[aosd-announce] CFP: Aspect-Oriented Modeling Workshop at AOSD

[jeff at gray-area.org]

                                 AOM at AOSD'07 
               10th Int'l Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling
                       Vancouver, Canada, 12 March 2007
                    http://www.aspect-modeling.org/aosd07/

                               Call for Papers

Workshop Description
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Aspect-orientation is a rapidly advancing technology. New and powerful aspect-oriented programming techniques are presented at many international venues every year. However, it is not clear what features of such techniques are "common aspect-oriented concepts" and what features are rather language-specific specialties. Research in aspect-oriented modeling has the potential to help find such common characteristics from a perspective that is at a more abstract level (i.e., programming language-independent). 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 of abstraction. The goals of the workshop are to identify and discuss the impacts of aspect-oriented technologies on model engineering to provide aspect-oriented software developers with general modeling means to express aspects and their crosscutting relationships onto other software artifacts.

Workshop Topics
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We are interested in submissions on all topics related to aspects and model engineering including, but not limited to: ­

  Aspect-Oriented Modeling
  - defining essential characteristics of a crosscutting concern that need
    to be modeled;
  - verification and validation of aspectoriented models; ­
  - composition of AOMs; ­
  - modeling of aspects at different stages of software development
    (requirements engineering, sw architecture, design, implementation); ­
  - application of AOM to modeling notations that are not tied to UML. ­ 
 
 Aspect-Oriented UML ­
  - identification of UML elements that can be used to model aspects; ­
  - identification of UML elements that can NOT be used to model aspects; ­
  - aspect-oriented support in UML; ­
  - extensions to UML for supporting AOSD. ­ 

  AOSD Method and Tool Support ­
  - aspect-oriented and model-based software development methods; ­
  - using existing UML tools in AOSD life-cycles; ­
  - new tools and extensions to existing tools to support AOM; ­ 

  Model-Oriented AOP and JPM ­
  - join point selection at model levels; ­
  - MOF, UML, MDA, etc. as a support to the JPM; ­
  - model based aspect evolution; ­
  - model weaving: from abstract to low-level; ­
  - model engineering tools for supporting aspect-oriented techniques; ­
  - model based aspect interference and composition management.

Workshop Organizers
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O. Aldawud Lucent Technology, USA
W. Cazzola Univ. of Milano, I 
T. Elrad   Illinois Institute of Tech., USA 
J. Gray    UAB, USA 
J. Kienzle McGill University, CA 
D. Stein   Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, D

Program Committee
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M. Aksit       Univ. of Twente, NL 
O. Aldawud     Lucent Technology, USA 
A. v. d. Berg  Motorola Labs, USA 
W. Cazzola     Univ. of Milano, I 
T. Cottenier   Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA 
T. Elrad       Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA 
R. France      Colorado State Univ., USA 
S. Ghosh       Colorado State Univ., USA 
J. Gray        UAB, USA 
S. Hanenberg   Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, D 
A. Jackson     Trinity College, Ireland 
J.-M. Jézéquel IRISA, F 
J. Kienzle     McGill University, CA 
K. Mens        Catholic Univ. of Louvain, B 
A. Pierantonio Univ. of Aquila, I 
A. Rashid      Lancaster University, UK 
R. Reddy       Rochester Inst. of Tech., USA 
D. Stein       Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, D
M. Voelter     Independenta Consultant, D

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:   January 15, 2007 
Notification date:     Febrary 5, 2007 
Camera Ready deadline: Febrary 28, 2007 
Workshop date:         March 12, 2007

Paper Submission
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Prospective participants are invited to submit 4-6 page position papers following the ACM Format Guidelines
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) to:

                          aomwsoc at lists.uni-essen.de 

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee for quality and relevance. Submissions must be original, simultaneously submissions are not allowed. Submitted papers must be in PDF format. 

We are negotiating with the JOT editors the opportunity of publishing a special issue on aspectoriented modeling that should collect the extended version of the best papers accepted to the workshop.

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Jeff Gray, Ph.D.
Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham gray at cis.uab.edu http://www.gray-area.org