From chiba at is.titech.ac.jp Thu May 1 10:58:48 2008 From: chiba at is.titech.ac.jp (Shigeru Chiba) Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:58:48 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] ECOOP RAM-SE'08 -- Deadline Extension Message-ID: ----------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENDED to MAY 12th ----------------------------- RAM-SE'08 5th ECOOP Workshop on Reflection, AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution Paphos, Cyprus, 7th July 2008 http://homes.dico.unimi.it/RAM-SE08.html Call for Contributions *Workshop Organizers* Walter Cazzola University of Milano, Italy Shigeru Chiba Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Manuel Oriol ETH Zurich, Switzerland Gunter Saake Otto-von-Guericke Universitat Magdeburg, Germany *Workshop Description* Software evolution and adaptation is a research area in continuous evolution, and offering stimulating challenges for both academic and industrial researchers. The evolution of software systems, to face unexpected situations or just for improving their features, relies on software engineering techniques and methodologies. Nowadays a similar approach is not applicable in all situations e.g., for evolving nonstopping systems or systems whose code is not available. Features of reflection such as transparency, separation of concerns, and extensibility seem to be perfect tools to aid the dynamic evolution of running systems. Aspect-oriented programming can simplify code instrumentation whereas techniques that rely on meta-data can be used to inspect the system and to extract the necessary data for designing the heuristic that the reflective and aspect-oriented mechanism use for managing the evolution. We feel the necessity to investigate the benefits brought by the use of these techniques on the evolution of object-oriented software systems. In particular we would determine how these techniques can be integrated together with more traditional approaches to evolve a system and the benefits we get from their use. This workshop can be a good meeting-point for people working in the software evolution area, and an occasion to present reflective, aspect-oriented and data mining based solutions to evolutionary problems, and new ideas straddling these areas. *Workshop Topics* Particularly interesting for this workshop are works that focus on the application of reflective, aspect-oriented and data-mining techniques to the evolution of software systems. In particular, they include but are not limited to: - aspect-oriented middleware and environments for software evolution; - adaptive software components and evolution as component composition; ? - evolution planning and deployment through aspect-oriented and reflective approaches; ? - aspect interference and composition for software evolution; ? - feature- and subject-oriented adaptation; ? - unanticipated software evolution supported by AOSD or reflective techniques; ? - MOF, code annotations and other metadata facilities for software evolution; ? - metrics and other evaluation mechanisms to evaluate the impact of software evolution techniques;? - AOP and reflection based design patterns for software evolution; ? - early aspect evolution, i.e., to design evolution by evolving the design information or the application in its early stages of development; ? - techniques for refactoring into AOSD and getting the separation of concerns *Submissions* Position papers (max 5-pages long) must be electronically sent (PDF file) to: ram-se08 at dico.unimi.it We are also planning to edit a journal special issue on the workshop topic and invite the authors of the most interesting contributions to submit their work to it. *Important Dates* Submission deadline: 12 May 2008 Notification date: 26 May 2008 Camera Ready deadline: 25 June 2008 Workshop date: 7 July 2008 To ensure lively discussion at the workshop, the organizing committee will choose the contributions on the basis of topic similarity that will permit the beginning of new collaborations. To grant an easy dissemination of the proposed ideas and to favorite an ideas interchange among the participants, accepted contributions will be made available in advance over the Web. *Workshop Format* The workshop is a full day meeting. Part of the workshop will be devoted to contribution of papers, and part will be devoted to panels and (we hope) to interchange of ideas between participants. The workshop has to provide a discussion forum about the evolution of the sector and has to permit new collaborations to be established with other researchers. The workshop will be particularly useful for young researchers who will be able to compare their ideas with other people working on the field. From diwt2008 at dirf.org Thu May 1 19:36:30 2008 From: diwt2008 at dirf.org (diwt2008 at dirf.org) Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 23:06:30 +0530 Subject: [ecoop-info] Last CFP: IEEE ICADIWT2008 Message-ID: <20080501230630.qmqm9hq40ssc8ckg@202.54.156.184> Sorry for cross posting. Please pass to the interested people. THANK YOU. The First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008) Ostrava, Czech Republic, August 4-6, 2008 http://www.dirf.org/diwt2008/ =========================================================== - Hosted by VSB-Technical University of Ostrava in Czech Republic (http://www.myczechrepublic.com/photos/) - All the ICADIWT 2008 papers will be published by IEEE and indexed in IEEE Xplore and EI. - Best Modified versions of the selected papers will be published in the following peer reviewed journals. 1. Journal of Digital Information Management 2. International Journal of Autonomic Computing 3. Journal of Information Assurance and Security 4. Neural Network World - There are two special sessions. - The largest gathering of IT people in the central of Europe. - For more information please visit www.dirf.org/diwt2008 From nwesp.admin at gmail.com Fri May 2 08:29:32 2008 From: nwesp.admin at gmail.com (NWeSP Admin NWeSP Admin) Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 15:29:32 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: NWeSP(Seoul, Korea) - Oct 20-22 Message-ID: *NWeSP 2008: 4th International Conference on Next Generation of Web Services * http://nwesp.org October 20-22, Seoul, Korea *Publication*: IEEE Computer Society *Additional Publication*: Selected papers will be invited to IJWSP and a few other journals. *CALL FOR PAPERS* *GENERAL INFORMATION* Topics of interest include all areas of Web Services and Web Applications. Poster session, workshops, and cultural events are planned. *Topics *Web Services Architecture, Modeling and Design Semantic Web, Ontologies (creation , merging, linking and reconciliation) Database Technologies for Web Services Web Services Security Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance User Interfaces, Visualization and modeling Customization, Reusability, Enhancements Web Services Standards Web Services Applications Web Based Applications Information Retrieval Web Services Intellectual Property *Full Paper*(Upto 10 pages): Oral Presentation is required *Short Paper*(Upto 5 pages): Poster Presentation *IMPORTANT DATES* June 14: deadline for a full paper and a poster paper submission July 5: Notification of acceptance Oct 20-22: Conference Ajith Abraham, Program Chair Sang Yong Han, General Co-Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Registration for CiE 2008: http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/registration.php You can also use the registration process to book accommodation: http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/accommodation.php SOME DETAILS OF THE PROGRAMME ============================= TUTORIALS will be given by: John V. Tucker (Swansea) Moshe Y. Vardi (Houston, TX) PLENARY SPEAKERS will include: Keith Devlin (Stanford, CA) Rosalie Iemhoff (Utrecht) Antonina Kolokolova (Vancouver, BC) Janos Makowsky (Haifa) Dag Normann (Oslo) Prakash Panangaden (Montreal, QC) Christos Papadimitriou (Berkeley, CA) Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht) & Jiri Wiedermann (Prague) See http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/invited.php for more informations on Plenary Speakers. SPECIAL SESSIONS Algorithms in the history of mathematics (organized by J. Hoyrup, Roskilde, and K. Chemla, Paris) Formalising mathematics and extracting algorithms from proofs (organized by H. Barendregt, Nijmegen, and M. Seisenberger, Swansea) Higher type recursion theory and applications (organized by U. Berger, Swansea, and D. Normann, Oslo) Algorithmic game theory (organized by E. Koutsoupias, Athens, and B. von Stengel, London) Quantum algorithms and complexity (organized by V. Kendon, Leeds, and B. Coecke, Oxford) Biology and computation (organized by N. Jonoska, Tampa FL, and G. Mauri, Milano) See http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/special.php for more informations on special sessions. ACCEPTED PAPERS The list of accepted papers can be found at http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/cie08/give-page.php?18 From zimmerth at cpsc.ucalgary.ca Sun May 4 08:42:58 2008 From: zimmerth at cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Tom Zimmermann) Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 00:42:58 -0600 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: Mining Software Archives - Special Issue of IEEE Software Message-ID: <744AC456-BA62-4A3B-B0DE-FD133484A263@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> IEEE Software Special Issue on Mining Software Archives Submission Deadline: 1 July 2008 Publication: Jan./Feb. 2009 During software development and maintenance, programmers write new code, track issue reports, add features to software, fix defects, and discuss changes over email, among other activities. As more and more development activities are organized and integrated using software tools, they leave behind automatically accessible data. We can glean these archives for a tremendous amount of information by applying data mining and machine learning techniques. The resulting patterns and rules can increase program quality and programmer productivity. IEEE Software seeks submissions for a special issue on Mining Software Archives. Possible topics include - Approaches, applications, and tools for mining software archives - Case studies on extracting data from software archives of large, long-lived projects - Search techniques, for example to help developers find suitable components for reuse - Analyzing change patterns to assist in future development - Mining social networks from large software projects -- for example, to understand and improve collaboration - Visualization techniques for mined data -- for example, to understand software evolution - Techniques for predicting reliability and defects through mining software archives - Collecting and predicting effort data - Mining requirements documents and predicting requirements volatility - Prioritizing test suites by leveraging historical test data - How software developers, teams, and managers can leverage data mined from software archives in their day-to-day work Manuscripts must not exceed 5,400 words including figures and tables, which count for 200 words each. Submissions in excess of these limits may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we deem within the theme?s scope will be peer-reviewed and are subject to editing for magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. We reserve the right to edit the title of all submissions. Be sure to include the name of the theme or special issue you are submitting for. Articles should have a practical orientation and be written in a style accessible to practitioners. Overly complex, purely research-oriented or theoretical treatments are not appropriate. Articles should be novel. IEEE Software does not republish material published previously in other venues, including other periodicals and formal conference/workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in print or in electronic form. For more information about the focus, contact the Guest Editors: - Nachiappan Nagappan, Microsoft Research - Andreas Zeller, Saarland University - Tom Zimmermann, University of Calgary For general author guidelines: www.computer.org/software/author.htm For submission details: software at computer.org -- Thomas Zimmermann http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~zimmerth/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The main conference will take place from the 7th till the 11th of July, and will be preceded and followed by 13 co-located events. (See http://www.ru.is/icalp08/workshops.html for the list of events affiliated with ICALP 2008.) In addition, the ETACS award 2008 to Leslie G. Valiant (Harvard, USA) and the Goedel prize 2008 will be awarded at the conference. Following the successful experience of the last three editions, ICALP 2008 will complement the established structure of the scientific program based on Track A on Algorithms, Automata, Complexity and Games, and Track B on Logic, Semantics, and Theory of Programming, corresponding to the two main streams of the journal Theoretical Computer Science, with a special Track C on Security and Cryptography Foundations The aim of Track C is to allow a deeper coverage of a particular topic, to be specifically selected for each year's edition of ICALP on the basis of its timeliness and relevance for the theoretical computer science community. The scientific programme for the conference is available at the following URLs: http://www.ru.is/icalp08/programme.html (programme overview) http://www.ru.is/icalp08/Icalp08TrackAProg.html (track A) http://www.ru.is/icalp08/programmeB.html (track B) http://www.ru.is/icalp08/programmeC.html (track C). Apart from the presentation of 126 selected contributions for the three tracks, the conference will feature the following invited talks: * Ran Canetti (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and MIT, USA) "*Composable Formal Security Analysis: Juggling Soundness, Simplicity and Efficiency*" * Bruno Courcelle (Labri, Universite Bordeaux, France) "*Graph Structure and Monadic Second-order Logic: Language Theoretical Aspects"* * Javier Esparza (Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) "*Newtonian Program Analysis*" * Muthu Muthukrishnan (Google, USA) "*Internet Ad Auctions: Insights and Directions*" * Peter Winkler (Dartmouth, USA). In addition, Peter Winkler will hold a master class on mathematical puzzles on Tuesday, 8 July, and there will be talks by Leslie G. Valiant and the recipient(s) of the Goedel prize 2008 on Thursday, 10 July. REGISTRATION ******************** Information on registration for the conference and affiliated events is available at http://www.ru.is/icalp08/registration.html To register, visit the URL http://skraning.iii.is/icalpreg.asp We strongly recommend that you *register for the ICALP conference and book accommodation before May 5th, as that date is the deadline for registering at the lower fee.