Call for Papers

				COP'13
     Fifth International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming
      Worokshop in conjunction with ECOOP, ECMFA, and ECSA 2013
		 Montpellier, France, July 2nd, 2013

	       http://www.fos.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/COP13/
	  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cop13

Overview
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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 implement 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 behaviour
on any property of the execution context.

The goal of the 5th International Workshop on Context-Oriented
Programming (COP’13) is to further establish context orientation as a
common thread to language design, application development, and system
support. Several researchers are working on Context-Oriented
Programming and related ideas, and implementations ranging from
prototypes to mature platform extensions used in commercial
deployments have illustrated how multi-dimensional dispatch can indeed
be supported effectively to achieve expressive run-time behavioural
variations.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Interesting application domains and scenarios
- Programming language abstractions for context-oriented programming
  (e.g. dynamic scoping, roles, traits, prototype-based extensions)
- Theoretical foundations for context-oriented programming (e.g.,
  semantics, type systems)
- Configuration languages (e.g. feature description interpreters,
  transformational approaches)
- Interaction between non-functional programming concerns and
  context-oriented programming (e.g. security, persistence,
  concurrency, distribution)
- Modularization approaches for context-oriented programming
  (e.g. aspects, modules, layers, plugins)
- Guidelines to include context-oriented programming in programs
  (e.g. best practices, patterns)
- Runtime support for context-oriented programming (e.g. reflection,
  dynamic binding)
- Tool support


Important dates
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 * Paper submission:   April 19, 2013
 * Notification:       May 8, 2013
 * Final papers due:   May 22, 2013 (to be confirmed)
 * Early registration: May 31, 2013


Submission guidelines
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COP invites submissions of high-quality papers reporting original
research, or describing innovative contributions to, or experience
with context-oriented programming, 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 (URL TBA) 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


Program Committee
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  Tomoyuki Aotani, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  Pascal Costanza, Intel, USA
  Carl Friedrich Bolz, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
  Sebastián González, UCLouvain, Belgium
  Atsushi Igarashi (Chair), Kyoto University, Japan
  David Lorenz, Open University of Israel, Israel
  Didier Verna, EPITA Research and Development Laboratory (LRDE), France


Organising committee
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  Malte Appeltauer, SAP Innovation Center, Germany
  Sebastián González, UCLouvain, Belgium
  Robert Hirschfeld, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Germany
  Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan (primary contact)
  Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo, Japan


More information
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See the workshop website at 
http://www.fos.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/COP13/