STS'08: Software Transformation Systems Workshop

Workshop Organisers

• Magne Haveraaen, University of Bergen, Norway
• Jan Heering, CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Important Dates

Workshop schedule:

• 2 page position paper submission deadline: July 15, 2008
• Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2008
• Early registration: September 11th, 2008
• Workshop: Sunday October ??, 2008

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.

Program

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Submission of intent to participate

If you find this workshop interesting you should send an e-mail to sts08@ii.uib.no with your intent to participate and your area of expertise/interest. Space may be limited at the workshop, and registered participants will be given priority.

Registration

Workshop participants should register for the GPCE'08 conference. Those who only wish to participate in the workshop should register for any one day of the conference. The badge will let you attend the workshop as well as the chosen day of the conference.