* After May 5th hotel rooms will also start to get released since July is the prime holiday season in Iceland and the demand for hotel accommodation is *very* high. *NOTE:* For those who have *not* decided yet which workshop(s) they are going to attend when registering for the conference, it is possible to register for workshops at the lower fee until June 5th by sending an e-mail to the Conference Secretariat at the address icalp2008 *AT* iii.is. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ********************* Luca Aceto Magnus M. 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URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080504/27622ff7/attachment-0001.htm From pasalic at cs.rice.edu Sun May 4 18:31:42 2008 From: pasalic at cs.rice.edu (Emir Pasalic) Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 12:31:42 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] GPCE'08: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: Call for Papers Seventh International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE 2008) October 19-23, 2008 Nashville, Tennessee (co-located with OOPSLA 2008) http://www.gpce.org Important Dates: * Submission of abstracts: May 12, 2008 * Notification: June 30, 2008 * Submission: May 19, 2008, 23:59 Apia time Scope Generative and component approaches are revolutionizing software development similar to how automation and components revolutionized manufacturing. Generative Programming (developing programs that synthesize other programs), Component Engineering (raising the level of modularization and analysis in application design), and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) (elevating program specifications to compact domain-specific notations that are easier to write, maintain, and analyze) are key technologies for automating program development. The International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering provides a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques for enhancing the productivity, quality, and time-to-market in software development that stems from deploying components and automating program generation. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques for developing generative and component-based software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering research community and the programming languages community. Submissions Research papers: 10 pages in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls) reporting original research results that contribute to scientific knowledge in the areas listed below (the PC chair can advise on appropriateness). Experience reports: 2 to 4 pages in length in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls). We encourage experience reports that provide concrete evidence with regards to the efficacy of generative technologies in industrial applications. Topics GPCE seeks contributions in software engineering and in programming languages related (but not limited) to: * Generative programming o Reuse, meta-programming, partial evaluation, multi-stage and multi-level languages, step-wise refinement, and generic programming o Semantics, type systems, symbolic computation, linking and explicit substitution, in-lining and macros, templates, and program transformation o Runtime code generation, compilation, active libraries, synthesis from specifications, development methods, generation of non-code artifacts, formal methods, and reflection * Generative techniques for o Product-line architectures o Distributed, real-time and embedded systems o Model-driven development and architecture o Resource bounded/safety critical systems. * Component-based software engineering o Reuse, distributed platforms and middleware, distributed systems, evolution, patterns, development methods, deployment and configuration techniques, and formal methods * Integration of generative and component-based approaches * Domain engineering and domain analysis o Domain-specific languages including visual and UML-based DSLs * Separation of concerns o Aspect-oriented and feature-oriented programming, o Intentional programming and multi-dimensional separation of concerns * Industrial applications of the above Experience reports on applications of these techniques to real-world problems are especially encouraged, as are research papers that relate ideas and concepts from several of these topics, or bridge the gap between theory and practice. The program chair is happy to advise on the appropriateness of a particular subject. Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy. Please contact the program chair if you have any questions about how this policy applies to your paper (gpce2008 at gpce.org). Organizers General Chair: Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Oregon) Program Chair: Jeremy Siek (University of Colorado at Boulder) Satellite Chair: Ralf Lammel (Univ. Koblenz-Landau) Publicity Chair: Emir Pasalic (LogicBlox, Inc.) Program Committee David Abrahams (Boost Consulting) Uwe Assmann (Technische Universitat, Dresden) Ira Baxter (Semantic Designs, USA) Martin Bravenboer (Delft Univ. of Tech., The Netherlands) Jacques Carette (McMaster University, Canada) Shigeru Chiba (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) William R. Cook (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Lidia Fuentes (University of Malaga, Spain) Yossi Gil (The Technion, Israel) Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA) Mark Grechanik (Accenture Technology Labs, USA) Stanislaw Jarzabek (National University of Singapore) Jaakko Jarvi (Texas A&M Unviersity, USA) Julie Lawall (DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Christian Lengauer (University of Passau, Germany) Matthew Marcus (Adobe Systems Inc., USA) Anne-Francoise Le Meur (University of Lille 1, France) Sibylle Schupp (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Peter Sestoft (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Chung-chieh Shan (Rutgers University, USA) Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080504/57ea25ac/attachment-0001.htm From secure2000 at gmail.com Mon May 5 03:48:57 2008 From: secure2000 at gmail.com (B.S. K) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 10:48:57 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] JPUC SI CfP (indexed by SCI) Message-ID: *Special Issue Call for Papers* *Journal of Universal Computer Science * *http://www.jucs.org* * * *Special Issue on* *Data Security and Privacy Protection in Pervasive Computing Environments* *Motivation* The integration of advanced wireless technology and internet tends to increase connections of computing devices. Because Pervasive Computing (PC) environments make people get accustomed to computing, they naturally forget the fact that they are using computers. Furthermore, smart devices around offer them services such as user location information, user situation, and user data maintenance/management. In order to achieve these purposes, various aspects should be integrated from hardware and networks to operating systems, middleware, user interfaces, and applications. However, in Pervasive Computing, data security and privacy concerns, such as personal information outflows, has not been considered in depth. Therefore, in Pervasive Computing, data security management and diverse security technologies should be considered. This special issue solicits state-of-the-art approaches and solutions in the area of data security and privacy protection in modern Pervasive Computing environments. *Topics* Original contributions, not currently under review to another journal or conference, are solicited in relevant areas including, but not limited to, the following: ? Information Security management for PC ? Data security management for PC ? Privacy Protection in PC ? Design and Management of Trust Models ? Content Protection in PC ? Trust Models and Management for PC ? Data protection technologies for PC ? Authentication and Access control for PC ? Digital Forensics in PC ? Analyses of new security issues for PC ? Privacy issues in smart office environments * * *Submissions* Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the "Submission Procedure" page at the journal website, http://www.jucs.org/jucs_info/submissions. In addition, the manuscript must be submitted in the form of PDF file to Corresponding Guest Editor ? Dr. Koh (secure2000 at gmail.com). *Schedule* Deadline for paper submission: August 1, 2008 Final decision notification: January 1, 2009 Completion of first review: November 1, 2008 Publication materials due: January 30, 2009 Revision due: December 1, 2008 Publication date: Summer 2009 (TBA) *Guest Editors* Dr. Byoung-Soo Koh (Corresponding Editor) DigiCAPS Co., Ltd, Korea URL: http://sun.dju.ac.kr/~bskoh/ Email: secure2000 at gmail.com Prof. Mieso Denko University of GUELPH, Canada URL: *http://www.cis.uoguelph.ca/~denko/* Email:* denko at cis.uoguelph.ca * Prof. Stefanos Gritzalis University of the Aegean, Greece URL: http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/sgritz Email: sgritz at aegean.gr Prof. Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan URL: http://www.chu.edu.tw/~chh Email: robertchh at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.aito.org/pipermail/ecoop-info/attachments/20080505/d055a385/attachment-0001.htm From m.r.v.chaudron at TUE.nl Mon May 5 10:52:15 2008 From: m.r.v.chaudron at TUE.nl (Chaudron, M.R.V.) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 10:52:15 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] deadline approaching CBSE 2008: 15 May Message-ID: 11th International Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE-2008) 14-17 October 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany Important Dates Submission May 15, 2008 Notification June 9, 2008 Camera Ready July 7, 2008 Proceedings will be published by Springer as a LNCS volume. Component-based Software Engineering is part of CompArch see http://comparch2008.ipd.uka.de/ for more info. Goals ===== Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE) has emerged as a technology for rapid assembly of flexible software systems. CBSE combines elements of software architecture, modular software design, software verification, configuration and deployment. To foster exchange and collaboration with the software architecture community, CBSE is colocated with the Quality of Software Architectures Conference (QoSA) as part of the federated CompArch event. The CBSE symposium has a track record of bringing together researchers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to promote a better understanding of CBSE from a diversity of perspectives, and to engage in active discussion and debate. CBSE 2007 is open to all participants interested in CBSE and related areas. The symposium addresses participants from both universities and industry. Scope ===== The theoretical foundations of component specification, composition, analysis and verification continue to pose research challenges. While the engineering models and methods for component software development are slowly maturing, new trends in global services and distributed systems architectures push the limits of established and tested component-based methods, tools and platforms: * model-driven development and grid technologies with their high-performance demands in massive data storage, computational complexity and global co- scheduling of scientific models in flagship science, technology and medicine research; * global software development with its lowering of cost of software capabilities and production, through automation, off-shoring and outsourcing of key components and subsystems; * networked enterprise information systems and services architectures crossing enterprise, nation, legal and discipline boundaries; * shift from (globally distributed) software products to pervasive and ubiquitous services supported by deep software-intensive infrastructures and middleware and by increasingly flexible, adaptive and autonomous client and application server software. CBSE 2007 will include contributions that explore how the nature of component- based software engineering is being influenced by developments in the field of software and global enterprise technology. In addition to presentations of papers, the symposium will incorporate working and industry sessions. Topics of interest ================== * Design of component models; * Theories (including taxonomies) of software composition and binding; * Co-ordination and choreography of component software, services, workflows; * Run-time adaptation of component-based systems; * Interaction between component models, software architectures and product lines; * Component-based web services and service-oriented architectures; * Software quality and extra-functional properties for components and component-based systems; * Global generation, adaptation and deployment of component-based systems and services; * Components and generative approaches; * Components and model-driven development; * Specification, verification and testing of component-based systems; * Compositional reasoning techniques for component models; * Global measurement, prediction and monitoring of distributed and services and components; * Patterns and frameworks for component-based systems and services; * Integrated tool chains and methods for building component-based services; * Components for networked real-time information systems and sensor networks. * Industrial experience using component-based software development * Empirical studies in component-based software engineering * Teaching component-based software engineering Paper Submission ================ All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members (four for papers with an author on the program committee). Papers must not have been previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. Any duplicate submissions will be rejected without review. As always, the symposium seeks reports on innovative contributions to the science and technology of CBSE. Papers describing practical experience with CBSE in mission- and performance-critical systems are of particular interest. Long and short papers on leading-edge research and development in progress are also encouraged. Long papers must not exceed 16 pages and short papers must not exceed 8 pages, in the required format. The proceeding will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and papers should have the requisite format. Details regarding the submission will be published on http://comparch2008.ipd.uka.de/ Organization ============= Program Chairs Michel Chaudron, TU Eindhoven & Leiden University, The Netherlands m.r.v.chaudron at tue.nl Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA Clemens.Szyperski at microsoft.com CompArch Organization Chair Ralph Reussner, Universit?t Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Steering Committee Ivica Crnkovic, M?lardalen University, Sweden Ian Gorton, Pacific North West National Laboratory, USA George Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Heinz Schmidt, RMIT University, Australia, Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA Program Committee Uwe Assmann, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany Mike Barnett, Microsoft Research, USA Antonia Bertolino, CNR Research, Pisa, Italy Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen University, Vasteras, Sweden Dimitra Giannakopoulou, RIACS/NASA Ames, Moffet Field CA, USA Ian Gorton, Pacific North West National Laboratory, Richland WA, USA Lars Grunske, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Richard Hall, LSR-IMAG, Grenoble, France Dick Hamlet, Portland State University, Portland OR, USA George Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA, USA Jean-Marc Jezequel, IRISA (INRIA & Univ. Rennes 1), Rennes, France Bengt Jonsson, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Kiniry, Joe, University College Dublin, Ireland Gerald Kotonya, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK Magnus Larsson, ABB Corporate Research, V?ster?s, Sweden Kung-Kiu Lau, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Raphael Marvie, University of Lille, Lille, France Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research Centre, San Jose, USA Nenad Medvidovic?, Univ of Southern California, Los Angelos, USA Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy Rob van Ommering, Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Ralf Reussner, University Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Alessandra Russo, Imperial College, London, UK Christian Salzmann, BMW Car IT, M?nich, Germany Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, USA Heinz Schmidt, RMIT University, Australia Jean-Guy Schneider, Swinburne Univ of Technology, Melbourne, Australia Judith Stafford, Tufts University, USA Asuman S?nb?l, SAP Research, Palo Alto CA, USA Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, USA Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy Wolfgang Weck, Independent Software Architect, Z?rich, Switzerland Dave Wile, Teknowledge Corp., Los Angelos CA, USA Sponsors ======== CBSE invites sponsors. We offer different level of sponsorship associated with a range of mutual benefits. