Software Composition (SC 2007)

			    Call for Papers

	  6th International Symposium on Software Composition
		    Satellite event of ETAPS 2007

	                    24-25 March, 2007
			     Braga, Portugal

                       http://ssel.vub.ac.be/sc2007

	       Submission deadline (extended): December 14, 2006


Topics:

The goal of SC 2007 is to bring together the research and industrial
communities in order to address the challenges of the component-based
software development approach. SC 2007 will be the sixth symposium on
software composition in the SC series that seeks to develop a better
understanding of how software components may be used to build and
maintain large software systems. Therefore, submissions relating
theory and practice are particularly welcome. Suggested topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

  - Composition and adaptation techniques
  - Composition languages, calculi and type systems for such systems
  - Semantics-based composition and analysis of component systems
  - Verification, validation and testing techniques
  - Dynamic composition and reconfiguration
  - Aspect-oriented programming
  - Composition issues in industrial-strength component systems
  - Software composition in pervasive computing environments
  - Composition of active documents
  - Compositional web service design and implementation

We solicit two categories of high-quality submissions on research
results and/or experience: Long papers (12-16 pages, LNCS format,
including bibliography and figures) describing a technical
contribution in depth and short papers (6-8 pages, LNCS format)
concisely capturing ongoing work, new ideas, and experiences.
Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance,
relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. Submitted papers
must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. As in
previous years, the proceedings of the symposium will be published as
a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (approval
pending). Authors of accepted papers should provide all the electronic
files of the final version of their paper according to the instructions
provided at the LNCS home page (www.springer.com/lncs).

Publication information:

  - Submission of full papers:	Thursday, December 14, 2006
  - Notification of authors: 	Friday, January 26, 2007
  - Final copy of paper: 	Friday, February 16, 2007
  - Conference: 		24-25 March,  2007

Organization:

General chair
  Judith Bishop, University of Pretoria

Program chairs
  Markus Lumpe, Iowa State University
  Wim Vanderperren, Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Program committee

  Uwe Assmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
  Brian Barry, Bedarra Research Labs, Canada 
  Alexandre Bergel, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
  Vittorio Cortellessa, University of L'Aquila, Italy 
  Thierry Coupaye, France Télécom, France 
  Birgit Demuth, Dresden University of Technology, Germany 
  Maja D'Hondt, CWI, The Netherlands
  Flavio De Paoli, University of Milan, Italy 
  Dieter Fensel, DERI Galway/Innsbruck, Ireland/Austria 
  Dimitra Giannakopoulou, RIACS/NASA Ames Research Center, USA
  Volker Gruhn, University of Leipzig, Germany 
  Thomas Gschwind, IBM Research, Switzerland 
  Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada 
  Mehdi Jazayeri, University of Vienna, Austria
  Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
  Joe Kiniry, University College Dublin, Ireland 
  Kung-Kiu Lau, The University of Manchester, U.K.
  Welf Lowe, University of Vaxjo, Sweden
  Karl Lieberherr, Northeastern University, U.S.A. 
  Jeff Magee, Imperial College, London, UK
  Klaus Ostermann, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
  Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland 
  Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany 
  Elke Pulvermüller, University of Karlsruhe, Germany 
  Ralf Reussner, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  Lionel Seinturier, University of Lille, France 
  Jean-Guy Schneider, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
  Mario Sudholt, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
  Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, University of Brussels, Belgium
  Eric Tanter, University of Chile, Chile

Invited speaker:

  Farhad Arbab, CWI, The Netherlands

Venue:

SC 2007 will be co-located with the ETAPS conferences and take place
in Braga, Portugal.