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[pept:19] Workshop on Generative Techniques for Product Lines



               Call for Particpation
  Workshop on Generative Techniques for Product Lines
     The First Software Product Line Conference
          Denver, Tuesday August 29, 2000

Call for Participation
----------------------

Submission Deadline: July  1, 2000
Notification:        July 15, 2000

Potential participants are asked to submit a two-page position
paper detailing their experience with generative techniques,
their perspective on one or more of the topics below, and their
planned contribution to the workshop.

Please send submissions to Greg Butler (gregb@cs.concordia.ca),
preferably as postscript or PDF files.

Invitations from the organizers will be based on the position
papers, and a desire to create debate and discussion amongst
participants.

The Workshop
------------

The workshop on Generative Techniques for Product Lines aims to
bring together practitioners, researchers, academics, and
students to discuss broadly the state-of-the-art of generators
and their role in developing a product line.

Topics of interest, include
   styles of generators, particularly the uses and limitations;
   generation of code artifacts, such as application logic, UIs,
      database schemas, and middleware integration;
   generation of non-code artifacts such as test cases,
      documentation, tutorials, and help systems;
   capturing configuration knowledge, for example, in DSLs, and
      extensible languages; and
   testing generic and generative models.

The goal is to share experience, consolidate successful
techniques, and identify open issues for future work in product
lines.

A Tentative Schedule
--------------------

 0830-0900: Introductory remarks by organizers.
 0900-1000: Brief introduction by each participant.
 1000-1030: Controversial talk #1.
 1030-1100: Break
 1100-1230: Controversial talk#2; and general group discussion.
 1230-1400: Lunch
 1400-1600: Identify topics, prioritize, and discuss.
 1600-1630: Break
 1630-1730: Prepare workshop report.

Organizers
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Greg Butler (gregb@cs.concordia.ca) is a Professor of Computer
Science, Concordia University, Montreal. He works on frameworks,
investigating methodologies for framework development and
evolution.

Krzysztof Czarnecki (czarnecki@acm.org) is a researcher and
consultant with the Software Technology Lab at DaimlerChrysler
Research in Ulm, where he has been working on Generative
Programming and its industrial application for over four years.

Ulrich Eisenecker (Ulrich.Eisenecker@t-online.de) is a professor
of computer science at the University of Applied Sciences,
Kaiserslautern. His work focuses on generative programming and
object technology. He is also the editor of KOMPONENTEN-Forum,
which is a permanent part of OBJEKTspektrum, a SIGS publication
on object and component technology in Germany.