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor please contact the CBSE Organization Chair, Ralf Reussner . From Olivier.Zendra at inria.fr Mon May 5 10:55:49 2008 From: Olivier.Zendra at inria.fr (Olivier Zendra) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 10:55:49 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICOOOLPS'2008: extended deadline for CFP Message-ID: <481ECB95.2000903@inria.fr> [Please redistribute in relevant mailing-lists and in your local community. Please accept our apologies if you get multiple copies of this message.] Call for papers SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 12, 2008 FOR THE Third International Workshop on Implementation, Compilation, Optimization of Object-Oriented Languages, Programs and Systems (ICOOOLPS'2008) July 7 , Paphos (Cyprus) http://icooolps.loria.fr Co-located with the 22nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2008) IMPORTANT DATES Extended submission deadline: May 12, 2008 Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 19, 2008 ECOOP'2008 Early registration deadline: June 1, 2008 Final, camera-ready papers: June 2, 2008 ICOOOLPS Workshop in Paphos: July 7, 2008. OVERVIEW Computer programming languages, especially high-level languages such as object-oriented (OO) ones, are pervasive and play a significant role in computer science and engineering life. They sometime appear as ubiquitous and completely mature. However despite a large number of works there still is a clear need for solutions for efficient implementation and compilation of these languages in various application domains ranging from embedded and real-time systems to desktop systems. The ICOOOLPS workshop thus aims to address this crucial issue of optimization in OO and other languages, programs and systems. It intends to do so by bringing together researchers and practitioners working in the field of implementation and optimization, especially for object-oriented languages. Its main goals are identifying fundamental bases and key current issues pertaining to the efficient implementation, compilation and optimization of programming languages, and outlining future challenges and research directions. This workshop is obviously focusing on object-oriented languages, but also extends its domain of interest to functional languages and their optimisation. As a consequence, people working on Java, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Haskell, Beta, C++, C#, etc. are all welcome. ICOOOLPS is clearly a discussion and brainstorming oriented workshop, with a few paper presentations. It intends to bring new and possibly disturbing ideas and foster new research cooperations among attendees. Another expected output of this workshop is a synthesis identifying fundamental bases and key current issues pertaining to efficient implementation and compilation of programming languages, especially OO languages in order to spread them further amongst the various computing systems. ICOOOLPS also wants to extend this synthesis to encompass future challenges and research directions in the field of programming languages implementation and optimization, both for OO and non-OO languages. The first edition of ICOOOLPS took place in 2006 with ECOOP in Nantes. It was a success, with 22 attendees from 8 countries. The second edition, in Berlin with ECOOP 2007, gathered 27 attendees from 12 countries. This ICOOOLPS 2008, in Paphos, will build on the experience, feedback and discussions of last years to further improve its quality. TOPICS Topics of interest for ICOOOLPS include but are not limited to: * implementation of fundamental OOL features: o inheritance (object layout, late binding, subtype test...) o genericity (parametric types) o memory management * runtime systems: o compilers o linkers o virtual machines * optimizations: o static and dynamic analyses o adaptive virtual machines o threads and synchronization * resource constraints: o real-time systems o embedded systems (space, low power)... * relevant choices and tradeoffs: o constant time vs. non-constant time mechanisms o separate compilation vs. global compilation o dynamic loading vs. global linking o dynamic checking vs. proof-carrying code o annotations vs. no annotations SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND ATTENDANCE For all information about ICOOOLPS 2008 submission, registration and attendance, please go to: http://icooolps.loria.fr/icooolps2008/index.php#cfp PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mark van den Brand Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands St?phane Ducasse INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Roland Ducournau LIRMM, France Richard Jones Univ. of Kent, UK Eric Jul (Co-chair) DIKU, Denmark Ian Rogers University of Manchester, UK Yannis Smaragdakis University of Oregon, USA Olivier Zendra (Chair) INRIA Nancy Grand Est / LORIA, France -- Olivier ZENDRA, Ph.D., INRIA Researcher | Email: Olivier.Zendra at inria.fr INRIA Nancy - Grand Est / LORIA, | Phone: (+33) 354 958 407 Office C-124, | Fax: (+33) 383 552 573 615 Rue du Jardin Botanique, BP 101, | Web: www.loria.fr/~zendra 54602 VILLERS-LES-NANCY Cedex, FRANCE | From iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu Mon May 5 16:37:34 2008 From: iclp08pub at cs.nmsu.edu (ICLP 08) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 08:37:34 -0600 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICLP'08 CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: <200805051437.m45EbYfu016785@pippo.cs.nmsu.edu> CALL FOR PAPERS ICLP'08 24th International Conference on Logic Programming Udine, Italy, December 9th-13th, 2008 http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it CONFERENCE SCOPE ---------------- Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the premier international conference for presenting research in logic programming. Contributions (papers, position papers, and posters) are sought in all areas of logic programming including but not restricted to: * Theory: Semantic Foundations, Formalisms, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Knowledge Representation. * Implementation: Compilation, Memory Management, Virtual Machines, Parallelism. * Environments: Program Analysis, Program Transformation, Validation and Verification, Debugging, Profiling, Integration. * Language Issues: Extensions, Integration with Other Paradigms, Concurrency, Modularity, Objects, Coordination, Mobility, Higher Order, Types, Modes, Programming Techniques. * Related Paradigms: Abductive Logic Programming, Inductive Logic Programming, Constraint Logic Programming, Answer-Set Programming. * Applications: Databases, Data Integration and Federation, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Web and Semantic Web, Agents, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics The three broad categories for submissions are: (1) Technical papers, providing novel research contributions, innovative perspectives on the field, and/or novel integrations across different areas; (2) Application papers, describing innovative uses of logic programming technology in real-world application domains; (3) Posters, ideal for presenting and discussing current work, not yet ready for publication, for PhD thesis summaries and research project overviews. A separate session dedicated to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of stable model semantics will also be part of the program. Accepted papers and posters will be allocated time for presentation during the conference. At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to register and participate in the event. In addition to papers and posters, the technical program will include invited talks, advanced tutorials, specialized sessions, workshops, and a Doctoral Student Consortium. Details, as they become available will be posted at: http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it PAPERS AND POSTERS ------------------ Papers and posters must describe original, previously unpublished research, and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Emphasis will be placed on the novelty and innovative nature of the results (even if not completely polished and refined). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material. All submissions must be written in English. Technical papers and application papers must not exceed 15 pages in the Springer LNCS format (see http://www.springeronline.com/lncs/) The limit for posters is 5 pages in the same format. The primary means of submission will be electronic, through the Easychair submission system. The submission page is available at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ICLP08 PUBLICATION ----------- The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. All accepted papers and posters will be included in the proceedings. WORKSHOPS --------- The ICLP'08 program will include several workshops. They are perhaps the best place for the presentation of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a more focused and specialized audience. Workshops also provide a venue for presenting specialised topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration in any areas related to logic programming, including cross-disciplinary areas. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ------------------- The Doctoral Consortium (DC) on Logic Programming is the 4th Doctoral consortium to provide doctoral students with the opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, and to obtain feedback from both peers and word-renown experts in the field. The DC will also offer invited speakers and panel discussions. Accepted participants will receive partial financial support to attend the event and the main conference. The best paper and presentation from the DC will be given the opportunity to present in special session of the main ICLP conference. CELEBRATING 20th YEARS OF STABLE MODEL SEMANTICS ------------------------------------------------ The year 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the publication that introduced the stable model semantics for logic programs with negation. The paper titled "The stable semantics for logic programs" by Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz was presented at ICLP-1988. It was a momentous event that gave rise to a vibrant subfield of logic programming known now as the answer-set programming. Its distinguishing aspects are close connections to the fields of knowledge representation, satisfiability and constraint satisfaction, ever faster computational tools, and a growing list of successful applications. To celebrate the stable-model semantics, there will be a special session at ICLP 2008 dedicated to answer-set programming. The session will feature talks by Michael Gelfond and Vladimir Lifschitz. as well as by other major contributions to the field, presenting personal perspectives on the stable-model semantics, its impact and its future. There will be a panel discussion, and regular accepted ICLP papers falling into the answer-set programming area will complete the program. CONFERENCE VENUE ---------------- The conference will be held in the city of Udine, the capital of the historical region of Friuli, Italy. Located between the Adriatic sea and the Alps, close to Venice, Austria and Slovenia, Udine is a city of Roman origins, funded by Emperor Otto in 983. Rich of historical sites, Udine is also famous for its commercial and shopping opportunities and its outstanding wine and culinary traditions. SUPPORT SPONSORING AND AWARDS ----------------------------- The conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming (ALP). The ALP has funds to assist financially disadvantaged participants. The ALP is planning to sponsor two awards for ICLP 2008: for the best technical paper and for the best student paper. