[aosd-announce] CFP Aspects, Dependencies, and Interactions (ADI @ ECOOP'07)

[Chitchyan, Ruzanna]

                  CFP 2nd International Workshop on

               ASPECTS, DEPENDENCIES, AND INTERACTIONS

                            July 30, 2007

               Berlin, Germany (Affiliated to ECOOP'07)

                URL: http://www.aosd-europe.net/adi07/

Workshop organized on behalf of and supported by AOSD-Europe (http://www.aosd-europe.net/), the European network of excellence on AOSD.

***WORKSHOP OVERVIEW***

Aspects are crosscutting concerns that exist throughout the software development cycle - from requirements through to implementation. While crosscutting other concerns, aspects often exert broad influences on these concerns, e.g. by modifying their semantics, structure or behaviour. These dependencies between aspectual and non-aspectual elements, as well as among aspectual elements, may lead to either desirable or (more often) unwanted and unexpected interactions.

This workshop is focused on identifying, understanding, and resolving all kinds of issues related to such dependencies and interactions by bringing together researchers and practitioners from across the whole spectrum of software development activities.

We also invite work on this topic from other (non-AO) fields that either tackles problems relevant to Aspect-Oriented Software Development (e.g., crosscutting, composition, etc.) or proposes a solution clearly related to AOSD.

We encourage submissions investigating the problems of such dependencies and interactions and handling them at all levels:

- starting from the early development stages (i.e., requirements,

  architecture, and design), looking into dependencies between

  requirements (e.g. positive/negative contributions between aspectual

  goals) and interactions caused by aspects (e.g. quality attributes)

  in requirements, architecture, and design;

- analysing these dependencies and interactions both through modelling

  and formal analysis;

- considering language design issues which help to handle such

  dependencies and interactions (e.g. 'declare precedence' mechanism

  of AspectJ);

- studying such interactions in applications.

The goal of this workshop is to continue the wide discussion on dependencies and interactions between aspectual and non-aspectual elements, started at ADI 2006, thus investigating the lasting nature of such dependency links across all development activities. It is hoped that input from both research and practice will help to progress the understanding and solutions to this complex subject.

Additional details and updates about the workshop will be provided at http://www.aosd-europe.net/adi07/ .



***TOPICS OF INTEREST***

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

+ Requirements, architecture, design, and language level techniques

  and mechanisms for interaction and/or dependency detection;

+ Ordering and nesting of aspects;

+ Types of dependencies and interactions (e.g. mutual exclusion);

+ Full or partial visibility of aspects (e.g. visibility of inter-type

  declarations);

+ Methods for formal representation and analysis of dependencies and

  interactions;

+ Mechanisms for interaction detection and handling in domain-specific

  languages;

+ Ability to determine the order of execution of advices;

+ Interaction detection and analysis in specific applications

  (e.g. middleware for pervasive and mobile systems, security

  application, persistence management, etc.);

+ Tool support for the above;

+ Case studies and non-trivial examples of interactions in practice;

+ Dependency and interaction resolution in "realistic contexts"

  (considering such issues as scaling and usability of resolution

  techniques, etc.):

+ Work from non-AO fields that addresses AO-related problems or

  proposes AO-related solutions.



***WORKSHOP FORMAT***

The workshop is intended to be highly interactive, favouring discussion and group work over presentations. During the morning there will be a keynote speech by an invited speaker and a short presentation session of 3-4 selected papers which will highlight some problems or solutions to aspectual dependencies and interaction issues, and, more importantly, provide grounds for discussion.

The rest of the workshop will be devoted to discussions and work in small interest groups. Results of the group work will be presented and debated at a concluding panel (with participation of invited panellists). The results of the interest group and panel discussions will be summarised into a workshop report to be published in the workshop reader by Springer.



***IMPORTANT DATES***

May 7, 2007, 23:59:59 Apia, Samoa time: Submission deadline for papers; 
May 31, 2007, 23:59:59 Apia, Samoa time: Notification of acceptance;
June 15, 2007, 23:59:59 Apia, Samoa time: Submission of camera-ready papers;
July 30, 2007 Workshop;



***SUBMISSION GUIDELINES***

Attendance of the workshop is by having a paper accepted or by an invitation from the organising committee. For information about formatting your paper please consult the IEEE Author Tools (http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/authors/transjnl/index.html).

Papers (up to 6 pages long) must be written in English and submitted in pdf format to rouza[at]comp.lancs.ac.uk and frans.sanen[at]cs.kuleuven.be.

All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings (as Lancaster University Computing Department Technical Report registered as British Library Series). Accepted papers will also be posted on this website prior to the workshop to be read in advance by participants.



***PROGRAM COMMITEE***

Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands 

Uwe Assman,  Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany 

Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin, USA 

Lodewijk Bergmans, University of Twente, The Netherlands 

Lynne Blair, Lancaster University, UK 

Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Lancaster, UK 

Johan Fabry, INRIA Futurs, LIFL, France 

Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK 

Robert France, Colorado State University, USA 

Shmuel Katz, Technion, Israel 

Jörg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada 

Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo, Japan 

Mira Mezini, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany 

Oege De Moor, Oxford University, UK 

Monica Pinto, Universidad de Malaga, Spain 

Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands 

Frans Sanen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 

Mario Südholt, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France 

Eddy Truyen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 

Jon Whittle, George Mason University at Washington, USA 



***ORGANIZING COMMITTEE***

Ruzanna Chitchyan (University of Lancaster, UK), co-chair 

Frans Sanen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), co-chair 

Lodewijk Bergmans (University of Twente, The Netherlands) 

Mario Südholt (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France) 

Johan Fabry (INRIA Futurs, LIFL, France)