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Product Line Engineering (PLE) is an increasingly important paradigm in software development whereby commonalities and variations among similar systems are systematically identified and exploited. PLE covers a large spectrum of activities, from domain analysis to product validation and testing. Variability is manifested throughout this spectrum in artifacts such as requirements, models, code and documentation and it is often of crosscutting nature. These characteristics make Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) techniques appealing as suitable candidates to modularize variability. Prior work on Generative Programming (GP) and Component Engineering (CE) has shown their successful applicability to PLE and the potential benefits of AOSD.

This workshop aims at expanding and capitalizing on the increasing interest of researchers from these communities. It builds on the success of last year’s workshop that established an initial community and formulated a first joint research agenda. The main goal of the workshop is to strengthen the established collaborations, to share and discussed ideas, identify research opportunities and foster collaboration to tackle the challenges these opportunities may bring about.

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three committee members. Accepted papers will be posted on the web and attendants will be requested to read them in advance. The workshop will last a full day to give time for short paper presentations, and “Open Space” discussions on topics distilled from the presentations.

Work on Aspect-Oriented Software Development concepts and techniques applied to Software Product Line Engineering has shown promising results. These results can be further strengthened when Generative Programming and Component Engineering techniques are applied in concert. The main goal of the workshop is to foster and strengthen the collaboration between the AOSD, PLE and generative research communities by identifying common interests and research venues. It builds on the success of the last year workshop that established an initial community of researchers from different fields and formulated a first joint research agenda.

We expect the following results from the workshop:

• A list of the participants’ interests and contact details that will be posted on the workshop website.
• The papers and a summary of the discussions will be compiled into a technical report, publicly available through the workshop website and other university departmental sites.
• Extending the research agenda that would lead into further joint projects and publications.

The workshop is scheduled as a full day workshop. The morning session will consist of paper presentations. Each paper will be presented by its author(s) and discussed by two other workshop participants (authors of other papers, PC members or organizers). The assignment of discussants of papers and the points they should address will be announced with the acceptance notification.

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 papers presented in the morning. The results of the discussion groups will be presented in the last half hour of the workshop.

The papers and a summary of the discussions will be compiled into a technical report that will be posted on the workshop’s website. If we receive a significant amount of submissions of high quality, we will consider submitting them to a special issue of some journal.

Paper submission deadline: August 3, 2007
Notification: August 24, 2007
Camera ready: September 14, 2007
Workshop: October 4, 2007

We invite submissions of 2 to 6 pages long in ACM or IEEE 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.

We are looking for contributions in the following topics but not limited to:

• The role of aspects during Domain Engineering and/or Application Engineering
• AOSD techniques applied to mapping and traceability of requirements to architecture, design and implementation of product line systems
• AO approaches for independent feature development and feature composition
• Application of generative AOSD techniques to product line engineering
• Product line testing and evolution using aspects and generative techniques
• Core asset and variability management using aspects and generative techniques
• Aspects and product line adoption
• Alliance between AOSD, DSLs and MDD in product line engineering
• Case studies on aspects and software product lines

Submit your paper as a PDF or Postcript file to aople@comp.lancs.ac.uk

If you require further information on the paper submission or have any problems submitting your paper, please feel free to contact any of the organizers.

• Charles Krueger, Biglever Software Inc
• Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Vander Alves , Lancaster University
• Rob van Ommering, Philips Research
• Markus Völter, Independent Consultant
• Andreas Rummler, SAP
• Danilo Beuche, pure-systems GmbH

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