FOAL: Foundations of Aspect-Oriented Languages
A one day workshop affiliated with Modularity'15 at Colorado State University of Colorado, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA on March 16, 2015.
Themes and Goals
FOAL is a forum for research in foundations of aspect-oriented and other advanced separation of concern mechanisms. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Semantics of advanced separation of concern mechanisms,
- Specification and verification for languages with such mechanisms
- Type systems,
- Static analysis,
- Theory of testing,
- Theory of composition,
- Theory of translation (compilation) and rewriting,
- Comparison of different advanced modularization and separation of concern mechanisms.
The workshop aims to foster work in foundations, including formal studies, promote the exchange of ideas, and encourage workers in the semantics and formal methods communities to consider advanced separation of concern mechanisms. All theoretical and foundational studies of this topic are welcome. Even though the workshop title contains the term "aspect-oriented", the workshop is not limited to aspect-oriented programming languages, but welcomes topics on other advanced separation of concern mechanisms such as feature-oriented or context-oriented programming.
The goals of FOAL are to:
- Make progress on the foundations of aspect-oriented and other advanced separation of concern mechanisms.
- Exchange ideas about semantics and formal methods for aspect-oriented and other languages with advanced separation of concerns.
- Foster interest within the programming language theory and types communities in languages with advanced separation of concerns.
- Foster interest within the formal methods community in aspect-oriented programming and other advanced separation of concern mechanisms, and the problems of reasoning about them.
Workshop Format
The planned workshop format is primarily presentation of papers and group discussion. Talks will come in two categories: regular (25 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussion) and short (10 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussion). The short talks will allow for presentations of topics for which results are not yet available, perhaps for researchers who are seeking feedback on ideas or seek collaborations.
We also plan to ensure sufficient time for discussion of each presentation by limiting the overall number of talks.
Submissions
Invitation to the workshop will be based on papers selected by the program committee; those wishing to attend but not having a paper to submit should contact the organizers directly to see if there is sufficient space in the workshop.
FOAL solicits regular and short papers on all areas of formal foundations of advanced separation of concern mechanisms. Submissions will be read by the program committee and designated reviewers. Papers will be selected for regular and short presentation at the workshop based on their length, scientific merit, innovation, readability, and relevance. Papers previously published or already being reviewed by another conference are not eligible. Some papers may not be selected for presentation, and some may be selected for presentation in shorter talks than their paper length would otherwise command. We will limit the length of paper presentations and the number of papers presented to make sure that there is enough time for discussion.
Six page papers presented at the workshop can be included in the ACM Digital Library, at the discretion of the authors. Authors of accepted papers who wish to have their papers in the ACM Digital Library will be asked to transfer copyright to the ACM. However, as FOAL is a workshop, publication of extended versions of the papers in other venues will remain possible. We will also investigate having a special issue of a journal for revisions of selected papers after the workshop.
Authors should note the following details:
- Submissions should be made at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foal15.
- Papers are due no later than 23:00 UTC, 18 January 2015.
- Regular papers must not exceed 6 pages in length (including all references and appendixes), and short papers must not exceed 3 pages in length.
- We encourage use of the ACM Conference format for submissions, as this will be required for accepted papers.
- You must add page numbers (which are not part of the standard format) to your submissions, to make adding comments easier.
We will notify the corresponding author of papers that are selected for presentation at the workshop by 2 February 2015. Early registration for Modularity'15 (you must register for the conference to attend the workshop) shortly follows that date. Final versions of papers for the ACM digital library will be due on 15 February 2015.
For more information, visit the FOAL Workshop home page (at http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/FOAL).
Important Dates
| Paper Submission Deadline | 23:00 UTC, 18 January 2015 |
| Notification of Acceptance | 2 February 2015 |
| Final Versions of Papers Due | 15 February 2015 |
| Workshop | 16 March 2015 |
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We are pleased to have another outstanding program committee for FOAL 2015.
- David H. Lorenz (Program Committee Chair) — The Open University of Israel
- Robert Dyer — Bowling Green State University
- Gary T. Leavens — University of Central Florida
- Somayeh Malakuti — Technical University of Dresden
- Hidehiko Masuhara — Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Klaus Ostermann — University of Marburg
- Hridesh Rajan — Iowa State University
- Henrique Rebêlo — Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
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