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2002–2015

The AOSD Conference On Modularity

Fourteen editions · Three continents · One idea

The AOSD conference is an international conference on Modularity, held annually. It is a gathering that brings together speakers, researchers, practitioners, and beginners interested in Modularity — to interact, share, and examine new methods and techniques of aspect-oriented software development.

Enschede, the Netherlands — host town of the first AOSD conference
Enschede, the Netherlands — where it all began in 2002, at the University of Twente.

The first edition of the conference took place at the University of Twente, in the beautiful town of Enschede in the Netherlands, in 2002. Every edition after it is chronicled below — follow any year into its own archive page.

Every edition

Fourteen years, city by city

  1. 2002Enschede, the Netherlands

    The first conference — University of Twente, chaired by Harold Ossher.

  2. 2003Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Keynotes by Gregor Kiczales and Satoshi Matsuoka.

  3. 2004Lancaster, UK

    A packed five-day programme of tutorials, workshops, and demos.

  4. 2005Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Grady Booch on the complexity of programming models.

  5. 2006Bonn, Germany

    Hosted at the Bonn-Aachen IT Center, in the old Electoral Palace quarter.

  6. 2007Vancouver, Canada

    Keynote speakers of the sixth international edition.

  7. 2008Brussels, Belgium

    Best Paper Award — "Edicts" by IBM Research and UC Davis.

  8. 2009Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Daugherty, Murphy, and Stankovic take the stage.

  9. 2010Rennes & Saint-Malo, France

    Best Paper — Éric Tanter's "Execution Levels for AOP."

  10. 2011Porto de Galinhas, Brazil

    The tenth conference — proceedings from the Brazilian coast.

  11. 2012Potsdam, Germany

    Most Influential Paper — dynamic weaving and PROSE.

  12. 2013Fukuoka, Japan

    Best Paper and Most Influential Paper honours.

  13. 2014Lugano, Switzerland

    Eelco Visser and Thomas Würthinger deliver the keynotes.

  14. 2015Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

    The final edition in the archive — keynote summaries inside.

Keep reading: the story continued — see ICAOSD 2019 in Lisbon, and the API World Conference & Expo.