[ecoop-info] cfp: Domain-Specific Aspect Languages - Special Edition IET Journal

[Thomas Cleenewerck]

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  Special Edition of the IET Journal (formerly IEE Journal)
  on Domain-Specific Aspect Languages

  Submission deadline September 30th 2007


Overview of Topics
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Seminal work on AOSD proposed a number of domain-specific aspect  
languages, such as COOL for concurrency management and RIDL for  
serialization, RG, AML, and others. For many years now, research in  
the AOSD community has strived to crystallize and generalize these  
ideas in the form of general-purpose aspect languages (e.g. AspectJ).  
A growing trend of research in the AOSD community is returning  to  
this seminal work, as witnessed by the increasing number of recent  
proposals in the area.

This special issue addresses domain-specific aspect languages both  
from a domain-specific language engineering point of view, and from  
the view point of design and implementation of new domain-specific  
aspect languages, as well as composition at all levels (from design  
to implementation) of these languages or individual features.

We seek contributions related to domain-specific aspect languages,  
more particularly (but not limited to):

     * successful DSALs and their applications
     * trade-offs in DSAL design
       (expressiveness, conciseness, specificity, etc.)
     * methodologies and tools suitable for implementing DSALs
     * mechanisms for interaction detection and handling in DSALs
     * theoretical foundations for DSALs



Guest Editors
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- Thomas Cleenewerck
- Jacques Noye


Deadlines
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     * Author Submission: September 30th 2007
     * Author Notification: December 10th 2007
     * Revision due: December 20th 2007
     * Final Decision: January 10th 2007
     * Publication of special issue: April 2008

Submission information
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Selected authors from the DSAL 06 and DSAL 07 workshop were invited  
to submit an extended version of their workshop paper. These extended  
versions are subjected to full re-reviewand should be non-trivially  
extended from the version that appeared in the workshop. As a rough  
guide, authors should ensure that the extended paper contains, at a  
very minimum 30% new material. We also expect a brief note to  
accompany the submission that explains the manner in which the  
extended version of the paper does, indeed, constitute an extension  
of the original version, pointing out, for example, areas where new  
text or results have been included, where text has been re-written  
and where extra depth is provided.

We expect authors to follow the IET Software guidelines regarding  
style and length of submissions. These can be found by the following  
link: http://www.ieedl.org/journals/doc/IEEDRL-home/info/journals/ 
proceedings/submissions.jsp

Authors are invited to email their journal papers to tcleenew at vub.ac.be

Program Committee
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* Jacques Noyé [Ecole Des Mines De Nantes, France]
* Thomas Cleenewerck [Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium]
* Anne-Francoise Le Meur [University of Lille, France]
* Damijan Rebernak [University of Maribor, Slovenia]
* Johan Fabry [INRIA Futurs / University Of Lille, France]
* Eric Tanter [University of Chile, Chile]
* Uwe Assmann [TU Dresden, Germany]
* Tony Sloane [Macquarie University, Australia]
* Ivan Kurtev [University of Twente, The Netherlands]
* Mernik Marjan [University of Maribor, Slovenia]
* Awais Rashid [Lancaster University, UK]
* Laurent Reveilliere [Universite Bordeaux, France]
* Kris de Volder [University of British Columbia, Canada]
* Jeff Gray [University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA]
* Jurgen Vinju [CWI, The Netherlands]