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3rd Asian Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOAsia 2007)
(http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~aoasia/workshop/COMPSAC07/)

Co-located with the 31st Annual International Computer Software and
Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2007)
Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2007
(http://conferences.computer.org/compsac/2007/)

Overview

Separation of concerns is one of the main tenets of software engineering
allowing developers to reason about a problem in sensible portions,
regardless which phase of the lifecycle they are working in. Many
researchers
in software engineering are actually in the field of Aspect-Orientation
without realizing it. Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is a
new technique to support separation of concerns in software development.
With the growing acceptance of AOSD as a software development technique,
dedicated support for analysis of aspectual artifacts is needed at the
various stages of software development. Developers need to be able to
understand, visualize, specify, verify and test aspect-oriented
requirements, architectures, designs and programs to make it an
industrially viable technology. Tool support is further needed for the
identification of latent (non-modularized) crosscutting concerns in
legacy software and for their subsequent refactoring into aspects.
AOAsia is an international workshop on AOSD initially organized by
Asia-related researchers in cooperation with many researchers all over
the world. One of the aims for this workshop is to bring together
researchers, who are tackling the problems of advanced separation of
concerns, but who are not yet connected to this growing, thriving
community. The tone of the workshop will be such that a newcomer to the
field of AO will receive an introduction of what AO is, and how it fits
in with their research. The workshop also intends to provide a forum for
discussion of new ideas, new directions, and new applications.

Topics of Interest

We invite novel contributions on any AOSD topics including (but not
limited to)

• Applications and tools
• Software architectures and product lines
• Aspect interference and composition
• Contracts, components and aspects
• Model driven architecture and UML
• Software development methods and patterns
• Reverse engineering and refactoring
• Reflection and meta programming
• Semantics and type systems
• Verification, validation and testing
• Distributed systems and middleware
• Evolution and adaptability
• Evaluation and metrics

Workshop Format

The workshop will be in three phases: An instructional phase, a research
presentation phase, and a community building phase. The instructional
portion of the workshop will involve short talks on what
aspect-orientation is, and how it looks at various phases of the
lifecycle. This will facilitate new participants' understanding of
aspects, and will help them better benefit from and contribute to the
rest of the workshop. It will also serve as a basis for discourse among
current AO researchers. The presentation portion of the workshop will
involve talks by those with accepted research papers. These talks will
expose the latest AO research, giving newcomers a quick understanding of
the current state of the art in AO, and paving the way for a rich
community building exercise. In the final phase of the workshop, we will
focus on bringing together groups of like-researchers, and finding
commonalities and potential avenues for collaboration. Researchers will
be initially grouped based on research or short papers, and newcomers
can join groups as they see is appropriate. The groups will then discuss
their own respective research in more depth, and newcomers can ask
questions about AO from experts in the area in a more intimate setting.

Submissions

There are two ways to get involved with the workshop: by presenting
novel research, or by presenting general insights into AOSD.

Research Papers: (Due: March 2, 2007)

Research papers should present preliminary work into the state of the
art of AOSD. Papers must be submitted electronically via the AOAsia 2007
Submission Page (http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/2007/AOASIA). The format
of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference
proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three
reviewers. Research papers can be submitted as regular papers (6 page
limit) or short papers (3 page limit), and the acceptance will depend on
reviewer feedback. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings of the 31st IEEE Computer Software and Applications
Conference (COMPSAC 2007) by the IEEE CS Press. At least one of the
authors of each accepted paper must register as a full participant of
the workshop to have the paper published in the proceedings.

Essays, Positions, and Pedagogical Submissions: (Due: June 4, 2007)

We also invite papers that reflect on AOSD in general, and that can
provide insights into the world of AO. These papers do not need to
introduce novel research, but instead should be composed as
instructional, essay-style, or opinion on AOSD. These submissions will
be published on the workshop website.

Important Dates

Research submission due: March 2, 2007 Notification of acceptance:
March 30, 2007
Camera-ready copy and author registration due: April 30 2004
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Essays, Positions, and Pedagogical Submission due: June 4, 2007
Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2007
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Workshop date: July 24, 2007

Program Committee (to be formed)

Doo-Hwan Bae (KAIST)
Elisa Baniassad (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Kung Chen (National Chengchi University)
Shigeru Chiba (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Robert Filman (Google)
Jan Hannemann (University of Tokyo)
Siau-Cheng Khoo (National University of Singapore)
G=FCnter Kniesel (University of Bonn)
Hidehiko Masuhara (University of Tokyo)
Hong Mei (Peking University)
Gail Murphy (University of British Columbia)
Awais Rashid (Lancaster University)
Shangping Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Naoyasu Ubayashi (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University)
Jianjun Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Organizers

Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kung Chen, National Chengchi University
Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Insttitue of Technology
Jan Hannemann, University of Tokyo
Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo
Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology
Jianjun Zhao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Primary Organizer)

General Inquiries

For general enquires of this workshop, please contact Jianjun Zhao
(zhao-jj@cs.sjtu.edu.cn) or other workshop organizers.