First CFP: GPCE'04 -- Generative Programming and Component Engineering

[Eelco Visser]

                         FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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                   Third International Conference on
       Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'04)

                     Vancouver, October 24-28, 2004
                       co-located with OOPSLA 2004

                          http://gpce04.gpce.org
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Important Dates
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    * Pre-submission: March 12, 2004
    * Submission:     March 19, 2004

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Scope
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Generative and component approaches have the potential to revolutionize
software development in a similar way as automation and components
revolutionized manufacturing. Generative Programming (developing
programs that synthesize other programs), Component Engineering (raising
the level of modularization and analysis in application design), and
Domain-Specific Languages (elevating program specifications to compact
domain-specific notations that are easier to write and maintain) are key
technologies for automating program development.

GPCE arose as a joint conference, merging the prior conference on
Generative and Component-Based Software Engineering (GCSE) and the
Workshop on Semantics, Applications, and Implementation of Program
Generation (SAIG). The goal of GPCE is to provide a meeting place for
researchers and practitioners interested in cutting edge approaches to
software development. We aim to foster further cross-fertilization
between the software engineering research community on the one hand, and
the programming languages community on the other, in addition to
supporting the original research goals of both the GCSE and the SAIG
communities. We seek papers both in software engineering and in programming
languages, and especially those that bridge the gap and are accessible to
both communities at the same time.

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Topics of Interest
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The conference solicits submissions related (but not limited) to:

   * Generative programming
      o Reuse, meta-programming, partial evaluation, multi-stage and
        multi-level languages, step-wise refinement
      o Semantics, type systems, symbolic computation, linking and
        explicit substitution, in-lining and macros, templates,
        program transformation
      o Runtime code generation, compilation, active libraries,
        synthesis from specifications, development methods, generation
        of non-code artifacts, formal methods, reflection
   * Generative techniques for
      o Product lines and architectures
      o Embedded systems
      o Model-driven architecture
   * Component-based software engineering
      o Reuse, distributed platforms, distributed systems, evolution,
        analysis and design patterns, development methods, formal methods
   * Integration of generative and component-based approaches
   * Domain engineering and domain analysis
      o Domain-specific languages (DSLs) including visual and UML-based DSLs
   * Separation of concerns
      o Aspect-oriented programming, feature-oriented programming,
      o Intentional programming, and multi-dimensional separation of concerns
   * Industrial applications

Reports on applications of these techniques to real-world problems are
especially encouraged, as are submissions that relate ideas and concepts
from several of these topics, or bridge the gap between theory and practice.
The program committee is happy to advise on the appropriateness of a
particular subject.

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Paper Submission
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Authors are invited to submit a title and abstract by March 12, 2004,
and a full paper by March 19, 2004. These deadlines are firm.
Simultaneous submission to other venues and submission of previously
published material are not allowed. Electronic submission will be
required, except by special arrangement with the program chairs. Authors
will be notified of acceptance by May 17, 2004. Final versions of
accepted papers must be submitted by July 25, 2004.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in
the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html.

Submissions must be in PDF, must conform to the LNCS style, and be no
longer than 15 pages. For the formatting details see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

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Other Contributions
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Work related to generative programming and component engineering can also
be presented in other forms than papers. GPCE has separate days for
tutorials and workshops. During the conference there are sessions for tool
demonstrations and poster presentations. If you want to organize a workshop,
present a tutorial, demonstration, or poster, see the information on the
conference website for details about format and submission. Contact the
relevant chair for more information.

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Important Dates
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Technical papers

    * Pre-submission: March 12, 2004
    * Submission:     March 19, 2004
    * Notification:   May 17, 2004
    * Final version:  July 25, 2004

Submissions of proposals

    * Workshops:      March 19, 2004
    * Practitioners:  April 30, 2004
    * Tutorials:      April 30, 2004
    * Demonstrations: July 2, 2004

Conference

    * Tutorials:      October 24, 2004
    * Workshops:      October 25, 2004
    * Papers:         October 26-28, 2004

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Organization
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General chair

    * Tim Sheard (OGI School of Science & Engineering at OHSU)

Program committee chairs

    * Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt University)
    * Eelco Visser (Utrecht University)

Program committee

    * Uwe Aßmann (Linkopings Universitet)
    * Don Batory (University of Texas)
    * Jan Bosch (Universiteit Groningen)
    * Jean Bezivin (Université de Nantes)
    * Jim Cordy (Queen's University)
    * Krzysztof Czarnecki (University of Waterloo)
    * Mathew Flatt (University of Utah)
    * Robert Glueck (University of Copenhagen)
    * George Heineman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
    * Michael Leuschel (University of Southampton)
    * Karl Lieberherr (Northeastern University)
    * Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)
    * Douglas R. Smith (Kestrel Institute)
    * Gabriele Taentzer (Technical University of Berlin)
    * Todd Veldhuizen (Indiana University)
    * Kris de Volder (University of Britisch Columbia)
    * Dave Wile (Teknowledge Corp.)
    * Alexander Wolf (University of Colorado at Boulder)

Workshop Chair

    * Zino Benaissa (Intel)

Tutorial Chair

    * Jeff Gray (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Demonstrations Chair

    * Simon Helsen (University of Waterloo)

Contact

    * gpce-chairs at cs.uu.nl