[ecoop-info] Modularity '15 - Call for Contributions

[Henrique Rebêlo]

*** MODULARITY '15 ***

14th International Conference on Modularity
March 16-19, 2015
Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA
*http://aosd.net/2015/ <http://aosd.net/2015/>*


*** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ***

* Research Results track
  *http://aosd.net/2015/rrtrack <http://aosd.net/2015/rrtrack>*
  August 4, 2014 (first round) - Paper submission
  October 10, 2014 (second round)  - Paper submission

* Modularity Visions track
  *http://aosd.net/2015/mvtrack <http://aosd.net/2015/mvtrack>*
  October. 3, 2014 - Abstract submission
  October. 10, 2014 - Paper submission


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*** RESEARCH RESULTS TRACK ***

Modularity is a key property for scalability of software processes,
including debugging, maintenance, reasoning, and testing. Modularity
influences system diversity, dependability, performance, evolution, the
structure and the dynamics of the organizations that produce systems, human
understanding and management of systems, and ultimately system value. Yet
the nature of and possibilities for modularity, limits to modularity, the
mechanisms needed to achieve it in given forms, and its costs, benefits,
and tradeoffs remain poorly understood. Significant advances in modularity
thus are possible and promise to yield breakthroughs in our ability to
conceive, design, develop, validate, integrate, and evolve modern
information systems and their underlying software artifacts.

Modularity at the semantic as well as the syntactic level is a key enabler
for the expression of high quality software systems. One of the most
important techniques for complexity reduction is abstraction. Novel
concepts and abstraction mechanisms, including but not limited to
aspect-oriented techniques, are a focus point for improvements in the
support for modularity. The scope of this effort covers all perspectives on
software systems in all their life-cycle phases, for instance application
domain analysis, programming language constructs, formal proofs of system
properties, program state visualization in debuggers, performance
improvements in compiler algorithms, etc. As the premier international
conference on modularity, Modularity'15 continues to advance our
understanding of these issues and the expressive power of known techniques.

The Modularity'15 conference invites full, scholarly papers of the highest
quality on new ideas and results. Papers are expected to contribute
significant new research results with rigorous and substantial validation
of specific technical claims, based on scientifically sound reflections on
experience, analysis, experimentation, or formal models. Compelling new
ideas are especially welcome, which means that the requirements in the
areas of validation and maturity are higher for papers that contribute more
incremental results.

Modularity'15 is deeply committed to publishing works of the highest
caliber. To this aim, two separate paper submission deadlines and review
stages are offered. A paper accepted in any round will be published in the
proceedings and presented at the conference. Promising papers submitted in
the first round that are not accepted may be invited to be revised and
resubmitted for review by the same reviewers in the second round. Authors
of such invited resubmissions are asked to also submit a letter explaining
the revisions made to the paper to address the reviewers' concerns. While
there is no guarantee that an invited resubmission will be accepted, this
procedure (similar to major revisions requested by journals) is designed to
help authors of promising work get their papers into the conference.
Submission to both rounds is open for all, and authors who submit to the
first round may of course choose to resubmit a revised version in the
second round without such an invitation, in which case new reviewers may be
appointed. Finally, the same paper cannot be simultaneously submitted to
other conferences or journals. In case of doubt, please contact the Program
Chair.

Research Topics

Modularity'15 is looking for papers in all areas of software modularity.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

* Varieties of modularity: Context orientation; feature orientation;
generative programming; aspect orientation; software product lines; traits;
families of classes; meta-programming and reflection; components;
view-based development.

* Programming languages: Support for modular abstraction in: language
design; verification, specification, and static program analysis;
compilation, interpretation, and runtime support; formal languages and
calculi; execution environments and dynamic weaving; dynamic languages;
domain-specific languages.

* Software design and engineering: Requirements and domain engineering;
architecture; synthesis; evolution; metrics and evaluation; empirical
studies of existing software; economics; testing and verification;
semantics; composition and interference; traceability; methodologies;
patterns.

* Tools: Crosscutting views; refactoring; evolution and reverse
engineering; aspect mining; support for new language constructs.

* Applications: Data-intensive computing; distributed and concurrent
systems; middleware; service- oriented computing systems; cyber-physical
systems; networking; cloud computing; pervasive computing; runtime
verification; computer systems performance; system health monitoring;
enforcement of non-functional properties.

* Complex systems: Works that explore and establish connections across
disciplinary boundaries, bridging to such areas as biology, economics,
education, infrastructure such as buildings or transport systems, and more.

* Composition: Component-based software engineering; Composition and
adaptation techniques; Composition algebras, calculi, and type systems;
Model-driven composition; Dynamic composition and reconfiguration;
Large-scale component-based systems; Cloud, service-oriented architectures;
Business process orchestration; Visual composition environments;
Performance optimization of composite systems.


Important Dates

* First round:
Submission: August 4, 2014 (23:59 Baker Island / UTC-12)
Notification: September 14, 2014

* Second round:
Submission: October 10, 2014 (23:59 Baker Island / UTC-12)
Notification: December 7, 2014

* Camera ready: February 15, 2015

Submission Guidelines

Modularity'15 is deeply committed to eliciting works of the highest
caliber. To this aim, two separate paper submission deadlines and review
stages are offered. A paper accepted in any round will be published in the
proceedings and presented at the conference. Promising papers submitted in
the first round that are not accepted may be invited to be revised and
resubmitted for review by the same reviewers in the second round. Authors
of such invited resubmissions are asked to also submit a letter explaining
the revisions made to the paper to address the reviewers' concerns. While
there is no guarantee that an invited resubmission will be accepted, this
procedure (similar to major revisions requested by journals) is designed to
help authors of promising work get their papers into the conference.
Submission to both rounds is open for all, and authors who submit to the
first round may of course choose to resubmit a revised version in the
second round without such an invitation, in which case new reviewers may be
appointed. Finally, the same paper cannot be simultaneously submitted to
other conferences or journals. In case of doubt, please get in touch with
the Program Chair.
All submissions must conform to both the ACM Policy on Prior Publication
and Simultaneous Submissions and the SIGPLAN Republication Policy.

