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    Workshop on Aspect Oriented Requirements Engineering and
        Architecture Design (Early Aspects 09)
            Call for Papers
        http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaICSE09/

        to be held in conjunction with ICSE 2009:
    31st InternationalConference on Software Engineering
        =09
            May 18, 2009
        Vancouver, Canada

*DESCRIPTION*

Early aspects are crosscutting concerns that exist in requirements analysis,
domain analysis and architecture design activities of software lifecycle. Work
on early aspects focuses on systematically identifying, modularizing, and
analyzing such crosscutting concerns and their impact at these early phases of
the software development.
The general aim of this workshop is to facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas
in requirements engineering, domain engineering, software architecture design,
and aspect-oriented software development in order to identify the problems and
potential solutions, and continue the maturation of Early Aspects as a
discipline. The present edition of the workshop will provide a forum for an
open set of early-aspects related topics, without restricting to a specific
theme or domain.

The specific objectives of this ICSE 2009 workshop are:
(a) Solicit submissions of new research on early aspects. This year we
    have extended the list of topics in other editions of the =
workshop
    with new topics of interest such as dynamic early aspects, =
evaluation
    of early aspects, early aspects in industry and =
composition-related
    issues for early aspects. Other early aspects papers are also =
welcome.
(b) Initiate the creation of a wiki of early aspects approaches,
    which will develop an up-to-date repository of work on early =
aspects,
    will be built up.

*TOPICS OF INTEREST*

The topics of the workshops include (but are not limited to) the following:

+ Aspect-oriented requirements engineering
    = Identification and modelling of aspects in requirements?
    = Composition of early aspects;
    = Use of requirements level aspects for conflict =
identification and resolution;
+ Aspect-oriented domain engineering
    = Deriving aspects from domain knowledge;
    = Composition of domain aspects;
    = Beyond well-known crosscutting concerns;
    = Linking early aspects with domain-specific applications =
(Distributed
    software systems, software product lines, ambient intelligence, =
P2P
    systems)
+ Mapping between aspect-oriented requirements, domain analysis and architecture
    = Formal or informal mappings;
    = Language features required to support aspect mapping;
+ Aspect-oriented architecture design
    = Use of aspects to reason about architectures;
    = Evaluation of alternative architectures with aspects;
+ Tool support and automation for aspect-orientation
+ Formalisms and notations for specifying aspects
+ Dynamic early aspects
    = Accommodation of run-time change in the requirement models;
    = Run-time variability resolution in requirements and =
architecture, etc.
+ Evaluation of Early Aspects
    = Aspect-oriented evaluation methods;
    = Aspect-oriented metrics for early aspects;
    = Change impact analysis for early aspects;
+ Early Aspects in Industry
    = Industry problems and practices;
    = Successful stories of adoption of early aspects in industry;
    = Empiric proofs;
+ Composition-related issues for early aspects
    = Semantics;
    = Fragility;

*IMPORTANT DATES*

+ 26 January 2009 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time): Abstract submission.
Abstracts will be used for reviewer allocations.
+ 2 February 2009 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time): Paper submission.
+ 13 February 2009 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time): Notifications sent to authors.
+ 16 February 2009 (23:59 Apia, Samoa time): Camera-ready version.
+ 18 May 2009: Workshop.

*WORKSHOP FORMAT*

The workshop will be highly interactive with a few presentations in the morning
followed by group work for the rest of the day.
The participants will work in small groups, formed based on their specific
interests. The group work will be focused on making a tangible progress by
identifying possible solutions of the discussion problems; by furthering the
problem understanding; by providing practical examples and motivation for the
discussion topics, etc.
The last session of the workshop will be dedicated to integrating the results of
the group discussions into the overall workshop results.

*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*

Prospective participants are invited to submit a 4-6 page position paper. The
submissions must conform to the ICSE submission rules
(http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/calls/format/).

All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee and the
organizing committee for quality and relevance. Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and published on =
www.early-aspects.net. Paper should
conform to ICSE submission standards and rules.

Submissions should be in PDF format, sent to both pinto[at]lcc.uma.es and
rouza[at]comp.lancs.ac.uk.

*WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS AND PUBLICATIONS*

Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings and will also be
published on workshop web site (http://www.aosd-europe.net/eaICSE09/).
The present workshop is one of the 2 Early Aspects workshops planned for 2009. The
other Early Aspects workshop is planned for AOSD in Charlottesville, USA, in March
2009 (Early Aspects Workshop at AOSD 2009).

*WORKSHOP ATTENDANCE*

Though paper submission is highly desirable for attendance, a number of places for
attendance without submission could be available, depending on the number of
submissions received. Since only a limited number of places are available,
submitting attendees will obviously be given priority. Potential non-submitting
attendees are strongly advised to contact the organizers with an attendance
request. Non-submitting attendees will be invited on "first come/contacted first
served" basis.

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed)*

+ Vander Alves, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Soft. Eng., Germany
+ Mercedes Amor, University of M=E1laga, Spain
+ Mehmet Askit, University of Twente, The Netherlands
+ Thais Batista, University of Natal, Brazil
+ Don Batory, University of Texas, USA
+ Paulo Borba, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
+ Jose Maria Conejero, University of Extremadura, Spain
+ Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, UK
+ Alessandro Garcia, PUC-Rio, Brazil
+ Michael Jackson. The Open University, UK
+ John McGregor, Clemson University, USA
+ Paulo Merson, Software Eng. Institute, USA
+ Bashar Nuseibeh, The Open University, UK
+ Christa Schwanninger, Siemens, AG, Germany
+ Stan Sutton, IBM Research, USA

*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*

+ Ruzanna Chitchyan, Lancaster University, UK (Contact Organizer, contact at
rouza_at_comp.lancs.ac.uk)
+ Monica Pinto, University of Malaga, Spain
+ Safoora Shakil Khan, Lancaster University, UK

*STEERING COMMITTEE*

+ Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
+ Paul Clements, Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute, USA
+ Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova Lisboa, Portugal
+ Joao Araujo, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
+ Elisa Baniassad, Chinese University of Hong Kong
+ Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Bilkent, Turkey