Working Meeting on "Models and Aspects for Product Families: A Roadmap for Research"

1st November 2006

Lancaster University

Co-organizers: Awais Rashid, Robert France, Gordon Blair, and Nelly Bencomo

Venue: Brandrigg Room, Barker House Farm, Lancaster University

More details: information about hotels in Lancaster, instructions of how to arrive in Lancaster and the venue of the workshop are at the end of the web page.

Proposed Format of the workshop

The meeting was conceived to facilitate focused discussion on the use of Models and Aspects for Product Families. The idea is to prepare a roadmap for future research.

The meeting will be structured into presentations and discussion sessions. The presentations will kick off the discussions about our commonalities and variabilities J : how our ideas overlap and complement, and most importantly, the definition of possible collaborations.

We are planning to spend part of the morning on short presentations (20 minutes max.) and end the morning with a roundtable session identifying key issues in this space.

The discussion will continue during the afternoon when participants might choose to split into groups for more focused discussions if they agree. The results of this working session will be consolidated into a research roadmap, perhaps in the form of a working landscape paper

Program

8:50 - 9:00       Opening Session - Awais Rashid and Robert France

Presentation of participants and aim of workshop

9:00 – 9:20      “ AMPLE: Aspect-Oriented, Model-Driven,Product Line Engineering”, Awais Rashid – Lancaster University, UK

9:20 – 9:40    " Multi-Level Customization in Model Driven Software Development “,    Abstract

Krzysztof Czarnecki, ECE, University of Waterloo, Canada

9:40 – 10:00 “Modeling and Aspect Weaving for Product-lines “   Abstract

Jean-Marc Jezequel, IRISA (INRIA & Univ. Rennes 1), France  

10:00 – 10:20   “ Support for Feature Modularity and Composition: Two Critical

Issues for Aspect Product Lines”  Abstract

Roberto Lopez, Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK

10:20 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 11:20 "AOP at PIM-level in the VIDE Project" Abstract

                        Jan Wloka Fraunhofer, Institute for Computer Architecture and

Software Technology, FIRST, Berlin, Germany

11:20 – 11:40  “ Aspects and Models - the tool vendor's perspective”    Abstract

Mark Dalgarno - Software Acumen, Cambridge, England, www.software-acumen.com

Danilo Beuche - pure-systems GmbH, Magdeburg, Germany, www.pure-systems.com  

11:40 – 12:00  “ Aspects & Consistency Management”

Anthony Finkelstein  - University College London, UK

12:00 – 12:20  “ Models, Aspects and Product Lines: what kind of composition do we need?”

Jon Whittle, George Mason University, USA   Abstract 

12:20 – 12:40  Key questions and comments arising from the morning discussions

and in the context of Project VERA (“VERA:Verifiable Aspect Models for Middleware Product Families“)

Robert France, Colorado State University and Lancaster University.

12:40 – 13:00  Open Discussions

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30 Breakout sessions and group discussions

15:30 - 16:00 Presentation of summaries from breakout sessions and identification of common themes

16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 18:00 Discussion of next steps to prepare the roadmap document and future collaborations.

19:30 (or so) Social Meeting

Useful information about Lacaster University:

Maps of the University and local area can be found here .

The Venue of the workshop is the Barker House Farm, it is number 54 in the map.

Our  Computing Department is in the building called InfoLab21, number 51 in the samemap .

The offices of the organizers are in InfoLab21 (Floor C)

About Lancaster:

Information about hotels and Bed and Breakfast in Lancaster can be found    here  .

Information of how to arrive in Lancaster and Lancaster University can be found here .

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Last Updated: 10/10/2006