Modularity '15

March 16-19, 2015

Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

(The Computer Science building at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.)

Papers due: December 15, 2014. 
Notifications: January 15, 2015
Final papers due: February 15, 2015

The Modularity conference is interested in papers that encourage long-term thinking (“blue sky” papers), short position papers that discuss recent ideas, and industry papers that discuss lessons learned or industrial problems related to modularity of software systems.  These papers are limited to 4 pages.

Blue Sky Ideas Track

Following the lead of the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium, we invite submissions to the Blue Sky Ideas track. The emphasis of this track is on visionary ideas, long term challenges, and opportunities for research that are outside of the current mainstream topics in the Modularity conference.

Submissions will be judged on the extent to which they expand the possibilities and horizons of the field or challenge existing assumptions prevalent in the field.

Submissions are limited to at most four (4) pages. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings companion (and in the ACM digital library).

Position Papers Track

To encourage discussions about current work and problems of interest to the community, we invite submissions to the Position Papers track. The emphasis of this track is on clearly stated positions about either problems that should be solved or approaches to solving these problems.

Submissions will be judged on originality and the creativity of the problems or approaches described, as well as how compelling the paper’s argument is.

Submissions are limited to at most four (4) pages. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings companion (and in the ACM digital library).

Industry Track

To help the research community better understand the problems of industry, we invited submissions to the Industry track. The emphasis of this track is on clear descriptions of industrial case studies. Of most interest are systems at very large scales that exhibit novel challenges. Papers should describe how the approach taken in building these systems was successful (or not), and what lessons were learned.

Submissions will be judged on the interest and broader applicability of the ideas and lessons learned, and how clearly these are presented in the paper.

Submissions are limited to at most four (4) pages. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings companion (and in the ACM digital library), unless authors request otherwise. If no paper is desired, it is possible to submit a PowerPoint or other slide presentation with detailed notes.

Submission Guidelines

All submissions must conform to both the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions and the SIGPLAN Republication Policy. The same paper cannot be simultaneously submitted to other conferences or journals. In case of doubt, please get in touch with the Program Chair.

Papers are to be submitted electronically to EasyChair.

Please use https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=modularity15  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. Papers for these tracks are limited to 4 pages in this format.

All submitted papers are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers from all tracks will appear in the Modularity'15 Proceedings Companion in the ACM Digital Library.

We are still in the process of forming the various program committees for these tracks. But if you have questions, you can write to Gary T. Leavens (leavens@eecs.ucf.edu).

Blue Sky Track Program Committee

Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida (chair)

Harold Ossher, IBM

Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University

Awais Rashid, Lancaster University

Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia

Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology

Position Papers Program Committee

Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida (chair)

Erik Ernst, Google

Marieke Huisman, University of Twente

Henrique Rebêlo, Federal University of Pernambuco

Murali Sitaraman, Clemson University

Industry Papers Program Committee

Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida

Steven Fraser, Agile Engineering, Tech Transfer & Innovation

Joseph Kiniry, Galois, Inc.

Richard Gabriel, IBM

Dennis Mancl, Alcatel-Lucent

Robby, Kansas State University