[aosd-announce] CfP: 9th International Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM @ MoDELS'06)

[Dominik Stein]

Call for Papers

9th International Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM)
   October XX, 2006, Genova, Italy
   http://www.aspect-modeling.org/models06

   held in conjunction with the

9th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and
Systems (MoDELS'06)
   October 1-6, Genova, Italy
   http://www.modelsconference.org/

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.

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 aspect-oriented models
  - Composition of aspect-oriented models
  - 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 2.0
  - 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

* Aspect-Oriented Modeling Case Studies
  - Detailed examples that demonstrate how a certain concern can be
    modeled during software development throughout the different
    development stages

* Model-Oriented AOP and JPM
  - Join point selection at model levels (model based pointcut
    languages, model-based join point description, weaving based on
    model transformation, etc.)
  - 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

PAPER SUBMISSION
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). All submissions
will be reviewed by members of the program and the organizing committee
for quality and relevance. Submissions must be original - papers that
have been published previously or that are simultaneously submitted to
other workshops still under review are not permitted. Submitted papers
must be in PDF format and should be submitted to: aomwsoc_at_uni-essen.de

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version
of their submissions after the workshop, competing for publication in a
post-workshop proceedings which will be published in August 2007 as a
JOT special issue (http://www.jot.fm/current_issue_redirect).

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Position Papers: July 29, 2006
Notification Date of Acceptance: August 12, 2006
Deadline for Final Versions: September 9, 2006
Workshop Date: One of the first three days in October, 2006 (t.b.a.)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Omar Aldawud, Lucent Technologies, USA
Walter Cazzola, University of Milano, Italy
Tzilla Elrad, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Jörg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada
Dominik Stein, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Contact: aomwsoc_at_uni-essen.de

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Aswin van den Berg, Motorola Labs, USA
Thomas Cottenier, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Robert France, Colorado State University, USA
Sudipto Ghosh, Colorado State University, USA
Stefan Hanenberg, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Andrew Jackson, Trinity College, Ireland
Jean-Marc Jézéquel, IRISA, France
Kim Mens, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Alfonso Pierantonio, University of Aquila, Italy
Raghu Reddy, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Markus Völter, voelter - ingenieurbüro für softwaretechnologie, Germany