[pept:37] CfP ICSE Workshop on Generative Techniques for Product Lines

[BUTLER gregory <gregb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (by way of Robert Glueck)]

               Call for Particpation
  Workshop on Generative Techniques for Product Lines
     International Conference on Software Engineering
          Toronto, Monday, May 14, 2001

Web: http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/gregb/icse-workshop


Call for Participation
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Submission Deadline: March 15, 2001
Notification:        March 31, 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 PDF files.

The workshop will aim to foster discussion and interaction rather
than presentations. Presentations will serve to introduce a case
study, provoke discussion by presenting a controversial point of
view, or introduce new points of view.

The Workshop
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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;
   designing and implementing DSLs using generators and
      extensible languages;
   testing generic and generative models; and
   synergy between components and generators.

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

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.

Don Batory (batory@cs.utexas.edu) holds the David Bruton Centennial
Professorship at The University of Texas at Austin.  He has given
numerous tutorials on Product-Line Architectures, Generators, and
Reuse, and is an industry-consultant on product-line architectures.

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.