[aosd-announce] CALL FOR PAPERS: Early Aspects Workshop at SPLC 2008

[Schwanninger, Christine (CT)]

                 Early Aspects Workshop at SPLC 2008:
        Aspect-Oriented Requirements and Architecture for Product Lines 
                                 (EA at SPLC.08)

                     September 8, 2008, Limerick, Ireland, 
                     http://ea08splc.iese.fraunhofer.de

                                   Co-located with the
                  12th International Software Product Line Conference 2008
	            		
Motivation
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Variability of features often has widespread impact on multiple artefacts in multiple lifecycle stages, making it a pre-dominant engineering challenge in Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE). What is strongly needed in SPLE is an improved modularization of variations, their holistic treatment across the software lifecycle and advanced maintenance of their traceability. 
Accordingly, this workshop focuses on the application of aspect-oriented requirements 
engineering and architecture design in identifying and managing variability across a product line.

Topics
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Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

 * Early Aspects and Domain Analysis
   -  Use of aspects in product line requirements
   -  Deriving aspects from domain knowledge
   -  Use of aspects for variability and commonality identification
   -  Use of aspects in domain modelling
   -  Use of aspects for commonality/variability modelling
   -  Use of aspects to model variation dependencies
   -  Use of aspects for identification of product line features
   -  Modelling feature interaction and addressing conflict resolution with aspects
 * Early Aspects and Domain Architecture Design
   -  Use of aspects in product line architecture modelling
   -  Aspects for expressing variation in architecture
   -  Use of aspects for the composition of domain aspects
   -  Design rules for aspects in product line architectures
 * Early Aspects in Application Engineering
   -  Use of aspects for mapping product requirements to domain requirements
   -  Use of aspects in product derivation
 * Early Aspects and Traceability
   -  Use of aspects for traceability in product lines
   -  Vertical and horizontal traceability of aspects in product lines
   -  Use of aspects for change impact analysis in product lines
 * Early Aspects and Tool Support
   -  Tool support for mining, identification, and modelling aspects
   -  Tool support for modelling and composition of domain architecture
   -  Aspect-oriented tool support for mapping product requirements to domain 
      requirements
   -  Aspect-oriented tool support for product derivation
   -  Tool support for traceability for and with aspects


Important Dates
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Submission Deadline:		        July 1, 2008
Notification of Acceptance:		July 21, 2008
Camera-ready Papers Due:		August 4, 2008
Workshop:                               September 8, 2008


Submissions
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We invite submissions of up to 8 pages in IEEE proceedings 8.5x 11", two-column format. 
Papers must be submitted as PDF files to both vander.alves [at] iese.fraunhofer.de and 
christa.schwanninger [at] siemens.com
See the workshop website for more submission details.
http://ea08splc.iese.fraunhofer.de

Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and will be published at a 
special SPLC 2008 volume for high-quality workshop papers. 


Planned workshop activities
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The workshop is laid out as full day workshop.  The format of the workshop reflects its goals: constructive feedback for accepted workshop papers, collaboration, and community building. 
Participants are expected to read the papers accepted beforehand to be able to contribute to lively discussions about approaches and ideas presented. The morning session will consist of short presentations of the most representative papers.  Interesting discussion topics will be collected for the afternoon session. In the afternoon we will use the "Open Space" format in order to discuss topics of interest that might be related but not restricted to the papers presented in the morning.  The results of the discussion groups will be presented in the last hour of the workshop.


Organizers
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Vander Alves (Co-chair), Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Christa Schwanninger (Co-chair), Siemens AG, Germany
Paul Clements, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
Ana Moreira, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
João Araújo, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, The Netherlands


Program Committee
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Alessandro Garcia, Lancaster University, UK
Bashar Nuseibeh, Open University, UK
Charles Krueger, Big Lever, USA
Danilo Beuche, pure::systems, Germany
Iris Groher, Siemens AG/University of Linz, Germany
Isabel John, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Jon Whittle, Lancaster University, UK
Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia, USA
Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada
Markus Voelter, Independent consultant, Germany
Paul Clements, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK
Sérgio Soares, University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Uirá Kulesza, New University of Lisbon, Portugal