[ecoop-info] CfP: Second Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Product Line Engineering, GPCE 07

[Schwanninger, Christine]

 Second Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Product Line Engineering

         Part of GPCE 07 and colocated with ESWEEK 07 
         Thursday October 4, 2007 Salzburg, Austria 
   
          http://www.softeng.ox.ac.uk/aople

Abstract 

Product Line Engineering (PLE) is an increasingly important paradigm in
software development whereby commonalities and variations among similar 
systems are systematically identified and exploited. PLE covers a large 
spectrum of activities, from domain analysis to product validation and
testing.

Variability is manifested throughout this spectrum in artifacts such as 
requirements, models, code and documentation and it is often of
crosscutting 
nature. These characteristics make Aspect-Oriented Software Development
(AOSD)
techniques appealing as suitable candidates to modularize variability.
Prior 
work on Generative Programming (GP) and Component Engineering (CE) has
shown 
their successful applicability to PLE and the potential benefits of
AOSD.

This workshop aims at expanding and capitalizing on the increasing
interest of
researchers from these communities. It builds on the success of last
year's 
workshop that established an initial community and formulated a first
joint 
research agenda. The main goal of the workshop is to strengthen the 
established collaborations, to share and discussed ideas, identify
research 
opportunities and foster collaboration to tackle the challenges these 
opportunities may bring about. 

Goals 

Work on Aspect-Oriented Software Development concepts and techniques
applied 
to Software Product Line Engineering has shown promising results. These 
results can be further strengthened when Generative Programming and
Component
Engineering techniques are applied in concert. The main goal of the
workshop 
is to foster and strengthen the collaboration between the AOSD, PLE and 
generative research communities by identifying common interests and
research
venues. It builds on the success of the last year workshop that
established
an initial community of researchers from different fields and formulated
a
first joint research agenda.

Workshop Format 

The workshop is scheduled as a full day workshop. The morning session
will 
consist of paper presentations. Each paper will be presented by its
author(s) 
and discussed by two other workshop participants (authors of other
papers, PC 
members or organizers). The assignment of discussants of papers and the
points
they should address will be announced with the acceptance notification. 

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 half hour of the workshop.

The papers and a summary of the discussions will be compiled into a
technical
report that will be posted on the workshop's website. If we receive a 
significant amount of submissions of high quality, we will consider 
submitting them to a special issue of some journal. 

Important Dates 

Paper submission deadline: August 3, 2007 
Notification:              August 24, 2007 
Camera ready:              September 14, 2007 
Workshop:                  October 4, 2007

Submissions 

We invite submissions of 2 to 6 pages long in ACM or IEEE format. Papers
must
be submitted as Postcript or PDF files. The papers will be reviewed by
at 
least three members of the program committee and the organization
committee.

We are looking for contributions in the following topics but not limited
to: 
 * The role of aspects during Domain Engineering and/or Application
Engineering 
 * AOSD techniques applied to mapping and traceability of requirements
to 
   architecture, design and implementation of product line systems 
 * AO approaches for independent feature development and feature
composition 
 * Application of generative AOSD techniques to product line engineering

 * Product line testing and evolution using aspects and generative
techniques 
 * Core asset and variability management using aspects and generative 
   techniques 
 * Aspects and product line adoption 
 * Alliance between AOSD, DSLs and MDD in product line engineering 
 * Case studies on aspects and software product lines

See workshop website for more submission details.

Organizers 

Neil Loughran, (loughran at comp.lancs.ac.uk) - Lancaster University 
Iris Groher, (Iris.Groher at students.jku.at) - Siemens AG Germany & Linz
University 
Roberto Lopez-Herrejon, (rlopez at comlab.ox.ac.uk) - University of Oxford 
Sven Apel, (apel at infosun.fim.uni-passau.de) - University of Passau 
Christa Schwanninger, (christa.schwanninger at siemens.com)- Siemens AG,
Germany

Program Committee 

Charles Krueger, Biglever Software Inc
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham 
Vander Alves , Lancaster University 
Rob van Ommering, Philips Research
Markus Voelter, Independent Consultant
Andreas Rummler, SAP
Danilo Beuche, pure-systems GmbH