Call for Research Papers

conference
March 31st - April 4th, 2008, Brussels, Belgium
Call for Research Papers

Important Dates
Research paper abstract submission:	Friday, Oct. 5th, 2007, 23:59 (Samoan)
Research paper submission:	Friday, Oct. 12, 2007, 23:59 (Samoan)
Acceptance notification:	Friday, Dec. 21, 2007
Camera-ready copy:	Friday, Feb. 8, 2008, 23:59 (Samoan)

The International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) is the premier conference on software modularity that crosscuts traditional abstraction boundaries. AOSD brings together researchers and practitioners working on such software modularity in the fields of software engineering, programming languages, and software systems. AOSD welcomes cutting-edge research papers in all of these disciplines, ranging from foundational studies to industrial experience reports. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

software engineering:

software architectures
software product lines
aspects and modular reasoning
evaluation and metrics for aspect systems
requirements
testing and verification
life-cycle integration and traceability

programming languages:

formal semantics and type systems
concepts for modular reasoning
expressive pointcut languages
aspect composition and interference
domain-specific aspect languages
compilation and static program analysis
execution environments and JIT optimisations

connection to related concepts and paradigms:

generative programming
meta-programming and reflection
virtual classes and advanced dispatch

monads, type classes, etc.

applications:

distributed/concurrent systems
middleware, web services, and networking
pervasive computing
runtime verification
performance improvement

tool support:

evolution and reverse engineering
aspect mining
crosscutting program views
interactive development environments

Research Program Committee
Mehmet Aksit		The Netherlands
Paulo Borba		Brasil
Shigeru Chiba		Japan
Yvonne Coady		Canada
Maja D'Hondt		France
Eric Eide		USA
Erik Ernst		Denmark
Jeff Gray		USA
Klaus Havelund		USA
Robert Hirschfeld		Germany
Wouter Joosen		Belgium
Gregor Kiczales		Canada
John Lefor		Germany
Karl Lieberherr		USA
David H. Lorenz		Israel
Hidehiko Masuhara		Japan
Mira Mezini		Germany
Todd Millstein		USA
Ana Moreira		Portugal
James Noble		New Zealand
Linda Northrop		USA
Harold Ossher		USA
Klaus Ostermann		Germany
Awais Rashid		UK
James Riely		USA
Martin Robillard		Canada
Mario Südholt		France
Damien Sereni		UK
Eric Wohlstadter		Canada

Submissions will be carried out electronically via CyberChair. Papers must be submitted in either PDF format or as PostScript documents that are interpretable by Ghostscript. Submissions should be no more than 12 pages (including bibliography and any appendices) in standard ACM SIGPLAN conference format: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. Submissions should use a 9pt size font.

The submission deadline, length limitations and formatting instructions are firm: any submissions that deviate from these will be rejected by the research program chair. Submitted papers must adhere to SIGPLAN’s republication policy. Each paper should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, clearly identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Where appropriate, systems and experimental data should be made available on the web. Authors should strive to make the technical content of their papers understandable to a broad audience.

Once you have read the above guidelines you may begin the submission process for papers and abstracts .

The Research Program Chair is Mira Mezini (Technische Universität Darmstadt). Prospective authors are welcome to direct any queries about the research program to the chair at researchaosd.net.