Enschede, The Netherlands
A one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with the
First International Conference on
Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD 2002),
April 22-26, 2002, Enschede, The Netherlands
Aspect-oriented programming, component models, and design patterns are modern and actively evolving techniques to improving the modularization of complex software. In particular, these techniques hold great promise for the development of ``systems infrastructure'' software, e.g., application servers, middleware, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, and other software that provides general services for higher-level applications. The developers of infrastructure software are currently faced with increasing demands from application programmers needing higher-level support for application development. Meeting these demands requires careful use of software modularization techniques, since infrastructural concerns are notoriously hard to modularize.
Aspects, components, and patterns provide very different means to deal with infrastructure software, but despite their differences, they have much in common. For instance, component models try to free the developer from the need to deal directly with services like security or transactions. These are primary examples of crosscutting concerns, and modularizing such concerns are the main target of aspect-oriented languages. Similarly, design patterns like Visitor and Interceptor facilitate the clean modularization of otherwise tangled concerns.
This workshop aims to provide a highly interactive forum for researchers and developers to discuss the application of and relationships between aspects, components, and patterns within modern infrastructure software. The goal is to put aspects, components, and patterns into a common reference frame and to build connections between the software engineering and systems communities. Suggested topics for position papers include, but are not restricted to:
Our
goal is to have fruitful discussions. Each of the papers chosen for presentation will have
two assigned commentators from the program committee that will be responsible for triggering
the discussion after the presentation by shortly summarizing what they like and
dislike about the paper and to make very detailed comments on the paper. The
underlying idea is to help people improve their papers and ideas via the
discussion with the others and on the other side to give a broader audience a
better understanding of the ideas in the paper. Each presentation will have 5 -
20 min, depending on the content and the quality of the paper.
This is a little bit in the vein of ``writers workshops" as for
example successfully applied at EuroPlop conferences. If necessary, we will
split in groups based on the topics of interest in order to have parallel
presentations.
The
last session of the workshop will be 1 hour relaxed coffee time where people
should form groups of two or three based on their interests to discuss about
topics they find interesting.
Position papers should be
3-6 pages. All papers must be submitted electronically in PDF, Postscript or MS
Word format. The papers should be emailed to: aosd-submit@ccs.neu.edu.
Paper submissions will be reviewed by the program committee using criteria
appropriate to their category. The submitted papers will be evaluated based on
their originality, relevance, technical quality and presentation.
All accepted papers will be posted at this workshop website prior to the workshop date to give all participants the opportunity to read them before the workshop. In addition, the accepted papers will be published in a Workshop Proceedings as a University of British Columbia technical report.
Sixteen position papers have been accepted. They can be downloaded here. The position papers have also been published as a UBC Technical Report. All participants are encouraged to read the position papers before the workshop.
Yvonne
Coady is a PhD
candidate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British
Columbia. Yvonne is advised by
Gregor Kiczales, and her PhD research is focused on the implementation of
aspects within operating systems. To
support this research, Yvonne is one of the primary developers of AspectC, a
language and compiler based on the well-known AspectJ language.
Previously, Yvonne did work in other areas of systems development,
including adaptive concurrency control mechanisms and the implementation of
global memory management in workstation
clusters. Yvonne also taught
Computer Science full time in a small
college for 7 years before starting her PhD.
Eric
Eide is a Research
Associate staff member with the Flux Systems Research Group in the University of
Utah School of Computing.
Eric's current research is focused on tools and techniques for integrated
component-based and aspect-oriented programming of operating systems and
middleware. The Flux
Group's component tools include Knit, a component definition and linking
language for C code, and Jiazzi, a similar language for Java.
Previously, Eric was the primary implementor of Flick, a flexible and
optimizing IDL compiler that was used to produce CORBA-based stubs for use
within a research operating system. Eric
has worked with the Flux Group for over five years and holds a MS degree in CS.
Eric is a member of the AOSD '02
program committee.
David
H. Lorenz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at
Northeastern University. He has a Ph.D. from the Technion--Israel Institute of
Technology. Prof. Lorenz's research interests include concepts of software
components, with special interest in adaptive components and component-based
design (particularly JavaBeans technology). He teaches courses in Programming
Languages, Object-Oriented Design, and Component-Based Programming. He has
served on the program committees of International Technology of
Object-Oriented Languages and Systems Europe Conferences (TOOLS Europe 2000: Enterprise
Architecture, Patterns, Components; and TOOLS Europe 2001: Components for
Mobile Computing). He is a member of editorial board of International
Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, World Scientific
Publishing Co.
Mira
Mezini is an
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Technology.
She has her Ph.D. from the University of Siegen. Prof. Mezini's research
interests include the design and
implementation of languages with powerful modularization capabilities, design
patterns and frameworks, component-oriented programming, component-based
software development, etc. She teaches courses on advanced object-oriented
design with patterns and frameworks, component technology, software composition,
software engineering, etc. She has served on the program committees of several
conferences, such as TOOLS Europe '99, ECOOP 2001, ECOOP 2002, Aspect-Oriented
Software Development 2002, Component Deployment 2002 etc
Klaus
Ostermann is a PhD
student at Siemens Corporate Technology and Darmstadt University of Technology.
His research focuses on developing methods, tools and languages that support
programmers in writing software that has a clear modular structure and reflects
a clear separation of concerns. He is currently working on language mechanisms
and environments for structured and type-safe
Roman
Pichler works for
Siemens Corporate Technology. His work focuses on component-based architectures
and web applications. He has been working as a developer and consultant on
various projects in the semiconductor, telecommunication and medical/healthcare
industry. His research interests include the relation between component models
such as Enterprise JavaBean and Aspect-Oriented Programming.