[aosd-announce] Call for Papers: Fourth Workshop on Models and Aspects at ECOOP 08

[Groher, Iris (CT)]

 Call for Papers:
 
 
                                 Fourth Workshop on 

-- Models and Aspects - Handling Crosscutting Concerns in MDSD -- 

                                        at the 

    22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 
           July 7 - July 11 2008, Paphos, Cyprus 

     http://www.kircher-schwanninger.de/workshops/MDD&AOSD/
<http://www.kircher-schwanninger.de/workshops/MDD&AOSD/>  



Abstract 

Both, Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) and Aspect-Oriented
Software Development (AOSD) 
are considered important new paradigms in modern software engineering.
While the two approaches are 
different in many ways -  MDSD adds domain-specific abstractions, while
AOSD is currently primarily 
seen as an implementation technique - they also have many things in
common - for example they both 
have a query phase followed by a construction phase. But more
importantly, we think that it is useful 
to use both techniques in combination. Two examples for combining MDSD
with AOSD could be 
aspect-oriented modeling combined with code generation, or the
generation of pointcuts for AO languages 
from a domain model. 

Potential topics include, but are not limited to: 

 - handling crosscutting concerns in modeling 
 - aspect weaving in models 
 - measuring the maintainability benefits of models and aspects 
 - using models to overcome the fragile pointcut problem  
 - case studies that show the benefits of models and aspects  


Goal 

This workshop aims at exploring new approaches of using Model-Driven and
Aspect-Oriented Software Development 
together. We will invite researchers and practitioners to present their
approaches and discuss the relevance 
for practical software development. 


Workshop preparation 

Every interested person is invited to apply for attendance by sending a
position paper of approximately 1-2 
pages or a full paper of not more than 6 pages to the organizers.
Submissions will be reviewed by the 
organizers. The authors will be notified about acceptance before the
early registration deadline. 


Planned workshop activities 

The workshop is laid out as full day workshop. 
Instead of presenting the papers, each participant will be expected to
review everyone else's paper before 
the workshop and complete the following two sentences for each: 
 - What I really liked about this paper is ... 
 - The most important question I would like to ask the author is ... 

These answers are written down on index cards and will be collected
before the workshop. During the workshop, 
we will spend the morning with questions and answers to gain deeper
insight into the problem described in the 
paper. Before each paper session, the author will be permitted a 5
minute slot to briefly present his paper/work. 
The workshop format in the afternoon will utilize the "Open Space"
format in order to discuss topics of interest 
that are directly, or indirectly related to the papers presented in the
morning. 


Important Dates 

Position Papers Due:                    April 30th 2008 
Notification of Acceptance:            May 26th 2008 
Workshop:                                   July 08th  2008 


Submissions 

Attendance to the workshop is limited to facilitate lively discussions
and the exchange of ideas. Interested 
parties are invited to submit a position paper (max. 2 pages) or a full
paper (max. 6 pages) in PDF, ASCII, 
HTML or MS Word format by email to, Iris.Groher at students.jku.at. 

Organizers 

Christa Schwanninger, 
  Siemens AG, Germany, christa.schwanninger at siemens.com 

Markus Voelter, 
  Independent Consultant, Germany, voelter at acm.org 

Iris Groher, 
  PhD student, Austria, Iris.Groher at students.jku.at 

Andrew Jackson, 
  PhD student, Ireland, anjackso at cs.tcd.ie 

        

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