[ecoop-info] Modularity: AOSD 2013 Workshops Joint Call for Contributions

[Eric Bodden]

			Modularity: AOSD 2013 Workshops
			    Call for Contributions
 12th Annual International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

			      24th-29th March 2013
				Fukuoka, Japan
			     http://www.aosd.net/2013

As with previous AOSD conferences, Modularity: AOSD 2013 will host a
vibrant workshop programme. Typically, a workshop will either address
a focused topic in depth or explore connections between modularity
technologies and other areas of interest.

The AOSD 2013 workshops are summarised below. For more information
please visit the individual workshop web sites and the AOSD 2013
workshop page http://www.aosd.net/2013/workshops.html

Workshop paper submissions are due *Friday 21st December 2012*

AOSD 2013 Workshop Schedule
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Mon 25th March 2013: AOAsia	CoCos	MISS SIaCC
Tue 26th March 2013: FOAL	GIBSE	VariComp

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AOAsia/Pacific - Monday 25th March 2013

AOAsia/Pacific is a series of international workshops on advanced
modularization techniques including aspect-oriented software
development (AOSD). It was initially organized by Asia-related
researchers in co- operation with researchers all over the world.
Following the successes of the workshops on AOSD in 2005 (Taipei),
2006 (Tokyo), 2007 (Beijing), 2008 (Beijing), 2009 (Auckland),
2010(Tokyo), and 2011(Shanghai), the workshop organizers broadened the
focus of the workshop from AOSD to advanced modularization techniques
in general. The main goal of this workshop is to bring together
researchers who are tackling the problems of advanced modularization,
but who are not yet connected to this growing, thriving community. The
workshop also intends to provide a forum for discussion of new ideas,
new directions, and new applications.

URL: http://sel.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/AOASIA2013/

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Modularity in Systems Software (MISS) - Monday 25th March 2013

Developers of systems software—such as operating systems, virtual
machines, or middleware platforms—are facing increasing demands from
application programmers, who need higher-level support for application
development. Meeting these demands requires careful use of software
modularization techniques, since infrastructural concerns are
notoriously hard to modularize and performance is a critical issue.
Although high-level modularity constructs improve program
understanding and productivity for developers, these constructs
typically exhibit a significant performance impact, which is
detrimental for the application programmers.

The MISS (Modularity in Systems Software) workshop series focuses on
this trade-off for systems software modularity, but without limiting
itself to aspects, components and patterns: MISS aims to be a highly
interactive forum for researchers and developers to discuss the
application, implementation and evaluation of any facet of modularity
in low-level software. The ultimate goal is to develop a solid
understanding of how modularity issues in such software can be
addressed, and to thereby build connections between the software
engineering and systems communities.

URL: http://www.aosd.net/workshops/miss/2013/

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Workshop on Comprehension of Complex Systems (CoCos) - Monday 25th March 2013

The sheer complexity and emergent behavior of large scale systems make
it impossible to completely understand systems without the aid of
specific tools. This is especially the case, as more and more systems
start to use advanced compositions like Aspect-Orientation in their
development. Advanced composition technologies enable the creation and
usage of powerful abstractions; and improved modularity yields
significant benefits in terms of reuse and separation of concerns. But
by using abstractions, as they are present in languages, middlewares,
and models, certain properties of a system are hidden (abstracted).

This creates the problem of comprehending the run-time behavior in
terms of the used abstractions and the properties that were abstracted
away (e.g. for debugging AO programs, or diagnosing violations of
performance service-level agreements). To encourage wider adoption of
advanced modularity, tools are required to assist developers in
understanding the run-time behavior of complex composed systems. This
workshop aims to create a dialog on the problem of program
comprehension and its relation to modularity in the wider context.

URL: http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/cocos2013/index.html

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Software Infrastructure as a Crosscutting Concern: Vision for the
Future (SIaCC) - Monday 25th March 2013

ICT is an infrastructure that is supporting an ever growing set of
services. Software infrastructure tends to deeply crosscut other forms
of infrastructure provision, and, gradually, replaces services that
would previously have been delivered via other forms of
infrastructure. For instance, the online shopping affecting retail
shops, transportation, and need for road provision. Newly emerging
technologies, such as food printing and personal fabrication go even
further. This workshop aims to initiate a discussion on broad topics
of software as a crosscutting infrastructure, envision the future with
service provision centred around the software infrastructure, identify
and discuss the current and future (both software engineering, and
broader) issues that either facilitate or prevent this vision.

URL: http://lamp-lbi-34.rcs.le.ac.uk/workshop

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Foundations of Aspect Oriented Languages (FOAL) - Tuesday 26th March 2013

FOAL is a forum for research in foundations of aspect-oriented and
other advanced separation of concern mechanisms. Areas of interest
include but are not limited to: semantics, specification and
verification for such languages, type systems, static analysis, theory
of testing, theory of composition, and theory of program translation
(compilation) and rewriting for advanced separation of concern
mechanisms including aspect-oriented programming languages. The
workshop aims to foster work in foundations, including formal studies,
promote the exchange of ideas, and encourage workers in the semantics,
types, and formal methods communities to do research in the area of
aspect-oriented and other advanced separation of concern mechanisms.

URL: http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/~leavens/FOAL/index-2013.shtml

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Green in Software Engineering, Green by Software Engineering (GIBSE) -
Tuesday 26th March 2013

The increasing amount of the energy consumption of today’s IT
solutions significantly contributes to green house gas emissions.
“Green Computing” or “Green IT” emphasizes on the need for reducing
the environmental impacts of IT solutions by reducing their energy
consumption and, thus, greenhouse gas emissions. From the software
engineering point of view, we believe that achieving green-ness in the
software is an emerging quality attribute that must be taken into
account throughout the software development process from the
business-modeling phase till the operational phase. In addition, the
effect of software steering or utilizing external devices is subject
to "green-ness", too. Thus, this workshop is not just about "green in
software", but also on "green by software". However, despite the
inevitable need for considering green-ness throughout the software
development process, there is a lack of scientific focus on this
subject. The purpose of the proposed workshop is to fill this gap.
Achieving green computing requires attention from both researchers in
academia and industry. Therefore, in this track we aim at bridging the
gap between academia and industry by emphasizing more on the
application of scientific achievements in green computing in
industrial software. The timeliness of this workshop is evident in the
industrial application of green computing.

URL: http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/GIBSE/

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Workshop on Variability and Composition (VariComp) - Tuesday 26th March 2013


In applying multi-dimensional separation of concerns, the composition
of carefully separated concerns is an important issue. The time at
which concern composition is applied can vary depending on the
concrete approach at hand. Advanced modularity techniques have
extensively been used to enable variability in software product lines,
where features are usually composed at build time. Likewise, run-time
composition has been investigated, enabling dynamic aspect weaving,
recomposition and reconfiguration.  Using context-oriented
programming, dynamic feature variation is used to react to
environmental changes and events in a way statically controlled by the
programming language. This workshop investigates tools and techniques
in support of the aforementioned composition stages, potential
implementation and optimization approaches as well as formalization
and verification techniques.

URL: http://www.aosd.net/workshops/varicomp/2013/

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