Papers are to be submitted electronically to CyberChair.

Please use http://cyberchairpro.borbala.net/modularitypapers/submit/ to
submit your paper. Submissions should use the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format
using 9 point font. Please include page numbers in your submission as this
will be helpful for the reviewers and also for you when reading their
reviews. (If your submission is written using LaTeX, please set the
preprint option in the LaTeX \documentclass command to generate page
numbers.) Please also ensure that your submission is legible when printed
on a black and white printer. In particular, please check that colors
remain distinct and font sizes are legible.

To ensure that papers stay focused on their core contributions, the main
part of the paper should be no longer than 12 pages. There is a 4 page
limit for references and appendices, and, therefore, for the overall
submission must be less than 16 pages. If the paper is accepted, the final
submission will be limited to 16 pages, including references and appendices.

However, it is the responsibility of the authors to keep the reviewers
interested and motivated to read their submission. Reviewers are under no
obligation to read all or even a substantial portion of a paper if they do
not find the initial part of the paper compelling. The committee will not
accept a paper if it is unclear that the paper will fit in the
Modularity'15 Proceedings.

All submitted papers are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers from all tracks
will appear in the Modularity'15 Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.
Submissions will be judged on the potential impact of the ideas and the
quality of the presentation.

Program Committee Chair
Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, USA (leavens at cs.ucf.edu)

Program Committee

Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin
Eric Bodden, Fraunhofer SIT and TU Darmstadt
Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco
Walter Cazzola, Università degli Studi di Milano
Cynthia Disenfeld, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology
Robert Dyer, Bowling Green State University
Erik Ernst, Aarhus University
Matthew Flatt, University of Utah
Michael Haupt, Oracle Labs
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente
Cristina Lopes, University of California Irvine
Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam
Linda Northrop, Software Engineering Institute
Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano
Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University
Henrique Rebêlo, Federal University of Pernambuco
Martin Rinard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Norbert Siegmund, University of Passau
Murali Sitaraman, Clemson University
Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia

External Review Committee

Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto
Steven Edwards, Virginia Tech.
Dan Grossman, University of Washington
Görel Hedin, Lund University
Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt
Peter Müller, ETH Zurich
Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research
Éric Tanter, University of Chile
Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology

For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please
contact the Program Committee Chair.


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*** MODULARITY VISIONS TRACK ***

Modularity properties are key determinants of quality in information
systems, software, and system production processes. Modularity influences
system diversity, dependability, performance, evolution, the structure and
the dynamics of the organizations that produce systems, human understanding
and management of systems, and ultimately system value.

Yet the nature of and possibilities for modularity, limits to modularity,
the mechanisms needed to achieve it in given forms, and its costs and
benefits remain poorly understood. Significant advances in modularity thus
are possible and promise to yield breakthroughs in our ability to conceive,
design, develop, validate, integrate, deploy, operate, and evolve modern
information systems and their underlying software artifacts.

The Modularity Visions track of Modularity'15 is looking for papers
presenting compelling insights into modularity in information systems,
including its nature, forms, mechanisms, consequences, limits, costs, and
benefits. Modularity Vision papers can also present proposals for future
work. The scope of Modularity Visions is broad and open to submissions from
all areas of computer science.

Modularity Visions papers must supply some degree of validation because
mere speculation is not a good basis for progress. However, Modularity
Visions accepts less rigorous methods of validation such as compelling
arguments, exploratory implementations, and substantial examples. The use
of worked-out prototypes to support new ideas is strongly encouraged.

Selection Process

Modularity Visions papers are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will appear in
the Modularity'15 Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Submissions will
be judged on the potential impact of the ideas and the quality of the
presentation.

Modularity Visions will follow a single-phase review process in which
papers are assessed using the criteria stated above. (Note that this
process is different from the two-rounds process of the Research Results
track.)

Important Dates

      Abstracts due: October 3, 2014
      Papers due: October 10, 2014
      Notification: December 7, 2014
      Camera ready version due: February 15, 2015

Submission Guidelines

Modularity Visions submissions must conform to both the ACM Policy on Prior
Publication and Simultaneous Submissions and the SIGPLAN Republication
Policy.

Papers are to be submitted electronically to EasyChair.

Submissions should use the SIGPLAN Proceedings Format using 9 point font.
Please include page numbers in your submission as this will be helpful for
the reviewers and also for you when reading their reviews. (If your
submission is written using LaTeX, please set the preprint option in the
LaTeX \documentclass command to generate page numbers.) Please also ensure
that your submission is legible when printed on a black and white printer.
In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and font sizes are
legible.

To ensure that papers stay focused on their core contributions, the main
part of the paper should be no longer than 12 pages. There is no page limit
for appendices, and, therefore, for the overall submission. If the paper is
accepted, the final submission will be limited to 16 pages, including
appendices.

It is the responsibility of the authors to keep the reviewers interested
and motivated to read their submission. Reviewers are under no obligation
to read all or even a substantial portion of a paper if they do not find
the initial part of the paper compelling. The committee will not accept a
paper if it is unclear that the paper will fit in the Modularity'15
Proceedings.

Program Committee Chair

Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Program Committee

to be announced.

For More Information

For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please
contact the Program Committee Chair, Eelco Visser, at
modularity-visions at aosd.net.

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Henrique Rebelo
http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~hemr
Informatics Center, UFPE, Brazil
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