CFP Fractal Components Workshop at ECOOP 2006

[Thierry COUPAYE <thierry.coupaye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

As discussed  during the last Fractal workshop in november, the  
Fractal workshop is gaining some visibility this year and  hopefully  
there will be some post-proceedings.
That makes two good reasons to participate!
Feel free to pass this CFP around to interested parties.
We hope to see most of you there!


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CFP:  Fractal Components Workshop at ECOOP 2006, Nantes, July 4th 2006

http://www.emn.fr/x-info/ecoop2006/workshops.html
http://fractal.objectweb.org/doc/ecoop06/index.html
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Overview
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In the sequel of the 4 previous Fractal Workshops since Jannuary  
2003, the purpose of this one-day workshop is to provide a forum for  
the Fractal on-growing community developping or using the Fractal  
component model to present and discuss the latest developments and  
experimentations inside the ObjectWeb open source consortium and  
beyond around the Fractal model and platforms in different  
programming languages.  The workshop clearly targets people already  
having a knowledge or know-how of the Fractal component model  
(nexcomers are expected to attend the Fractal tutorial also at ECOOP  
2006). The Fractal community is still mostly French-centered today  
with few a participants in other countries. One goal of this workshop  
is clearly to extend the Fractal community in Europe by leveraging  
the ObjectWeb open source community.

Program
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The workshop will be organized in practice around the following  
typical sessions:
    * Implementations, engineering of Fractal execution platforms  
(mixins, interception, aspects, program transformation, etc.)
    * Conformance test suites and benchmarks
    * Extensions and tools for configuration (ADL), management of  
security, QoS, correctness assessment, real-time, etc.
    * Practical usages, feedbacks on real life deployment of Fractal  
systems

Publication
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There will be no full-length paper submission. The selection process  
will be based on a 2-4 pages abtract that will be asked to each  
participant.

The organizers plan to have post-proceedings for the workshop, and  
expect to be able to have them published - typically as a volume of  
the LNCS series - within 6 months of the workshop. Papers for the  
post-proceedings will be selected among the more mature works  
presented at the workshop, on the basis of the usual criteria for  
paper publication: technical excellence and originality, clarity of  
presentation, as well as relevance to the CBSE and distributed  
systems communities at large.

Important dates
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    * April 1st: Submission deadline (2-4 pages abstracts)
    * June 5th: Notification of acceptance
    * July 4th: Workshop

Workshop attendance is primilarily dedicated to people presenting  
works. Other people may participate to the workshop in the limit of  
the size of the room used for the workshop.

Registration of workshop participants has to be done in two mandatory  
steps:

   1. Contact the organizers of the workshop (in order to ensure  
that the participant limit has not been exceeded).
   2. Register on the ECOOP 2006 web site either as a worskhop-only  
attendee or as a regular attendee. The latter includes access to  
workshops and to the main conference.

Organization
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Contact: thierry.coupaye@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jean- 
Bernard.Stefani@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Organizers:

Thierry Coupaye is senior research expert and head of the Distributed  
Software Architectures & Infrastructures research group at France  
Telecom R&D Division. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from  
the UJF Grenoble University, France, in 1996 and worked afterwards as  
a teaching and research assistant at INPG Technological University.  
Then he worked as a researcher at the European Bioinformatics  
Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Cambridge, U.K., and then in the Dassault  
Systems and University of Grenoble Joint Laboratory.  He is the  
author of more than 30 refereed articles and has participated in  
several program and organization committees of conferences in these  
areas (IDEAS, SC, Euromicro CBSE, etc.). His current research  
interests include middleware architecture, reflexive component-based  
systems, aspect-oriented programming and autonomic computing. He is  
co-editor of the Fractal component model specification and  
participates to the work around Fractal ADL, Fractal JMX, extensions  
for aspects and contracts.

Jean-Bernard Stefani is a research director at INRIA since 2001 where  
he heads the Sardes research team. Prior to that, he was the head of  
the Distributed Systems Laboratory in France Telecom R&D from 1995 to  
2000. His research interests cover: distributed systems, operating  
systems, component-based systems, distributed and component-based  
programming, formal models for component-based and distributed  
programming. He is the author of more than  60 refereed papers and  
has participate in several program committees of international  
conferences (including Middleware, SRDS, DAIS, Euromicro, FORTE,  
FMOODS, etc). He is co-editor of the Fractal component model  
specification and participates to the work around formalizing the  
model, Fractal ADL, the THINK implementation, the DREAM Fractal  
communication framework.