[TYPES] Call for Participation: GPCE'05 - Generative Programming and Component Engineering

[Eelco Visser]

                  PRELIMINARY CALL for PARTICIPANTS
               ANNOUNCEMENT of WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS
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                    4th International Conference on
      Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'05)
                Sep 29 - Oct 1, 2005, Tallinn (Estonia)
                         http://www.gpce.org/05

      Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT
                  co-located with ICFP'05 and TFP'05 

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Consult http://www.gpce.org/05 for UP-TO-DATE and DETAILED information
especially the calls for workshop contributions

FORTHCOMING: on-line registration should become active in mid June
	     
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IMPORTANT DATES

    * Jun 13, 2005: suggested deadline for workshop contributions
      (please check on workshop web pages for details)

    * Jul 29, 2005: EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE
    * Sep 27-28, 2005: GPCE workshops and tutorials
    * Sep 29 - Oct 1, 2005: GPCE papers and demos

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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 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 and the programming languages
community, in addition to supporting the original research goals of
both the GCSE and the SAIG communities.

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3 INVITED SPEAKERS:
* Oscar Nierstrasz: Object-oriented reengineering patterns
* Oege de Moor: TBA
* Bernd Fischer: Certifiable generative programming

25 TECHNICAL PAPERS
   (see conference web page for the list of accepted papers)

2 DEMONSTRATIONS:
* Developing Dynamic and Adaptable Applications with CAM/DAOP:
  a Virtual Office Application
* Metamodeling made easy - MetaEdit+

3 TUTORIALS

T1: Multi-stage Programming in MetaOCaml
    (Presenters: W.Taha, C.Calcagno)

T2: Implementing Domain-Specific Modelling Languages and Generators
    (Presenters: R.Pohjonen and J-P.Tolvanen)

T3: Challenges and Best Practices of Generative Software Engineering
    in the Context of Large Complex Business Applications
    (Presenter: M.M.Davydov)

3 WORKSHOPS

W1: Seventh Young Researchers Workshop (Organizers: D.R.Dechow,
    D.Foetsch, S.Kiebusch, S.Perugini, M.J.Rutherford, D.Shestakov)

W2: Second MetaOCaml Workshop (Organizers: K.Swadi, W.Taha)

W3: Graph and Model Transformations Workshop
    (Organizers: G.Karsai, G.Taentzer)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Chairs:
    * Robert Glück (U. of Copenhagen)
    * Michael Lowry (NASA)
    Members:
    * Don Batory (U. of Texas, USA)
    * Ira Baxter (Semantic Designs)
    * Cristiano Calcagno (Imperial College)
    * Prem Devanbu (U. of California at Davis)
    * Ulrich Eisenecker (U. of Leipzig)
    * Tom Ellman (Vassar College)
    * Robert Filman (NASA)
    * Zhenjiang Hu (U. of Tokyo)
    * Patricia Johann (Rutgers U.)
    * John Launchbury (Galois)
    * Anne-Françoise Le Meur (U. of Sci. and Tech. Lille)
    * Hong Mei (Peking U.)
    * Nicolas Rouquette (NASA)
    * William Scherlis (CMU)
    * Yannis Smaragdakis (Georgia Inst. of Tech.)
    * Walid Taha (Rice U.)
    * Todd Veldhuizen (Chalmers U. of Tech.)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

    General Chair
    * Eugenio Moggi (Genova U.)
    Publicity Chair:
    * Eelco Visser (Utrecht U.)
    Workshops and Tutorials Chairs
    * Jeff Gray (U. of Alabama at Birmingham)
    * Andrew Malton (Waterloo U.)
    Local Arrangements Chair
    * Tarmo Uustalu (Inst. of Cybernetics, Tallinn)

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