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

[Walter Cazzola]

Apologies for multiple copies.

Please note, the deadline has been extended to the 27th of January due
to several requests.

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                                   AOM at AOSD'08
                  12th Int'l Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Modeling
                        Brussels, Belgium, April 1, 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 aspectoriented models;
    - composition of AOMs;
    - modeling of aspects at different stages of software development
      (requirements engineering, sw 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 the ACM Format Guidelines (www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates)
to
               http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=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 27, 2008
Notification date:     February 8, 2008
Camera Ready deadline: Febrary 28, 2008
Workshop date:         April 1, 2008

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