2nd International Workshop on

Aspects, Dependencies and Interactions

July 30, 2007, Berlin, Germany, affiliated to ECOOP 2007

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Workshop overview

Aspects are crosscutting concerns that exist throughout the software development cycle - from requirements through to implementation. While crosscutting other concerns, aspects often exert broad influences on these concerns, e.g. by modifying their semantics, structure or behaviour. These dependencies between aspectual and non-aspectual elements may lead to either desirable or (more often) unwanted and unexpected interactions.

This workshop is focused on identifying, understanding, and resolving all kinds of issues related to such dependencies and interactions, by bringing together researchers and practitioners from across the whole spectrum of software development activities.

We also invite work on this topic from other (non-AO) fields that either tackles problems relevant to Aspect-Oriented Software Development (e.g., crosscutting, composition, etc.) or proposes a solution clearly related to AOSD.

We encourage submissions investigating the problems of such dependencies and interactions and handling them at all levels:

  • starting from the early development stages (i.e., requirements, architecture, and design), looking into dependencies between requirements (e.g. positive/negative contributions between aspectual goals) and interactions caused by aspects (e.g. quality attributes) in requirements, architecture, and design;

  • analysing these dependencies and interactions both through modelling and formal analysis;

  • considering language design issues which help to handle such dependencies and interactions (e.g. 'declare precedence' mechanism of AspectJ);

  • studying such interactions in applications.

The goal of the workshop is to continue the wide discussion on dependencies and interactions between aspectual and non-aspectual elements, started at ADI 2006, thus investigating the lasting nature of such dependency links across all development activities. It is hoped that input from both research and practice will help to progress the understanding and solutions to this complex subject.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Requirements, architecture, design, and language level techniques and mechanisms for interaction and/or dependency detection;

  • Ordering and nesting of aspects;

  • Types of dependencies and interactions (e.g. mutual exclusion);

  • Full or partial visibility of aspects (e.g. visibility of inter-type declarations);

  • Methods for formal representation and analysis of dependencies and interactions;

  • Mechanisms for interaction detection and handling in domain-specific languages;

  • Ability to determine the order of execution of sub-sections of advices;

  • Interaction detection and analysis in specific applications (e.g. middleware for pervasive and mobile systems, security application, persistence management, etc.;

  • Tool support for the above;

  • Case studies and non-trivial examples of interactions in practice;

  • Dependency and interaction resolution in "realistic contexts" (considering such issues as scaling and usability of resolution techniques, etc.);

  • Work from non-AO fields that addresses AO-related problems or proposes AO-related solutions.

Workshop format

The workshop is intended to be highly interactive, favouring discussion and group work over presentations. During the morning there will be a keynote speech by Gary T. Leavens and a short presentation session of 3-4 selected papers which will highlight some of the problems or solutions to aspectual dependencies and interaction issues, and, more importantly, provide grounds for discussion.

The rest of the workshop will be devoted to discussions and work in small interest groups. Results of the group work will be presented and debated at a concluding panel. The panel will have as topic "Does AO equal quantification and obliviousness?" and is organized by Awais Rashid. Panel participants will be announced shortly, The results of the interest group and panel discussions will be summarized into a workshop report.

Important dates

May 28, 2007, 23:59:59 Apia, Samoa time Submission deadline for papers
June 10, 2007, 23:59:59 Apia, Samoa time Notification of acceptance
July 10, 2007, 23:59:59 Apia, Samoa time Submission of camera-ready papers
July 30, 2007 Workshop

Submission guidelines

Attendance of the workshop is by having a paper accepted or by an invitation from the organizing committee. For information about formatting your paper please consult the IEEE Author Tools.

Papers (up to 6 pages long) must be written in English and submitted in pdf format to rouza[at]comp.lancs.ac.uk and frans.sanen[at]cs.kuleuven.be.

All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings (as Lancaster University Computing Department Technical Report registered as British Library Series). Accepted papers will also be posted on this website prior to the workshop to be read in advance by participants.

Program committee

Mehmet Aksit University of Twente, The Netherlands
Uwe Assman Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
Don Batory University of Texas at Austin, USA
Lodewijk Bergmans University of Twente, The Netherlands
Lynne Blair Lancaster University, UK
Ruzanna Chitchyan University of Lancaster, UK
Oege De Moor Oxford University, UK
Johan Fabry INRIA Futurs, LIFL, France
Anthony Finkelstein University College London, UK
Robert France Colorado State University, USA
Shmuel Katz Technion, Israel
Jörg Kienzle McGill University, Canada
Hidehiko Masuhara University of Tokyo, Japan
Mira Mezini Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
Monica Pinto Universidad de Malaga, Spain
Arend Rensink University of Twente, The Netherlands
Frans Sanen Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Mario Sudholt Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Eddy Truyen Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jon Whittle George Mason University at Washington, USA

Organizing committee

Ruzanna Chitchyan (University of Lancaster, UK), co-chair

Frans Sanen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium), co-chair

Lodewijk Bergmans (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

Mario Sudholt (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France)

Johan Fabry (INRIA Futurs, LIFL, France)

This workshop is organized on behalf of and supported by AOSD-Europe, the European network of excellence on AOSD.