The FOAL Workshops
The FOAL workshops on Foundations of Aspect-Oriented Languages have been held annually since 2002. The workshops have been held in conjunction with the International Conferences on Aspect-Oriented Software Development
The workshop aims to foster work in foundations, including formal studies, promote the exchange of ideas, and encourage workers in the semantics and formal methods communities to do research in the area of aspect-oriented programming languages.
News
Mar. 15, 2010
The 2010 workshop was a success. There were 35 attendees in the morning and 29 people attending in the afternoon. Talk slides are now linked from the agenda. Thanks to Klaus Osterman and the PC, and to the authors and presenters!
Mar. 12, 2010
According to the workshops program the FOAL workshop will take palce in Room LIPARI at the ISRIA site in Rennes.
Mar. 10, 2010
The informal proceedings for FOAL 2010 are now available. You can also access individual papers from the agenda. Don't forget to register for AOSD 2010! We will see you in Rennes on March 15!
Feb. 17, 2010
A tentative agenda for FOAL 2010 is now available. We are still working on plans for the last session (from 4:00pm to 5:pm). Don't forget to register for AOSD 2010! (Early registration ends February 22.)
Authors of accepted papers should see the detailed formatting instructions for papers to appear in our informal proceedings.
Jan. 6, 2010
A new call for position papers for FOAL 2010 has been issued. In order to stimulate discussion of new foundational ideas, we are calling for position papers of up to 5 pages, to be submitted to FOAL by January 20, 2010.
Dec. 6, 2009
Workshops from AOSD 2010, including FOAL will not have proceedings published in the ACM digital library. The call for papers has been adjusted to reflect this.
Oct. 27, 2009
There will be a FOAL 2010 associated with AOSD 2010 in Rennes and St. Malo France on 15 March 2010. So, if you are interested in FOAL, please consider submitting a paper. See the call for papers for details.
Feb. 25, 2009
The informal proceedings are now available from the agenda and the FOAL 2009 pages. If you want a copy at the workshop, please print or put it on a computer you will bring with you to the workshop. See you at FOAL on March 2, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia!
Feb. 17, 2009
The final session at FOAL is entitled: "Open Session: New Ideas, Open Questions, and Work in Progress," which will consist of short 3 minute presentations. Any attendees interested in posing some issues or briefly describing their ideas or ongoing work related to FOAL topics are invited to present 3 minute talks, with up to 2 slides. This is your chance to help focus the FOAL community on challenging AOSD topics that will make our future foundational work insightful, useful, and significant. If you would like to present a topic, please email the title to Shmuel Katz (katz@cs.technion.ac.il) by February 26.
Feb. 17, 2009
Authors who have not sent their final paper versions to Gary for the informal proceedings are requested to do so by February 24. Please see the detailed formatting instructions.
Feb. 2, 2009
Mehmet Akşit will give an invited talk at the 2009 FOAL workshohp titled: "Interface-Based aspect-oriented programming in Compose*: Its language independency, semantic point-cuts and aspect interference detection possibilities." Come to hear it at FOAL on March 2, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia!
Jan. 17, 2009
A preliminary agenda for FOAL 2009 is now available, which includes a list of the accepted papers. Don't forget to register for AOSD when registering for the workshop. Hope to see you at FOAL on March 2, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia!
Dec. 22, 2008
Due to a slight misunderstanding, the due date recorded in the call for papers has been changed to 11:59AM GMT, 24 December 2008. Also note that authors will have a choice of putting a 1 page abstract or a five page version of their paper in the ACM Digital Library.
Oct. 23, 2008
A revised call for papers is available. Only abstracts of FOAL papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library.
Oct. 1, 2008
FOAL has been approved as a workshop of AOSD 2009 and will occur on March 2, 2009 in Charlottesville, Virginia as part of AOSD 2009. See the FOAL 2009 webpage for more information and the call for papers.
Apr. 7, 2008
The 2008 workshop was held on Tuesday, April 1, 2008
at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium.
The proceedings for FOAL 2008
are now available. You can also access individual papers from the
agenda for FOAL 2008 online.
The workshop was attended by about 32 people.
We had a keynote from Prof. Bill Harrison of Trinity College Dublin.
We also had a panel discussion on the future of AOSD titled
"AOSD Research: In the Mainstream, A Vibrant Subfield, or a Passing Fad",
with panelists Mehmet Aksit, Oege de Moor, Gary T. Leavens, and Klaus Ostermann.
Thanks again to Curtis Clifton and the rest of the program committee
for selecting an excellent crop of papers.
Thanks also to all the participants
for making this a fun and interesting FOAL workshop.
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