[Opencxx-users] RAM-SE04: ECOOP Workshop on Reflection, AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution (CFP)

[Walter C. <ca...@di...>]

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                                   RAM-SE'04 
     ECOOP Workshop on Reflection, AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution
                    Oslo, Norway, 14th or 15th of June 2004
                     http://homes.dico.unimi.it/RAM-SE04.html
                             Call for Contributions

*Workshop Description*
Software evolution and adaptation is a research area in continuous evolution,
and offering stimulating challenges for both academic and industrial
researchers.

The evolution of software systems, to face unexpected situations or just for
improving their features, relies on software engineering techniques and
methodologies. Nowadays a similar approach is not applicable in all situations
e.g., for evolving nonstopping systems or systems whose code is not available.
 
Features of reflection such as transparency, separation of concerns, and
extensibility seem to be perfect tools to aid the dynamic evolution of running
systems.  Aspect-oriented programming can simplify code instrumentation whereas
techniques that rely on meta-data can be used to inspect the system and to
extract the necessary data for designing the heuristic that the reflective and
aspect-oriented mechanism use for managing the evolution. 

We feel the necessity to investigate the benefits brought by the use of these
techniques on the evolution of object-oriented software systems. In particular
we would determine how these techniques can be integrated together with more
traditional approaches to evolve a system and the benefits we get from their
use.

This workshop can be a good meeting-point for people working in the software
evolution area, and an occasion to present reflective, aspect-oriented, and
meta-data based solutions to evolutionary problems, and new ideas straddling
these areas.
    
*Workshop Topics*
Every contribution that exploits reflective techniques, aspect-oriented
programming and/or meta-data to evolve software systems is welcome. Specific
topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:

 - reflective middleware and environments for software evolution;
 - adaptative software components;
 - feature-oriented adaptation;
 - aspect interference and composition for software evolution;
 - evolution and adaptability;
 - MOF, code annotations and other meta-data facilities for software evolution;
 - intercession and introspection;
 - software evolution tangling concerns.

To ensure lively discussion at the workshop, the organizing committee will
choose the contributions on the basis of topic similarity that will permit the
beginning of new collaborations. To grant an easy dissemination of the proposed
ideas and to favorite an ideas interchange among the participants, accepted
contributions will be made available in advance over the Web and an hardcopy of
the contributions will be distributed to participants at the workshop.  

*Workshop Format*

The workshop is a full day meeting. Part of the workshop will be devoted to
contribution of papers, and part will be devoted to panels and (we hope) to
interchange of ideas between participants.  The workshop has to provide a
discussion forum about the evolution of the sector and has to permit new
cooperations to established with other researchers. The workshop will be
particularly useful for young researchers who will be able to compare their
ideas with other people working on the topic.

*Submissions*

Position papers (max 5-pages long) must be sent electronically (Postscript or
PDF file) to 

                             ra...@di...

Extended version of most interesting contributions, that have benefited from
the workshop discussions, will be collected as a book or as a special issue of
a journal that will be published after the workshop (to be defined).

*Organizing Committee*

Walter Cazzola DICo University of Milano
Shigeru Chiba  Tokyo Institute of Technology
Gunter Saake   University of Magdeburg

*Important Dates*

Submission deadline:    5th April 2004
Notification date:     26th April 2004 
Workshop date:         14th or 15th June 2004