[aosd-announce] Call For Papers: EARLY ASPECTS at ICSE 2007

[Chitchyan, Ruzanna]

Call For Papers: EARLY ASPECTS at ICSE 2007
Workshop on ASPECT-ORIENTED REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING 
AND ARCHTIECTURE DESING at ICSE 2007
http://aosd.di.fct.unl.pt/ea-icse2007/

EARLY ASPECTS
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Early aspects are crosscutting concerns that exist in the early life cycle phases of
software development, including the requirements analysis, domain analysis and
architecture design activities. Early aspects aim to localize requirements and
architectural concerns whose influence would otherwise tend to be scattered over
multiple early life cycle modules, leading to serious maintenance problems. Since
these early development phases produce the early design decisions that have the most
profound impact on the whole system, dealing with aspects at these early life cycle
phases is critical.

This workshop builds on the work started at earlier Early Aspects workshops at
AOSD, OOPSLA, SPLC and ICSE to strengthen cross-fertilization of ideas in
requirements engineering, domain engineering, software architecture design and
aspect-oriented software development. Our goal is to pave the way for the systematic
and routine use of early aspects in system development in a way that produces
systems of measurably higher quality.

The specific aim of the ICSE 2007 workshop is twofold:

(a) to initiate creation of an Early Aspects application demonstration and
comparisons benchmark. For this purpose we specifically invite submissions
that demonstrate how the submitter's Early Aspects approach can be applied to
the benchmark Health Watcher case study, which is described at
http://aosd.di.fct.unl.pt/ea-icse2007/case_study.html.

(b) to solicit submission of new research, which will also be preferably
demonstrated in terms of the suggested case study.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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For this workshop, we are most interested in papers that show application of specific
Early Aspects approaches to the Health Watcher case study
(http://aosd.di.fct.unl.pt/ea-icse2007/case_study.html).

In addition, we also welcome papers that are related to the following topics:

Aspect-oriented requirements engineering:
* identification and modeling of aspects at the requirements level;
* integration and composition of aspects with other modeling mechanisms, such
as goals, viewpoints and use cases;
* identification and resolution of requirements' level trade-offs with aspects;
* tracing requirements level aspects to later development stages;
* validation of aspects identified at the requirements level;

Aspect-Oriented domain engineering:
* derivation of aspects from domain knowledge, their abstraction and
* generalization;
* investigation of composition relations between domain aspects;
* representation of domain aspects;

Mapping between aspect-oriented requirements, domain analysis
and architecture:
* the formal and informal mappings techniques;
* language features required to support such a mapping;
* benefit and complications raised by the mapping;

Aspect-oriented architecture design:
* Evaluation of AO architectures;
* modeling aspects in architecture;
* aspect identification in architecture design
* software product line architectures with aspects;
* aspects in model-driven development;

Tool support and automation for aspect-orientation:
* tooling issues for Early Aspects;
* tool-supported Early Aspects processes;

Formalisms and notations for specifying aspects:
* formalisms appropriate at early software development stages;
* proofs of properties for early aspects, their compositions, and mapping;


IMPORTANT DATES:
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* 20 January, 2007: Abstract submission. Abstracts will be used for reviewer
allocations.
* 30 January, 2007: Paper submission
* 20 February, 2007: Notifications sent to authors
* 5 March, 2007: Camera-ready version of paper submission


WORKSHOP FORMAT
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The workshop will be highly interactive and focused on making tangible progress.
During the morning there will be short presentations. The bulk of the workshop will
be reserved for group discussions and overall conclusions. The submitted benchmark
papers will be used as basis for a panel discussion entitled "Comparing Early Aspects
Approaches" at the workshop.

Before the workshop participants will be asked to read the accepted papers and the
"Early Aspects: the Current Landscape" that has been the result of previous EA
workshops. This paper is available from http://trese.cs.utwente.nl/early-aspects-
AOSD2005/Papers/EarlyAspects-LandscapePaper-FirstDraft-2005.pdf .
After the workshop the participants will be invited to collaborate on preparing the
workshop report and augmentation of the landscape paper. The benchmark paper
submissions will form contribution towards the Early Aspects Benchmark Repository.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
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Prospective participants are invited to submit a 4-6 page position paper. The
submissions must conform to the ICSE submission rules
(http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/icse07/index.php?id=69 ).
All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee and the
organizing committee for quality and relevance. Accepted papers will become part of
the workshop proceedings and published on www.early-aspects.net. Paper should
conform to ICSE submission standards and rules. The benchmark papers should
conform to the standard template available from http://aosd.di.fct.unl.pt/eaicse2007/
guidelines.html . Submissions should be in PDF format, sent to
rouza[at]comp.lancs.ac.uk.


WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE:
====================
Though paper submission is highly desirable for attendance, a number of palaces for
attendance without submission could be available, depending on the number of
submissions received. Since the workshop only a limited number of places available,
potential non-submitting attendees are strongly advised to contact the organizers with
an attendance request. Non-submitting attendees will be invited on "first come
/contacted first served" basis.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
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* Vander Alves, University of Lancaster, UK
* Thais Batista, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
* Jaelson Castro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
* Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK
* Alessandro Garcia, University of Lancaster, UK
* Gerri Gerog, Colorado State University, USA
* Michael Jackson, The Open University, UK
* John McGregor, Clemson University, USA
* Paulo Merson, Software Engineering Institute, USA
* Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open University, UK
* Mónica Pinto, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
* Jon Whittle, George Mason University, USA


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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* Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK. (Contact Organizer, contact at
rouza_at_comp.lancs.ac.uk).
* João Araújo, New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
* Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
* Paul Clements, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute,USA.
* Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal.
* Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK.
* Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, The Netherlands.