[aosd-announce] CFP - AOM at MoDELS'07

[Tzilla Elrad]

                                AOM at MoDELS'07
               11th Int'l Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling
                Nashville, Tennessee, USA, September 30, 2007
                   http://www.aspect-modeling.org/models07/

                               Call for Papers

*Workshop Description*

Aspect-orientation is a rapidly advancing technology. New and powerful
aspect-oriented programming techniques are presented at many international
venues every year. However, it is not clear what features of such techniques
are "common aspect-oriented concepts" and what features are rather
language-specific specialties. Research in aspect-oriented modeling has the
potential to help find such common characteristics from a perspective that
is
at a more abstract level (i.e., programming language-independent). 
The Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM) Workshop brings together researchers and
practitioners from two communities, aspect-oriented software development
(AOSD) and model-driven engineering. This workshop provides a forum for
presenting new ideas and discussing the state of research and practice in
modeling various kinds of crosscutting concerns at different levels of
abstraction. The goals of the workshop are to identify and discuss the
impacts
of aspect-oriented technologies on model engineering to provide
aspect-oriented software developers with general modeling means to express
aspects and their crosscutting relationships onto other software artifacts.

*Workshop Topics*

We are interested in submissions on all topics related to aspects and model
engineering including, but not limited to: ­

  Aspect-Oriented Modeling 
  - defining essential characteristics of a crosscutting concern that need
to
    be modeled;
  - verification and validation of aspect oriented models;
  - composition of AOMs;
  - modeling of aspects at different stages of software development
    (requirements engineering, sw architecture, design, implementation);
  - application of AOM to modeling notations that are not tied to UML. 
  Aspect-Oriented UML
  - identification of UML elements that can be used to model aspects;
  - identification of UML elements that can NOT be used to model aspects;
  - aspect-oriented support in UML;
  - extensions to UML for supporting AOSD.
  AOSD Method and Tool Support
  - aspect-oriented and model-based software development methods; ­ 
  - using existing UML tools in AOSD life-cycles; ­ 
  - new tools and extensions to existing tools to support AOM; ­ 
  Model-Oriented AOP and JPM 
  - join point selection at model levels;
  - MOF, UML, MDA, etc. as a support to the JPM;
  - model based aspect evolution;
  - model weaving: from abstract to low-level;
  - model engineering tools for supporting aspect-oriented techniques;
  - model based aspect interference and composition management.

*Workshop Organizers*

O. Aldawud Lucent Technology, USA 
W. Cazzola Univ. of Milano, I 
T. Elrad   Illinois Institute of Tech., USA 
J. Gray    University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 
J. Kienzle McGill University, CA 
D. Stein   Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, D

The organizers may be contacted at: aomwsoc at lists.uni-due.de

*Program Committee*

M. Aksit        Univ. of Twente, NL 
O. Aldawud      Lucent Technology, USA 
A. v. d. Berg   Motorola Labs, USA 
W. Cazzola      Univ. of Milano, I 
T. Cottenier    Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA 
T. Elrad        Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA 
S. Ghosh        Colorado State Univ., USA 
J. Gray         University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 
S. Hanenberg    Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, D 
A. Jackson      Trinity College, Ireland 
J.-M. Jézéquel  IRISA, F 
J. Kienzle      McGill University, CA 
K. Mens         Catholic Univ. of Louvain, B 
A. Pierantonio  Univ. of Aquila, I 
A. Rashid       Lancaster University, UK 
R. Reddy        Rochester Inst. of Tech., USA 
E. Roubtsova    Open University, NL
D. Stein        Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, D
B. Tekinerdogan Univ. of Twente, NL
M. Völter       Independant Consultant, D
J. Whittle	Lancaster University, UK

*Important Dates*

Submission deadline:   July 23, 2007 
Notification date:     August 20, 2007 
Camera Ready deadline: September 3, 2007 
Workshop date:         September 30, 2007

*Paper Submission*

Prospective participants are invited to submit 8-10 page position papers
following the LNCS Format Guidelines
(www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html)
to http://www.easychair.org/AOM2007/

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee for
quality and relevance.  Submissions must be original; simultaneous
submissions are not allowed. Submitted papers must be in PDF format.

The best papers from recent editions of the workshop will appear in a future
issue of the Journal of Object Technology (JOT). We are negotiating with the

JOT editors for the opportunity to publish a second special issue on 
aspect-oriented modeling that should collect the extended version of the
best papers 
accepted to the workshop. The MODELS conference will also publish the
top-two papers 
of each workshop in a special post-proceedings volume of Springer-Verlag
LNCS.

 
Dr.  Tzilla Elrad
Research Professor
Computer Science
(312) 567- 5142
Web: http://www.iit.edu/~elrad
Web: http://www.iit.edu/~concur