<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">The First International Workshop on Comprehension of Complex Systems (CoCoS)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; "> <a href="http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/cocos">http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/cocos</a><span style="color: #ff7a00">2013</span>/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; "> Co-located with AOSD'<span style="color: #ff7a00">13</span>, Fukuoka, Japan</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; "> March <span style="color: #ff7a00">24</span>-<span style="color: #ff7a00">29</span>, <span style="color: #ff7a00">2013</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; "> C A L L F O R P A P E R S</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Deadline Submission: January <span style="color: #ff7a00">7</span>th </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Notification of acceptance: January <span style="color: #ff7a00">28</span>th</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Camera-ready version: Feburary <span style="color: #ff7a00">8</span>th</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Workshop at AOSD: March <span style="color: #ff7a00">25</span>th</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Motivation</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">The sheer complexity and emergent behavior of large scale systems make it </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">impossible to completely understand systems without the aid of specific tools. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Especially, more and more systems start to use advanced compositions like </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Aspect-Orientation in its development. Advanced composition technology enables </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">the creation and usage of powerful abstractions. Improved modularity yields </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">significant benefits in terms of reuse and separation of concerns.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">By using of abstractions, as they are present in languages, middlewares, and </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">models, certain properties of a system are hidden (abstracted). This creates </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">the problem of comprehending the run-time behavior in terms of the used </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">abstractions and the properties that were abstracted away (e.g. debugging AO </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">programs, diagnosing violation of performance service-level agreements). To </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">encourage wider adoption of advanced modularity, tools are required to assist </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">developers in understanding the run-time behavior of complex composed systems. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">This workshop aims to create a dialogue on the problem of program comprehension </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">and its relation to modularity in the wider context.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Workshop format</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">The CoCoS workshop will consist of a keynote talk, paper presentations and </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">interactive discussion sessions.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">CoCoS aims to create lively discussions on various subjects and CoCoS </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">participant will have a great role in this regard. Every participant with an </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">accepted paper will have a half-hour time slot to present their work and answer </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">questions. Apart from that, every participant will prepare a short review of a </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">fellow participant's paper. The reviewer's responsibility is to summarize </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">his/her thoughts and suggestions on the presenter's work.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Along with the paper submission, participants are also asked to submit </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">discussion topics. The topics can include participants’ experiences, design or </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">implementation challenges, asking for opinion and anything that the </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">participants think are worth to be discussed. The committee will then pick from </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">these discussion topics; the selected topics will be discussed during the </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">discussion sessions.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">At the end of the workshop every participant will state if they see a possible </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">collaboration with other participants.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Goals</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">CoCoS is to serve as a forum for the discussion of emerging ideas and to </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">increase the interest in the proposed field. The accepted papers will be </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">published in the ACM digital library. CoCoS provides an opportunity for </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">researchers to exchange their experiences and opinions. We will create a </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">mailing list for interested participants so that communication can continue </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">after the workshop.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Topics of Interest</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">CoCoS is to serve as a forum for the discussion of emerging ideas in the </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">proposed fields. The accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">library. CoCoS provides an opportunity that researchers can exchange their </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">experiences and opinions.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Examples of topics targeted by this workshop include, but are not limited to:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Static and dynamic tools for coding, navigating, debugging, profiling, etc.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Language-specific and abstraction-specific visualizations</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Tools for comprehension of heterogeneous systems, that bridge the gap between </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">different programs, machines, or environments in a local or distributed context</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Empirical evaluations of tools for (new) languages</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Techniques such as fault detection that can provide better code quality</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Generic tools, supporting multiple languages or abstractions</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Domain-specific tools</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Techniques and properties of language design for increased comprehension</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">- Techniques and tools for the comprehension of cloud-scale systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Organizers</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Christoph Bockisch<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Twente</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Wouter de Borger<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>KU Leuven</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Kardelen Hatun<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Twente</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Bert Lagaisse<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>KU Leuven</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Haihan Yin<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Twente</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Important Dates</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Deadline Submission: January <span style="color: #ff7a00">7</span>th </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Notification of acceptance: January <span style="color: #ff7a00">28</span>th</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Camera-ready version: Feburary <span style="color: #ff7a00">8</span>th</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Workshop at AOSD: March <span style="color: #ff7a00">25</span>th</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Program Committee</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Shigeru Chiba, The University of Tokyo</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">David Lorenz, The Open University of Israel</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Leon Moonen, Simula Research Laboratory</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Lin Tan, University of Waterloo</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Christoph Bockisch, University of Twente</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Wouter De Borger, KU Leuven</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Kardelen Hatun, University of Twente</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Bert Lagaisse, KU Leuven</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Haihan Yin, University of Twente</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Further Information</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Web site: <a href="http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/cocos">http://trese.ewi.utwente.nl/workshops/cocos</a><span style="color: #ff7a00">2013</span>/</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Monaco; ">Contact: Haihan Yin (<a href="mailto:h.yin@utwente.nl">h.yin@utwente.nl</a>)</div></body></html>