[aosd-announce] 2nd CFP TAOSD: SPECIAL ISSUE ON EARLY ASPECTS

[Joao Araujo]

CALL FOR PAPERS

TRANSACTIONS ON ASPECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
SPECIAL ISSUE ON EARLY ASPECTS

http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-164-2-109318-0,00.html

Early aspects are crosscutting concerns in the early life cycle phases
including the requirements analysis, domain analysis and architecture
design phases. Early aspects cannot be localized and tend to be scattered
over multiple early life cycle modules. This reduces the modularity of the
artifacts in the early life cycle, and might consequently lead to serious
maintenance problems. Coping with aspects at the early life cycle phases
is, as such, a primary issue.

This special issue aims to provide a venue for, and exposition of the
premier work in the area of Early Aspects research. It also aims to
further the cross-fertilization of ideas in requirements engineering,
domain engineering, software architecture design and aspect-oriented
software development in order to identify the problems and potential
solutions of early aspects. Authors should consider drawing from and
acknowledging work outside the realm of early aspects that has relevance
to this field.

Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Aspect-oriented requirements engineering
  - Identification and modeling of aspects at the requirements level
  - Integration and composition of aspects with other modeling mechanisms,
such as goals, viewpoints and use cases;
  - Trade-off analysis using requirements aspects;
  - Traceability issues: from requirements level aspects through later
development stages and during reengineering;
  - Validation of aspects at the requirements level;
* Aspect-oriented domain engineering
  - Domain aspect decomposition;
  - Derivation of aspects from domain knowledge;
  - Abstraction and generalization of domain aspects for reuse;
  - Composition relations between domain aspects;
  - Representation of domain aspects;
  - Mapping between aspect-oriented requirements, domain analysis and
architecture;
* Aspect-oriented product lines
  - Using aspects to represent variabilities present in a product line;
  - The relationship of aspects to product line requirements;
  - The relationship of aspects to a product line architecture;
* Aspect-oriented architecture design
  - Reasoning about architectures with aspects;
  - Modeling architecture with aspects;
  - Identification of aspects when designing an architecture;
  - Setting the scope for a software product line architecture using aspects;
* Early Aspects in the Model-Driven Development;
* Tool support and automation for early aspects;
* Formalisms and notations for specifying early aspects.


SUBMISSIONS
Original manuscripts should follow LNCS formatting guidelines, and should
be submitted as PDF or zipped PostScript files to ja at di.fct.unl.pt.

Each submission will be reviewed by, at least, three referees

GUEST EDITORS
Joao Araujo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2006
First Round Review Notification: September 30, 2006
Re-Submission Revised Papers: November 30, 2006
Second Round Review Notification: December 30, 2006
Submission of the Camera Ready: February 28, 2007
Special issue's publication: mid-2007





-- 
Joao Araujo
Assistant Professor
New University of Lisbon
Portugal