[ecoop-info] ADF 2007 - Call for Defense Papers

[Lech Madeyski]

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Call for Defense Papers
Advocatus Diaboli Forum - Agents, Agile, Aspects
http://www.enase.org/Advocatus.htm

Part of ENASE'2007 (Barcelona, Spain, 23-25 July 2007)
http://www.enase.org/

ADF Motivation

The Advocatus Diaboli Forum (ADF) "court proceedings" play an important
role in the mission of the ENASE working conferences. The AD Forum is
directly inspired by an ancient, now discarded, mechanism within the
Catholic Church whereby a so-called "Devil's Advocate" (AD) would
assemble a prosecution case against candidates for canonization to
sainthood. The AD was not required to necessarily believe the
prosecution case they prepared, but was required to list every possible
reason to reject the candidate's elevation. Proponents for canonization
would then mount a defense, addressing each of the points raised by the AD.

Consistently with the motivating philosophy of ENASE conferences, the
main agenda for AD forums is defined as to adversarially assess claims
to novelty and utility for selected software engineering approaches. The
AD sessions take place on each day of the ENASE conferences. They are
divided case-wise by candidate software engineering (SE) approaches and
are intended as putting these approaches on trial. For AD Forum at ENASE
2007 the candidate approaches are "3A": agent-, agile-, and
aspect-oriented software engineering.

ADF Scope and Publications

Prosecution cases for the "3A" candidate approaches have been prepared
by invited expert authors and made available as part of this Call for
Defense Papers (ref. http://www.enase.org/Advocatus.htm). We
specifically solicit defense papers, addressing and contesting the
charges raised. Each submitted paper will present a defense for just one
single specific case. Authors may submit multiple defense cases, each
separate case addressed in separate and non-connected submissions.
Acceptance or Rejection of each submission is independent.

The publication opportunities are three-fold:
* the ENASE conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, in paper
and in CD-ROM support,
* a post-conference Springer book with the best conference papers, and
possibly including the best papers and the summaries of the AD Forum,
* to coincide with ENASE, a special issue of Springer's Requirements
Engineering journal entitled "Software Engineering meets Requirements"
(ref. http://www.enase.org/REJ.htm) will be published after the
conference and will constitute what is hoped to be the main publication
opportunity for AD Forum contributions.

ADF Important Dates for Defense Papers

April 30, 2007 Submission of "early" defense papers by authors who would
like their papers to go to the proceedings (notification of acceptance
on May 25 and the camera ready papers due on May 31, 2007)

May 25, 2007 Notification of acceptance/rejection

May 31, 2007 Camera-ready papers and registrations

June 15, 2007 Submission of defense papers not destined for ENASE
proceedings and for a post-conference Springer book, but aimed at the
special issue of the Requirements Engineering journal

July 22-25, 2007 AD Forum court proceedings at ENASE

October 1, 2007 Camera-ready papers for Springer book or for REJ special
issue

ADF Submissions

Authors should submit a paper in English of up to eight A4 pages,
carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the ADF
on-line submission procedure. The guidelines for paper formatting
provided at the conference website must be strictly used for all
submitted papers. Authors must clearly indicate which of the three ADF
'cases' (Agile, Agents or Aspects) they are defending.

The submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please
check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. The
program committee will review all papers and the contact author (the
author who submits the paper) of each paper will be notified of the
result, by e-mail.

ADF Chairs

Brown, Robert B.K. - University of Wollongong, Australia
(bobrown at uow.edu.au)
Loucopoulos, Peri - Loughborough University, UK (P.Loucopoulos at lboro.ac.uk)

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Lech Madeyski
Wroclaw University of Technology
Institute of Applied Informatics (I-31)
Software Engineering Department
Wyb.Wyspianskiego 27, 50370 Wroclaw, POLAND
E-mail: lech.madeyski at pwr.wroc.pl
Home page: http://madeyski.e-informatyka.pl
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