5th AOSD Workshop on Aspects, Components, and Patterns for InfrastructureSoftware (ACP4IS)

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

March 21, 2006
Bonn, Germany
http://aosd.net/workshops/acp4is/2006/cfp.htm

A one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the
Fifth International Conference on
Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD.06),
March 20-24, 2006, Bonn, Germany
http://aosd.net/conference


The importance of "systems infrastructure" software --- including
application servers, virtual machines, middleware, compilers, and
operating systems --- is increasing as application programmers demand
better and higher-level support for software development. Vendors that
provide superior support for application development have a competitive
advantage. The software industry as a whole benefits as the base level
of abstraction increases, thus decreasing the need for application
programmers to continually "reinvent the wheel."

These trends, however, mean that the demands on infrastructure software
are increasing. More and more features and requirements are being
"pushed down" into the infrastructure, and the developers of systems
software need better tools and techniques for handling these increased
demands. In particular, developers need better techniques for
modularizing, combining, and analyzing the many features that are now
being demanded from infrastructure software.

This meeting of the ACP4IS workshop will focus on the particular topic
of extra-functional features and their interactions. Extra-functional
features (sometimes called non-functional features) include features
such as dependability, performance, footprint, testability, etc.
Aspects, components, and patterns are currently not widely used to
implement extra-functional features in infrastructure software. The
goal of this year's workshop is to better understand why this is the
case and how these techniques relate, individually and in combination,
to the inherent challenges of extra-functional feature interactions in
systems infrastructure. Critical issues include dependability of
infrastructure software; the integrity, availability and reliability of
the provided infrastructure; configurability of systems infrastructure;
testability; maintainability; and susceptibility to repair and
enhancement over time. Suggested topics for position papers include,
but are not restricted to approaches that use, combine, or relate
aspects, components, and patterns-based techniques for:

* Supporting extra-functional features of infrastructure software
* Enforcing and guaranteeing extra-functional features
* Composition of extra-functional features
* Dealing with emergent extra-functional features
* Dealing with conflicting extra-functional requirements
* Resolving extra-functional features interactions
* Configurability of extra-functional features in infrastructure software
* Specific infrastructure domains
* Fault monitoring, prevention, and tolerance
* Dependability estimation
* Quantitative and qualitative evaluations

AGENDA

The workshop will be structured to encourage fruitful discussions and
build connections between workshop participants. To this end,
approximately half of the workshop time will be devoted to short
presentations of accepted papers, with the remaining half devoted to
semi-structured discussion groups. To help ensure focused discussions,
participants will be expected to read accepted papers and submit
written comments on some of those papers prior to the workshop.
Participants will work with the workshop organizers prior to the
workshop to establish topics for discussion groups.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted position papers,
2-4 pages in length. All papers must be submitted electronically in
PDF, Postscript, or MS Word format. Papers should be submitted via the
workshop's Web site. 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.

All accepted papers will be posted at the workshop Web site prior to
the workshop date, to give all participants the opportunity to read
them before the workshop. The accepted papers will also be published
in a Workshop Proceedings as a technical report.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: January 22, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: February 10, 2006
Workshop: March 21, 2006

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria
Adrian Colyer, Interface21
Remi Douence, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Eric Eide, University of Utah
Marc E. Fiuczynski, Princeton University
Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto
Julia Lawall, DIKU
David H. Lorenz, University of Virginia
Christa Schwanninger, Siemens AG
Olaf Spinczyk, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Aleksandra Tesanovic, Linkoping University
Arno Schmidmeier, AspectSoft
Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia
(Additional members pending.)

WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria
David H. Lorenz, University of Virginia
Olaf Spinczyk, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Eric Wohlstadter, University of British Columbia

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D. H. Lorenz
University of Virginia