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Subject: Invitation: Call for Papers -- AICCSA '05 First Workshop on Software Stability: Timeless Architectures and Systems of Patterns Date: Sunday 25 July 2004 04:24 From: m.fayad@sjsu.edu To:

Greetings,

You are invited to submit a position paper for this workshop.

Enclosed please find the call for papers.

If you have any more questions, please contact me!

Would you please send the following announcement to all possible e-mail lists that you currently have or have access to. I appreciate your publicizing this workshop to as many people in computing as possible. Thank you.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon.

Cheers,

M. Fayad

P.S. -- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Invitation & Call-for-Papers _____________________________________________________________________ AICCSA ‘05 First Workshop on Software Stability: Timeless Architectures and Systems of Patterns Call for Papers AICCSA ’05 Full day workshop The 3rd ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications January 3-6, 2005, Cairo, Egypt http://engr.smu.edu/cse/AICCSA-05/ (AICCSA’ 05 Link) http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/ AICCSA05 http://www.activeframeworks.com/publications.html#workshops _____________________________________________________________________

Developing stable software can alleviate the tremendous projected cost associated with future changes in the system. This workshop will examine software stability with respect to six central themes: "How can we engineer software systems that are timeless and stable overtime?," "What are the approaches of making software systems stable over time?", “How can we build software as a system of stable patterns?, "What are the stable software patterns?", “How can we achieve a timeless model based architectures for reuse?”, and “What are the impact\ relationship of software stability on\with new technologies, such as aspect-oriented architecture and programming, multi-agent technology, constraints-oriented software development, component-based software development, application and enterprise frameworks’ developments, and others?” This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers who have been involved in the development of stable and adaptable software architectures, or are interested in learning more about the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in stable architectures, software stability and stable patterns.

Papers are invited on both theoretical and practical aspects relevant to software stability. Topics include (but are not restricted to): · Theories of software stability · Stable software architectures · Model-based software reuse · Impact of stability on software reuse · Case studies of the building stable software architectures · Stable software patterns · Extracting and reusing patterns from developed architectures · Metrics for the stability of the constructed systems · Impact of software stability on new technologies (such as aspect-oriented architecture and programming, multi-agent technology, constraints-oriented software development, component-based software development, etc) · Patterns compositions Participation Forms Participation in the workshop can be done in one of three ways: · by submitting a position paper of 1-4 pages (IEEE style) that address any of the relevant topics related to the workshop. Participants who are submitting position papers will have the opportunity to present their experiences or findings at the workshop. Submissions must be either MS-Word or RTF formats (please, DO NOT compress files). · by sending an email to the workshop chair describing their relevant experience in the area. The organizers will select some of those applicants to join the workshop, based on the experiences, positions or ideas stated in the email. · by attending the workshop and participating in active discussions. However, this kind of participation is limited by the number of available places. Preferences will be given to participants of the above two forms.

To foster lively discussions, participants are encouraged to present open questions and one or two main statements that shall be discussed at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a technical report at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. The length of the Camera-Ready papers should follow the IEEE two-column template ( http://computer.org/author/psguide.htm) and are limited to 4 pages For more information please check < http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~fayad/workshops/ AICCSA05 > or < http://www.activeframeworks.com/publications.html#workshops%3E

You may also contact the organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline August 15, 2004 Acceptance notification September 15, 2004 Camera ready paper due September 30, 2004 Workshop date: January 3, 2005

ORGANIZERS Dr. Mohamed E. Fayad - CHAIR Professor of Computer Engineering Computer Engineering Dept., College of Engineering San José State University One Washington Square, San José, CA 95192-0180 Ph: (408) 924-7364, Fax: (408) 924-4153 E-mail: m.fayad@sjsu.edu, fayad@activeframeworks.com http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/fayad

Haitham Hamza – Co-Chair Computer Science & Engineering Dept University of Nebraska, Lincoln 115 Ferguson Hall, P.O. Box 880115, Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 Ph: (402) 472-3485 (office) E-mail: hhamza@cse.unl.edu

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