General talk about software patterns

[Daniel Lohmann <daniel.lohmann AT informatik.uni-erlangen.de>]

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      Seventh AOSD Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns
                 for Infrastructure Software (ACP4IS)

                            March 31, 2008
                          Brussels, Belgium

                http://aosd.net/workshops/acp4is/2008

        A one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the
                  Seventh International Conference on
           Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'08),
                 March 31 - April 4, 2008, Brussels, Belgium
                      http://aosd.net/conference

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DESCRIPTION

ACP4IS provides a highly interactive forum for researchers and
developers to discuss the application of and relationships between
aspects, components, and patterns within modern "systems
infrastructure" software: e.g., application servers, middleware,
virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, embedded systems,
web services and other software that provides general services
for higher-level applications.

Topics of interest include:

- Approaches that combine or relate component-, pattern-, and
  aspect-based techniques

- Aspect languages for infrastructure software

- Container-, ORB-, and system-based separation of concerns

- Support for Web services in middleware infrastructure

- Architectural techniques for particular system concerns, e.g.,
  security, static and dynamic optimization

- Aspect mining within infrastructure software

- Application- or domain-specific optimization of systems

- Reasoning and optimization across architecture layers

- Resource consumption of AOP approaches

- Timing behavior of AO-code

- Aspects and patterns for real-time and embedded systems

- Dimensions of infrastructure software quality including
  comprehensibility, configurability, reliability, evolvability,
  scalability

- Quantitative and qualitative evaluations


ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted position and
technical papers, 3-6 pages in length.  Papers should be
electronically submitted as PDF documents in ACM format through
the ACP4IS 2008 online submission system.  Paper submissions will be
reviewed by the workshop program committee and designated reviewers.
Papers will be evaluated based on technical quality, originality,
relevance, and presentation.


PUBLICATION OF PAPERS

Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings in the ACM
digital library. Excellent contributions will additionally be selected
for publication in a special ACP4IS journal issue (IEE) planned for
end of 2008.


IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission Deadline:           January 18, 2008
- Notification of Acceptance:    February 8, 2008
- Workshop:                      March 31, 2008


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Julia Lawall, DIKU
- Gilles Muller, École des Mines de Nantes
- Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund
- Aleksandra Tesanovic, Philips Research Laboratories
- Charles Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo
- Jeff Gray, University of Alabama
- Bram Adams, Ghent University
- Michael Haupt, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, University of Potsdam
- Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Eddy Truyen, KU Leuven
- Robert Grimm, NYU
- Hridesh Rajan, Iowa State University

ORGANIZERS

- Celina Gibbs, University of Victoria, Canada
- Daniel Lohmann, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
- Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia, Canada

STEERING COMMITEE

- Eric Eide, University of Utah
- Olaf Spinczyk, University of Dortmund
- Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria
- David Lorenz, University of Virginia