PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ Scope ------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------ * Pre-submission: March 12, 2004 (title + abstract) * Submission: March 19, 2004 * Conference: 24-28 October 2004 ------------------------------------ Organization ------------------------------------ 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) Contact * gpce-chairs@cs.uu.nl