[aosd-announce] [CFP] 1st Workshop on Domain-Specific Aspect Languages

[Eric Tanter]

(Apologies for multiple receptions)

First Workshop on Domain-Specific Aspect Languages
          Part of GPCE 06 and colocated with OOPSLA 06
          Monday October 23, 2006 Portland, Oregon


          [http://dsal06.dcc.uchile.cl/]


**Dates**

Submissions due: July 22, 2006
Author Notification: August 31, 2006
GPCE/OOPSLA Early registration deadline: September 14, 2006
Final version due: September 28, 2006
Workshop: Monday October 23, 2006


**Scope**

Although the majority of work in the AOSD community focuses on  
general-purpose aspect languages (eg. AspectJ), seminal work on AOSD  
proposed a number of domain-specific aspect languages, such as COOL  
for concurrency management and RIDL for serialization. A growing  
trend of research in the AOSD community is returning to this seminal  
work, motivated by the known advantages of domain-specific  
approaches, as argued by Mitchell Wand in his keynote at ICFP 2003.  
This workshop is conceived for researchers who are further exploring  
the area of domain-specific aspect languages, including language  
design, enabling technologies and composition issues.


**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
- 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 etanter @  
dcc.uchile.cl, clearly indicating the type of submission.


**Format of the workshop**

The workshop will consist of several plenary sessions according to  
grouping of accepted papers, consisting of (1) brief presentations of  
selected papers, (2) a panel discussion with the presenting authors  
including participation from the audience.


**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 papers from this workshop will be published in the  
journal IEE Proceedings Software.


**Program Committee**

Thomas Cleenewerck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Johan Fabry (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Julia Lawall (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Anne-Françoise Le Meur (University of Lille, France)
Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Jacques Noyé (École des Mines de Nantes, France)
Éric Tanter (University of Chile, Chile)
Eelco Visser (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)

**Organizers**
[http://dsal06.dcc.uchile.cl/organizers.html]

- Thomas Cleenewerck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Johan Fabry (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Anne-Françoise Le Meur (University of Lille, France)
- Jacques Noyé (École des Mines de Nantes, France)
- Éric Tanter (University of Chile, Chile) [primary contact]