[aosd-announce] CFP: Early Aspect Workshop at ICSE 2008

[Mónica Pinto Alarcón]

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Call for Papers: 

Workshop on Early Aspects at ICSE

Aspect Oriented Requirements Engineering and Architecture Design (EA 2008)

http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaICSE08/

12th of May, 2008

Leipzig, Germany

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Early aspects are crosscutting concerns that exist in requirements analysis,
domain analysis and architecture design activities of software lifecycle.
Work on early aspects focuses on systematically identifying, modularizing,
and analyzing such crosscutting concerns and their impact at these early
phases of the software development. 

One very promising application of early aspects is in the capture and
representation of variability across a product family, as was shown in the
previous EA-SPLC’05 workshop. This second workshop on the application of
aspects throughout the life cycle to product line development will build on
the success of the EA-SPLC’05 and series of other EA workshops. 

The general aim of this workshop is to facilitate cross-fertilization of
ideas in product line practice, requirements engineering, domain
engineering, software architecture design, and aspect-oriented software
development in order to identify the problems and potential solutions and
continue the maturation of Early Aspects as a discipline. The specific aim
of this workshop is to stimulate integration of the work on early
development activities for product lines with the work for Early Aspects.

 

The specific objectives of this ICSE 2008 workshop are:

(a)        to stimulate integration of the work on early development
activities for product lines with the work for Early Aspects;

(b)        to initiate creation of an Early Aspects for Product Lines
application demonstration. For this purpose we specifically invite
submissions that demonstrate how the submitter's Early Aspects approach can
be applied to the Arcade Game Maker Pedagogical Product Line case study,
which is detailed at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/productlines/ppl/. 

(c)        to solicit submission of new research on early aspects, which (if
related to product lines) will also be preferably demonstrated in terms of
the suggested case study.

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We particularly encourage submissions of work on early aspects related to
the software product lines, but other early aspects papers are also welcome.
The topics of the workshops include (but are not limited to) the following:


 

•           Early Aspects and Product Lines:

•           Use of aspects for variability and commonality identification;

•           Use of aspects to represent and manage variability and
commonality in product lines;

•           Use of aspects in product line requirements;

•           Use of aspects in product line domain models and architecture; 

•           Use of aspects in product line composition; 

•           Use of aspects for supporting product line testing;

•           Use of aspects for traceability in product lines;

•           Aspect-oriented requirements engineering

•           Identification and modelling of aspects in requirements?

•           Composition of early aspects;

•           Use of requirements level aspects for conflict identification
and resolution;

•           Aspect-Oriented domain engineering

•           Deriving aspects from domain knowledge;

•           Composition of domain aspects;

•           Mapping between aspect-oriented requirements, domain analysis
and architecture 

•           Formal or informal mappings

•           Language features required to support aspect mapping;

•           Aspect-oriented architecture design

•           Use of aspects to reason about architectures;

•           Evaluation of alternative architectures with aspects;

•           Tool support and automation for aspect-orientation

•           Formalisms and notations for specifying aspects

 

IMPORTANT DATES: 

•           28th of January (Apia, Samoa time) 2008: Abstract submission.
Abstracts will be used for reviewer allocations

•           4th of February (Apia, Samoa time), 2008: Paper submission 

•           14th of February, 2008: Notifications sent to authors

•           21th of February, 2008: Camera-ready version 

•           12th of May, 2008: Workshop

 

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

The workshop will be highly interactive and focused on making a tangible
progress by providing the overview of the current state of the art and
research challenges.

Up to 3 papers from those accepted to the workshop will be selected for
presentation. The presentations will be held in the morning session to seed
the discussions scheduled for the rest of the day. The bulk of the workshop
will be reserved for group work, discussions, and overall conclusions.
Discussion topics will be collected both from the reviewers for each paper,
and from the workshop participants themselves.

The participants will work in small groups, formed based on their specific
interests and the previously identified topics. Each group will aim to
progress on the discussion topic, for instance, by identifying possible
solutions of the discussion problems; by furthering the problem
understanding; by providing practical examples and motivation for the
discussion topics, etc. Each group will produce a group discussion report by
the end of the workshop. The last session of the workshop will be dedicated
to integrating the results of the group discussions into the overall
workshop results.

Post-workshop the participants will be invited to contribute to the writing
of a landscape paper. This landscape paper will provide an overview of the
overall state of the early aspects and products lines work.

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Prospective participants are invited to submit a 4-6 page position paper.
The submissions must conform to the ICSE submission rules
(http://icse08.upb.de/calls/fsguidelines.html).

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee and the
organizing committee for quality and relevance.  Accepted papers will become
part of the workshop proceedings and published on www.early-aspects.net.
Paper should conform to ICSE submission standards and rules.  

 

Submissions should be in PDF format, sent to both pinto[at]lcc.uma.es and
rouza[at]comp.lancs.ac.uk.

 

WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS: 

Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and will also
be published on workshop web site (http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaICSE08/).

 

The present workshop is one of the 3 themed Early Aspects workshops planned
for 2008. Other Early Aspects Workshops on early aspects and software
product lines are planned for AOSD in Brussels, Belgium, in March/April 2008
(Early Aspects Workshop at AOSD 2008) and for SPLC in Limerick, Ireland, in
September 2008. All 3 workshops aim to stimulate further research on use of
early aspects for product lines domain. 

The workshops will also be accompanied with a call for submissions to a
special issue on Early Aspects and Product Lines of the Transaction on
Aspect-Oriented Software Engineering. Thus, the best papers will be invited
to submit extended papers to this special issue (subject to further review
by the journal).

 

WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE:

Though paper submission is highly desirable for attendance, a number of
palaces for attendance without submission could be available, depending on
the number of submissions received. Since only a limited number of places
are available, submitting attendees will obviously be given priority.
Potential non-submitting attendees are strongly advised to contact the
organizers with an attendance request. Non-submitting attendees will be
invited on “first come /contacted first served” basis.

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

•           Mehmet Askit, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands

•           Thais Batista, Univ. of Natal, Brazil

•           Christa Schwanninger, Siemens AG, Germany

•           Anthony Finkelstein, Univ. College London, UK

•           Alessandro Garcia, University of Lancaster, UK

•           Michael Jackson. The Open Univ., UK

•           Julio Leite, PUC-Rio, Brazil

•           John McGregor, Clemson University, USA

•           Paulo Merson, Software Eng. Institute, USA

•           Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open Univ., UK 

•           Stan Sutton, IBM Research, USA

•           Jon Whittle, Lancaster University, UK

•           Vander Alves, Lancaster University, UK

•           Paulo Borba, University of Recife, Brazil

•           Don Batory, University of Taxis, USA

•           Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga, Spain

•           Jean-Marc Jezequel, University of Rennes, France

 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

•           Monica Pinto, University of Malaga, Spain. (Contact Organizer,
contact at pinto_at_lcc.uma.es)

•           Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK

•           Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK

•           Paul Clements, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering
Institute, USA

•           Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal

•           João Araújo, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

•           Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong

•           Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, The Netherlands

 

 

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