<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">[sorry for duplicate reception of this cfp]<br><br>*************************************************************************<br> 1st AOSD Workshop on Modularity in Systems Software<br> MISS 2011 (ex ACP4IS)<br><br> March 22, 2011<br> Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco (Brazil)<div><br></div><div> NEW DEADLINE: JANUARY 10, 2011 (23:59 APIA)<br><br> <a href="http://www.aosd.net/workshops/miss">http://www.aosd.net/workshops/miss</a><br><br> A one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the<br> 10th International Conference on<br> Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'11),<br>March 21 -- March 25, 2011, Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco (Brazil)<br> <a href="http://aosd.net/conference">http://aosd.net/conference</a><br>**************************************************************************<br><br>The importance of "systems infrastructure" software - including<br>application servers, virtual machines, middleware, compilers, and<br>operating systems - is increasing as application programmers demand<br>better and higher-level support for software development. Vendors that<br>provide superior support for application development have a<br>competitive advantage. The software industry as a whole benefits as<br>the base level of abstraction increases, thus decreasing the need for<br>application programmers to continually "reinvent the wheel".<br><br>These trends, however, mean that the demands on infrastructure<br>software are increasing. More and more features and requirements are<br>being "pushed down" into the infrastructure, and the developers of<br>systems software need better tools and techniques for handling these<br>increased demands. The design and implementation of systems-level<br>software presents unique opportunities and challenges for research on<br>software modularity. These challenges include the need to address the<br>inherent complexity of infrastructure software, the need for strong<br>assurances of correct and predictable behaviour, the need for maximum<br>run-time performance, and the necessity of dealing with the large body<br>of existing systems software components.<br><br>MISS 2011 aims to provide a highly interactive forum for<br>researchers and developers to discuss the application of and<br>relationships between exciting new modularity constructs for systems<br>software such as aspects, components, traits and context layers. The<br>goal is to put these constructs into a common reference frame and to<br>build connections between the software engineering and systems<br>communities.<br><br>Following up on last year's workshop, MISS 2011 puts special focus on<br>the challenges in system's programming introduced by multi-core<br>platforms. As hardware-supported parallelization becomes mainstream,<br>there is an increasing pressure on systems infrastructure to exploit<br>this new parallelism to its fullest. However, the non-modular nature<br>of parallel execution, and the numerous levels at which parallelism<br>can be achieved (application, systems infrastructure, hardware or even<br>a combination) make it hard to come up with an intuitive, yet<br>efficient parallel architecture. We solicit novel ideas and experience<br>reports on this emerging research area. <br><br>Other suggested topics for position papers include, but are not<br>restricted to:<br><br>- Approaches that combine or relate techniques based on advanced<br> modularization concepts<br><br>- Dimensions of infrastructure software quality including<br> comprehensibility, configurability (by implementers),<br> customizability (by users), reliability, evolvability, scalability,<br> and run-time characteristics such as performance and code size<br><br>- Merits and downsides of container-, ORB-, and system-based<br> separation of concerns<br><br>- Architectural techniques for particular system concerns, e.g.,<br> security, static and dynamic optimization, and real-time behaviour<br><br>- Design patterns for systems software<br><br>- "Mining" and refactoring of concerns in systems code<br><br>- Application- or domain-specific optimization of systems<br><br>- Reasoning and optimization across architectural layers<br><br>- Quantitative and qualitative evaluation<br><br><br>AGENDA<br><br>The workshop will be structured to encourage fruitful discussions and<br>build connections between workshop participants. To this end,<br>approximately half of the workshop time will be devoted to short<br>presentations of accepted papers, with the remaining half devoted to<br>semi-structured discussion groups and lightning talks. The latter are<br>short talks that are combined with tool demos, aimed at stimulating<br>even more interaction between workshop attendees. Participants will be<br>expected to have read the accepted papers prior to the workshop, to<br>help ensure focused discussions.<br><br><br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br><br>Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted position papers,<br>3-5 pages in length. All papers must be submitted as PDF documents in<br>ACM format through the MISS 2011 online submission system found at:<br><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miss11">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miss11</a>. Paper submissions<br>will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and by designated<br>reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on technical quality,<br>originality, relevance, and presentation.<br><br>In addition to position papers, we also solicit proposals for lightning talks, i.e., a combination of a 5 minute talk and 5 minute tool demo. Prospective lightning presenters should send us an abstract of 250 words (deadline: March 13, 2010). Abstracts will NOT be published, they are intended to be read by the reviewers only (hence the late deadline).<br><br>Comments and questions can be sent to miss11 AT aosd DOH net.<br><br><br>PUBLICATION OF PAPERS<br><br>All accepted papers will be posted at the workshop web site prior to<br>the workshop date, to give all participants the opportunity to read<br>them before the workshop. In addition, the accepted position papers<br>will be published in a Workshop Proceedings in the ACM Digital<br>Library.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>Paper Deadline (updated!): January 10, 2011 at 23:59 (Apia time)<br>Notification of acceptance:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> January 23, 2011<br>Final papers due:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> February 19, 2011<br>Lightning abstracts: March 13, 2011<br>Workshop:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> March 22, 2011<br><br><br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br><br>- Bram Adams, Queen's University<br>- Walter Binder, University of Lugano <br>- Michael Haupt, Hasso Plattner Institut<br>- Mick Jordan, Oracle Labs<br>- Julia Lawall, DIKU<br>- David Lorenz, The Open University of Israel<br>- Stefan Marr, Vrije Universiteit Brussel<br>- Eddy Truyen, KU Leuven<br>- Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia<br>- Charles Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology<br><br><br>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br><br>- Bram Adams, Queen's University<br>- Michael Haupt, Hasso Plattner Institut<br>- David Lorenz, The Open University of Israel<br>- Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia<br><br><br>STEERING COMMITTEE<br><br>- Eric Eide, University of Utah<br>- Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund<br>- Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria<br>- David Lorenz, The Open University of Israel</div></body></html>