![]() | Welcome to the 7th International Workshop on Context-Oriented Programming |
Context information plays an increasingly important role in our information-centric world. Software systems must adapt to changing contexts over time, and must change even while they are running. Unfortunately, mainstream programming languages and development environments do not support this kind of dynamic change very well, leading developers to implement complex designs to anticipate various dimensions of variability. Starting from this observation, Context-Oriented Programming (COP) has emerged as a solution to directly support variability depending on a wide range of dynamic attributes, making it possible to dispatch run-time behaviour on any property of the execution context.
The goal of COP’15 is to further establish context orientation as a common thread to language design, application development, and system support. Several researchers are working on Context-Oriented Programming and related ideas, and implementations ranging from prototypes to mature platform extensions used in commercial deployments have illustrated how multi-dimensional dispatch can indeed be supported effectively to achieve expressive run-time behavioural variations.
This is a follow-up to 6 successful editions, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014, each attracting around 30 participants.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- interesting application domains and scenarios;
- programming language abstractions for context-oriented programming (e.g. dynamic scoping, roles, traits, prototype-based extensions);
- configuration languages (e.g. feature descriptions, transformational approaches);
- interaction between non-functional programming concerns and context-oriented programming (e.g. security, persistence, concurrency, distribution);
- theoretical foundations for context-oriented programming (e.g., semantics, type systems);
- modularisation approaches for context-oriented programming (e.g. aspects, modules, layers, plugins);
- guidelines to include context-oriented programming in programs (e.g. best practices, patterns);
- implementation issues such as optimization, VM support, JIT compilation etc. for context-oriented programming (reflection, dynamic binding);
- tool support (e.g. design tools, IDEs, debuggers).
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09:30 - 10:30 Talk | Keynote: ContextJS and Lively Kernel: Safely Evolving a Self-supporting Development Environment with COP COP Jens LinckeHasso Plattner Institute |
11:00 - 11:30 Talk | Context-Oriented Image Processing COP | ||
11:30 - 12:00 Talk | A Study of Context-Oriented Programming for Applying to Robot Development COP Harumi WatanabeTokai University, Midori SugayaShibaura Institute of Technology, Ikuta TanigawaKyusyu University, Nobuhiko OguraTokyo City University, Kenji HisazumiKyushu University | ||
12:00 - 12:30 Talk | Towards a Decoupled Context-Oriented Programming Language for the Internet of Things COP Baptiste MaingretINSA Lyon, Frédéric Le MouëlINSA Lyon, Julien PongeINSA Lyon, Nicolas StoulsINSA Lyon, Jian CaoShanghai Jiao Tong University, Yannick LoiseauBlaise Pascale University , Aubière |
13:30 - 14:00 Talk | Connecting Object Constraints with Context-oriented Programming: Scoping Constraints with Layers and Activating Layers with Constraints COP Stefan LehmannHasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Tim FelgentreffHasso-Plattner-Institute, Potsdam, Robert HirschfeldHPI | ||
14:00 - 14:30 Talk | Method Safety Mechanism for Asynchronous Layer Deactivation COP Tetsuo KaminaRitsumeikan University, Tomoyuki AotaniTokyo Institute of Technology, Hidehiko MasuharaTokyo Institute of Technology, Atsushi IgarashiKyoto University | ||
14:30 - 15:00 Talk | Context Slices: A lightweight discovery module for adaptations COP |
15:30 - 16:00 Talk | Efficient Layered Method Execution in ContextAmber COP Matthias SpringerHasso Plattner Institute, Jens LinckeHasso Plattner Institute, Robert HirschfeldHPI | ||
16:00 - 16:30 Talk | Type-Safe Layer-Introduced Base Functions with Imperative Layer Activation COP Tomoyuki AotaniTokyo Institute of Technology, Tetsuo KaminaRitsumeikan University, Hidehiko MasuharaTokyo Institute of Technology | ||
16:30 - 17:00 Other | Discussion COP |
Call for Contributions
COP invites submissions of high-quality papers reporting original research, describing innovative contributions, or experience with context-oriented programming, its implementation, and application. Papers that depart significantly from established ideas and practices are particularly welcome.
Submissions must not have been published previously and must not be under review for any another refereed event or publication. The program committee will evaluate each contributed paper based on its relevance, significance, clarity, and originality. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
Papers must be formatted according to ACM SIG format, and can be submitted via EasyChair as a PDF file of at most 6 pages.