[TYPES] Call for Workshop Proposal:GPCE'04 -- Generative Programming and Component Engineering

[Benaissa, Zino]

                          CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 



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                          Third International Conference on 


       Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'04) 


                                         Vancouver, October 24-28, 2004 
                                         co-located with OOPSLA 2004
<http://oopsla.acm.org/>  and ISMM 2004
<http://www.research.ibm.com/ismm04/>  

                                          http://gpce04.gpce.org
<http://gpce04.gpce.org/>  

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Important Dates

Submission date: March 19, 2004 


Overview Important Dates


GPCE workshops provide intensive collaborative environments where
generative and component technologists meet to surface, discuss, and
solve challenging problems facing the field. 

Workshops occur on the day before the conference. To ensure a
sufficiently small group for effective interaction, workshop organizers
manage attendance based on an objective criterion, typically, a short
position paper submitted by potential attendees. Other criteria are
permitted as long as they are clearly specified in the workshop's call
for participation. 

We encourage proposals for innovative, well-focused workshops on a broad
spectrum of component engineering and generative programming topics. All
topics related to generative programming and component engineering are
potential candidates for workshops. Workshops typically fall into the
following categories: 

*	A workshop may address a specific sub-area of generative and
component technology in depth. 
*	A workshop may cover areas that cross the borders of several sub
areas. Workshops that cross the borders of the formal and the applied
areas is one example. 
*	A workshop may focus on the applications and deployment of
generative and/or component technology in areas such as
telecommunications, mobile computing or real-time systems. Workshops
reporting on industrial experiences are particularly welcome. 

Workshop topics are by no means limited to the types mentioned above.
However, in each case, the proposed area is supposed to have enough
impetus to yield new results that can be considered important and worth
more detailed investigation. 


What should a proposal look like? 


Workshop proposals should be sent in ASCII or PDF format to the workshop
chair, and they should consist of four pages/parts: 

1.	Cover Page 

	*	Name of the proposed workshop. 
	*	Names and addresses of the organizers. 
	*	Intended number of participants. 
	*	Requested Audio/Video equipment. 

2.	Abstract 

	*	Why it is relevant to GPCE and a short overview of the
rationale for the workshop and the major topics. In particular,
statements about the review process and ways to ensure creativity during
the workshop would be appreciated. 
	*	The abstract should preferably not exceed 200 words. 

3.	Call for Participation 

	*	A preliminary version of the Call for Participation that
the organizers must prepare if the workshop is accepted. 
	*	Should provide a brief overview of the proposed workshop
including a description of the goals of the workshops and the work
practices. 
	*	May repeat some of the statements made on the abstract
page, but should be targeted specifically to potential workshop
participants. 

4.	Organizers 

	*	Short biography of each organizer. 
	*	References to similar workshops organized at previous
conferences, including the number of participants. 
	*	If a workshop is accepted, the organizers will be
requested to prepare a WWW page that will contain the latest information
about the workshop. The web pages of each workshop will be linked to the
GPCE workshop web site. 
	*	Each workshop must have at least two organizers,
preferably from different organizations. Preference will be shown to
workshops that have more organizers. Workshop organizers and
participants have to register for the conference. 


Recommendations 


*	Workshop organizers should in particular take care to foster the
creative potential that is tentatively present in a workshop. 
*	Remember that a workshop is NOT a conference! 
*	The success of a workshop depends greatly on the results
generated on-site. 
*	A number of interrelated issues should be taken into account in
order to provide a good framework for such on-site creativity. 

*	Time allocation 

	*	During the workshop, enough time should be reserved for
collaborative work. 
	*	Such creative sessions should have a precise topic and
objective and their results should be written down so that they can be
reported later. Reasonable expectations 
	*	One should not count on people's instantaneous and
proactive participation. 
	*	For many reasons, participants tend to prefer a consumer
role much to a producer role during a workshop. 
	*	Thus prescreened presentations, even formally reviewed
papers, should usually precede any creative sessions. Task forces 
	*	Large groups tend to behave like an audience, whereas
groups of four to eight people are much more likely to interact. 
	*	When planning collaborative sessions, consider having
several smaller groups rather than one large group in order to foster
the generation of new ideas. 

*	Presentation selection 

	*	Quality should obviously be the primary criterion for
selecting the presentations. 
	*	However, in order for a workshop to be productive,
consider also having presentations on some new, controversial topics to
spark discussion. 

*	Participant selection 

	*	Although the number of workshop participants does not
need to be restricted to the selected presenters, the overall size of
the workshop should remain small enough to foster creativity. 
	*	Usually this means less than 20 participants. 


Submission Process 


Electronic submission of proposals is required--send to
workshops04 at gpce.org <mailto:workshops04 at gpce.org> . Proposals must be
submitted no later than March 19, 2004, BUT EARLIER IS BETTER, as it
allows for a more satisfactory coordination between workshop proposals. 

Proposal Review and Acceptance 

The proposals received will be reviewed by the Workshop Committee to
determine a high quality and appropriate mix for the conference . 


Important Dates 


Workshop proposals schedule 

*	Submission deadline for workshop proposals: March 19, 2004 
*	Notification of workshop acceptance: April 5, 2004 
*	Workshop program posted on the website: August 31, 2004 

This call for participation is for workshop organizers; a later call
will occur for workshop attendees. 

Workshop attendee schedule (all workshops): 

*	Calls for Workshop Paper Submissions issued: April 15, 2004 
*	Workshop paper submission deadline: July 1, 2004 
*	Workshop papers - notification of acceptance: August 31, 2004 
*	Workshop papers - final versions posted at the workshop sites:
October 20, 2004 

*	Workshop day: Monday, October 25, 2004 


Workshop chair 

zino benaissa (Intel Corporation)

For More Information 


For additional information, clarification, or questions please feel free
to contact the Workshop Chair.