Dear colleagues,

The Programming Technology Lab (PROG) and the System and Software
Engineering Lab (SSEL) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel will organise a
Belgian Workshop on "Aspect Oriented Programming" (AOP) and "separation of
concerns" in general.  The goal of this workshop is to bring together
researchers and practitioners in Belgium who are contributing to the area
of AOP, and to provide a first Belgian platform where knowledge transfer,
exchange of ideas, and collaboration in this area are facilitated.  We
would like to reach as many people as possible, so please distribute this
e-mail to whomever you think would be interested.

We encourage people that are active in the domain of AOP and "separation of
concerns" to participate in this workshop.  We sollicit topics related, but
not limited to:
- Aspect Oriented Programming
- Subject Oriented Programming
- Composition filters
- Logic Meta Programming
- Experiences in separation of concerns
- Adaptive programming
- Intentional programming
- Generative programming
- weaving, aspect languages, metaobject protocols
- Overlapping and interacting concerns
- Multi-dimensional separation of concerns
- Case studies and experience reports on using aspect-oriented programming and
separation of concerns
- Evaluation of aspect-oriented programming and separation of concerns
mechanisms

The intended setup is a one-day workshop, during which a number of invited
speakers will present their contributions to AOP, alternated with
discussions.  Ideally, every party substantially involved in AOP or related
topics should actively contribute to the workshop with a presentation.  You
can express your interest in actively participating in this workshop by
sending us a short abstract, specifying your contribution to the area of
AOP. Based on these abstracts, we will select and schedule the
presentations.  People who would like to stay informed about this workshop,
but do not plan on actively participating in the workshop, are invited to
subscribe to our mailinglist: belgianaop@prog2.vub.ac.be.

The Belgian AOP Workshop will be held at the VUB, between November 5 and
16.  We deliberately didn't fix a day, so that interested parties can also
specify their availability.  Please specify your time constraints between
November 5 and 16 when sending us your abstract.  (i.e. When you are or
are not available during this time period).  The cost of participation will
be kept to a minimum to facilitate participation.

We set some deadlines for the aforementioned scenario, shown below.  But by
all means, feel free to contact us anytime at aopworkshop@prog2.vub.ac.be with suggestions, remarks, and so on!

- deadline abstract & time constraints: July 15th, to be sent to aopworkshop@prog2.vub.ac.be
- invitation for presentation: August 15th
- call for participation, date and schedule of the workshop: September 15th

Waiting for your reactions,

Johan Brichau and Maja D'Hondt


PS: Since we want to reach people in Flanders and Wallonie, and because we
realise many research labs and companies employ foreigners, we chose to
write this email in English.  You may, however, respond in Dutch or French.
-- 
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Johan Brichau                    email: johan.brichau@vub.ac.be
Programming Technology Lab       tel  : +32 2 629 34 92
Vrije Universiteit Brussel   
Pleinlaan 2                              Campus Etterbeek
B-1050 Brussel                         Building F, 10th floor
Belgium                                     room 10F729