CALL FOR PAPERS - SAC 2008
The 23rd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 16 - 20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceara', Brazil
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2008
Track on Programming for Separation of Concerns @ ACM SAC 2008
Home page: http://www.dmi.unict.it/~tramonta/PSC08/
Call for Papers
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Complex systems are intrinsically expensive to develop because
several concerns must be addressed simultaneously. Once the
development phase is over, these systems are often hard to reuse and
evolve because their concerns are intertwined and making apparently
small changes force programmers to modify many parts. Moreover,
legacy systems are difficult to evolve due to additional problems,
including: lack of a well defined architecture, use of several
programming languages and paradigms, etc.
Separation of concerns (SoC) techniques such as computational
reflection, aspect-oriented programming and subject-oriented
programming have been successfully employed to produce systems whose
concerns are well separated, thereby facilitating reuse and evolution
of system components or systems as a whole. However, a criticism of
techniques such as computational reflection is that they may bring
about degraded performance compared with conventional software
engineering techniques. Besides, it is difficult to precisely
evaluate the degree of flexibility for reuse and evolution of systems
provided by the adoption of these SoC techniques. Other serious
issues come to mind, such as: is the use of these techniques double-
edged? Can these systems suffer a ripple effect, whereby a small
change in some part has unexpected and potentially dangerous effects
on the whole?
The Programming for Separation of Concerns (PSC) track at the 2008
Symposium on Applied Computing will aim to bring together researchers
to share experiences in using SoC techniques, and explore the
practical problems of existing tools, environments, etc. The track
will address questions like: Can performance degradation be limited?
Are unexpected changes dealt with by reflective or aspect-oriented
systems? Is there any experience of long term evolution that shows a
higher degree of flexibility of systems developed with such
techniques? How such techniques cope with architectural erosion? Are
these techniques helpful to deal with evolution of legacy systems?
Submissions will be encouraged, but not limited, to the following
topics:
- Software architectures
- Configuration management systems
- Software reuse and evolution
- Performance issues for metalevel and aspect oriented systems
- Software engineering tools
- Consistency, integrity and security
- Generative approaches
- Experiences in using reflection, composition filters, aspect- and
subject- orientation
- Evolution of legacy systems
- Reflective and aspect oriented middleware for distributed systems
- Modelling of SoC techniques to allow predictable outcomes from
their use
- Formal methods for metalevel systems
Important Dates
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Paper Due: September 8, 2007
Author Notification: October 16, 2007
Camera Ready: October 30, 2007
Submissions guidelines
======================
Original papers from the above mentioned or other related areas will
be considered. Only full papers about original and unpublished
research are sought. Parallel submission to other conferences or
tracks is not acceptable.
Papers can be submitted recurring to the web (http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/
SAC2008/) or (any problem should occur) by email to Ian Welch
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Emiliano Tramontana ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
The subject of the email should be PSC08 Submission.
Please make sure that the authors name and affiliation do not appear
on the submitted paper.
Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly
review submissions to the track. Accepted papers will be published in
the ACM SAC conference proceedings.
The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared
using the ACM format (guidelines will be given on the SAC website).
The maximum number of pages allowed for the final papers is five (5),
with the option, at additional cost, to add three (3) more pages. A
set of papers submitted to the PSC track and not accepted as full
papers will be selected as poster papers and published in the ACM
proceedings as 2-page papers.
A selected number of the best papers accepted at the PSC track will
be invited for expansion and for a possible publication at a special
issue of a Journal.
Program Co-Chairs
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Yvonne Coady ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dept. of Computer Science,
University of Victoria, Canada
Corrado Santoro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics,
Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, Italy
Emiliano Tramontana ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics,
Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, Italy
Ian Welch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Steering Committee
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Antonella Di Stefano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Dept. of Computer and Telecommunication Engineering,
Engineering Faculty, University of Catania, Italy
Giuseppe Pappalardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
Dept. of Computer Science and Mathematics,
Computer Science Faculty, University of Catania, Italy
Program Committee
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Mehmet Aksit, Twente University, Netherland
Federico Bergenti, Parma University, Italy
Fernando Castor Filho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Walter Cazzola, Milano University, Italy
Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Angelo Corsaro, Selex SI, Italy
Pascal Costanza, Vrije University, Belgium
Ira Forman, IBM Austin, USA
Stefan Hanenberg, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Robert Hirschfeld, Universitat Postdam, Germany
Maciej Koutny, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Stuart Marchall, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo University, Japan
David Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
Douglas Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
Eric Tanter, University of Chile, Chile
Nanbor Wang, Tech-X Corporation, USA
Carl Wu, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Hui Wu, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
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