GPCE 2009

Call for Papers

Eighth International Conference on   Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE 2009)

October 4-5, 2009 Denver, Colorado (co-located with MODELS 2009 and SLE 2009)

http://www.gpce.org

Important Dates ---


 * Submission of abstracts: May 11, 2009
 * Submission: May 18, 2009
 * Notification: June 30, 2009

Workshops and tutorials (submission via MODELS 2009)
 * Workshop Proposals: March 15, 2009
 * Tutorial Proposals: April 19, 2009

Scope -

Generative and component approaches are revolutionizing software development similar to how 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 (DSLs) (elevating program specifications to compact domain-specific notations that are easier to write, maintain, and analyze) are key technologies for automating program development.

The International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering provides a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques for enhancing the productivity, quality, and time-to-market in software development that stems from deploying components and automating program generation. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques for developing generative and component-based software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering research community and the programming languages community.

Submissions ---

Research papers:

10 pages in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls) reporting original research results that contribute to scientific knowledge in the areas listed below (the PC chair can advise on appropriateness).

Tool demonstrations:

Tool demonstrations should present available tools that implement novel generative and component-based software engineering techniques. Any of the GPCE'09 topics of interest are appropriate areas for research demonstrations but purely commercial tool demonstrations will not be accepted. Submissions should contain a tool description of 4 pages in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls) that will be published in the proceedings, and a demonstration outline of up to 2 pages text plus 2 pages screen shots that will be used by the PC to evaluate the submission.

Tutorials and Workshops:

Tutorials and workshops of interest to the GPCE audience can be submitted to MODELS 2009. Please contact the corresponding MODELS chairs for submission details. Accepted MODELS tutorials and workshops that are primarily aimed at the GPCE audience will preferably be scheduled for Tuesday, October 6, 2009.

MODELS 2009 Tutorial Chair:
 * Thomas Weigert (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

MODELS 2009 Workshop Chair:
 * James Bieman (Colorado State University, USA)

Topics --

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

o Reuse, meta-programming, partial evaluation, multi-stage and multi-level languages, step-wise refinement, generic programming 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 o Product-line architectures o Distributed, real-time and embedded systems o Model-driven development and architecture o Resource bounded/safety critical systems. o Reuse, distributed platforms and middleware, distributed systems, evolution, patterns, development methods, deployment and configuration techniques, formal methods o Domain-specific languages including visual and UML-based DSLs o Aspect-oriented and feature-oriented programming, o Intentional programming and multi-dimensional separation of   concerns
 * Generative programming
 * Generative techniques for
 * Component-based software engineering
 * Integration of generative and component-based approaches
 * Domain engineering and domain analysis
 * Separation of concerns
 * Industrial applications of the above

Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy. Please contact the program chair if you have any questions about how this policy applies to your paper (chair09@gpce.org).

Organization

General Chair:  Jeremy Siek (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA) Program Chair:  Bernd Fischer (University of Southampton, UK) Publicity Chair: Giorgios Economopoulos (University of Southampton, UK)

Program Committee:
 * Sven Apel (University of Passau, Germany)
 * Ira D. Baxter (Semantic Designs, USA)
 * Martin Bravenboer (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
 * Tomas Bures (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
 * Charles Consel (INRIA / LaBRI, France)
 * Ivica Crnkovic (Malardalen University, Sweden)
 * Krzysztof Czarnecki (University of Waterloo, Canada)
 * Ewen Denney (RIACS / NASA Ames, USA)
 * Martin Erwig (Oregon State University, USA)
 * Ronald Garcia (Rice University, USA)
 * Kevin Hammond (University of St Andrews, UK)
 * Magne Haveraaen (University of Bergen, Norway)
 * Shan Shan Huang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
 * Jaakko Jarvi (Texas A&M University, USA)
 * Sam Kamin (University of Illinois, USA)
 * Kung-Kiu Lau (University of Manchester, UK)
 * Julia Lawall (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
 * Christian Lengauer (University of Passau, Germany)
 * Andrew Lumsdaine (Indiana University, USA)
 * Klaus Ostermann (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
 * Zoltan Porkolab (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)
 * Bran V. Selic (Malina Software, Canada)
 * Doug Smith (Kestrel Institute, USA)
 * Tetsuo Tamai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
 * Juha-Pekka Tolvanen (MetaCase, Finland)
 * Eelco Visser (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
 * Markus Voelter (itemis AG, Germany)
 * Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota, USA)
 * Steffen Zschaler (Lancaster University, UK)