[aosd-announce] CFP: 2nd Asian Workshop on AOSD

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                                Call for Papers

    2nd Asian Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOAsia 2006)
                       September 19, 2006, Tokyo, Japan
                 (http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~aoasia/workshop/)

Co-located with 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2006)

Overview

Automation plays an important role in current aspect-oriented software
development (AOSD) research. With the growing acceptance of AOSD as a software
development technique, dedicated support for analysis of aspectual artifacts
is needed at the various stages of software development.

Developers need to be able to understand, visualize, specify, verify and test
aspect-oriented requirements, architectures, designs and programs to make it
an industrially viable technology. Tool support is further needed for the
identification of latent (non-modularized) crosscutting concerns in legacy
software and for their subsequent refactoring into aspects.

One of the aims for this workshop is to bring together Asian researchers who
are tackling the problems of advanced separation of concerns, but who are not
yet connected to this growing, thriving community. The workshop targets both
newcomers and experts. The former will receive an introduction to AOSD, and
the latter will be provided with a forum for exchanging and discussing novel
research ideas.

Keynote Speaker

   Gregor Kiczales, University of British Columbia, Canada

Submissions

There are two ways to get involved with the workshop: by presenting novel
research, or by presenting general insights into AOSD. Submissions should be
sent in PDF format via email to aoasia at cse.cuhk.edu.hk by June 23, 2006. All
submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of our program committee
of international AOSD researchers. Authors will be notified of the acceptance
or rejection of their submissions by July 28, 2006.

Important Dates

   Submission Deadline: June 23 2006
   Notification Date: July 28 2006
   Final Version: August 30 2006
   Workshop Date: August 27, 2006

Research Papers:

Research papers should present preliminary work into the state of the art of
automation for AOSD. These papers will be published in a workshop reader,
which will also be assigned an International Standard Book Number (ISBN). We
invite novel contributions of 4-6 pages (IEEE Format) on any AOSD topics
including (but not limited to):

   - Applications and tools
   - Software architectures and product lines
   - Aspect interference and Composition
   - Contracts, components and aspects
   - Model Driven Architecture and UML
   - Software development methods and patterns
   - Reverse engineering and refactoring
   - Reflection and meta programming
   - Semantics and type systems
   - Verification, validation and testing
   - Distributed systems and middleware
   - Evolution and adaptability, Evaluation and metrics

Essays, Positions, and Pedagogical Submissions:

We also invite papers that reflect on AOSD in general, and that can provide
insights into the world of AO. These papers do not need to introduce novel
research, but instead should be composed as instructional, essay-style, or
opinion on AOSD. These submissions will be published on the workshop website.

Organizers

Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Kung Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan
Jan Hannemann, University of Tokyo, Japan (Primary Organizer)
Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo, Japan
Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China