Important
Dates
Paper Due Sept. 8, 2006
Author Notification Oct.16,2006
Camera Ready Oct. 30, 2006
Track held March 11-15, 2007
Programme
Co-Chairs
Yvonne Coady
Victoria University,
Canada
Corrado Santoro
Catania University, Italy
Emiliano Tramontana
Catania University, Italy
Ian Welch
Victoria University, New Zealand
Steering Committee
Antonella Di Stefano
Catania University,
Italy
Giuseppe Pappalardo
Catania University,
Italy
Programme Committee
Mehmet Aksit
Twente University, NL
Federico Bergenti
Parma University, Italy
Walter Cazzola
Milano University, Italy
Shigeru Chiba
Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Japan
Angelo Corsaro
Selex SI, Italy
Marco Fargetta
Catania University, Italy
Stefan Hanenberg
University of
Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Maciej Koutny
Newcastle University, UK
Luigi Mancini
University of Roma - La Sapienza,
Italy
Hidehiko Masuhara
Tokyo University, Japan
Awais Rashid
Lancaster University, UK
Douglas C. Schmidt
Vanderbilt University, USA
Robert Stroud
Newcastle University, UK
Francois Taiani
Lancaster University, UK
Eric Tanter
University of Chile, Chile
Nanbor Wang
Tech-X Corporation,
USA
Carl (Xiaoqing) Wu
University of Alabama at
Birmingham, USA
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Motivation
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?
Goal
The Programming for Separation of Concerns (PSC) track at the 2007 Symposium on
Applied Computing aims 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?
Authors are invited to submit original papers. Submissions are 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
Submission 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 submission system
within September the 8th, 2006
or (any problem should occur) by email
to Ian Welch ian (at) mcs.vuw.ac.nz
or Emiliano Tramontana
tramontana (at) dmi.unict.it.
The subject of the email should be PSC Submission.
Please make sure that the authors name and affiliation do not appear on the
submitted paper, but send them as a separate file.
Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review
submissions to the track.
At least one author of the accepted paper should register and
participate in the PSC track.
Accepted papers will be published in
the annual conference ACM 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.
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