[ecoop-info] CfP: 12th Int'l Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM at AOSD'08)

[Dominik Stein]

                              AOM at AOSD'08
             12th Int'l Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling
                   Brussels, Belgium, March 31, 2008
                 http://www.aspect-modeling.org/aosd08/
                            Call for Papers

*Workshop Description*
Aspect-orientation is a rapidly advancing technology. New and powerful
aspect-oriented programming techniques are presented at many
international venues every year. However, it is not clear what features
of such techniques are "common aspect-oriented concepts" and what
features are rather language-specific specialties. Research in
aspect-oriented modeling has the potential to help find such common
characteristics from a perspective that is at a more abstract level
(i.e., programming language-independent). The Aspect-Oriented Modeling
(AOM) Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from two
communities, aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) and
model-driven engineering.  This workshop provides a forum for presenting
new ideas and discussing the state of research and practice in modeling
various kinds of crosscutting concerns at different levels of
abstraction. The goals of the workshop are to identify and discuss the
impacts of aspect-oriented technologies on model engineering to provide
aspect-oriented software developers with general modeling means to
express aspects and their crosscutting relationships onto other software
artifacts.

*Workshop Topics*
We are interested in submissions on all topics related to aspects and
model engineering including, but not limited to:

- Aspect-Oriented Modeling
   - defining essential characteristics of a crosscutting concern that
     need to be modeled;
   - verification and validation of aspect-oriented models;
   - composition of aspect-oriented models;
   - modeling of aspects at different stages of software development
     (requirements engineering, architecture, design, implementation);
   - application of AOM to modeling notations that are not tied to UML.
- Aspect-Oriented UML
   - identification of UML elements that can be used to model aspects;
   - identification of UML elements that can NOT be used to model
     aspects;
   - aspect-oriented support in UML;
   - extensions to UML for supporting AOSD.
- AOSD Method and Tool Support
   - aspect-oriented and model-based software development methods;
   - using existing UML tools in AOSD life-cycles;
   - new tools and extensions to existing tools to support AOM;
- Model-Oriented AOP and JPM
   - join point selection at model levels;
   - MOF, UML, MDA, etc. as a support to the JPM;
   - model-based aspect evolution;
   - model weaving: from abstract to low-level;
   - model engineering tools for supporting aspect-oriented techniques;
   - model-based aspect interference and composition management.

*Paper Submission*
Prospective participants are invited to submit 4-6 page position papers
following ACM Format Guidelines
(www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm) to

                       http://www.easychair.org/AOM2008/

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee for
quality and relevance.  Submissions must be original; simultaneous
submissions are not allowed. Submitted papers must be in PDF format. The
best papers from recent editions of the workshop will appear in a future
issue of the Journal of Object Technology (JOT). We are negotiating with
the JOT editors for the opportunity to publish a second special issue on
aspect-oriented modeling that should collect the extended version of the
best papers accepted to the workshop.

*Workshop Organizers*
O. Aldawud Lucent Technology, USA
W. Cazzola Univ. of Milano, I
T. Elrad   Illinois Institute of Tech., USA
J. Gray    UAB, USA
J. Kienzle McGill University, CA
D. Stein   Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, D

*Program Committee*
O. Aldawud      Lucent Technology, USA
A. v. d. Berg   Motorola Labs, USA
W. Cazzola      Univ. of Milano, I
S. Clarke       Trinity College Dublin, IRL
T. Cottenier    Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA
T. Elrad        Illinois Inst. of Tech., USA
F. Fleurey      IRISA, F
S. Ghosh        Colorado State Univ., USA
J. Gray         UAB, USA
S. Hanenberg    Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, D
A. Jackson      Trinity College, IRL
J.-M. Jézéquel  IRISA, F
J. Kienzle      McGill University, CA
K. Mens         Catholic Univ. of Louvain, B
A. Moreira      Univ. Nova de Lisboa, P
A. Pierantonio  Univ. of Aquila, I
E. Roubtsova    Open University, NL
D. Stein        Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, D
B. Tekinerdogan Univ. of Twente, NL
J. Whittle      Lancaster University, UK

*Important Dates*
Submission deadline:   January 11, 2008
Notification date:     February 8, 2008
Camera Ready deadline: Febrary 28, 2008
Workshop date:         March 31, 2008

*Contact*
For questions and issues on the workshop drop a message at
aomwsoc at lists.uni-due.de