[Agda] PSC track at SAC: deadline extension

[Tramontana Emiliano]

Please note that the deadline has been extended to August 31, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS - PSC Track @ SAC 2011
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
21 - 25 March 2011, TaiChung, Taiwan

Track on Programming for Separation of Concerns (PSC)
http://www.dmi.unict.it/~tramonta/sac



Important Dates
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Paper Due:            August 31, 2010
Author Notification:  October 12, 2010
Camera Ready:         November 2, 2010

Call for Papers
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Complex systems are intrinsically expensive to develop because several
concerns must be addressed simultaneously. Once the development phase is
over, these systems are often hard to reuse and evolve because their
concerns are intertwined and making apparently small changes force
programmers to modify many parts. Moreover, legacy systems are difficult
to evolve due to additional problems, including: lack of a well defined
architecture, use of several programming languages and paradigms, etc.

Separation of concerns (SoC) techniques such as computational
reflection, aspect-oriented programming and subject-oriented programming
have been successfully employed to produce systems whose concerns are
well separated, thereby facilitating reuse and evolution of system
components or systems as a whole. However, a criticism of techniques
such as computational reflection is that they may bring about degraded
performance compared with conventional software engineering techniques.
Besides, it is difficult to precisely evaluate the degree of flexibility
for reuse and evolution of systems provided by the adoption of these SoC
techniques.  Other serious issues come to mind, such as: is the use of
these techniques double-edged? Can these systems suffer a ripple effect,
whereby a small change in some part has unexpected and potentially
dangerous effects on the whole?

The Programming for Separation of Concerns (PSC) track at the 2011
Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) will aim to bring together
researchers to share experiences in using SoC techniques, and explore
the practical problems of existing tools, environments, etc. The track
will address questions like: Can performance degradation be limited? Are
unexpected changes dealt with by reflective or aspect-oriented systems?
Is there any experience of long term evolution that shows a higher
degree of flexibility of systems developed with such techniques? How
such techniques cope with architectural erosion? Are these techniques
helpful to deal with evolution of legacy systems?

Submissions will be encouraged, but not limited, to the following
topics:

- Software architectures
- Software reuse and evolution of legacy systems
- Performance issues for metalevel and aspect oriented systems
- Software engineering tools
- Consistency, Integrity and Security
- Generative approaches
- Analysis and evaluation of software systems
- Practical experiences in using reflection, composition filters,
aspect- and subject- feature- change- orientation
- Reflective and aspect oriented middleware for distributed systems
- Modelling of SoC techniques to allow predictable outcomes from their
use
- Formal methods for metalevel and aspect-oriented systems



Submissions guidelines
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Original papers from the above mentioned or other related areas will be
considered. Only full papers about original and unpublished research are
sought. Parallel submission to other conferences or tracks is not
acceptable.

Please make sure that the authors name and affiliation do not appear on
the submitted paper.

Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review
submissions to the track. At least one author of the accepted paper
should register and participate in the PSC track. Accepted papers will
be published in the ACM SAC conference proceedings.

The camera-ready version of the accepted paper should be prepared using
the ACM format (guidelines will be given on the SAC website). The
maximum number of pages allowed for the final papers is six (6), with
the option, at additional cost, to add two (2) more pages. A set of
papers submitted to the PSC track and not accepted as full papers will
be selected as poster papers and published in the ACM proceedings as
2-page papers.

A selected number of the best papers accepted at the PSC track will be
invited for expansion and for a possible publication at a special issue
of the Elsevier Journal Computer Languages, Systems & Structures.

Please refer to the website http://www.dmi.unict.it/~tramonta/sac for
up-to-date information on submissions guidelines.


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