[aosd-announce] ADI 2008: deadline extension to May 7, 2008

[Franciscus Sanen]

*CFP 3rd International Workshop on Aspects, Dependencies and
Interactions (ADI 2008)*
Harnessing the diversity of approaches to interaction resolution

Interaction problems between different modules, program parts, units of
specifications are a central challenge to many program structuring
paradigms, including Aspect-Oriented Software Development, feature-based
programming and component-based software engineering. Furthermore,
interaction problems are relevant to all phases of the software
development life cycle: from requirements through to implementation and
often exert a broad influence on these concerns, e.g. by modifying their
semantics, structure and / or behavior. Such dependencies often lead to
both desirable and unwanted or unexpected behaviors of large-scale
applications.

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 and methodologies. 

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, etc.) and interactions caused by aspects (e.g. quality
attributes) in requirements, architecture, and design;
- analyzing these dependencies and interactions both through modeling
and formal analysis;
- considering language design issues which help to handle such
dependencies and interactions;
- studying such interactions in applications. 

Goal of the workshop is to continue the wide discussion on aspects,
dependencies and interactions, started at ADI 2006 and continued at ADI
2007, 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.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Evaluation or definition of interaction analyses and corresponding
resolution methods that harness methods and techniques from different
research fields;
- Requirements, architecture, design, and language level techniques and
mechanisms for interaction/dependency detection and/or resolution; 
- Interaction classification, types of dependencies and interactions;
- New methods and techniques for the analysis and resolution of
interactions;
- Methods for the formal representation and analysis of dependencies and
interactions;
- Mechanisms for interaction detection and handling in domain-specific
languages;
- Interaction detection and analysis in specific applications (e.g.
middleware for pervasive and mobile systems, security applications,
persistence management, etc.);
- Tool support for any of the above;
- Case studies of practical interactions.

*Important dates*

Submission deadline for papers: May 7, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2008
Submission of camera-ready accepted papers: June 9, 2008
Workshop: July 8, 2008

*Workshop format*

The workshop is intended to be highly interactive, favoring discussion
and group work over presentations. The workshop will include a keynote
speech by an invited speaker and short presentation sessions of selected
papers which will highlight some the 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. The results of the
interest group discussions will be published through a workshop report.

*Submission information*

For information about formatting your paper please consult the Springer
LNCS Author Instructions.
(http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html)
Papers (up to 10 pages long) must be written in English and submitted in
pdf format to frans.sanen[at]cs.kuleuven.be and mario.sudholt[at]emn.fr.

All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings. Accepted
papers will also be posted on the web site
http://www.aosd-europe.net/adi08 prior to the workshop to be read ahead
by participants and for extra visibility. A workshop report will be
published as part of the ECOOP 2008 workshop reader.

*Attendance*

This is an open workshop, i.e. paper submission is not a pre-requisite
for attendance. Nevertheless, if space is short, first preference will
be given to the authors of accepted papers.

*Program committee*

Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK
Johan Fabry, DCC – University of Chile, Chile
Alessandro Garcia, Lancaster University, UK
Florian Heidenreich, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Shmuel Katz, Technion, Israel
Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo, Japan
Katharina Mehner, Siemens, Germany
Klaus Ostermann, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Frans Sanen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Mario Sudholt, INRIA, France
Jon Whittle, George Mason University at Washington, USA

*Organizing committee*

Lodewijk Bergmans, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK
Johan Fabry, DCC - University of Chile, Chile
Katharina Mehner, Siemens, Germany
Frans Sanen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (co-chair)
Mario Sudholt, INRIA, France (co-chair)