GPCE 2004 First Call for Demonstrations

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FIRST CALL FOR TOOL DEMONSTRATIONS

Third International Conference on
Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'04)

Vancouver, October 24-28, 2004
co-located with OOPSLA 2004 and ISMM 2004

Application pending for ACMSIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Sponsorship

http://gpce04.gpce.org/CallForDemonstrations


Demonstrations Committee

* Simon Helsen (Chair), University of Waterloo, Canada
* William Cook, University of Texas at Austin, USA
* Frédéric Jouault, Université de Nantes, France

Important Dates

* Demonstration proposal submission: July 2, 2004
* Notification of acceptance: August 2, 2004
* Program posted on the conference website - TBA
* Conference: October 24-28, 2004

Overview

The conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering
offers practitioners and tool-developers an opportunity to give an
in-depth technical demonstration of products, tools, techniques or
approaches supporting program generation, domain-specific modeling,
model-driven software development or other aspects in the realm of
generative programming and component engineering. The demonstration
sessions are intended to stimulate discussions and feedback between
tool developers and tool users.

GPCE tool demonstrations typically show how tools are applied in
real world scenarios, for example, by considering a small case-study.
We explicitely invite proposals from both industry as well as
academia. Demonstrations will be selected on their technical content,
practical or academic relevance, and feasibility of the proposed
demonstration. While we encourage proposals for the demonstration
of commercial tools, we expect the presentation to address technical
issues. Product marketing is inappropriate for this forum. If there
are concerns with regard to the applicability of a demonstration or
tool, feel free to contact the demonstrations chair (demos04@gpce.org).

OOPSLA 2004 Co-location

Because GPCE 2004 is co-located with OOPSLA 2004 and because there
is possibly some conceptual overlap, GPCE demonstrations will be held
together with OOPSLA demonstrations. In practice, this means that
GPCE demonstrations will run as a parallel track next to OOPSLA
demonstrations in the same exhibition space. We expect that this
integration benefits both GPCE and OOPSLA conference attendants.

Organizational Issues

A demonstration session will be 45 minutes in length and will be
held twice over the course of the conference. It is centered around
a technical exposition of the tool, but the demonstrators should
provide time for questions from the public, either during the session
or at the end. Depending on resource availability, there will be time
and room for additional informal presentations and discussions.

Demonstration proposals, written according to the guidelines outlined
below, should be sent by e-mail to the demonstrations chair
(demos04@gpce.org). The deadline for proposals is July 2, 2004. Due
to the OOPSLA co-location, the GPCE and OOPSLA demonstrations chairs
reserve the right to transfer incoming proposals between the two
conferences whenever appropriate.

Presenters of accepted demonstrations will also be expected to provide
a two-page summary description to be published on the website and
handed out at the conference.

Proposal Guidelines

A proposal for demonstration has to be sent via e-mail to the
demonstration chair in either text, PDF or MS Word format and
should contain the following information:

1. A demonstration title
2. Name, organization, email, address, and phone number of the
contact person
3. Names and affiliations of the other presenters
4. A description (max 250 words) addressing the following issues:
* Problems addressed
* Relevance to Generative Programming or Component Engineering
* Uniqueness of design and implementation,
* Underlying implementation techniques and technologies used
* A description of what the audience will see and how the
demonstration will be run
5. A URL of a web site with additional information, if available
6. Hardware and presentation requirements

Proposals may be resent up to the submission deadline (please, indicate
clearly that your proposal is an update of a previous submission).

More Information

For additional information, clarification, or questions, please feel
free to contact the demonstrations chair (demos04@gpce.org)