[aosd-announce] CFP 2nd Workshop on Domain-Specific Aspect Languages @AOSD07

[Johan Fabry]

Second Workshop on Domain-Specific Aspect Languages
            Part of AOSD07, Vancouver, Canada
            Monday March 12 , 2007


            [http://dsal07.dcc.uchile.cl/]


**Dates**

Submissions due: January 12th
Author Notification: February 2nd
AOSD Early registration deadline: February 9th
Final version due: March 1st
Workshop: Monday, March 12th


**Scope**

Although the majority of work in the AOSD community focuses on
general-purpose aspect languages (e.g. AspectJ), seminal work on AOSD
proposed a number of domain-specific aspect languages, such as COOL
for concurrency management and RIDL for serialization, RG, AML, and
others. A growing trend of research in the AOSD community is returning
to this seminal work, as witnessed by the high attendance rate at the
DSAL06 workshop, held as part of GPCE06/OOPSLA06.

The workshop aims to bring the research communities of domain-specific
language engineering and domain-specific aspect design together. In
the previous successful edition on GPCE06/OOPSLA06 we approached
domain-specific aspect languages from a language implementation point
of view, where advances in the field of domain-specific language
engineering were investigated to answer the implementation challenges
of aspect languages. In this second edition, we approach the design
and implementation of new domain-specific aspect languages, as well as
the composition at all levels (from design to implementation) of these
languages or individual features.

**Topics**

We seek contributions related to domain-specific aspect languages,
more particularly (but not limited to):

- design of DSALs
- successful DSALs and their applications
- issues in both design and implementation of DSALs
- methodologies and tools suitable for creating DSALs
- mechanisms for interaction detection and handling in DSALs
- theoretical foundations for DSALs
- analysis about the specificity spectrum in aspect languages
- key challenges for future work in the area

A good analysis of conflicting forces is at least as useful for
potential participants of this workshop as descriptions of original
new approaches or experience reports.


**Submissions**

The workshop accepts three types of submissions: work-in-progress
papers, position papers, and technical papers.

Papers should be formatted in SIGPLAN proceedings style
(sigplanconf.cls). Page limit depends on the type of submission: 4
pages for work-in-progress and position papers, 7 pages for technical
papers.

The submission should be sent in PDF format by email to johan.fabry @
lifl.fr, clearly indicating the type of submission.


**Format of the workshop**

The format of the workshop will echo the format used in DSAL06:

A number of plenary sessions will first be held, according to grouping
of accepted papers, consisting of (1) brief presentations of selected
papers, (2) a discussion with the presenting authors including
participation from the audience.

Second, interactive group work will be performed to identify relevant
issues in the domain and possible ways to address them.

**Publication**

All accepted papers will be made available on this website prior to
the workshop so that participants can read them, and will be
published in the workshop proceedings, made available as a technical
report of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

A set of selected and extended papers from this workshop and the
previous edition at GPCE will be published in a special issue of IEE
Software.

**Program Committee**

Thomas Cleenewerck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Johan Fabry (University of Lille, France)
Julia Lawall (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Anne-Francoise Le Meur (University of Lille, France)
Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Jacques Noye (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France)
Damijan Rebernak (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Eric Tanter (University of Chile, Chile)
Eelco Visser (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)

**Organizers**

- Thomas Cleenewerck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Johan Fabry (INRIA Futurs / University of Lille, France) [primary  
contact]
- Anne-Francoise Le Meur (University of Lille, France)
- Jacques Noye (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France)
- Damijan Rebernak (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
- Eric Tanter (University of Chile, Chile)


--
Dr. Johan Fabry
johan.fabry at lifl.fr - http://prog.vub.ac.be/~jfabry
INRIA FUTURS - Projet JACQUARD - Laboratoire d'Informatique  
Fondamentale De Lille