[aosd-announce] CfP: 4th European Interactive Workshop on Aspects in Software

[Stefan Hanenberg]

4th European Interactive Workshop on Aspects in Software
http://www.lifl.fr/ewas2007/

Call for Contributions

EIWAS is the fourth edition of a european interactive workshop on 
Aspects in Software. The workshop complements the successful series  of 
AOSD conferences and its workshops by focusing more on discussion  than 
on the polished presentation of finished work. As such EIWAS is  an 
important enabler for high quality papers, encourages AOSD  research in 
europe and is a venue of close collaboration.

The main idea of EIWAS is to have lively discussions on works in the 
area of aspect-oriented software development to prepare for a  technical 
or journal paper. Such works can be full papers as well as  preliminary 
research ideas and results. For this we planned the  deadlines in order 
to encourage people to submit drafts of technical  papers.

This year's edition does not have a `traditional' workshop format.  The 
organizing committee will, based on a two page abstract, make a 
rudimentary selection of the papers. Instead of having an offline 
formal review process with a programming committee, we invited a  number 
of  senior people in the  field to attend the workshop. The  seniors 
form a small symposium committee, which will comment and  discuss the 
papers during the workshop.

Symposium committee members (incomplete):
- Stefan Hanenberg [ University of Duisburg-Essen ]
- Mehmet Aksit [ University of Twente ]
- Mario Sudholt [ École des Mines Nantes ]
- Johan Brichau [ Université Catholique de Louvain ]
- Damian Sereni [ Oxford ]

Authors of submitted workshop papers will receive feedback by  detailed 
and constructive comments from international experts on AOSD  in the 
form of a  discussion during highly interactive "writer's  workshop" 
sessions. Authors will have ample time to improve their  paper after 
EIWAS for one of the major conferences that welcome AOSD- related work.

[ Topics of interest ]

Topics of interest  include all fields of aspect-oriented software 
development, including (but not limited to) the following:

- Applications and tools
- Software components, architectures and product lines
- Aspect interference and composition
- Contracts, components and aspects
- Model Driven Architecture and UML
- General-purpose and domain-specific aspect languages
- Software development methods and patterns
- Reverse engineering and refactoring
- Reflection and meta programming
- Semantics and type systems Verification, validation and testing
- Distributed systems and middleware
- Evolution and adaptability
- Evaluation and metrics

[ Format and Submissions ]

This workshop combines formats aimed at generating and discussing  novel 
ideas, as well as discussing and improving research results:

- Writer's workshop sessions bring about interactive and profound 
discussions on the content and presentation of submitted papers. 
Prospective participants wishing to have their paper discussed at the 
writer's workshop and receive feedback on it from international  experts 
should submit a paper containing original work. Papers should  be 
formatted in the ACM Proceedings style. Authors must submit their  work 
in the following forms:

Full papers must not exceed 12 pages in length.
Short papers must not exceed 6 pages in length. Submission of 
preliminary results as well as immature research papers are welcome  and 
can be submitted as short papers.

- Poster and demo sessions provide room for presenting (intermediate) 
results of current research and development and allow for one-on-one 
discussions. Demos can be presented on laptops with an additional 
screen for small group discussions. Prospective participants wishing  to 
present a poster or demo at the workshop must submit an extended 
abstract of their work. Posters and demos should be the basis for 
focused, technical discussions in small groups. The extended  abstracts 
must be formatted in the ACM Proceedings style, and not  exceed 1 page.

Papers, posters and demos presented at the workshop will be included  in 
a proceedings published in the technical report Authors retain  their 
full copyrights and can publish their work at other venues.

[ Venue ]

The workshop is held on the campus of the University of Lille. More 
details can be found on this workshop's website.

[ Important Dates ]

Every author is obliged to submit a two page abstract. Submissions of 
abstracts are allowed until august 27th. Abstracts are processed as  we 
receive them. Notification of acceptance for discussion of the  full 
paper at the workshop will be sent within a week after  submission of 
the abstract.

- august 30th, submission of papers, posters and demos
- september 6th, workshop

Submissions should be sent as a PDF file by email to  "tcleenew at vub.ac.be".

[ Organizers ]

Thomas Cleenewerck, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Stefan Hanenberg, University of Duisburg-Essen
Lionel Seinturier, University of Lille