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Papers Posters Abstract submission deadline June 2nd n/a Submission deadline June 9th August 15th Notification of authors August 1st September 1st Camera-ready copy due September 15th September 15th 20 Years of Stable Models TBA Doctoral Consortium TBA Workshop Proposals June 2nd Early-bird Registration TBA Conference December 9-13, 2008 ICLP'2008 ORGANIZATION ---------------------- General Chair: Agostino Dovier (University of Udine) Program Co-Chairs: Maria Garcia de la Banda (Monash University) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico State University) Workshop Chair: Tran Cao Son (New Mexico State University) Doctoral Student Consortium: David Warren (SUNY Stony Brook) Tom Schrijvers (K.U.Leuven) Publicity Co-Chairs: Marcello Balduccini (Kodak Research Labs) Alessandro Dal Palu' (University of Parma) Programming Competition Chair: Bart Demoen (K.U.Leuven) 20 Years of Stable Models: Mirek Truszczynski (University of Kentucky) Andrea Formisano (University of Perugia) Program Committee: Salvador Abreu Sergio Antoy Pedro Barahona Chitta Baral Gerhard Brewka Manuel Carro Michael Codish Alessandro Dal Palu' Bart Demoen Agostino Dovier John Gallagher Michael Gelfond Carmen Gervet Gopal Gupta Manuel Hermenegildo Andy King Michael Maher Juan Moreno Navarro Alberto Pettorossi Brigitte Pientka Gianfranco Rossi Fariba Sadri Vitor Santos Costa Tran Cao Son Paolo Torroni Frank Valencia Mark Wallace Web Master: Raffaele Cipriano Local Arrangements Committee: Alberto Casagrande Elisabetta De Maria Luca Di Gaspero Carla Piazza ---------------------------------------------------- For further information: iclp08 at cs.nmsu.edu http://iclp08.dimi.uniud.it From nikolaos.georgantas at inria.fr Mon May 5 17:30:45 2008 From: nikolaos.georgantas at inria.fr (Nikolaos Georgantas) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 17:30:45 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP : AdhocAmC08: 1st International Workshop on Ad hoc Ambient Computing at AdHoc-NOW 2008 Message-ID: <000a01c8aec4$fc82e940$b42a5d80@patrocle> (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail) AdhocAmC 2008 1st International Workshop on Ad hoc Ambient Computing September 13, 2008, Sophia Antipolis, France http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/AC/index.html In conjunction with AD HOC-NOW, The 7th International Conference on AD-HOC Networks and Wireless September 10-12, 2008, Sophia Antipolis, France http://www-sop.inria.fr/mascotte/adhocnow/index.html CALL FOR PAPERS Ambient, pervasive, and ubiquitous computing are seen as a drastic shift for computing systems. Indeed, networked computing resources shall become invisible to users and cooperatively provide them with the right services at the right time. At the same time, ad hoc networks are wireless infrastructureless systems dynamically formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other. As such, they appear as an attractive networking paradigm for ambient computing. The aim of the workshop is to investigate the contribution of ad hoc networks to the realization of the ambient computing vision, from supporting algorithms and protocols to emerging computing paradigms and software system architectures. Topics for the workshop include but are not limited to: - Ambient peer to peer networks - Context awareness using sensor networks - Cross-layer design and optimization in ad hoc networks - Dependability in ad hoc networks - Engineering ambient computing systems - Middleware for ambient computing - Mobile data management in ad hoc networks - Next generation networks for ambient computing - Opportunistic networking for ambient computing - Quality of service in ambient computing - Scalability in ambient ad hoc networks - Security, privacy & trust in ambient computing - Service oriented ambient computing - Situation awareness in ambient computing - Social groups in ad hoc networks - System architectures for ambient computing - User-centered ambient systems The overall goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers working on the numerous topics related to ad hoc ambient computing, aiming to provide an environment for sharing experiences and initiating collaborations. Proceedings: ------------ The workshop proceedings will be published by HAL (http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/), a tool intended to promote the best possible dissemination of research work. Extended versions of the best workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI), http://www.igi-global.com/IJACI . Paper Submission: ----------------- Papers should be submitted using the EasyChair conference management system, http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adhocamc08 . Papers should be written in English and should be prepared according to the formatting instructions on the LNCS website (http://www.springeronline.com/lncs), which provides general formatting instructions and templates/style files for many commonly used word processors (LaTeX, Word, Framemaker, etc.). The manuscript should not exceed 10 LNCS pages (including text, figures and references). Authors should submit a PDF version of their papers. Please prepare your submission to include the topic, three keywords and the name of a contact person with e-mail address. All papers will be reviewed for technical merit. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the workshop. Papers must not be/have been submitted elsewhere. Important Dates: ---------------- Papers due: 23 May 2008 Notification of acceptance: 11 July 2008 Camera-ready papers due: 25 August 2008 Organizing Committee, Program Co-chairs: ---------------------------------------- Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Program Commitee: ----------------- Yolande Berbers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK Mauro Caporuscio, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France Licia Capra, University College London, UK Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Paul Couderc, INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, France Joelle Coutaz, Joseph Fourier University, France Jacqueline Floch, SINTEF, Norway Kurt Geihs, University of Kassel, Germany Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland Harmke de Groot, IMEC, The Netherlands Michael Hellenschmidt, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany Peter Leijdekkers, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Amy L. Murphy, FBK-IRST, Italy Mirco Musolesi, Dartmouth College, USA Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Fano Ramparany, Orange, France Francoise Sailhan, University of Franche Comte, France Gaogang Xie, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Apostolos Zarras, University of Ioannina, Greece From luis.caires at di.fct.unl.pt Mon May 5 17:08:52 2008 From: luis.caires at di.fct.unl.pt (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs_Caires?=) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 16:08:52 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Postdoctoral Scholarship Available in Lisbon (CMU-PT Project) Message-ID: <8C7FF2B1-76A3-42CC-9F08-031FACC9A468@di.fct.unl.pt> The Center of Informatics and Information Technology (CITI) at the Department of Informatics of FCT/Universidade Nova de Lisboa welcomes applications for one (1) post-doctoral scholarship position in the areas of programming languages and logic in computer science. *** DEADLINE 15 JUNE 08 **** The position is funded in the context of the CMU-Portugal research / educational collaborative framework launched by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and the Carnegie-Mellon University (www.cmuportugal.org). The scholarship will start from middle 2008, and will be extensible up to 4 years, renewable on a yearly basis. The admin rules applicable may be found in the FCT/MCTES site in http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/apoios/bolsas/. The successful candidate will contribute for the development of the ongoing research collaboration between CITI / DI FCT UNL and the Carnegie Mellon Department of Computer Science on the general themes of software foundations, involving the teams of Frank Pfenning at CMU and our team at UNL. The main objective of the project is the development of logical techniques and tools, based on substructural logics for concurrency, for reasoning about general concurrent and distributed systems. The project is also expected to seed the integration of students in the Dual Degree PhD Program in Computer Science of the ICTI/CMU-Portugal partnership. We prefer applicants with strong interest and experience in some of the following topics: foundations of programming languages, programming language design, logics in computer science, concurrency theory. The hosting environment will be the Programming Languages Research Stream of the CITI, with regular visits to CMU. More information about the CITI research environment and its members may be found at the website: citi.di.fct.unl.pt. Applications should include a curriculum vitae in pdf format and should be sent to CITI - Centro de Informatica e Tecnologias da Informa??o Faculdade de Ci?ncias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal E-mail: citi-admin at di.fct.unl.pt Telephone: +351 212 948 536 Fax: +351 212 948 541 Please email me for any further questions about the position and the related projects, Best regards, Luis Caires ============================================= General Info on CITI (citi.di.fct.unl.pt) The CITI (Centro de Inform?tica e Tecnologias da Informa??o - Centre for Informatics and Information Technologies ) is a research center partially funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation (Funda??o para a Ci?ncia e Tecnologia) and by the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Sciences and Technology (FCT/UNL), Department of Informatics, where it is hosted since its foundation in 1997. CITI's research team is currently composed by more that 50 researchers, with a broad coverage of classical and emergent topics ranging from theoretical foundations to applications, and is one of the largest research units in Computer Science and Informatics in Portugal. From saso-list at vs.eecs.uni-kassel.de Mon May 5 17:48:23 2008 From: saso-list at vs.eecs.uni-kassel.de (saso-list at vs.eecs.uni-kassel.de) Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 17:48:23 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [SASO 2008] Call for Papers: SASO 2008 Message-ID: <481F2C47.5070208@vs.uni-kassel.de> We apologize if you receive multiple copies. ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS (see also the associated calls for posters, tutorials, and workshops, on the conference Web site) 2nd International Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASO 2008) Venice, Italy, October 20-24, 2008 www.saso-conference.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Autonomous and Autonomic System (approval pending) The aim of the SASO conference series is to provide a forum for laying the foundations of a new principled approach to engineering systems, networks and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization. To this end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between different research fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications. The complexity of current and emerging computing systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, artificial intelligence, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self- organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated facets of a paradigm shift. Self-adaptive systems work in a top down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. A challenge is often to identify how to change specific behaviors to achieve the desired improvement. Self-organizing systems work bottom up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to typically simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions. Here, a challenge is often to predict and control the resulting global behavior. This year's edition is specifically focused at improving our understanding of the properties inherent to self-adaptation and self-organization, a necessary requirement for the effective engineering and building of usable self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. Contributions should present novel theoretical or experimental results, or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems, applications, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged. TOPICS The topics of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to: ? Self-organization ? Self-adaptation ? Other self-* properties (self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair, self-configuration, etc.) ? Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems ? Management and control of self-* systems ? Robustness and dependability of self-* systems ? Approaches to engineering self-* systems ? Control of emergent properties in self-* systems ? Biologically, socially, and physically inspired self-* systems ? Applications and experiences with self-* systems The systems and application areas of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to: ? P2P Systems ? Mobile, pervasive, ad-hoc, and sensor network systems ? Autonomic computing and communication systems ? Robotics systems ? Multiagent systems ? Web and service systems SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS See the conference website (www.saso-conference.org) for detailed information on how to submit papers. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. The proceedings will be printed and published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available on the IEEE digital library. A separated call for poster submissions will be launched during Spring 2008. REVIEW CRITERIA Papers should present novel ideas in the topic domains listed above, clearly motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. We expect claims to be substantiated by formal analysis, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on. Authors are also encouraged to submit application papers. Application papers are expected to provide an indication of the real world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, usability, or superiority to alternative approaches. If the application is still early work in progress, then the authors are expected to provide strong arguments as to why the proposed approach will work in the chosen domain. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 5, 2008 Paper submission: May 12, 2008 Notification: June 29, 2008 Camera Ready Version of Accepted Papers: July 20, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Bob Laddaga (BBN Technologies, USA) Franco Zambonelli (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Maarten Van Steen (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, NL) Sven Brueckner (NewVectors, a Division of TTGSI, USA) Paul Robertson (BBN Technologies, USA) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Salvatore Orlando (University of Venice, Italy) FINANCE CHAIR Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (Birkbeck Univesity London, UK) Marie Pierre Gleizes (IRIT Universit? de Toulouse, France) TUTORIAL CHAIR Radhika Nagpal (Harvard University, USA) INDUSTRY CHAIR Mazin Yousif (Intel, USA) POSTER CHAIR Umesh Bellur (IIT Bombay, India) PUBLICATION CHAIR Mark Jelasity (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary) SPONSOR CO-CHAIRS AMERICAS: Bob Laddaga (BBN Technologies, USA) EMEA: Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia) ASIA/PACIFIC RIM: Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS EMEA: Kurt Geihs (University of Kassel, Germany) ASIA/PACIFIC RIM: Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) AMERICAS: Indranil Gupta (UIUC, USA) WEB CHAIR Marco Mamei (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ? Christiana Amza (University of Toronto, Canada) ? Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna, Italy) ? Leonard Barolli (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan) ? Alberto Bartoli (University of Trieste, Italy) ? Ken Birman (Cornell University, USA) ? Gautam Biswas (Vanderbilt University, USA) ? Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs, USA) ? Prasanta Bose (Locheed Martin, USA) ? Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) ? Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) ? Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University, USA) ? Chi-Hung Chi (Tsinghua University, China) ? Alexander Clemm (Cisco Systems, USA) ? Michael Cox (BBN Technologies, USA) ? Prithviraj Dasgupta (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) ? Jon Doyle (Noth Carolina State University, USA) ? Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ? Kurt Geihs (University of Kassel, Germany) ? Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) ? Marie Pierre Gleizes (IRIT Toulouse, France) ? Cordell Green (Kestrel Institute, USA) ? Rod Grupen (Univeristy of Massachusetts, USA) ? Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) ? Salima Hassas (University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France) ? David Hales (University of Bologna, Italy) ? Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) ? Mike Hinchey (Loyola College, USA) ? Tom Holvoet (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) ? James Won-Ki Hong (Postech, Korea) ? Mark Jelasity (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary) ? Dag Johansen (University of Tromso, Norway) ? Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt University, USA) ? Randy Katz (University of California at Berkeley, USA) ? Anne Marie Kermarrec (INRIA, France) ? Mitch Kokar (Northeastern University, USA) ? Ihor Kuz (MICTA, Australia) ? John Mallery (MIT, USA) ? Marco Mamei (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) ? Paul Marrow (British Telecom, UK) ? Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin (NetExpert, Switzerland) ? Philip McKinley (Michigan State University, USA) ? Alex Meng (MITRE Corporation, USA) ? Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) ? Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) ? Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy) ? Salvatore Orlando (University C? Foscari of Venice, Italy) ? Van Parunak (NewVectors, USA) ? Dusko Pavlovic (University of Oxford, UK) ? George Pavlou (University of Surrey, UK) ? Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK) ? Wolfgang Renz (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany) ? Luis Rodrigues (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) ? Fabrice Saffre (British Telecom, UK) ? Hartmut Schmeck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) ? Juergen Schoenwalder (Jacobs University, Germany) ? Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (Birbeck University London, UK) ? Howie Shrobe (MIT, USA) ? Swami Sivasubramanian (Amazon, USA) ? Mikhail Smirnov (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany) ? Mark Squillante (IBM Watson Centre, USA) ? Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) ? Roy Sterritt (University of Ulster, UK) ? Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich / ETH Zurich, Switzerland) ? Jan Sudeikat (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany) ? Gregory Sullivan (BAE Systems, USA) ? Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University, USA) ? Paul Valckenaers (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) ? Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle, UK) ? Spyros Voulgaris (ETH Zurich, Zwitzerland) ? Craig Wills (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) ? Liu Xuezeng (Microsoft Research Asia, China) ========================================================================== _______________________________________________ saso-list mailing list saso-list at vs.eecs.uni-kassel.de http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/saso-list From didier at lrde.epita.fr Tue May 6 10:12:51 2008 From: didier at lrde.epita.fr (Didier Verna) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 10:12:51 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [ELW'08] Deadline extension: 5th European Lisp Workshop Message-ID: +------------------------------------------------------------+ | CALL FOR PAPERS | | 5th European Lisp Workshop | | July 7, Paphos, Cyprus - co-located with ECOOP 2008 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ Important Dates: **************** Submission deadline (papers & breakout groups): May 18, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2008 ECOOP early registration deadline: June 01, 2008 5th European Lisp Workshop: July 07, 2008 For more information visit http://elw.bknr.net/2008/ Contact: Didier Verna, didier at lrde.epita.fr Organizers ********** Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory, Paris Christophe Rhodes, Goldsmiths College, University of London Charlotte Herzeel, Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel Hans H?bner, Software Developer, Berlin Overview ******** "...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list." -- Kent Pitman Lisp is one of the oldest computer languages still in use today. In the decades of its existence, Lisp has been a fruitful basis for language design experiments as well as the preferred implementation language for applications in diverse fields. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and retains the most complete and advanced object system of any programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented programming languages that followed. It is clear that Lisp is gaining momentum: there is a steadily growing interest in Lisp itself, with numerous user groups in existence worldwide, and in Lisp's metaprogramming notions which are being transferred to other languages, as for example in Aspect-Oriented Programming, support for Domain-Specific Languages, and so on. This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education. We solicit papers and suggestions for breakout groups that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp technologies. The workshop will have two components: there will be formally-presented talks, and breakout groups discussing or working on particular topics. Additionally, there will be opportunities for short, informal talks and demonstrations on experience reports, underappreciated results, software under development, or other topics of interest. Papers ****** Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and answers. We encourage that papers be published on the website, to provide all participants with background information in advance. Suggested Topics: - New language features or abstractions - Experience reports or case studies - Protocol Metaprogramming and Libraries - Educational approaches - Software Evolution - Development Aids - Persistent Systems - Dynamic Optimization - Implementation techniques - Innovative Applications - Hardware Support for Lisp systems - Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches - Aspect-Oriented, Domain-Oriented and Generative Programming Breakout Groups *************** The workshop will provide for the opportunity to meet face to face and work on focused topics. We will organize these breakout groups and provide for rooms and infrastructure. Suggested Topics for Breakout Groups: - Lisp Infrastructure Development and Distribution - Language Features (e.g. Predicate Dispatching) - Environments for creating web applications - Brainstorming sessions for new or existing open source projects - Persistence Systems - Compiler technology - Lisp on bare metal / Lisp hardware / Lisp operating systems - Compare and enhance curricula for computer science education Submission Guidelines ********************* Potential attendees are encouraged to submit: - a long paper (10 pages) presenting scientific and/or empirical results about Lisp-based uses or new approaches for software engineering purposes, - a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in the near future, - a proposal for a breakout group (1-2 pages) describing the theme, an agenda and/or expected results. Submissions should be mailed as PDF to Didier Verna (didier at lrde.epita.fr) before the submission deadline. -------------- next part -------------- -- 5th European Lisp Workshop at ECOOP 2008, July 7: http://elw.bknr.net/2008/ Didier Verna, didier at lrde.epita.fr, http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier EPITA / LRDE, 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel.+33 (0)1 44 08 01 85 94276 Le Kremlin-Bic?tre, France Fax.+33 (0)1 53 14 59 22 didier at xemacs.org From nelly at comp.lancs.ac.uk Tue May 6 10:20:07 2008 From: nelly at comp.lancs.ac.uk (Nelly Bencomo) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 09:20:07 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] Models@runtime: 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: <000001c8af52$024f2720$0200a8c0@lancs.local> --------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS WORKSHOP? Models at run.time 2008 http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/bencomo/MRT At ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems MODELS'08, Toulouse, France 28 September - 3 October ********************************************************************** Submission deadline: Friday 15th August Notification of acceptance: September 7th (or before early registration at MODELS08) Workshop at MODELS: to be announced CfP can be found at http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~bencomo/MRT/CFP.pdf Goal The goal of this workshop is to look at issues related to developing appropriate model-driven approaches to monitoring and managing the execution of systems. This is the first workshop (in its third edition) to address this theme and its treatment requires the bringing together of a variety of communities including researchers working on model-driven software development, software architectures, reflection (including for example architectural reflection), and autonomic and self healing systems. Discussions in the workshop will address questions such as: What should a runtime model look like? How can the models be maintained at runtime? What are the best approaches to follow when developing runtime models? The workshop aims to: - Integrate and combine research ideas from the areas cited above. - Provide a ?state-of-the-research? assessment expressed in terms of research issues, challenges, and accomplishments. This assessment can be used to guide research in the area. - Continue to build a network of researchers in this area, building on the previous editions. - Plan and promote further events on these topics. We strongly encourage authors to address the following topics. Labelled research topics with (*) are crucially important: - What a runtime model looks like and how does it evolve? (*) - How can runtime models be maintained? (*) - How can runtime models be validated? - What abstractions over runtime phenomena are useful? - How are the abstractions tied to the types of adaptations supported? (*) - How do these abstractions evolve over time? (*) - Are new abstractions created during runtime? (*) - How are the causal relationships with executing code realized? (*) - What is the role of reflection in maintaining the causal connection between models and runtime system? - The relevance and suitability of different model-driven approaches to monitoring and managing systems during runtime - Examples of how models can be used to validate and verify the behaviour of the system at runtime (*) - Compatibility (or tension) between different model-driven approaches - How do models at other phases of the SE lifecycle relate to the corresponding runtime models? - Small demos and tools that support the use of models at run.time (*) Further Information Web site: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/bencomo/MRT/ Organizing Committee Nelly Bencomo ?(main contact) Gordon Blair Computing Department Lancaster University, UK Robert France Computer Science Department Colorado State University, USA Program Committee Betty Cheng Michigan State University, USA Fabio M. Costa Federal University of Goias, Brazil Anthony Finkelstein UCL, UK Jeff Gray UAB, USA Oystein Haugen SINTEF, Norway Jozef Hooman ESI, The Netherlands Gang Huang Peking University, China Paola Inverardi University of L'Aquila P.F.Linington University of Kent, UK Jean-Marc Jezequel Triskell Team,IRISA, France Rui Silva Moreira UFP, INESC Porto, Portugal Andrey Nechypurenko Siemens, Germany Oscar Nierstrasz University of Berne Eugenio Scalise UCV, Venezuela Arnor Solberg SINTEF, Norway Tha?s Vasconcelos Batista UFRN, Brazil Steffen Zschaler T.U. Dresden, Germany Nelly Bencomo Computing Department, Lancaster University, UK http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/bencomo/ From lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org Tue May 6 15:38:53 2008 From: lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org (lejla.ibralic-halilovic at sti2.org) Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:38:53 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] FIS 2008: Call for Workshop Proposals Message-ID: <20080506153853.1pjoyobngg8s004k@webmail.sti2.org> *****Call for Workshop Proposals***** ************************************** Future Internet Symposium FIS 2008 28th-30th September | Vienna, Austria http://www.fis2008.org/ ************************************** The workshops at FIS008 will complement the main conference by providing a forum for active discussions and exchange of ideas focused on one or two cross-domain issues related to the Future Internet. The purpose of the workshops will be to provide an informal setting for attendees, potentially affiliated to different Internet disciplines to discuss scientific and technical issues, share experiences, and to lay the foundations for the establishment of the cross-domain research community which will shape the Future Internet research agenda. From a content perspective workshop proposals should comply with the agenda of the main conference and concentrate on topics which are likely to benefit from interactions and information exchange within a focused group of experts from different areas and communities. We expect to have a wide range of workshops (full-day, or half-day) covering fundamental research questions for the realization of the next generation of the Internet, bringing together researchers from different disciplines. Proposal Guidelines Workshop proposals are due to June, 15. Proposals should be no more than 3 pages in length, and contain the following information: - The title and brief technical description of the workshop, including the goals, the scientific and technical issues addressed and the motivation underlying why the topic is of particular interest for the Future Internet community. - A brief description of the proposed workshop format and intended audience - A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years if applicable - The names, contact information and short bio of the workshop organizers Workshop proposal should be submitted in PDF format by email to elena.simperl at sti2.at Workshop organization Upon acceptance the organizers will be responsible for the following: - Producing a "Call for Papers/Participation" for their workshop. The call