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******************************************************************** 9th AOSD Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS) March 16, 2010 Rennes and Saint Malo, France http://aosd.net/workshops/acp4is/2010 A one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'10), March 15 -- March 19, 2010, Rennes and Saint Malo, France http://aosd.net/conference ******************************************************************** The importance of "systems infrastructure" software - including application servers, virtual machines, middleware, compilers, and operating systems - is increasing as application programmers demand better and higher-level support for software development. Vendors that provide superior support for application development have a competitive advantage. The software industry as a whole benefits as the base level of abstraction increases, thus decreasing the need for application programmers to continually "reinvent the wheel". These trends, however, mean that the demands on infrastructure software are increasing. More and more features and requirements are being "pushed down" into the infrastructure, and the developers of systems software need better tools and techniques for handling these increased demands. The design and implementation of systems-level software presents unique opportunities and challenges for AOSD techniques. These challenges include the need to address the inherent complexity of infrastructure software; the need for strong assurances of correct and predictable behavior; the need for maximum run-time performance; and the necessity of dealing with the large body of existing systems software components. This workshop aims to provide a highly interactive forum for researchers and developers to discuss the application of and relationships between aspects, components, and patterns within modern infrastructure software. The goal is to put aspects, components, and patterns into a common reference frame and to build connections between the software engineering and systems communities. This year's workshop puts special focus on the challenges in system's programming introduced by multi-core platforms. As hardware-supported parallelization becomes mainstream, there is an increasing pressure on systems infrastructure to exploit this new parallelism to its fullest. However, the non-modular nature of parallel execution, and the numerous levels at which parallelism can be achieved (application, systems infrastructure, hardware or even a combination) make it hard to come up with an intuitive, yet efficient parallel architecture. We solicit novel ideas and experience reports on this emerging research area. Other suggested topics for position papers include, but are not restricted to: - Approaches that combine or relate component-, pattern-, and aspect-based techniques - Dimensions of infrastructure software quality including comprehensibility, configurability (by implementers), customizability (by users), reliability, evolvability, scalability, and run-time characteristics such as performance and code size - Merits and downsides of container-, ORB-, and system-based separation of concerns - Architectural techniques for particular system concerns, e.g., security, static and dynamic optimization, and real-time behaviour - Design patterns for systems software - Component, pattern, and aspect "mining" within systems code - Application- or domain-specific optimization of systems - Reasoning and optimization across architectural layers - Quantitative and qualitative evaluations AGENDA The workshop will be structured to encourage fruitful discussions and build connections between workshop participants. To this end, approximately half of the workshop time will be devoted to short presentations of accepted papers, with the remaining half devoted to semi-structured discussion groups. Participants will be expected to have read the accepted papers prior to the workshop, to help ensure focused discussions. A novelty at ACP4IS '10 is that we will invite workshop attendees to give "spontaneous" short presentations on their work if they see a relation to topics being presented and discussed at the workshop. These presentations will be limited to about ten minutes, and are intended to provide additional structured input to discussions. Spontaneous presentations will be asked for during the workshop; no paper needs to be submitted, and no publication is associated with them. There will be a session dedicated to them, just prior to discussion. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted position papers, 3-5 pages in length. All papers must be submitted as PDF documents in ACM format through the ACP4IS 2010 online submission system found at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acp4is10. Paper submissions will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and by designated reviewers. Papers will be evaluated based on technical quality, originality, relevance, and presentation. PUBLICATION OF PAPERS All accepted papers will be posted at the workshop web site prior to the workshop date, to give all participants the opportunity to read them before the workshop. In addition, the accepted papers will be published in a Workshop Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: December 21, 2009 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2010 Final papers due: TBA Workshop: March 16, 2010 PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente - Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology - Julia Lawall, DIKU - Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo - Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University - Doug Simon, Sun Microsystems Laboratories - Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund - Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia - Roel Wuyts, IMEC and K.U. Leuven - more to be announced ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Bram Adams, Queen's University - Michael Haupt, Hasso Plattner Institut - Daniel Lohmann, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg STEERING COMMITTEE - Eric Eide, University of Utah - Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund - Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria - David Lorenz, University of Virginia