[aosd-announce] CfPart: Early Aspects Workshop at AOSD 2008 (EA at AOSD.08)

[Gunter Mussbacher]

(our apologies for multiple posts)

Call for Participation
EARLY ASPECTS WORKSHOP AT AOSD 2008
Brussels, Belgium, March 31, 2008

http://cserg0.site.uottawa.ca/ea2008

INVITED SPEAKER
Professor Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK

WORKSHOP FORMAT
The format of the workshop reflects the goals of the workshop:
constructive feedback for accepted workshop papers, collaboration, and
community building. Most of the workshop is devoted to group work and
discussions. The workshop will start off with a keynote presentation. The
remainder of the workshop will consist of short presentations of accepted
papers, a brainstorming session aimed at identifying the most pressing
questions and issues in the area of early aspects and software product
lines, highly effective paper review sessions based on the patterns’
community’s Writer’s Workshop, group discussions that explore further the
issues identified during the brainstorming session, and a general
discussion session.

PROGRAM
 9:00  Introduction
 9:15  Keynote Presentation by Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
10:30  Coffee Break
11:00  Short Presentations of Workshop Papers
12:00  Brainstorming Session
12:30  Lunch Break
14:00  Writer's Workshop and Group Discussion
15:30  Coffee Break
16:00  General Discussion
17:15  Closing
following the workshop: Chocolate Tasting Event and Workshop Dinner

BACKGROUND
Crosscutting concerns at the requirements and architecture level are
referred to as early aspects. Analyzing early aspects is important in
order to reason about the impact of crosscutting concerns on each other
and later software development activities. Identifying and modularizing
aspects in models developed during early phases of the software lifecycle
is important because it supports the identification and analysis of
aspects during design and coding phases.

The series of Early Aspects Workshops has now been running since AOSD
2002. The theme of this year’s workshop is "early aspects and software
product lines". The AOSD and software product line communities are
increasingly aware that techniques from one of these fields may be
usefully applied to problems in the other field. This workshop aims at
helping the communities of software product lines, requirements
engineering, software architecture design, and aspect-oriented software
development to exchange ideas, identify existing problems, and discuss
potential solutions that integrate AOSD and software product line
techniques.

STEERING COMMITTEE
* Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
* Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
* Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, The Netherlands
* Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
* João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
* Paul Clements, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, The Netherlands
* Dan Matheson, Integware, USA
* Hassan Gomaa, George Mason University, USA
* Jaejoon Lee, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
* Jean-Marc Jezequel, IRISA, France
* Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
* João Araújo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
* Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia, USA
* Nan Niu, University of Toronto, Canada
* Øystein Haugen, University of Oslo, Norway
* Patrick Heymans, University of Namur, Belgium
* Roberto Lopez-Herrejon, University of Oxford, UK
* Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK
* Sooyong Park, Sogang University, Korea
* Vander Alves, Lancaster University, UK

ORGANIZERS
* Jon Whittle, Lancaster University, UK
* Gunter Mussbacher, University of Ottawa, Canada
(contact us at ea2008-info at site.uottawa.ca)