should mention that at least one author of each accepted submissions must attend the workshop and that all workshop participants must pay the workshop registration fee. Additionally, the call should elaborate on the submission procedures and on the publication of the workshop proceedings. - Producing a Web page for the workshop and submitting the URL for the Web page to the workshop chair no later than June, 27. - Publicizing the workshop, distributing the call to relevant newsgroups, mailing lists, targeting the relevant interdisciplinary audience. The FIS2008 Organizing Committee will support the workshop organizers by: - Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole on the conference's Web page and through additional dissemination channels - Providing logistics facilities for the workshop at the conference venue including copies of the workshop proceedings. ********************************************** Important dates Submission deadline: June 15, 2008 Notification of acceptance: July 13, 2008 Camera Ready: July 27, 2008 Conference: September 28-30, 2008 From cimca at canberra.edu.au Wed May 7 08:25:25 2008 From: cimca at canberra.edu.au (cimca) Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:25:25 +1000 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08 In-Reply-To: <6F0C4D2AFE6B784CAE783EEE545EB06601A60453@nike.hir.is> Message-ID: CFP: 2008 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'08 CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 10-12 December 2008 - Vienna, Austria http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/ Jointly with International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC08 http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/iawtic08/ International Conference on Innovation in Software Engineering - ISE08 http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/ise08/ Honorary Chair: Lotfi A. Zadeh, University of California, USA Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, USA Important Dates: 29 August 2008 Submission of papers to the conference 26 September 2008 Notification of acceptance 17 October 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 10 - 12 December 2008 Conference sessions Collaborators and sponsors: European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology - EUFLAT International Association for Fuzzy Set in Management and Economy - SIGEF Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics - SOFT Taiwan Fuzzy Systems Association - TFSA World Wide Web Business Intelligence - W3BI Hungarian Fuzzy Association - HFA University of Canberra IEEE - Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE in USA The international conference on computational intelligence for modelling, control and automation will be held in Vienna, Austria on 10-12 December 2008. The conference provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues in computational intelligence, modelling, control and automation. The conference will consist of both plenary sessions and contributory sessions, focusing on theory, implementation and applications of computational intelligence techniques to modelling, control and automation. For contributory sessions, papers (4 pages or more) are being solicited. Several well-known keynote speakers will address the conference. Conference Proceedings will be published as books by IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) in USA and will be index world wide. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. Topics of the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Modern and Advanced Control Strategies: Neural Networks Control, Fuzzy Logic Control, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Control, Model-Predictive Control, Adaptive and Optimal Control, Intelligent Control Systems, Robotics and Automation, Fault Diagnosis, Intelligent agents, Industrial Automations, Modelling, Simulation Hybrid Systems: Fuzzy Evolutionary Systems, Fuzzy Expert Systems, Fuzzy Neural Systems, Neural Genetic Systems, Neural-Fuzzy-Genetic Systems, Hybrid Systems for Optimisation Data Analysis, Prediction and Model Identification: Signal Processing, Prediction and Time Series Analysis, System Identification, Data Fusion and Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Information Systems, Image Processing, and Image Understanding, Parallel Computing applications in Identification & Control, Pattern Recognition, Clustering and Classification Decision Making and Information Retrieval: Case-Based Reasoning, Decision Analysis, Intelligent Databases & Information Retrieval, Dynamic Systems Modelling, Decision Support Systems, Multi-criteria Decision Making, Qualitative and Approximate-Reasoning Paper Submission Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, correctness, and clarity of presentation. Papers (4 pages or more) should be submitted to the following e-mail or through conference website: E-mail: cimca at canberra.edu.au CIMCA'2008 Secretariat School of Information Sciences and Engineering University of Canberra, Canberra, 2616, ACT, Australia Electronic submission of papers (either by E-mail or through conference website) is preferred. Papers should present original work, which has not been published or being reviewed for other conferences. Important Dates 29 August 2008 Submission of papers to the conference 26 September 2008 Notification of acceptance 17 October 2008 Deadline for camera-ready copies of accepted papers 10 - 12 December 2008 Conference sessions Special Sessions and Tutorials Special sessions and tutorials will be organised at the conference. The conference is calling for special sessions and tutorial proposals. All special session proposals should be sent to the conference chair (by email to: masoud.mohammadian at canberra.edu.au) on or before 4th of August 2006. CIMCA'06 will also include a special poster session devoted to recent work and work-in-progress. Abstracts are solicited for this session. Abstracts (3 pages limit) may be submitted up to 30 days before the conference date. Visits and social events Sightseeing visits will be arranged for the delegates and guests. A separate program will be arranged for companions during the conference. Further Information For further information either contact cimca at canberra.edu.au or see the conference homepage at: http://community.ise.canberra.edu.au/conference/cimca08/ Organising Committee: Canada and USA Liaison: J. D. Pinter, J. D. Pinter, PCS Inc. & Dalhousie University, Canada Asia Liaison: Christina Meier, W3BI, Australia R. Amin Sarker, ADFA, Australia Europe Liaison: Frank Zimmer, ASTRA - Luxembourg Nasser Jazdi, Institut f?r Automatisierungs- und Softwaretechnik, Germany Andreas S. Andreou, University of Cyprus,Cyprus Publication: Masoud Mohammadian, University of Canberra, Australia International Programme Committee J. Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong A. Namatame, National Defense Academy, Japan A. Agah, The University of Kansas, USA J. P. Bigus, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA E. Andr?, Universit?t Augsburg, Germany K. Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA H. Adeli, The Ohio State University, USA B. Kosko, University of Southern California, USA A. Kandel, University of South Florida, USA T. Fukuda, Nagoya University, Japan T. Baeck, Informatic Centrum Dortmund, Germany J.Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA M. Mohammadian University of Canberra, Australia K. Hirota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan E. Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland W. Pedrycz, University of Manitoba, Canada X. Yao, The University of New South Wales, ADFA, Australia H. R. Berenji, NASA Ames Research Center, USA R. C. Eberhart, Purdue University,USA T. Shibata, MITI, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan H. Liljenstrom, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden A. Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia, Australia F. Herrera, University of Granada, Spain A Jafari, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, IUPUI, USA A. Bulsari, AB Nonlinear Solutions OY, Finland B. Ruhul Sarker, University of New South Wales (ADFA), Australia J. D. Pinter, Dalhousie University, Canada T. Furuhashi, Nagoya University, Japan A. Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway J. Fernandez de Ca?ete, University of Malaga, Spain W. Duch, Nicholas Copernicus,University, Poland E. Tulunay, Middle East Technical University, Turkey L. Guan, University of Sydney, Australia C. Kuroda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan T. Yamakawa, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan From alessandra.toninelli at unibo.it Wed May 7 15:45:48 2008 From: alessandra.toninelli at unibo.it (Alessandra Toninelli) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 15:45:48 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] IEEE Policy 2008 -- Early Registration May 15 Message-ID: <200805071340.m47DeDBm031124@science.unitn.it> [Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] *** EARLY REGISTRATION: MAY 15, 2008 **** --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Early registration: May 15 --- POLICY 2008 --- 2008 IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks 2-4 June 2008 Palisades, NY, USA http://www.policy-workshop.org/2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The policy workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on policy-based systems across a wide range of application areas including policy-based networking, privacy and security management, storage area networking, and enterprise systems. POLICY 2008 is the 9th in a series of successful workshops which since 1999 have provided a forum for discussion and collaboration between researchers, developers and users of policy-based systems. Early Registration Fees (on or before May 15, 2008 (GMT-5:00)) IEEE Members USD 550 Non-members USD 750 Student IEEE Members USD 425 Student Non-members USD 525 Late Registration Fees (After May 15, 2008 (GMT-5:00)) IEEE Members USD 750 Non-members USD 950 Student IEEE Members USD 525 Student Non-members USD 650 ---------------------------------------------------------- For local accomodation, please visit Policy 2008 webpage. If you need additional information, please send your inquiries to Dakshi Agrawal -- agrawal at us.ibm.com From bbaudry at irisa.fr Thu May 8 01:11:52 2008 From: bbaudry at irisa.fr (Benoit Baudry) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 17:11:52 -0600 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for contributions - MODELS'08 Research Projects Symposium Message-ID: <48223738.8030303@irisa.fr> RESEARCH PROJECTS SYMPOSIUM To be held in conjunction with MODELS'08 September 30th, 2008 Toulouse, France INITIAL ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS http://www.irit.fr/models/researchProjects.html Aims, scope and agenda ---------------------- This symposium aims to be a showcase for collaborative research projects in the areas of interest to the MODELS community (software and model engineering at large), as well as a forum where researchers from the academia and the industry and representatives of funding agencies could debate on state of affairs, stakeholders' interests, policies and trends in the development of research projects. The half-day event will consist of several short project presentations, followed by a panel discussion. For the project showcase sessions we seek contributions from either ongoing or recently finished projects. We are interested in projects which involve partners from both industry and academia, and which benefit from national or trans-national agency funding. The presented projects will be selected by a committee to reflect the geographical, organizational and funding diversity encountered in our community. The panel discussion will focus on issues concerning collaborative research in software engineering at large. The topics discussed with the panel will include, along with any other relevant question raised during the meeting, the following: - current and future policies, emergence of transatlantic collaborative programmes - arbitration between fundamental and applied research in software engineering - support for technology transfer from research to industry - transversal community building (networks of excellence, interest groups, etc.) - project scale arbitration, critical mass - multi-disciplinary projects In order to nourish the discussion, an internet forum will be open in the weeks preceding the event to collect ideas from potential participants to the symposium. Submission of project presentations ----------------------------------- To contribute with a project presentation, please send an e-mail to iulian.ober at irit.fr with a one page abstract and pointers to any additional available resources (e.g., project website). Please note that we only accept presentations consented by the manager of your project. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission deadline: June 9th, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 30th, 2008 Deadline for early registration: Sept 10th, 2008 Symposium date: Sept 30th, 2008 Program committee ----------------- Alain Rossignol (EADS Astrium, France) Andras Pataricza (Budapest Univ. Hungary) Iulian Ober (Toulouse Univ. France) Jochen Malte K?ster (IBM, Switzerland) Susanne Graf (VERIMAG, France) Robert France (Colorado State Univ. USA) Betty Cheng (Michigan State Univ. USA) Agusti Canals (CS, France) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you want to unsubscribe from the MODELS'08 mailing list, please go to http://listes.irisa.fr/sympa/sigrequest/models08 From dony at lirmm.fr Thu May 8 05:07:58 2008 From: dony at lirmm.fr (Christophe Dony) Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 05:07:58 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: 4th Int. workshop on exception handling (FSE 16) Message-ID: <48226E8E.1090301@lirmm.fr> CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------ 4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON EXCEPTION HANDLING (WEH.08) Atlanta, GA, 14 November 2008, USA Co-located with 16th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 16) http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/WEH.08/ ------------------------------------------------------ MOTIVATION A number of recent field studies have identified that error handling design in industrial applications typically exhibits poor quality independently of the underlying programming language and application domain. As a consequence, it does not seem pragmatic to think that the core problems of exception handling reside exclusively on the design of contemporary programming languages. Also, many researchers have recently found out that exceptions are a global design issue. As such, they should be systematically treated across the software lifecycle. Not surprisingly, the interest in exception handling has been consistently growing in the software engineering community through the last years. The relevance of the topic becomes even more evident when we look at the number of recent work on exception handling in key software engineering areas, such as contemporary modularisation techniques (e.g. aspect-oriented programming and feature-oriented programming), model-driven engineering, software evolution, refactoring, empirical studies, software product lines, ubiquitous computing, and formal methods. They are consistently appearing in the software engineering literature and scattered across relevant journal publications and the technical programs of top software engineering conferences. GOALS This workshop will provide a forum for presenting and discussing research on exception handling in all areas of software development. The participants will work together to identify exception handling challenges in the whole software life cycle, methodological as well as technical issues, modelling techniques and linguistic mechanisms. In particular, we will be interested in discussing open research questions in the following contexts: - exception handling during early development phases, such as requirements elicitation, specification and analysis; - formal modelling, testing, validation and verification of exception handling; - model transformations and refinements in the presence of exceptions; - best practice in exception handling engineering; - exception handling in open, dynamic and ubiquitous systems. Based on the workshop submissions, the workshop aims to (i) debate the open issues on the interplay of exception handling and software engineering; (ii) bring the attention of the software engineering community to the importance of exception handling in contemporary software development; (iii) motivate the expansion of systematic practice and research of exception handling throughout the whole software lifecycle, and (iv) foster a collaborative environment for both practitioners and researchers interested in of innovative exception handling techniques. