[aosd-announce] CFP 3rd Domain-Specific Aspect Languages Worskhop at AOSD08

[Johan Fabry]

Third Workshop on Domain-Specific Aspect Languages
            Part of AOSD08, Brussels, Belgium
            April 1st, 2008


           http://dsal.dcc.uchile.cl/


**Dates**

Submissions due: Friday Jan 25, 2008
Author Notification: Friday Feb 15, 2008
AOSD Early registration deadline: Monday Feb 25, 2008
Final version due: Friday Mar 14, 2008
Workshop: April 1st, 2008


**Scope**
The tendency to raise the abstraction level in programming languages
towards a particular domain is also a major driving force in the
research domain of aspect-oriented programming languages. As a matter
of fact, pioneering work in this field was conducted by devising small
domain-specific aspect languages (DSALs) such as COOL for concurrency
management and RIDL for serialization, RG, AML, and others. After a
dominating focus on general-purpose languages, research in the AOSD
community is again taking this path in search of innovative
approaches, insights and a deeper understanding of fundamentals behind
AOP. Based on the successful DSAL06 and DSAL07 workshops, and the
special issue of IET Software journal on Domain-Specific Aspect
Languages, this workshop series continues to support a growing trend
in AOSD research.

The workshop aims to bring the research communities of domain-specific
language engineering and domain-specific aspect design together. In
the previous successful editions held at GPCE06/OOPSLA06 and AOSD07 we
approached domain-specific aspect languages both from a design and a
language implementation point of view. New for this edition is that we
explicitly invite contributions of work on adding domain-specific
extensions (DSXs) to general-purpose aspect languages (GPALs).  The
focus on language embedding raises specific issues for language
designers, such as proper symbiosis between, and composition of, DSXs.

The distinction between the DSAL ans SPLAT workshops is that DSAL  
explicitly
concentrates on domain-specific language features and
language-extensions. The SPLAT workshop focuses more on the software
engineering properties and the trade-offs in the design of aspect
languages

**Topics**

We seek contributions related to domain-specific aspect languages,
more particularly (but not limited to):

- design of DSALs and DSXs
- successful DSALs, DSXs and their applications
- issues in both design and implementation of DSALs and DSXs
- methodologies and tools suitable for creating DSALs and DSXs
- semantics and composition of DSALs and DSXs
- disciplined approaches for invasive metaprogramming
- error reporting in DSALs and debugging of DSALs
- approaches for composable language embeddings
- mechanisms for interaction detection and handling in DSALs
- theoretical foundations for DSALs
- analysis about the specificity spectrum in aspect languages
- key challenges for future work in the area


A good analysis of conflicting forces is at least as useful for
potential participants of this workshop as descriptions of original
new approaches or experience reports.

**Submissions**

The workshop accepts three types of submissions: work-in-progress
papers, position papers, and technical papers.

Papers should be formatted in SIGPLAN proceedings style
(sigplanconf.cls). Page limit depends on the type of submission: 4
pages for work-in-progress and position papers, 7 pages for technical
papers.

The submission should be sent in PDF format by email to jfabry @
dcc.uchile.cl, clearly indicating the type of submission.


**Format of the workshop**

The format of the workshop will echo the format used in DSAL06 and 07:

A number of plenary sessions will first be held, according to grouping
of accepted papers, consisting of (1) brief presentations of selected
papers, (2) a discussion with the presenting authors including
participation from the audience.

Second, interactive group work will be performed to identify relevant
issues in the domain and possible ways to address them.

**Publication**

All accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. They
will also be made available on the website prior to the workshop so
that participants can read them.


**Program Committee**

Martin Bravenboer (Delft University, The Netherlands)
Thomas Cleenewerck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Johan Fabry (University of Chile, Chile)
Julia Lawall (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Anne-Francoise Le Meur (University of Lille, France)
Marjan Mernik (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Jacques Noye (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France)
Damijan Rebernak (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Eric Tanter (University of Chile, Chile)


**Organizers**

- Thomas Cleenewerck (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
- Johan Fabry (University of Chile, Chile)
- Anne-Francoise Le Meur (University of Lille, France)
- Jacques Noye (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France)
- Eric Tanter (University of Chile, Chile)

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Johan Fabry
jfabry at dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry
PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile