July 3-7, Nantes (France)
5th
Fractal Workshop
Leveraging an European open source community around the Fractal component model
Overview
In the sequel of the 4 previous Fractal Workshops since January 2003, the purpose of this one-day workshop is to provide a forum for the Fractal on-growing community developing or using the Fractal component model to present and discuss the latest developments and experimentations inside the ObjectWeb open source consortium and beyond around the Fractal model and platforms in different programming languages. The workshop clearly targets people already having a knowledge or know-how of the Fractal component model (newcomers are expected to attend the Fractal tutorial also submitted to ECOOP). The Fractal community is still mostly French-centered today with few a participants in other countries. One goal of this workshop is clearly to extend the Fractal community in Europe by leveraging the ObjectWeb open source community.
Program
Morning session (9h - 12h30)
- Implementation and basic tools
- Higher languages and tools
- UML & MDA design
Afternoon session (14h - 18h30)
- Verification and Predictable Assembly
- Checking Fractal Component Bahaviour Using Behaviour Protocols
J. Kofron, J. Adamek, T. Bures, P. Jesek, V. Mencl, P. Parizek, F. Plasil [slides] - Verification of Distributed Components: A Case Study
A. Cansado, L. Henrio, E. Madelaine [slides] - Specification of a Contract Based Built-In Test Framework for
Fractal
D. Deveaux, P. Collet [slides]
- Checking Fractal Component Bahaviour Using Behaviour Protocols
- Applications
- Final discussion: Organizing the Fractal Community towards Fractal v3
Posters
- Ubiquitous Fractal Components
D. Hoareau, Y. Mahéo - Auto-Fractal: Autonomatic and Dynamic (Re-)Assembling of
Fractal-Based Applications
G. Grondin - Component-Based Autonomic Management System
J. Philippe, S. Picard, C. Taton - Fractalising Fractal Controller for a Componentisation of the
Non-Functional Aspects
F. Baude, D. Caromel, L. Henrio, M. Morel, P. Naoumenko - How to Express Composition Properties in Fractal?
N. Belloir, S. Sentilles, N. Hoang, J.-M. Bruel - Meta-data Management for the Fractal Component Model
P. Hnetynka, P. Nevaril - An Extension of Fractal for Behavioural Composition
M. Beauvois, M. Riveill - Extension of the Fractal ADL for the Specification of Behaviours
of Distibuted Components
T. Barros, L. Henrio, A. Cansado, E. Madelaine, M. Morel, V. Mencl, F. Plasil
The organizers plan to have post-proceedings for the workshop, and expect to be able to have them published - typically as a volume of the LNCS series - within 6 months of the workshop. Papers for the post-proceedings will be selected among the more mature works presented at the workshop, on the basis of the usual criteria for paper publication: technical excellence and originality, clarity of presentation, as well as relevance to the CBSE and distributed systems communities at large.
Information for attendees
Important dates
- April 30th: Submission deadline (2-4 pages abstracts)
- June 5th: Notification of acceptance
- July 3rd: Workshop
- July 4th: Tutorial
Workshop attendance is primarily dedicated to people presenting
works. Other people may participate to the workshop in the limit of the
size of the room used for the workshop.
Registration of workshop participants has to be done in two mandatory steps:
- Contact the organizers of the workshop
(in order to ensure that the participant limit has not been exceeded).
- Register on the ECOOP 2006 web site either as a workshop-only attendee or as a regular attendee. The latter includes access to workshops and to the main conference.
Organization
Contact: thierry.coupaye@rd.francetelecom.com, Jean-Bernard.Stefani@inrialpes.frOrganizers:
- Thierry Coupaye is senior research expert and head of the Distributed Software Architectures & Infrastructures research group at France Telecom R&D Division. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from the UJF Grenoble University, France, in 1996 and worked afterwards as a teaching and research assistant at INPG Technological University. Then he worked as a researcher at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Cambridge, U.K., and then in the Dassault Systems and University of Grenoble Joint Laboratory. He is the author of more than 30 refereed articles and has participated in several program and organization committees of conferences in these areas (IDEAS, SC, Euromicro CBSE, etc.). His current research interests include middleware architecture, reflexive component-based systems, aspect-oriented programming and autonomic computing. He is co-editor of the Fractal component model specification and participates to the work around Fractal ADL, Fractal JMX, extensions for aspects and contracts.
Jean-Bernard Stefani is a research director at INRIA since 2001 where he heads the Sardes research team. Prior to that, he was the head of the Distributed Systems Laboratory in France Telecom R&D from 1995 to 2000. His research interests cover: distributed systems, operating systems, component-based systems, distributed and component-based programming, formal models for component-based and distributed programming. He is the author of more than 60 refereed papers and has participate in several program committees of international conferences (including Middleware, SRDS, DAIS, Euromicro, FORTE, FMOODS, etc). He is co-editor of the Fractal component model specification and participates to the work around formalizing the model, Fractal ADL, the THINK implementation, the DREAM Fractal communication framework.
Updated July, 13th