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First Call for Papers
2nd workshop on
Relationships and Associations in Object-Oriented Languages
RAOOL'09
co-located with ECOOP'09
http://www.lst.inf.ethz.ch/raool09/
PURPOSE
Relationships and roles are important concepts used in many areas of
computer science (e.g., conceptual modelling, database systems,
ontology) but are not "first-class" constructs in modern programming
languages. In current object-oriented languages, programmers are forced
to implement relationships or roles "by hand" (using pointers and
collections), leading to a disconnect between models and
implementations. This disconnect causes numerous problems across the
software engineering life cycle: most importantly, implementations
become cumbersome because relationships are represented by several code
fragments, scattered throughout the application code, resulting in code
fragility. Since current mainstream languages lack appropriate support
for heap querying, programmers are further burdened with crafting code
to query relationships and check their consistency. As software systems
grow and become increasingly complex this disconnect causes problems not
only for implementers but also for code maintainers.
In response, a growing number of researchers in the software community
are investigating adding first-class support for relationships and heap
queries to current programming languages. Interest in first-class
support for such constructs is not limited to programming language
research. Program analysis, for instance, could benefit from the
decreased use of pointers and transparent persistence could benefit from
explicit queries.
In this workshop, we plan to gather researchers in the programming
language community who are working on relationship-based systems to
share their research and to discuss the future of relationship-based
constructs in programming languages. We are interested in input from
members of the programming language community but also in input from
members of related areas (e.g. databases, model-driven development) and
domains (e.g., program analysis, orthogonal persistence, type systems)
who are using relationships. Some particular areas of interest are:
- relationship-based programming languages
- using libraries/frameworks to support relationships
- first-class queries
- database integration
- serialization or persistence using relationships
- system and framework design using relationships
- understanding or visualizing programs
- ownership and related techniques
- dynamic analysis of relationship usage
SUBMISSIONS
Prospective participants are invited to submit a paper that should fall
into one of two categories:
- long paper (max. 8 pages) that describes new work on the above or
related topics
- short paper (max. 4 pages) that can describe work-in-progress, report
on experiences gained, question accepted wisdom, raise challenging
open problems, or propose speculative new approaches
The selected papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: April 8, 2009
Notification: May 8, 2009
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Uwe Assmann (TU Dresden, Germany)
Guido Boella (University of Torino)
Achim D. Brucker (SAP Research, Germany)
Stephane Ducasse (INRIA Lille, France)
Susan Eisenbach (Imperial College London, UK)
Manuel Fahndrich (Microsoft Research, USA)
James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
David J. Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Friedrich Steimann (Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany)
Mandana Vaziri (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Stephanie Balzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Gavin Bierman (Microsoft Research, UK)
Stephen Nelson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Frank Tip (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
