<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">*** <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">MODULARITY</span> '<span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)">15</span> ***<br><br>14th International Conference on Modularity<br>
March 16-19, 2015<br>Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA<br><font color="#1155cc" face="arial, sans-serif"><u><a href="http://aosd.net/2015/" target="_blank">http://aosd.net/2015/</a></u></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font color="#1155cc"><u><br></u></font><br>*** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ***<br><br>* Research Results track<br> <font color="#1155cc" face="arial, sans-serif"><u><a href="http://aosd.net/2015/rrtrack" target="_blank">http://aosd.net/2015/rrtrack</a></u></font><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> August 4, 2014 (first round) - Paper submission<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> <b>October 10, 2014 </b></font><b>(second round) - Paper submission</b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>* Modularity Visions track<br> <font color="#1155cc" face="arial, sans-serif"><u><a href="http://aosd.net/2015/mvtrack" target="_blank">http://aosd.net/2015/mvtrack</a></u></font><br>
October. 3, 2014 - Abstract submission<br> October. 10, 2014 - Paper submission<br><br><br>========================================================================<br>*** RESEARCH RESULTS TRACK ***</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Research Topics</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Modularity'15 is looking for papers in all areas of software modularity. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
* 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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* 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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* 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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Tools: Crosscutting views; refactoring; evolution and reverse engineering; aspect mining; support for new language constructs.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* 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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* 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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* 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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important Dates</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* First round:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submission: August 4, 2014 (23:59 Baker Island / UTC-12)</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Notification: September 14, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Second round:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>
Submission: October 10, 2014 (23:59 Baker Island / UTC-12)</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Notification: December 7, 2014</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">* Camera ready: February 15, 2015</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submission Guidelines</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">All submissions must conform to both the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions and the SIGPLAN Republication Policy.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Papers are to be submitted electronically to CyberChair.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Please use <a href="http://cyberchairpro.borbala.net/modularitypapers/submit/" target="_blank">http://cyberchairpro.borbala.net/modularitypapers/submit/</a> 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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Program Committee Chair</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, USA (<a href="mailto:leavens@cs.ucf.edu" target="_blank">leavens@cs.ucf.edu</a>)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Program Committee</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Don Batory, University of Texas at Austin</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Eric Bodden, Fraunhofer SIT and TU Darmstadt</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Walter Cazzola, Università degli Studi di Milano</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cynthia Disenfeld, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Robert Dyer, Bowling Green State University</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Erik Ernst, Aarhus University</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Matthew Flatt, University of Utah</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Michael Haupt, Oracle Labs</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Marieke Huisman, University of Twente</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cristina Lopes, University of California Irvine</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Linda Northrop, Software Engineering Institute</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nate Nystrom, University of Lugano</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, The University of Hong Kong</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Awais Rashid, Lancaster University</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Henrique Rebêlo, Federal University of Pernambuco</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Martin Rinard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Norbert Siegmund, University of Passau</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Murali Sitaraman, Clemson University</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
External Review Committee</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Steven Edwards, Virginia Tech.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dan Grossman, University of Washington</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Görel Hedin, Lund University</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Peter Müller, ETH Zurich</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Éric Tanter, University of Chile</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the Program Committee Chair.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">========================================================================<br>*** MODULARITY VISIONS TRACK ***</div>
<div style><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Selection Process</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.) </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important Dates</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Abstracts due: October 3, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Papers due: October 10, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Notification: December 7, 2014</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Camera ready version due: February 15, 2015</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submission Guidelines</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Modularity Visions submissions must conform to both the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions and the SIGPLAN Republication Policy.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Papers are to be submitted electronically to EasyChair.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Program Committee Chair</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Program Committee</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Tijs van der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Richard Page, University of York</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Sean McDirmid, Microsoft Research</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ina Schaefer, Braunschweig University of Technology</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Berne</font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For More Information</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the Program Committee Chair, Eelco Visser, at <a href="mailto:modularity-visions@aosd.net" target="_blank">modularity-visions@aosd.net</a>.</div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#888888">
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