[aosd-announce] CFP: Early Aspects 2007

[John Grundy]

10th International Workshop on Early Aspects:
Current Challenges and Future Directions

Co-located workshop with AOSD 2007, Vancouver, Canada

https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/ea07/

Proceedings published by Springer


The Early Aspects community has been growing steadily since 2002, when the
first edition of the workshop "Early Aspects: Requirements Engineering and
Architecture Design" was organized during the First International
Conference  on Aspect-Oriented Software Development, in March 2002.
Since then, nine  workshops have been organized in other well-known
conferences such as  OOPSLA, SPLC and ICSE. More than 300 people have
attended workshops in  the series.

For the 10th edition we are planning a special event bringing together
the "Early Aspects" community during AOSD 2007 and will publish a set of
high-quality papers in Springer's prestigious Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. Our goal is to promote the cross-fertilization of ideas
in requirements engineering, domain engineering, software architecture
design and aspect-oriented software development in order to identify
continuing problems and potential solutions using early aspect-based
techniques.

We invite high-quality papers reporting research results and/or
experience in any area of Early Aspects. Research papers should
describe work that advances the current state of the art. Experience
papers should be of broad interest and should describe insights
gained from practical application of early aspect-based approaches
and technologies.


Evaluation Criteria

Research Papers will be evaluated on the basis of originality,
importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of
presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work.

Experience Papers will be evaluated on the basis of clarity of
the motivation for the work, relevance of the object and objective
of the study, validity of the study procedure, significance of
the lessons learned, collected quantitative data, quality of
presentation and the comparison with related studies.


Review Process

The program committee will evaluate each paper based on its relevance,
significance, clarity and originality. Each submission will be
reviewed by at least three PC members.


Key Areas

Topics of interest 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-level aspects;
* Traceability issues: from requirements level aspects through
         later development stages and during reengineering;
* Validation and verification 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 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 for new methodologies e.g. Model-Driven Development;
Service-oriented software engineering and Agent-oriented software
engineering

Tool support and automation for early aspects;

Formalisms and notations for specifying early aspects

Experience reports of using Early Aspects on industry problems


Important Dates

Submission Deadline: January 5, 2007

Notification: February 14, 2007

Camera Ready Submission for Springer: April 20, 2007

Event organization: March 2007


Paper Submission

Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described
must be unpublished and must not be under review for another
workshop, conference or journal. Submissions must conform to
Springer's LNCS format and must not exceed 18 pages (including
all text, figures, references and appendices). Submissions
which do not conform to this will be rejected without reviews.

Information about Sringer LNCS format can be found at
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Submission instructions can be found at:

https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/ea07/


Publication

Accepted papers will be published by Springer on a Post-Proceedings
volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Contact

For more information about submissions please contact Ana Moreira
or John Grundy at ea2007 at di.fct.unl.pt


PC Chairs

Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

John Grundy, University of Auckland


Programme Committee

Alessandro Garcia (University of Lancaster)
Anthony Finkelstein (University College London)
Awais Rashid (University of Lancaster)
Bashar Nuseibeh (Open University)
Bedir Tekinerdogan (University of Twente)
Charles Haley (Open University)
Christa Schwanninger (Siemens)
Dominik Stein (University of Essen)
Elisa Baniassad (Univerity of Hong Kong)
Jaelson Castro (University of Pernanbuco)
Jean-Marc Jezequel (IRISA)
Jeff Gray (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
João Araújo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
John Hosking (University of Auckland)
Jon Whittle (George Mason University)
Juan Hernandez (University of Extremadura)
Julio Leite (PUC, Brazil)
Krzysztof Czarnecki (University of Waterloo)
Len Bass (Carnegie Mellon University)
Lidia Fuentes (University of Malaga)
Michael Jackson (Open University)
Oscar Pastor (University of Valencia)
Paul Clements (SEI, USA)
Robert Walker (University of Calgary)
Ruzanna Chitchyan (Lancaster University)
Siobhán Clarke (Trinity College Dublin)
Stan Sutton Jr. (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Stefan Hanenberg (University of Essen)

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