[aosd-announce] Joint CfP: Early Aspects Workshops 2008

[Gunter Mussbacher]

(our apologies for multiple posts)

Joint Call for Papers
EARLY ASPECTS WORKSHOPS 2008

Early aspects are crosscutting concerns that exist in requirements-,
domain-, and architecture analysis and modeling activities, as well
as other activities carried out during early phases of the software
lifecycle. Work on early aspects focuses on systematically
identifying, modularizing, and analyzing such crosscutting concerns
and their impact at these early phases of software development. Study
and utilization of early aspects is beneficial both for handling
complexity of early stage software development and for supporting
identification and analysis of aspects at later architecture,
detailed design, and coding phases.

A series of Early Aspects Workshops has been running since 2002. The
theme of this year’s workshops 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. In 2008, three Early Aspects Workshops
with the main theme on Early Aspects and Software Product Lines are
planned:
* EA at AOSD 2008, March 31, Brussels, Belgium
  CFP URL: http://cserg0.site.uottawa.ca/ea2008/
* EA at ICSE 2008, May 12, Leipzig, Germany
  CFP URL: http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaICSE08/
* Third workshop to be confirmed

While each of these three workshops has its specificities, the general
aim of all of them is to facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas in the
communities of software product lines, requirements engineering, domain
engineering, software architecture design, and aspect-oriented software
development, in order to identify existing problems and address
potential solutions that integrate AOSD and software product line
techniques. Upon participation in the workshops, the contributors are
encouraged to submit improved and extended papers to a special issue on
Aspects and Product Lines planned for the Transactions on
Aspect-Oriented Software Development (TAOSD) journal. The details on
this special issue will be posted separately, but workshop submission
reviewers will be asked to provide feedback for paper improvement
towards submissions to this special issue.

IMPORTANT DATES
(all deadlines are at 23:59:59, Apia, Samoa time)
Deadline for abstract submission:
   AOSD 2008: January 11, 2008
   ICSE 2008: January 28, 2008
Deadline for paper submission:
   AOSD 2008: January 18, 2008
   ICSE 2008: February 4, 2008
Notification sent to authors:
   AOSD 2008: February 15, 2008
   ICSE 2008: February 14, 2008
Deadline for submission of camera-ready version of paper:
   AOSD 2008: March 14, 2008 (to be confirmed)
   ICSE 2008: February 21, 2008
Deadline for submission of workshop presentation:
   AOSD 2008: March 21, 2008
   ICSE 2008: May 12, 2008
Workshop:
   AOSD 2008: March 31, 2008
   ICSE 2008: May 12, 2008

TOPICS OF INTEREST
While the theme of the Early Aspects Workshops for 2008 is “Early
Aspects and Software Product Lines”, submissions on other early aspect
topics are also welcome.

Topics of interest specifically related to the current theme include
but are not limited to:
* Techniques for representing and analyzing aspect-oriented software
  product lines during requirements engineering activities as well as
  architectural design
* Integration of early aspects into existing methodologies for software
  product lines
* Composition and interference of features in aspect-oriented software
  product lines
* Validation of aspect-oriented software product lines at the
  requirements stage and architectural design stage
* Traceability of aspect-oriented software product lines from the
  requirements stage to later stages in the software development cycle
* Extraction and evolution of aspect-oriented software product lines
* Experience reports on case studies about aspect-oriented software
  product lines
* Tool support for aspect-oriented software product lines

Topics may also include broader issues related to early aspects:
* Aspect-oriented requirements engineering
   * Identification and modeling of aspects in requirements
   * Composition of early aspects
   * Use of requirements level aspects for conflict identification and
     resolution
* Aspect-oriented domain engineering
   * Deriving aspects from domain knowledge
   * Composition of domain aspects
* Mapping between aspect-oriented requirements, domain analysis and
  architecture
   * Formal or informal mappings
   * Language features required to support aspect mapping
* Aspect-oriented architecture design
   * Use of aspects to reason about architectures
   * Evaluation of alternative architectures with aspects
* Tool support and automation for aspect-orientation
* Formalisms and notations for specifying aspects

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
Comprehensive information about all eleven previously organized
workshops on Early Aspects is available at the Early Aspects portal
(http://www.early-aspects.net).

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

ORGANIZERS
Early Aspects at AOSD 2008
* Jon Whittle, Lancaster University, UK
* Gunter Mussbacher, University of Ottawa, Canada
Early Aspects at ICSE 2008
* Monica Pinto, University of Malaga, Spain
* Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK