) 
· Fault tolerance aspects (e.g., transactions, replications)
· Aspects in Telecommunication management systems (e.g. connection management, billing, accounting aspects, etc) 

SUBMISSION OF POSITION PAPERS
Prospective participants are invited to submit 6-10 page position papers. We encourage use of the ACM Conference format <http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html> for submissions. Members of the workshop committees will review all submissions and the authors of the papers will be notified. Submitted papers must be in PDF or Postscript format and should be submitted to: Omar Aldawud aldaoma at iit.edu <mailto:aldaoma at iit.edu> 

Important Dates
*	Position Papers submission deadline: Aug 20 2004. 
*	Position Paper Authors notification: Sep 10 200 
*	Workshop Date: Monday October 11
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Organizing Committee: 
Omar Aldawud, Lucent Technologies, USA (MAIN CONTACT)
	Grady Booch, Rational, USA
	Jeff Gray, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham
	Jörg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada
	Dominik Stein, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
	Mohamed Kandé, Condris Technologies, Switzerland
	Faisal Akkawi, Northwestern University, USA
	Tzilla Elrad, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA 
Program Committee:
	Bill Harrison, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
	Karl Lieberherr, Northeastern University, USA 
	Hoda Hosny, American University, Cairo
	Mehmet Aksit, Twente University
	Siobhán Clarke, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
	Peri Tarr, IBM.
	Atef Bader, Lucent Technologies, USA
	Aida Zakaria, Cairo

Contact Information
*	Omar Aldawud / Lucent Technologies 
		General Information: aldaoma at iit.edu
		Webmaster: aldaoma at iit.edu