CALL FOR TOOL DEMONSTRATIONS

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Third International Conference on

Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'04)

Vancouver, October 24-28, 2004
co-located with OOPSLA 2004 and ISMM 2004

Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT and Microsoft

http://gpce04.gpce.org

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Demonstrations Committee

• Simon Helsen (Chair), University of Waterloo, Canada
• William Cook, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Frédéric Jouault, Université de Nantes, France

Important Dates

• Demonstration proposal submission: July 2, 2004
• Notification of acceptance: August 2, 2004
• Conference: October 24-28, 2004

Overview

The conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering offers practitioners and tool-developers an opportunity to give an in-depth technical demonstration of products, tools, techniques or approaches supporting program generation, domain-specific modeling, generative programming, template meta-programming, aspect-oriented software development, model-driven architecture, component generation, and other related topics.

GPCE tool demonstrations typically show how tools are applied in real world scenarios, for example, by considering a small case-study. We explicitely invite proposals from both industry as well as academia. Demonstrations will be selected on their technical content, practical or academic relevance, and feasibility of the proposed demonstration. While we encourage proposals for the demonstration of commercial tools, we expect the presentation to address technical issues. Product marketing is inappropriate for this forum. If there are concerns with regard to the applicability of a demonstration or tool, feel free to contact the demonstrations chair (demos04@gpce.org).

OOPSLA 2004 Co-location

Because GPCE 2004 is co-located with OOPSLA 2004 and because there is possibly some conceptual overlap, GPCE demonstrations will be held together with OOPSLA demonstrations. In practice, this means that GPCE demonstrations will run as a parallel track next to OOPSLA demonstrations in the same exhibition space. We expect that this integration benefits both GPCE and OOPSLA conference attendants.

Organizational Issues

A demonstration session will be 45 minutes in length and will be held twice over the course of the conference. It is centered around a technical exposition of the tool, but the demonstrators should provide time for questions from the public, either during the session or at the end. Depending on resource availability, there will be time and room for additional informal presentations and discussions.

Demonstration proposals, written according to the guidelines outlined below, should be sent by e-mail to the demonstrations chair (demos04@gpce.org). The deadline for proposals is July 2, 2004. Due to the OOPSLA co-location, the GPCE and OOPSLA demonstrations chairs reserve the right to transfer incoming proposals between the two conferences whenever appropriate.

Presenters of accepted demonstrations will also be expected to provide a two-page summary description to be published on the website and handed out at the conference.

Proposal Guidelines

A proposal for demonstration has to be sent via e-mail to the demonstration chair in either text, PDF or MS Word format and should contain the following information:

1. A demonstration title
2. Name, organization, email, address, and phone number of the contact person
3. Names and affiliations of the other presenters
4. A description (max 250 words) addressing the following issues:
   • Problems addressed
   • Relevance to Generative Programming or Component Engineering
   • Uniqueness of design and implementation,
   • Underlying implementation techniques and technologies used
   • A description of what the audience will see and how the demonstration will be run
5. A URL of a web site with additional information, if available
6. Hardware and presentation requirements

Proposals may be resent up to the submission deadline (please, indicate clearly that your proposal is an update of a previous submission).

More Information

For additional information, clarification, or questions, please feel free to contact the demonstrations chair (demos04@gpce.org)