First Workshop on Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD)

    in conjunction with MODELS'09, GPCE'09, and SLE'09

           Denver, Colorado, October 6th, 2009 

               with a Keynote by Don Batory

                  http://www.fosd.de/2009 


Abstract

Feature orientation is an emerging paradigm of software development. 
It supports the largely automatic generation of large software systems 
from a set of units of functionality, so called features. The key idea 
of feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is to emphasize the 
similarities of a family of software systems for a given application 
domain (e.g., database systems, banking software, text processing 
systems) with the goal of reusing software artifacts among the family
members. Features distinguish different members of the family. A
challenge in FOSD is that a feature does not map cleanly to an isolated
module of code. Rather it may affect ('cut across') many components/
documents of a software system. Research on FOSD has shown that the 
concept of features pervades all phases of the software life cycle and 
requires a proper treatment in terms of analysis, design, and 
programming techniques, methods, languages, and tools, as well as 
formalisms and theory.

Keynote

Don Batory. "On The Challenges and Importance of Features"

Goals

The main goal of the workshop is to foster and strengthen the 
collaboration between the researchers who work in the field of FOSD or 
in the related fields of software product lines,aspect-oriented software
development, service-oriented architecture, and model-driven engineering. 

In particular, we expect the following results from the workshop:  
* A list of the participants' interests and contact details will be 
  posted on the workshop website. 
* The papers and a summary of the discussions will be published in 
  the ACM Digital Library. 
* A research agenda will be established that guides further activities 
  such as joint projects and publications.

Submission

We invite submissions of 4 to 8 pages long in ACM proceedings format. 
The papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program 
committee and the organization committee. The authors will be notified 
about acceptance before the early registration deadline. Accepted papers 
will be posted on the website and published in the ACM Digital Library. 

We will use the easychair paper submission/review system.  Submissions
should be uploaded via the following URL

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fosd2009

If we receive a significant amount of submissions of high quality, we 
will organize a special issue in the journal Science of Computer 
Programming (Prof. Jan Bergstra, the editor-in-chief, has been informed
already). 

In particular, we are looking for contributions in the following
topics: 
* Programming language and tool support for FOSD 
* Domain engineering and/or application engineering 
* Software product lines and program families 
* Feature and variation modeling 
* Formal methods and theory for FOSD 
* Type systems and formal semantics of FOSD languages 
* Feature composition, interaction, and refactoring 
* Multi-dimensional separation of concerns and aspect-oriented software 
  development 
* Generative programming and automatic programming 
* Design patterns, frameworks, and components 
* Model-driven development and service-oriented architecture

Workshop Format

The workshop is scheduled as a full day workshop. Participants are 
expected to read the papers accepted beforehand to be ableto contribute 
to lively discussions about approaches and ideas presented. The morning 
session will consist of a keynote by Don Batory, a leading researcher in
FOSD, and short presentations of the most representative papers. Interesting 
discussion topics will be collected for the afternoon session. In the 
afternoon we will use the 'Open Space' format in order to discuss topics of 
interest that might be related but not restricted to the paperspresented in 
the morning. The results of the discussion groups will be presented in the 
last half hour of the workshop.

Important Dates

Paper submission: August 1st, 2009 
Notification: September 1st,
2009 Workshop: October 6th, 2009

Organizing Committee 

 Sven Apel (University of Passau, DE)  
 William R. Cook (University of Texas at Austin, US)  
 Krzysztof Czarnecki (University of Waterloo, CA) 
 Christian Kaestner (University of Magdeburg, DE) 
 Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Berne, CH)
 Neil Loughran (SINTEF, NO) (Program Chair)

Program Committee 

 Vander Alves (University of Brasilia, BR)  
 David Benavides Cuevas (University of Seville, ES)
 Danilo Beuche (puresystems, DE)  
 Iris Groher (University of Linz, AT)  
 Kyo Chul Kang (POSTECH, KR)  
 Thomas Leich (Metop Research Institute, DE) 
 Christian Lengauer (University of Passau, DE)  
 Roberto Lopez-Herrejon (Bournemouth University, UK)  
 Klaus Ostermann (University of Aarhus, DK)  
 Susanne Patig (University of Berne, CH)  
 Christian Prehofer (Nokia Research, FI)  
 Olaf Spinczyk (University of Dortmund, DE)  
 Christine Schwanninger (Siemens, DE)  
 Salvador Trujillo (IKERLAN Research Centre, ES)