[aosd-announce] Deadline Extension: Early Aspects Workshop at AOSD 2008

[Gunter Mussbacher]

(our apologies for multiple posts)

Please note that the paper submission deadline has been extended to
the 25th of January due to several requests.

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

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

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. The workshop is one of a series of similarly themed Early
Aspects Workshops at major conferences in 2008. Other Early Aspects
Workshops on early aspects and software product lines are planned for ICSE
in Leipzig, Germany, in May (http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaICSE08/) and for
SPLC in Limerick, Ireland, in September.

Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and published
in the ACM Digital Library. At the end of 2008, participants are strongly
encouraged to submit improved versions of their workshop papers to a
planned special journal edition of the Transactions on Aspect-Oriented
Software Development (TAOSD). This special journal edition will focus on
aspects and software product lines.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstract submission:
   January 18, 2008, 23:59:59, Apia, Samoa time
Deadline for paper submission:
   January 25, 2008, 23:59:59, Apia, Samoa time
Notification sent to authors:
   February 15, 2008, 23:59:59, Apia, Samoa time
Deadline for submission of camera-ready version of paper:
   (tentative - final date will be announced on the website)
   March 14, 2008, 23:59:59, Apia, Samoa time
Deadline for submission of workshop presentation:
   March 21, 2008, 23:59:59, Apia, Samoa time
Workshop:
   March 31, 2008

TOPICS OF INTEREST
While the theme of the Early Aspects Workshop at AOSD 2008 is “early
aspects and software product lines”, paper 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 in
requirements engineering, domain engineering, and software architecture
design:
* Identification, representation, and modeling of early aspects
* Composition techniques for early aspects
* Traceability and mapping of early aspects to later software development
  activities
* Reasoning about conflicts among early aspects
* Integration of early aspect techniques with other modeling techniques
  such as goals, viewpoints, and use cases
* Tool support and automation for early aspect
* Formalisms and notations for specifying early aspects

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 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. For information on the Writer’s Workshop see the Early
Aspects Workshop website (http://cserg0.site.uottawa.ca/ea2008/format.htm)
and the Writer’s Workshop Patterns website
(http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WritersWorkshopPatterns). In essence, each author
of an accepted paper will be asked to provide constructive feedback on
three other accepted papers during the Writer’s Workshop.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND REVIEW PROCESS
Participants are invited to submit research papers with a length of five
(5) to eight (8) pages. Papers must conform to the paper submission
templates of the ACM Digital Library
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submissions
must be in pdf format and sent to ea2008-submissions at site.uottawa.ca.
All submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the program
committee and the organizing committee for quality and relevance. Accepted
papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and published in the
ACM Digital Library. In addition, the authors of accepted papers focusing
on early aspects and software product lines are strongly encouraged to
submit extended versions of their papers to a special journal edition of
the Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (TAOSD).

WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE
Priority will be given to authors of workshop papers. A limited number of
places for non-authors will also be available. Non-authors are strongly
advised to contact the workshop organizers with an attendance request.

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

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)