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Call for Papers ============ Special Issue of the Journal "Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development" on Modularity Constructs in Programming Languages Motivation ======== The quest to improve the modularity of software systems has been the main motivation for many programming language constructs. Modularity is an important topic in all areas and communities of programming language design, albeit with slightly different interpretations of the term modularity. The purpose of this special issue is to collect a set of papers that open new perspectives in programming language modularity. Submissions ========== Papers may address any aspect of modularity constructs, including: * new directions in aspect-oriented modularity, alternatives to the pointcut-advice style * solutions to the so-called "expression problem" and related modularity problems * module constructs from functional programming, such as type classes or functors and datatype-generic and polytypic programming * novel interpretations of modularity, such as its relation to specification languages, knowledge representation or theorem proving, or the tension between information hiding and separation of concerns * module constructs from object-oriented programming, such as mixins, traits, or virtual classes * language constructs for generic programming * reflection and meta-object protocols * language constructs for variability management and feature-oriented programming * critiques of and reflections on existing modularity constructs Manuscripts should be formatted using the LNCS formatting guidelines, and should be submitted in PDF format. The paper can be submitted at the following URL: http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/TAOSD/servlet/Conference Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Guest Editors =========== Gary T. Leavens, Univ. of Central Florida, USA Klaus Ostermann, Univ. of Marburg, Germany Important dates =========== Submission deadline: August 2, 2010 First Round Review Notification: October 7, 2010 Re-Submission Revised Papers: December 31, 2010 Second Round Review Notifications: February 28, 2011 Submission of Camera-Ready Copy: March 30, 2011 Projected Publication Date of Special Issue: July 2011 News on the special issue will be announced at: http://www.informatik.uni-marburg.de/~kos/mcipl/