[aosd-announce] AOSD.09 Call for Participation

[Eric Tanter]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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               8th International Conference on
            Aspect-Oriented Software Development

                         (AOSD 2009)

                    http://aosd.net/2009/

                       March 2-6, 2009
                Charlottesville, Virginia  USA


      In cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT and ACM SIGPLAN.

Gold Sponsor: Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute

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* The full program is online and registration is open!
EARLY registration ends on January 31st, 2009

* Student Extravaganza: submissions until February 8, 2009

* Getting to Charlottesville is Easy...
Just a 30 minute flight from Washington, DC.

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The International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development  
(AOSD)
is the premier conference on software modularity, with an emphasis on  
modular
structures that cut across traditional abstraction boundaries. The  
conference
offers several tracks, including the Research and Industry Tracks,  
which bring
together leading researchers and practitioners working in such fields as
software engineering, programming languages, and systems. AOSD.09 will  
feature
topics in all areas relating to aspects, ranging from foundational  
research to
evaluations of aspect-oriented concepts, methods and tools based on  
experiences
using them in practice.

Continuing the tradition of its successful predecessors, the program  
of AOSD.09
will include:

- A Research Track with 19 research papers presenting the latest results
   in AOSD research.
- Keynotes by Paul Daugherty, John A. Stankovic, and Gail Murphy
- An Industry Track where architects and developers with experience
   in aspects gather to learn and teach.
- 6 Workshops for in-depth discussion of advanced topics in industry
   and research.
- 10 Demonstrations of leading-edge technologies.
- Birds of a Feather sessions, which provide spontaneous meetings  
among participants
   with common interests.
- A highly interactive Student Extravaganza.
- An industry-focused panel that will stimulate thoughtful discussion.
- A great social program to encourage informal discussion among peers

A summary of the program is provided below.  Please consult http://aosd.net/2009 
  for
details and up-to-date information. We invite you to attend AOSD.09!


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RESEARCH TRACK
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The Research Track captures state-of-the-art research occurring in  
AOSD. A
broad range of topics will be presented throughout the conference. The  
specific
sessions and paper titles for AOSD.09 are as follows:

Programming Languages
- Dependent Advice: A General Approach to Optimizing History-based  
Aspects
Eric Bodden, Feng Chen, Grigore Rosu
- The Dataflow Pointcut – A Formal and Practical Framework
Dima Alhadidi, Amine Boukhtouta, Nadia Belblidia, Mourad Debbabi,  
Prabir Bhattacharya
- Expressive Scoping of Distributed Aspects
Éric Tanter, Johan Fabry, Rémi Douence, Jacques Noyé, Mario Südholt

Aspect Interference
- A Graph-Transformation-Based Simulation Approach for Analysing  
Aspect Interference
on Shared Join Points
Mehmet Aksit, Arend Rensink, Tom Staijen
- The Art of the Meta-Aspect Protocol
Tom Dinkelaker, Mira Mezini, Christoph Bockisch
- Flexible Calling Context Reification for Aspect-Oriented Programming
Alex Villazón, Walter Binder, Philippe Moret

Software Architecture and Modelling
- Domain-driven Discovery of Stable Abstractions for Pointcut Interfaces
Dimitri Van Landuyt, Steven Op de Beeck, Eddy Truyen, Wouter Joosen
- Aspect-Oriented Multi-View Modeling
Jörg Kienzle, Wisam Al Abed, Jacques Klein
- From Sequence Diagrams to Java-STAIRS Aspects
Jon Oldevik, Øystein Haugen
- Composing Architectural Aspects based on Style Semantics
Christina Chavez, Alessandro Garcia, Thais Batista, Marcel Oliveira,
Claudio Sant'anna, Awais Rashid

Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering
- Modeling Scenario Variability as Crosscutting Mechanisms
Rodrigo Bonifácio, Paulo Borba
- Concept Analysis for Product Line Requirements
Nan Niu, Steve Easterbrook
- Semantic vs. Syntactic Compositions in Aspect-Oriented Requirements  
Engineering:
an Empirical Study
Ruzanna Chitchyan, Phil Greenwood, Americo Sampaio, Awais Rashid,  
Alessandro Garcia,
Lyrene Fernandes da Silva

Testing and Verification
- Modular Verification of Dynamically Adaptive Systems
Ji Zhang, Heather Goldsby, Betty Cheng
- A Generic and Reflective Debugging Architecture to Support Runtime  
Visibility and
Traceability of Aspects
Wouter De Borger, Bert Lagaisse, Wouter Joosen
- Automated Test Data Generation for Aspect-Oriented Programs
Mark Harman, Fayezin Islam, Tao Xie, Stefan Wappler

Domain-Specific Aspect Languages and Applications
- Metaproperty Aspects
Clayton Myers, Elisa Baniassad
- Can We Refactor Conditional Compilation into Aspects?
Bram Adams, Wolfgang De Meuter, Herman Tromp, Ahmed Hassan
- Enforcing Security for Desktop Clients using Authority Aspects
Brett Cannon, Eric Wohlstadter


