Proposal

Call for Papers

Special Issue of the Journal

Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development

Modularity Constructs in Programming Languages

edited by Gary T. Leavens (Univ. of Central Florida, USA) and Klaus Ostermann (Univ. of Marburg, Germany)

Motivation

The quest to improve the modularity of software systems has been the main motivation for many programming language constructs. Modularity is an important topic in all areas and communities of programming language design, albeit with slightly different interpretations of the term modularity. The purpose of this special issue is to collect a set of papers that open new perspectives in programming language modularity.

Call for Papers

Papers may address any aspect of modularity constructs, including:

new directions in aspect-oriented modularity, alternatives to the pointcut-advice style
solutions to the so-called "expression problem" and related modularity problems
module constructs from functional programming, such as type classes or functors and datatype-generic and polytypic programming
novel interpretations of modularity, such as its relation to specification languages, knowledge representation or theorem proving, or the tension between information hiding and separation of concerns
module constructs from object-oriented programming, such as mixins, traits, or virtual classes
language constructs for generic programming
reflection and meta-object protocols
language constructs for variability management and feature-oriented programming
critiques of and reflections on existing modularity constructs

Submissions

Manuscripts should be formatted using the LNCS formatting guidelines, and should be submitted in PDF format.
The paper can be submitted at the following URL:
http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com/TAOSD/servlet/Conference

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers.

Guest Editors

Gary T. Leavens, Univ. of Central Florida

Klaus Ostermann, Univ. of Marburg

Important dates

Submission deadline (extended): August 9, 2010
First Round Review Notification: October 7, 2010
Re-Submission Revised Papers: December 31, 2010
Second Round Review Notifications: February 28, 2011
Submission of Camera-Ready Copy: March 30, 2011
Projected Publication Date of Special Issue: July 2011