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop is intended to cover a wide range of topics, including (but not limited to): - Exceptions in software processes - Empirical studies of exception handling engineering - Exception documentation - Exception handling and requirements engineering - Exception handling and architectural design - Design patterns and anti-patterns, architectural styles, and good programming practice cookbooks - Static analysis and testing of exception handling - Refactoring and evolution of exception handling code - Exceptions and variability management - Exception handling in formal system development - Comparative studies of innovative exception handling techniques and conventional ones - Exception handling and contemporary modularization techniques (e.g. aspect-oriented programming) - Exception handling and variability mechanisms - Metrics and quality models for abnormal behaviour - Exception handling and middleware design - MDD for exceptions - Exception handling in multi-agent systems - Exception handling in service-oriented architectures - Development of predictive models of defect rates - Checked versus unchecked exceptions WORKSHOP FORMAT AND SUBMISSIONS WEH.08 is a one-day workshop with a strong focus on discussions. Authors who plan to contribute with a paper are requested to submit a position paper through the workshop website. The submission must follow the FSE style guidelines. Papers should be submitted electronically via CyberChairPRO in either Postscript (PS) or PDF format. We are soliciting the submission of two categories of position papers: (i) traditional position papers (5-8 pages) related to workshop topics (ii) very short position papers (1-2 pages), where the authors describe their thoughts, lessons learned, or points of view with respect to one or more workshop topics Papers will be refereed by at least three reviewers. Moreover we *especially* encourage authors to present their experience and/or novel ideas on how to provide a modern software engineering treatment of exception handling (shorter format). The papers chosen for presentation should offer different or novel perspectives on the workshop topics and they must have a high potential for generating issues that will stimulate the discussions. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: August 10, 2008 Notification: September 3, 2008 Camera-ready Paper: September 20, 2008 Workshop: November 14, 2008 PROGRAM COMMITTEE William Bail, Mitre, USA Dan Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada Peter Allan Buhr, University of Waterloo, Canada Nelio Cacho, Lancaster University, UK Fernando Castor Filho, State Univ. of Pernambuco, Brazil Phil Koopman, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Axel van Lamsweerde, Univ. Cat. Louvain, Belgium Wolfgang de Meuter, Vrije University Brussels, Belgium Cecilia Rubira, University of Campinas, Brazil Richard D. Schlichting, AT&T, USA Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK Anand Tripathi, University of Minneapolis, USA Elena Troubitsyna, Aabo Akademi, Finland WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Alessandro Garcia, Lancaster University, UK Christophe Dony, Montpellier-II University, France J?rg Kienzle, Mcgill University, Canada Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, UK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Alessandro Garcia, Lancaster University, UK Christophe Dony, Montpellier-II University, France J?rg Kienzle, Mcgill University, Canada Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, UK Nelio Cacho, Lancaster University, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The AXMEDIS2008 International Conference is a perfect occasion to get the state of the art and beyond, on the above mentioned technologies and developments and to meet the most relevant industrial leaders, leading researchers, experts and practitioners from both industrial and research institutes, including European digital content providers, integrators, distributors, technology providers, market leaders and prestigious research institutions, social networks. AXMEDIS is supported by more than 45 sponsors: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, University of Florence, ICSRiM, University of Leeds, EPFL, EUTELSAT, FHG-IGD, Giunti ILABS, HP, BBC, SDAE, TISCALI, SIAE, AFI, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, SEJER, University of Reading, Pekin University, TEO (telecom Lithuania), KTU, ELION, VRS Grupe, ACIT, Telecom Italia, Strategica, EXITECH, XIM, the MUSICNETWORK International Association, the European Commission and many more. AXMEDIS2008 aims to explore all subjects, latest developments, future trends, of technologies and their applications. With a particularly attention to new concepts, requirements, prototypes, research ideas, and findings which could contribute to cross fertilization and convergence of research and industrial communities. This is the 4th conference of a series pressed by IEEE and FUP with high level papers and large audience and distribution. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - formats and models for multi-channel content distribution and interoperability - automated content production, collection, crawling, composition, formatting - cultural heritage content and solutions - solutions and tools for e-commerce, education entertainment - content processing languages and tools - GRID and distributed systems for content production - collaborative/cooperative models and tools, CSCW - social network and models - content distribution: streaming and downloading - digital libraries and distributed systems - systems and approaches for content production/distribution on demand - multimedia middleware - multimedia software engineering - mobiles technologies for content distribution and optimisation - intelligent content, semantic content and models - interactive multimedia models - P2P solutions and architectures - workflow management systems Web services and web portals for content distribution - Digital Rights Management (DRM) models, tools, and DRM interoperability - multimedia standards: MPEG-7, MPEG-21, MXF, SMIL, HTML, News, etc. - multimedia and packaging formats - distributed games and serious games - Quality of Service, QoS, control and planning - user profiling, and behaviour - agents and autonomous systems - legal aspects related to digital content - context awareness and solutions - distribution of computer graphics and 3D content - distributed information retrieval - synchronisation technologies and solutions - accessibility and multimodal user interfaces - e-conference, e-medicine and e-lecture - distributed virtual environment, virtual school, virtual university, and virtual learning - content monitoring technologies - watermarking and fingerprinting techniques - audio and video fingerprinting and recognition and all related topics, do not hesitate to contact the chairs if you have a proposal for the conference. Applications and Industrial Presentations and Demos: Proposals for presentations of applications and tools, including case studies and reports on the application and/or utilization of tools, industrial practices and models, or tool/system demonstrations: Long papers up to 8 pages, Short papers up to 4 pages, Demo: up to 2 pages. Workshops and Panels: The Conference will hold Workshops and Panels consisting of research and industry position papers on specific topics. Research and Development projects of EC or other organizations are invited to propose workshops or panels. For these proposals please contact the general chair: Paolo Nesi (University of Florence) at nesi at dsi.unifi.it providing topics, speakers, and aims. All submissions and proposals must be in English and submitted in PDF or Microsoft Word format using the submission portal on the conference web site no later than 15 May 2008. http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2008draft/openconf/openconf.php Document style is available at the conference website. http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/instruct.pdf http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/instruct.doc http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/instruct.ps http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005/docs/IEEE_CS_Latex.zip The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Comp. Soc. past conferences: http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2007 http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006 http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2005 - - - - - - - - - - - From reussner at ipd.uka.de Wed May 7 21:45:32 2008 From: reussner at ipd.uka.de (Ralf Reussner) Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 21:45:32 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] 2nd CfP WCOP @ ECOP Message-ID: <482206DC.5020503@ipd.uka.de> 2nd Call for Position Statements WCOP 2008 Thirteenth International Workshop on Component-Oriented Programming (in conjunction with ECOOP 2008) Coral Beach Resort, Cyprus, July 7th, 2008 http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers/events/WCOP WCOP seeks position papers on the important field of component-oriented programming (COP). WCOP 2008 is the thirteenth event in a series of highly successful workshops, which took place in conjunction with every ECOOP since 1996. COP has been described as the natural extension of object-oriented programming to the realm of independently extensible systems. Several important approaches have emerged over the recent years, including component technology standards, such as CORBA/CCM, COM/COM+, J2EE/EJB, .NET, and most recently software services, but also the increasing appreciation of software architecture for component-based systems, as in SOA, and the consequent effects on organizational processes and structures as well as the software development business as a whole. COP aims at producing software components for a component market and for late composition. Composers are third parties, possibly the end users, who are not able or not willing to change components. This requires standards to allow independently created components to interoperate, and specifications that put the composer into the position to decide what can be composed under which conditions. On these grounds, WCOP'96 led to the following definition: A component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only. Components can be deployed independently and are subject to composition by third parties. After WCOP'96 focused on the fundamental terminology of COP, the subsequent workshops expanded into the many related facets of component software. WCOP 2008 will discuss components in the context of mobile and distributed computing. How can components be deployed effectively in distributed environments? For instance, distribution and mobile computing always imply that individual operations may fail and that services may be temporarily unavailable in unpredictable ways due to communication problems, such as network failures. How does it affect the idea of contract-based trust, if contract signers may not be reachable? In particular on mobile platforms resources are limited and balancing resource requirements and allocations among a potentially open set of (installable) add-on components becomes a particular challenge. Finally, in addition to submissions addressing the theme, we explicitly solicit papers reporting on experience with component-oriented software systems in practice, where the emphasis is on interesting lessons learned, whether the actual project was a success or a failure. TOPICS Topics of interest to WCOP 2008 include, but are not limited to: * mobile components for pervasive computer applications * ubiquitous computing with software components * controlling power consumption in extensible systems * resource pressure: can we afford components on mobile platforms? * security and privacy of mobile component systems * predictable assembly of components * performance/efficiency and reliability of component-based systems * systems for the description and prediction of non-functional component properties * deployment attribution / constraints * COP and Model-driven Development (MDA) * interoperation among component frameworks * component-oriented development processes * relating architectural principles/approaches to component software * addressing variability requirements in component-based solutions * system design for independent extensibility * component versus application evolution * domain-specific (vertical) standards * organizational aspects * business aspects * what worked / what didn't work in practice and lessons learned SUBMISSIONS AND PARTICIPATION To enable lively and productive discussions, attendance will be limited to about 30 participants. To participate in the workshop, acceptance of a submitted position statement is required. All submissions will be formally reviewed. High-quality position statements will be considered for publication in conjunction with transcripts of workshop results. Authors of accepted papers need to participate in the workshop. Position statements should clearly state how they relate to the workshop theme, what particular problems they address, and what solutions they envisage, and why the statement is expected to be relevant to both this workshop and the community. Statements should be four to eight pages (single-spaced A4 or letter) long and state the author's name, affiliation, and contact. Submissions should be e-mailed in PDF to Ralf Reussner (reussner "at" ipd.uka.de) with "WCOP 2008" in the subject line. