CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

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Seventh International Conference on

Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'08)

October 19-23, 2008
Nashville, Tennessee
(co-located with OOPSLA 2008)

Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT.
GPCE'08 proceedings published by ACM Press.

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Important Dates

• Proposal submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 20, 2008
• Date for notification of acceptance: April 5, 2008

This call is for workshop organizers. Each accepted workshop will publish a separate call for contributions.

Overview

GPCE workshops provide intensive collaborative environments where generative and component technology researchers and practitioners meet to discuss and solve challenging problems facing the field. All topics related to the theme of the conference are potential candidates for workshops.

Workshops typically fall into the following categories:

• A workshop may address a specific sub-area of generative and component technology in depth.
• A workshop may cover areas that cross the borders of several sub areas. Workshops that cross the borders of the formal and the applied areas is one example.
• A workshop may also cross the border to other technologies or software engineering fields, e.g. development processes.
• A workshop may focus on the application and deployment of generative and/or component technology in areas such as telecommunications, mobile computing or real-time systems. Workshops reporting on industrial experiences are particularly welcome.

Workshop topics are by no means limited to the categories mentioned above. However, in each case, the proposed area is supposed to have enough impetus to yield new results that can be considered important and worth more detailed investigation. If you have an idea for an innovative, well-focused workshop on some aspects of component engineering and generative programming topics, please consider submitting a proposal.

Topics

GPCE seeks contributions in software engineering and in programming languages related (but not limited) to:

• Generative programming
  • Reuse, meta-programming, partial evaluation, multi-stage and multi-level languages, step-wise refinement, and generic programming
  • Semantics, type systems, symbolic computation, linking and explicit substitution, in-lining and macros, templates, and program transformation
  • Runtime code generation, compilation, active libraries, synthesis from specifications, development methods, generation of non-code artifacts, formal methods, and reflection
• Generative techniques for
  • Product-line architectures
  • Distributed, real-time and embedded systems
  • Model-driven development and architecture
  • Resource bounded/safety critical systems.
• Component-based software engineering *Reuse, distributed platforms and middleware, distributed systems, evolution, patterns, development methods, deployment and configuration techniques, and formal methods
• Integration of generative and component-based approaches
• Domain engineering and domain analysis
  • Domain-specific languages including visual and UML-based DSLs
• Separation of concerns
  • Aspect-oriented and feature-oriented programming,
  • Intentional programming and multi-dimensional separation of concerns
• Industrial applications of the above

Co-location with OOPSLA

The technical program of GPCE will start on Sunday, October 19, 2008. The technical program of OOPSLA (that is, the technical paper sessions) will start on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. GPCE satellite events will either be scheduled concurrently with the GPCE technical program or concurrently with the OOPSLA main technical program. As such, attendance will be more convenient than in the case of a model where extra days are allocated before or after the main technical conference program. However, the satellite events will also receive competition for attendance in this way.

Submission Format

Workshop proposals should be sent in ASCII or PDF format to the workshop chairs and should consist of the following four parts:

1. Cover Page

• Name of the proposed workshop.
• Names and addresses of the organizers.
• Primary contact.
• Intended number of participants.
• Requested Audio/Video equipment.

2. Abstract

• Why is the proposed workshop relevant to GPCE? The abstract should provide a short overview of the rationale for the workshop and the major topics. In particular, statements about the review process and ways to ensure creativity during the workshop would be appreciated.
• The abstract should preferably not exceed 200 words.

3. Call for Participation

• A preliminary version of the Call for Participation that the organizers must prepare if the workshop is accepted.
• The call for participation should provide a brief overview of the proposed workshop, including a description of the goals of the workshops and the work practices.
• The call may repeat some of the statements made on the abstract page, but should be targeted specifically to potential workshop participants.

4. Organizers Bio and Past Events

• Short biography of each organizer.
• References to similar workshops organized at previous conferences, including the number of participants.

If a workshop is accepted, the organizers will be requested to prepare a web page that will contain the latest information about the workshop. The web pages of each workshop will be linked to from the GPCE workshop web site. Each workshop must have at least two organizers, preferably from different organizations.

Please keep complete submissions to under four pages.

Recommendations

1. Workshop organizers should foster the creative potential that is tentatively present in a workshop.

2. Remember that a workshop is NOT a conference!

3. The success of a workshop depends greatly on the results generated on-site.

4. A number of interrelated issues should be taken into account in order to provide a good framework for such on-site creativity.

5. Presentation selection

• Quality should obviously be the primary criterion for selecting the presentations.
• However, in order for a workshop to be productive, consider also having presentations on some new, controversial topics to spark discussion.

Workshop attendance will be managed via the GPCE registration form.

Workshop organizers and presenters are required to register to the workshop.

Submission Process

Proposals must be submitted electronically (in .pdf format) to . The submission deadline is March 20, 2008, but early submission is strongly encouraged. All proposals will be reviewed by the Chair for GPCE Satellite Events and by members of the GPCE Program Committee to ensure a high quality and an appropriate mix of topics so that the combined program of satellite events attracts a large interest among the various segments within the broad GPCE community.

Contact

For additional information, clarification, or questions please feel free to contact the Chair for GPCE Satellite Events (Ralf Lämmel, ).