[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] ========================================================================= Call for Papers COP'14 Sixth International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming Worokshop in conjunction with ECOOP 2014 Uppsala, Sweden, 29 July, 2014 http://prg.is.titech.ac.jp/events/cop14/ Overview -------- Context information plays an increasingly important role in our information-centric world. Software systems must adapt to changing contexts over time and must change even while they are running. Unfortunately, mainstream programming languages and development environments do not support this kind of dynamic change very well, leading developers to implementing complex designs to anticipate various dimensions of variability. Starting from this observation, Context-Oriented Programming (COP) has emerged as a solution to directly support variability depending on a wide range of dynamic attributes, making it possible to dispatch run-time behavior on any property of the execution context. The goal of the 6th Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming (COP-14) is to further establish context orientation as a common thread to language design, application development, and system support. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Interesting application domains and scenarios - Programming language abstractions - Theoretical foundations - Configuration languages transformational approaches - Interaction between non-functional programming concerns and COP - Modularization approaches plugins - Programming guidelines and best practices - Runtime support - Tooling Important dates --------------- * Abstract submission: May 30, 2014 * Paper submission: June 6, 2014 * Notification: June 19, 2014 * Camera ready: June 27, 2014 * Workshop: July 29, 2014 Submission guidelines --------------------- COP-14 invites submissions of high-quality papers reporting original research, or describing innovative contributions to, or experience with COP, its implementation, and application. Papers that depart significantly from established ideas and practices are particularly welcome. Submissions must not have been published previously and must not be under review for any another refereed event or publication. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality. It is planned to publish accepted papers in the ACM Digital Library, unless the authors choose not to. In case of publication in the ACM Digital Library, authors must transfer copyright to ACM upon acceptance (for government work, to the extent transferable), but retain various rights (see ACM Copyright Policy. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material. Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cop14) in PDF format. Submissions must be written in English (the official language of the workshop) and must not exceed 6 pages. They should use the ACM SIGPLAN 10 point format, templates for which are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm Programming Committee ---------------------------------------- Tomoyuki Aotani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, chair Shigeru Chiba, The University of Tokyo, Japan Dave Clarke, Uppsala University, Sweden and KU Leuven, Belgium Marcus Denker, INRIA, France Richard P. Gabriel, IBM, United States Sebastián González, UC Louvain, Belgium Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany Tetsuo Kamina, The University of Tokyo, Japan Jens Lincke, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany Friedrich Steimann, Fernuniversität in Hagen, Germany Eddy Truyen, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Organizing Committee -------------------- Tomoyuki Aotani, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (primary organizer) Malte Appeltauer, SAP Innovation Center Potsdam, Germany Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam, Germany Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan