Organizers

The 16th International Conference o­n Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE*04)

German Informatics Society (GI), Working Group WI-KobAS (5.10.3)

Call for Papers and Participation

Motivation

Component specifications are an important part of component-based engineering methodologies. They build the methodological basis for component development, cataloguing, search, assessment, and configuration. Furthermore, they serve as input to predict the behaviour and quality of configurations (i.e. component-based applications). Establishing a standardized framework that determines the scope and formats of component specification endorses the emergence of interoperable tools that are able work together and exchange information about components. Modern component technologies like Web Services already recognized the importance of specifications and provide a specification standard (e.g. UDDI). However, today's standards are not sufficient to support component-based software engineering, since they merely concentrate o­n specifying (low-level) interface definitions.

This workshop aims at tying together important aspects of component specification in general and at identifying applications for specifications within the process of component-based software engineering. Its goal is to establish a working group that focuses o­n creating a standardized specification framework for software components as the basis of future methodologies.

A component specification aims at providing a complete documentation of (the outer view of) components. A specification framework determines the extent and formats of component specifications. It ought to be formal, normative, modular (extensible), technology-independent, and methodically substantiated. Furthermore, it should provide both machine- and human-understandable specifications.

A preliminary specification framework to specify business components has been standardized by AK WI-KobAS (AK 5.10.3), a working group located within the German Society of Informatics (GI) and is available under http://wi2.wiwi.uni-augsburg.de/fachkomponenten/memorandum.php?lang=eng

It may serve as a starting point to open discussions.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    * Aspects of component specifications (e.g. assertions, behaviour, architecture, method coordination, variability, and non-functional/quality characteristics)
    * Applications for component specifications (e.g. component search, assessment, dynamic o­nfiguration, formal models to predict configuration behavior)
    * Formal validation and certification of component specifications (e.g. certification methods)
    * Standardization of component specifications (e.g. existing approaches and specification frameworks)

Submissions and Participation

All submissions will be formally reviewed (double-blind reviewing process). Authors of accepted papers need to participate in the workshop and have to register for the main conference.

The workshop will be organized as mixture of presentations (position papers) and discussions. At the end of the workshop, a consolidating session will tie together workshop results and try to establish a working group that starts standardization of a specification framework (i.e. task forces and a control board to develop the overall framework structure will be instantiated).

Papers should clearly state how they relate to the workshop theme, which problems they address in particular, what solutions they suggest and how this solution advances component specifications and/or the process of component-based software engineering. Papers should be five to ten pages (12pt times, single-spaced A4 or letter) in length and state the author's affiliation and contact address. Pape

Programm Committee

Saïd Assar, Institut National des Télécoms, France
Jan Bosch, U Groningen, Netherlands
Stefan Conrad, U Düsseldorf, Germany
Peter Fettke, U Mainz, Germany
Gerhard Goos, U Karlsruhe, Germany
Peter Loos, U Mainz, Germany
Erich Ortner, U Darmstadt, Germany
Geert Poels, U Leuven, Belgium
Ralf H. Reussner, U Oldenburg, Germany
Colette Rolland, U Paris 1, France
Marcus Rothenberger, U Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Johannes Sametinger, U Linz, Austria
Klaus Turowski, U Augsburg, Germany
Rainer Unland, U Essen, Germany

Organisation

Peter Fettke
ISYM - Information Systems & Managment, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
55099 Mainz   

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Prof. Dr. Peter Loos
ISYM - Information Systems & Managment, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
55099 Mainz   

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Prof. Dr. Klaus Turowski
Chair of Business Information Systems, University of Augsburg
Universität Augsburg
Universitätsstr. 16

86135 Augsburg   

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