Track on Programming for Separation of Concerns @ ACM SAC 2006
Home page: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~tramonta/PSC06/
Call for Papers
===============
Complex systems are intrinsically expensive to develop because
several concerns must be addressed simultaneously. Once the
development phase is over, these systems are often hard to reuse and
evolve because their concerns are intertwined and making apparently
small changes force programmers to modify many parts. Moreover,
legacy systems are difficult to evolve due to additional problems,
including: lack of a well defined architecture, use of several
programming languages and paradigms, etc.
Separation of concerns (SoC) techniques such as computational
reflection, aspect-oriented programming and subject-oriented
programming have been successfully employed to produce systems whose
concerns are well separated, thereby facilitating reuse and evolution
of system components or systems as a whole. However, a criticism of
techniques such as computational reflection is that they may bring
about degraded performance compared with conventional software
engineering techniques. Besides, it is difficult to precisely
evaluate the degree of flexibility for reuse and evolution of systems
provided by the adoption of these SoC techniques. Other serious
issues come to mind, such as: is the use of these techniques double-
edged? Can these systems suffer a ripple effect, whereby a small
change in some part has unexpected and potentially dangerous effects
on the whole?
The Programming for Separation of Concerns (PSC) track at the 2006
Symposium on Applied Computing will aim to bring together researchers
to share experiences in using SoC techniques, and explore the
practical problems of existing tools, environments, etc. The track
will address questions like: Can performance degradation be limited?
Are unexpected changes dealt with by reflective or aspect-oriented
systems? Is there any experience of long term evolution that shows a
higher degree of flexibility of systems developed with such
techniques? How such techniques cope with architectural erosion? Are
these techniques helpful to deal with evolution of legacy systems?
Submissions will be encouraged, but not limited, to the following
topics:
- Software architectures
- Configuration management systems
- Software reuse and evolution
- Performance issues for metalevel and aspect oriented systems
- Software engineering tools
- Consistency, integrity
- Security
- Generative approaches
- Analysis and evaluation of software systems
- Practical experiences in using reflection, composition filters,
aspect- and subject- orientation
- Evolution of legacy systems
- Reflective and aspect oriented middleware for distributed systems
- Formal methods for metalevel systems
Important Dates
===============
Paper Due: September 3, 2005
Author Notification: October 15, 2005
Camera Ready: November 5, 2005
Submissions guidelines
======================
Original papers from the above mentioned or other related areas will
be considered. Only full papers about original and unpublished
research are sought. Parallel submission to other conferences or
tracks is not acceptable.
Papers can be submitted recurring to the web (http://
milo.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2006/) or (any problem should occur) by email to
Ian Welch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Emiliano Tramontana
([EMAIL PROTECTED]). The subject of the email should be PSC06
Submission.
Please make sure that the authors name and affiliation do not appear
on the submitted paper, but send them as a separate file.
Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly
review submissions to the track. Accepted papers will be published in
the ACM SAC proceedings.
Program Co-Chairs
=================
Antonella Di Stefano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering,
Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY
Giuseppe Pappalardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics,
Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY
Corrado Santoro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering,
Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY
Emiliano Tramontana ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics,
Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, ITALY
Ian Welch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Program Committee
=================
Federico Bergenti, Parma University, Italy
Walter Cazzola, Milano University, Italy
Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yvonne Coady, Victoria University, Canada
Angelo Corsaro, Selex SI, Italy
Hector Duran Limon, Monterrey Institute of Technology, Mexico
Marco Fargetta, Catania University, Italy
Ira Forman, IBM, Austin USA
Maciej Koutny, Newcastle University, UK
Joe Loyall, BBN Technologies, USA
Hideiko Masuhara, Tokyo University,Japan
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
Francois Taiani, Lancaster University, UK
Eric Tanter, University of Chile, Chile
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, California University, Irvine, USA
Stephen Vinoski, Iona Technologies, USA
Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA
_________________________________________________________________________________
mozart-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
