[aosd-announce] CFParticipation - Assessment of Contemporary Modularization Techniques (ACoM.07) at ICSE'07

[Cláudio Sant'Anna]

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1st WORKSHOP ON ASSESSMENT OF CONTEMPORARY
MODULARIZATION TECHNIQUES (ACoM.07)

22 May 2007, Minneapolis, USA
Co-located with the 29th Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’07)

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/ACoM.07/
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The list of accepted papers is now available at
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/ACoM.07/program.htm

You can register for ACoM.07 during ICSE registration at
http://www.regmaster.com/conf/icse2007.html

MOTIVATION

A number of new modularization techniques are emerging to cope with the
challenges of contemporary software engineering, such as object-oriented
design patterns, aspect-oriented software development, feature-oriented
programming, and the like. The effective assessment of such emerging
modularization technologies plays a pivotal role on: (i) a better
understanding of their real benefits and drawbacks when compared to
conventional development techniques, and (ii) their effective transfer to
mainstream software development. However, there is no standard
approach or even any 'rules of thumb' for assessing such new software
development approaches. This means that the evaluation of a technique
is relatively arbitrarily chosen and made in an idiosyncratic manner.

GOALS

The main goal of this workshop is to put together researchers and
practitioners with different backgrounds in order to discuss open issues
on the assessment of contemporary modularization techniques, such as:

- what are the proper assessment mechanisms and methods to compare
new modularity techniques and conventional ones (e.g. OO)?
- how to empirically assess the usability and usefulness of new
modularization techniques within industrial settings and cost bounds?
- how to support the quality assessment of artefacts decomposed according to
new modularity mechanisms through the software lifecycle?
- to what extent software engineers using such contemporary modularity
techniques should rely on traditional metrics and quality indicators?
- how to validate new assessment mechanisms?

The workshop also aims at: (i) bringing the attention of the software
engineering community to the importance of rigorous evaluation of emerging
modularization techniques; (ii) motivating the expansion of research and
practice associated with assessment of emerging modularization technologies;
and (iii) fostering a collaborative environment for both practitioners and
researchers interested in effective assessment of new development techniques.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands
James Bieman, Colorado State University, USA
Paulo Borba, UFPE, Brazil
Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio, Italy
Christina Chavez, UFBA, Brazil
Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria, Canada
Robert France, Colorado State University, USA
Holger Giese, University of Paderborn, Germany
Ian Gorton, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Australia
Rachel Harrison, Stratton Edge Consulting, UK
Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
Mira Mezini, T.U. Darmstadt, Germany
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
Peri Tarr, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Tom Tourwe, CWI, The Netherlands
Robert Walker, University of Calgary, Canada

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Alessandro Garcia, Lancaster University, UK
Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Cristina Videira Lopes, University of California at Irvine, USA
Christa Schwanninger, Siemens AG, Germany
Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Alessandro Garcia, Lancaster University, UK
Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Cristina Videira Lopes, University of California at Irvine, USA
Christa Schwanninger, Siemens AG, Germany
Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Eduardo Figueiredo, Lancaster University, UK
Cláudio Sant'Anna, PUC-Rio, Brazil