Just a reminder that the deadline is this week - Magne ________________________________________________________________________ STS'06: Software Transformation Systems Workshop http://www.program-transformation.org/Sts/STS06 part of the

Fifth international conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'06) http://www.program-transformation.org/GPCE06/

October 22-26, 2006, Portland, Oregon

colocated with OOPSLA'06

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Workshop Organisers * Magne Haveraaen, University of Bergen, Norway http://www.ii.uib.no/~magne/ * Jim Cordy, Queen's University, Canada http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~cordy/ * Jan Heering, CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jan/ * Eelco Visser, Utrecht University, Netherlands http://www.cs.uu.nl/~visser/

Workshop schedule: * 2 page position paper submission deadline: July 15, 2006 * Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2006 * GPCE/OOPSLA early registration deadline: September 14, 2006 * Workshop day: Sunday October 22, 2006

Motivation ---------- Generative software techniques typically transform components or codefragments, instantiate patterns etc. in some way or another to generate new code fragments, components or programs. Often this needs software support beyond that of existing compilers, i.e., some kind of system which takes software as inputs and produces software as output.

Software transformation systems are tools which are built for such transformations. They range from specific tools for one purpose, via simple pattern matching systems, to general transformation systems which are easily programmed to do any reasonable transformation. Thus the more general tools may be treated as meta-tools for generative programming.

Following on the success of STS'04, this workshop is once again designed to bring together people working on software transformation systems and those with an interest in software transformation systems as a generative tool, with the aim of investigating the use of software transformation tools as tools to support generative programming. We want to look at various generative techniques and suggest how these may be supported by various general purpose transformation tools. This may lead to a more general understanding of common principles for supporting generative methods.

This year's workshop will particularly focus on architecture, reuse, implementation (data representations and algorithms), application models and benchmarks, although contributions on a wide range of topics in the application of software transformation systems in generative techniques are sought.

Workshop format --------------- The workshop will have a small number of participants, around 20, selected on the basis of short position papers submitted to the organisers. The aim is to let people with different perspectives meet in order to allow fruitful interaction.

Submission of intent to participate ----------------------------------- If you find this workshop interesting you should send an e-mail to sts06@ii.uib.no with your intent to participate and your area of expertise/interest, and/or a short, max 2 page, position paper intended as an abstract of a presentation.

We prefer plain ISO or UTF-8 documents (txt), but latex (only use standard packages) and pdf formats are also acceptable.