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KEYNOTES
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AOSD.09 will have an outstanding slate of keynote speakers, featuring:
1) A senior executive perspective from a major international IT company
2) A leader in the emerging area of complex cyber-physical systems
3) An academic perspective on the use of aspects in multiple contexts

The following keynotes will be offered at AOSD.09:

- Paul Daugherty (Accenture)
The Future of Software Architectures for Large-Scale Business Solutions:
Modularity, Scalability, and Separation of Concerns

- John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia)
Cyber Physical Systems: Aspects as a Basis for Robustness and Openness

- Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia)
Everyday Aspects


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INDUSTRY TRACK
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The AOSD.09 Industry Track features contributions from industrial  
researchers
and practitioners based on experience in applying AOSD concepts to  
industrial
challenges.

Papers in the Industry Track include:

- Enabling the Adoption of Aspects – Testing Aspects: A Risk Model,  
Fault Model
and Patterns
Nikhil Kumar, Dinakar Sosale, Sadhana Nivedita Konuganti, Ajay Rathi
- Modelling Hardware Verification Concerns Specified in the e Language:
An Experience Report
Darren Galpin, Cormac Driver, Siobhán Clarke
- Using Aspect Orientation in Industrial Projects: Appreciated or  
Damned?
Uwe Hohenstein, Michael C. Jäger
- Aspect-Oriented Programming with Hidden Markov Models to Verify  
Design Use Cases
German Florez-Larrahondo, Walker Haddock


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PANEL
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As part of the Industry Track, the following panel will discuss issues  
related
to AOSD practice during a special lunch session:

- Challenges and Roadmap for using AOSD in Industry


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WORKSHOPS
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A diverse set of workshops will be offered at AOSD.09 during the first  
two
days of the conference. All workshops are included in the registration  
fee.

There will be six workshops at AOSD.09:

- ACP4IS: Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software
- AOM: Aspect-Oriented Modeling
- DSAL: Domain-Specific Aspect Language
- EA: Early Aspects Workshop
- FOAL: Foundations of Aspect-Oriented Languages
- PLATE: Practices on Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution


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DEMONSTRATIONS
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Demonstrations serve to disseminate advances embodied in research- 
oriented tools
and systems that use or support AOSD. Each of the following  
demonstrations
will be offered at two separate times throughout the conference week:

- A GUI Tool for FODA Feature Diagrams
- MAJOR and CARAJillo: Aspect Weaving in the Java Class Library
- Efficient Software Product Line Development – The Aspect-Oriented Way
- Building a Next-Generation Digital News Publishing platform with AOSD
- drUID – Unexpected Interactions Detection
- AOJS: Aspect-Oriented Programming Framework for JavaScript
- A System for Supporting Collaboration with Designers by Aspect- 
Oriented
Approach in RIA Development
- R3V3RS3: Querying for Syntactical Patterns of Conditional  
Compilation Usage
- Lavash: Lancaster Variability Analysis Toolkit for Heterogeneous  
Requirements Sets
- Rejuvenate Pointcut: A Tool for Pointcut Expression Recovery in  
Evolving
Aspect-Oriented Software


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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- General Chair: Kevin Sullivan (USA)
- Organizing Chair: Jeff Gray (USA)
- Research Program Co-Chairs: Ana Moreira (Portugal) and Christa  
Schwanninger (Germany)
- Industry Program Co-Chairs: Robert Baillargeon (USA) and Mark  
Grechanik (USA)
- Workshops Chair: Doug Schmidt (USA)
- Demonstrations Co-Chairs: Naoyasu Ubayashi (Japan) and Andy Kellens  
(Belgium)
- Publicity Co-Chairs: Éric Tanter (Chile) and Bedir Tekinerdogan  
(Turkey)
- Student Events Co-Chairs: Celina Gibbs (Canada) and Ruzanna  
Chitchyan (UK)
- Web Chair: Robert Tairas (USA)
- Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: Hridesh Rajan (USA) and Yuanfang Cai  
(USA)
- BoFs Chair: Sérgio Soares (Brazil)


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Mehmet Aksit (The Netherlands), Omar Aldawud (USA), João Araújo  
(Portugal),
Uwe Aßmann (Germany), Elisa Baniassad (China), Paulo Borba (Brazil),
Yuanfang Cai (USA), Jaelson Castro (Brazil), Betty Cheng (USA),
Yvonne Coady (Canada), Krzysztof Czarnecki (Canada), Robert France  
(USA),
Lidia Fuentes (Spain), Alessandro Garcia (Brazil), Geri Georg (USA),
Juan Hernandez (Spain), Jean-Marc Jezequel (France), Viviane Jonckers  
(Belgium),
Shmuel Katz (Israel), Julio Cesar Leite (Brazil), Hidehiko Masuhara  
(Japan),
Mira Mezini (Germany), Bashar Nuseibeh (UK), Hridesh Rajan (USA),
Awais Rashid (UK), Dominik Stein (Germany), Robert Walker (Canada),
Jon Whittle (UK)