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submissions: 23 May, 2008 *due to multiple requests, the deadline was extended* * Notification of acceptance: 6 June, 2008 * Workshop handouts ready: 19 June, 2008 WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS Ralf Reussner Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization Universit?t Karlsruhe (T.H.) Am Fasanengarten 5 D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany E-mail reussner "at" ipd.uka.de Web: http://sdq.ipa.uka.de Clemens Szyperski Microsoft One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98053, USA E-mail clemens.szyperski "at" microsoft.com Web: http://research.microsoft.com/~cszypers/ Wolfgang Weck Independent Software Architect Probusweg 9 CH-8057 Z?rich, Switzerland E-mail wolfgang.weck "at" iaeth.ch Web: http://www.wolfgang-weck.ch -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner - Chair Software-Design and -Quality Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization Faculty of Informatics, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH) Am Fasanengarten 5, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Office 327, Main Computer Science Building (50.34) Tel. +49 721 608 5993, Fax. +49 721 608 5990 http://sdq.ipd.uka.de -------------------------------------------------------------- From saso-list at vs.eecs.uni-kassel.de Fri May 9 10:08:02 2008 From: saso-list at vs.eecs.uni-kassel.de (saso-list at vs.eecs.uni-kassel.de) Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 10:08:02 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [SASO 2008] SASO 2008 CfP Extended Deadline Message-ID: <48240662.6060905@vs.uni-kassel.de> Please excuse if you receive multiple copies. DEADLINE EXTENDED BY ONE WEEK! ========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS (see also the associated calls for posters, tutorials, and workshops, on the conference Web site) 2nd IEEE Conference on Self-adaptive and Self-organizing Systems (SASO 2008) Venice, Italy, October 20-24, 2008 www.saso-conference.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, Technical Committee on Autonomous and Autonomic System The aim of the SASO conference series is to provide a forum for laying the foundations of a new principled approach to engineering systems, networks and services based on self-adaptation and self-organization. To this end, the meeting aims to attract participants with different backgrounds, to foster cross-pollination between different research fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications. The complexity of current and emerging computing systems has led the software engineering, distributed systems and management communities to look for inspiration in diverse fields (e.g., complex systems, artificial intelligence, sociology, and biology) to find new ways of designing and managing networks, systems and services. In this endeavor, self-organization and self-adaptation have emerged as two promising interrelated facets of a paradigm shift. Self-adaptive systems work in a top down manner. They evaluate their own global behavior and change it when the evaluation indicates that they are not accomplishing what they were intended to do, or when better functionality or performance is possible. A challenge is often to identify how to change specific behaviors to achieve the desired improvement. Self-organizing systems work bottom up. They are composed of a large number of components that interact locally according to typically simple rules. The global behavior of the system emerges from these local interactions. Here, a challenge is often to predict and control the resulting global behavior. This year's edition is specifically focused at improving our understanding of the properties inherent to self-adaptation and self-organization, a necessary requirement for the effective engineering and building of usable self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. Contributions should present novel theoretical or experimental results, or practical approaches and experiences in building or deploying real-world systems, applications, tools, frameworks, etc. Contributions contrasting different approaches for engineering a given family of systems, or demonstrating the applicability of a certain approach for different systems are particularly encouraged. TOPICS The topics of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to: ? Self-organization ? Self-adaptation ? Other self-* properties (self-management, self-monitoring, self-tuning, self-repair, self-configuration, etc.) ? Theories, frameworks and methods for self-* systems ? Management and control of self-* systems ? Robustness and dependability of self-* systems ? Approaches to engineering self-* systems ? Control of emergent properties in self-* systems ? Biologically, socially, and physically inspired self-* systems ? Applications and experiences with self-* systems The systems and application areas of interest to SASO include, but are not limited to: ? P2P Systems ? Mobile, pervasive, ad-hoc, and sensor network systems ? Autonomic computing and communication systems ? Robotics systems ? Multiagent systems ? Web and service systems SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS See the conference website (www.saso-conference.org) for detailed information on how to submit papers. All submissions should be 10 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide. The proceedings will be printed and published by IEEE Computer Society Press, and made available on the IEEE digital library. A separated call for poster submissions will be launched during Spring 2008. REVIEW CRITERIA Papers should present novel ideas in the topic domains listed above, clearly motivated by problems from current practice or applied research. We expect claims to be substantiated by formal analysis, experimental evaluations, comparative studies, and so on. Authors are also encouraged to submit application papers. Application papers are expected to provide an indication of the real world relevance of the problem that is solved, including a description of the deployment domain, and some form of evaluation of performance, usability, or superiority to alternative approaches. If the application is still early work in progress, then the authors are expected to provide strong arguments as to why the proposed approach will work in the chosen domain. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: May 12, 2008 Paper submission: May 19, 2008 Notification: June 29, 2008 Camera Ready Version of Accepted Papers: July 20, 2007 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Bob Laddaga (BBN Technologies, USA) Franco Zambonelli (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Sven Brueckner (NewVectors, a Division of TTGSI, USA) Paul Robertson (BBN Technologies, USA) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Salvatore Orlando (University of Venice, Italy) FINANCE CHAIR Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (Birkbeck Univesity London, UK) Marie Pierre Gleizes (IRIT Universit? de Toulouse, France) TUTORIAL CHAIR Radhika Nagpal (Harvard University, USA) INDUSTRY CHAIR Mazin Yousif (Intel, USA) POSTER CHAIR Umesh Bellur (IIT Bombay, India) PUBLICATION CHAIR Mark Jelasity (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary) SPONSOR CO-CHAIRS AMERICAS: Bob Laddaga (BBN Technologies, USA) EMEA: Antonio Manzalini (Telecom Italia) ASIA/PACIFIC RIM: Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China) PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS EMEA: Kurt Geihs (University of Kassel, Germany) ASIA/PACIFIC RIM: Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) AMERICAS: Indranil Gupta (UIUC, USA) WEB CHAIR Marco Mamei (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ? Christiana Amza (University of Toronto, Canada) ? Ozalp Babaoglu (University of Bologna, Italy) ? Leonard Barolli (Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan) ? Alberto Bartoli (University of Trieste, Italy) ? Ken Birman (Cornell University, USA) ? Gautam Biswas (Vanderbilt University, USA) ? Mark Boddy (Adventium Labs, USA) ? Prasanta Bose (Locheed Martin, USA) ? Tibor Bosse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) ? Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) ? Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University, USA) ? Chi-Hung Chi (Tsinghua University, China) ? Alexander Clemm (Cisco Systems, USA) ? Michael Cox (BBN Technologies, USA) ? Prithviraj Dasgupta (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA) ? Jon Doyle (Noth Carolina State University, USA) ? Bruce Edmonds (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ? Kurt Geihs (University of Kassel, Germany) ? Maria Gini (University of Minnesota, USA) ? Marie Pierre Gleizes (IRIT Toulouse, France) ? Cordell Green (Kestrel Institute, USA) ? Rod Grupen (Univeristy of Massachusetts, USA) ? Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) ? Salima Hassas (University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France) ? David Hales (University of Bologna, Italy) ? Manfred Hauswirth (DERI, Ireland) ? Mike Hinchey (Loyola College, USA) ? Tom Holvoet (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) ? James Won-Ki Hong (Postech, Korea) ? Mark Jelasity (Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary) ? Dag Johansen (University of Tromso, Norway) ? Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt University, USA) ? Randy Katz (University of California at Berkeley, USA) ? Anne Marie Kermarrec (INRIA, France) ? Mitch Kokar (Northeastern University, USA) ? Ihor Kuz (MICTA, Australia) ? John Mallery (MIT, USA) ? Marco Mamei (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) ? Paul Marrow (British Telecom, UK) ? Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin (NetExpert, Switzerland) ? Philip McKinley (Michigan State University, USA) ? Alex Meng (MITRE Corporation, USA) ? Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) ? Masayuki Murata (Osaka University, Japan) ? Andrea Omicini (University of Bologna, Italy) ? Salvatore Orlando (University C? Foscari of Venice, Italy) ? Van Parunak (NewVectors, USA) ? Dusko Pavlovic (University of Oxford, UK) ? George Pavlou (University of Surrey, UK) ? Omer Rana (Cardiff University, UK) ? Wolfgang Renz (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany) ? Luis Rodrigues (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) ? Fabrice Saffre (British Telecom, UK) ? Hartmut Schmeck (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) ? Juergen Schoenwalder (Jacobs University, Germany) ? Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo (Birbeck University London, UK) ? Howie Shrobe (MIT, USA) ? Swami Sivasubramanian (Amazon, USA) ? Mikhail Smirnov (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany) ? Mark Squillante (IBM Watson Centre, USA) ? Rolf Stadler (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) ? Roy Sterritt (University of Ulster, UK) ? Burkhard Stiller (University of Zurich / ETH Zurich, Switzerland) ? Jan Sudeikat (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany) ? Gregory Sullivan (BAE Systems, USA) ? Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University, USA) ? Paul Valckenaers (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) ? Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle, UK) ? Spyros Voulgaris (ETH Zurich, Zwitzerland) ? Craig Wills (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) ? Liu Xuezeng (Microsoft Research Asia, China) ========================================================================== _______________________________________________ saso-list mailing list saso-list at vs.eecs.uni-kassel.de http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/saso-list From laurie at tratt.net Fri May 9 11:11:01 2008 From: laurie at tratt.net (Laurence Tratt) Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 10:11:01 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] TOOLS Europe 2008 Call for Participation Message-ID: <20080509091101.GE18795@overdrive.home.tratt.net> ============================================================================ TOOLS EUROPE 2008 46th International Conference Objects, Models, Components, Patterns co-located with *** International Conference on Model Transformation 2008 *** *** Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development 2008 *** ETH Zurich, Switzerland 30 June-4 July 2008 http://tools.ethz.ch/ ============================================================================ Keynote Speakers Michael Brodie (Verizon) Krzysztof Czarnecki, ICMT keynote (University of Waterloo) Erik Meijer (Microsoft) John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto) Overview TOOLS 2008 is the 46th TOOLS conference. Started in 1989, TOOLS conferences, held in Europe, the USA, Australia, and China have played a major role in the development of object technology field; many of the seminal concepts were first presented at TOOLS. After an interruption of four years, the conference is now revived to reflect the maturing of the field and the new challenges ahead. TOOLS EUROPE 2008 will be devoted to the combination of technologies that have emerged as a result of object technology becoming "mainstream". Like its predecessors, TOOLS EUROPE 2008 combines an emphasis on quality with a strong practical focus. It will include both scientific and experience conference papers, workshops, tutorials, a poster session, and a venture forum. 21 papers have been accepted after a rigorous selection process by the international Program Committee, with an emphasis on originality, practicality and overall quality. Topics addressed this year by selected papers include model-driven engineering, aspect-orientation, component-based languages, and language reflection. In 2008, TOOLS EUROPE is co-located with several other events, including SEAFOOD 2008, the International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT) 2008, the Web 2.0 Pattern Mining workshop, and several other workshops and tutorials. Details of all co-located events can be found on the TOOLS web site. Registration Early registration: 23 May 2007 or earlier Regular registration: 25 June 2007 or earlier After the regular registration date, registration will be on site only. The registration form can be found on the TOOLS website. Venue and accommodation The conference will take place in the main building of the ETH Zurich, located in the centre of Zurich, close to the main station. Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland, home to the country's largest airport with numerous international connections, and is the country's