[ecoop-info] Last Call: Special Edition of the IET Journal on Domain-Specific Aspect Languages

[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

for up to date and complete information please visit:
http://dsal.dcc.uchile.cl/iet/


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

This special issue of the IET Software journal (formerly IEE  
Software) builds upon the successful editions of the DSAL workshop,  
held in 2006 at the ACM GPCE conference (DSAL 2006) and in 2007 at  
the ACM AOSD conference (DSAL 2007).


Guest Editors
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- Thomas Cleenewerck
- Jacques Noye


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

Submission information
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Selected authors from the DSAL 2006 2007 workshops were invited to  
submit an extended version of their workshop paper.

The call is also *open to external contributions*.

The extended versions of DSAL workshop papers are subject to full re- 
review and 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

Reviewers
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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]