a Workshop of the
8th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems
OOIS 2002 - Sept. 2-5 2002, Montpellier, France

Workshop Date : Sept. 2 2002

Organizers

• Daniel BARDOU (primary contact )
  LSR-IMAG & Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France.
• Agnès CONTE
  LSR-IMAG & Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France.
• Liz KENDALL
  Sun Microsystems & Monash University, Frankston Victoria, Australia.

Overview

Improving reuse is still an important issue of Information Systems Engineering. Several current objet-oriented approaches, such as patterns, frameworks or business components, address this topic at different phases of the software development process. We will focus in this workshop on tools, techniques and methods developed to improve the reuse of design elements.

Reuse is today mainly gained with empirical tools and methods, and it is necessary to make reuse more systematic in object-oriented information systems design. Reuse at the design phase can be considered from two different yet complementary perspectives: (1) design for reuse or (2) design by reuse.

1. Design for reuse deals with identifying reusable elements, specifying and organizing components, and integrating sets of components in a reuse system. This includes definition of languages and models for specifying reusable artifacts.
2. Design by reuse needs to define new information systems engineering processes, and develop tools supporting systematic reuse of components in information systems.

Special attention will be given to contributions aiming to improve the above techniques by adapting novel or ``non traditional'' approaches at the edge of object-orientation (e.g. aspect-orientation or multi-viewpoints approaches, tools integrating artificial intelligence techniques, information retrieval, ...).

The goal of the workshop is to gather academics and industrial practioners interested by these concerns to express opinions, discuss work in progress, identify problems and share ideas to solve them.

Participation

Prospective participants are asked to submit either a short position paper (5-10 pages), or a discussion topic proposal (1-2 pages). Submitted position papers and discussion topics will be reviewed by the program comitee.

Selected papers will be published in OOIS 2002 Workshop Proceedings by Springer, and will be presented during the workshop.

Participants proposing discussion topic proposals will be asked to contact people in the participants list and animate an actual panel at the workshop.

Programme Comitee

• Daniel Bardou (Daniel.Bardou@imag.fr)
• Corine Cauvet (Corine.Cauvet@univ.u-3mrs.fr)
• Siobhán Clarke (Siobhan.Clarke@cs.tcd.ie)
• Agnès Conte (Agnes.Conte@imag.fr)
• Jana Dospisil (Jana.Dospisil@infotech.monash.edu.au)
• Jun Han (Jun.Han@infotech.monash.edu.au)
• Ralph Johnson (johnson@cs.uiuc.edu)
• Liz Kendall (kendall@infotech.monash.edu.au)
• Michel Léonard (leonard@cui.unige.ch)
• Annig Le Parc-Lacayrelle (Annig.Lacayrelle@univ-pau.fr)
• Wolfgang Pree (pree@eecs.berkeley.edu)