* NEWS *
* Early registration for OOPSLA and GPCE'08 has been   *
*   extended until Septermber 15 *

< http://gpce08.gpce.org >
Seventh International Conference on
Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'08)
Nashville, Tennessee
(co-located with OOPSLA 2008)

*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

GPCE 2008 will be co-located with OOPSLA, in Nashville, Tennessee. The
GPCE technical program will take place on Oct. 19-20, before the OOPSLA
technical program begins. Other GPCE events (workshops and tutorials)
will run in parallel with OOPSLA events on Oct 21-23. GPCE'08 is
sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGSOFT.  GPCE'08
proceedings published by ACM Press.

For full conference program and the latest news, check the GPCE'08 web  
site
(http://gpce08.gpce.org).

**** REGISTRATION

Registration for GPCE'08 is handled through the OOPSLA registration
page (http://www.regmaster.com/conf/oopsla2008.html). Early
registration deadline has been moved to  Septermber 15.  If  
registering for OOPSLA as well,
the GPCE surcharge is just $200! If registering for GPCE alone, the  
charge is $375
for ACM members.

*** TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Sunday, October 19

8:50-9:00 Welcome

9:00-10:00 Keynote
Session Chair: Julia Lawall

   * Emerging Challenges for Large Scale Systems Integration
     Dr. Andrew Fano (Accenture)

10:30-12:00 Technical papers 1
Session Chair: Julia Lawall


   * Code Generation to Support Static and Dynamic Composition of
     Software Product Lines
     Marko Rosenmueller, Norbert Siegmund, Sven Apel and Gunter Saake.
   * Efficient Compilation Techniques for Large Scale Feature Models
     Marcilio Mendonca, Andrzej Wasowski, Krzysztof Czarnecki and Don  
Cowan.
   * On the Modularity of Feature Interactions
     Chang Hwan Peter Kim, Christian Kaestner and Don Batory.

13:30-15:00 Technical papers 2
Session Chair: Jaakko Jarvi

   * Using Simple Mathematics as a Modeling Language
     Don Batory.
   * From Generic to Specific: Off-line Optimization for
     General Constraint Solver
     Ye Zhang, Torben Amtoft and Flemming Nielson.
   * Generating Incremental Implementations of Object-Set Queries
     Tom Rothamel and Yanhong A. Liu.

15:30-17:00 Technical papers 3
Session Chair: Aniruddha Gokhale

   * Integrating Semantics and Compilation
     Peter Gottschling and Andrew Lumsdaine.
   * Generating Customized Verifiers for Automatically Generated Code
     Ewen Denney and Bernd Fischer.
   * Property Models: From Incidental Algorithms to Reusable Components
     Jaakko Jarvi, Mat Marcus, Sean Parent, John Freeman and Jacob  
Smith.

17:00-17:30 PC chair's report

Monday, October 20

9:00-10:00 Keynote
Session Chair: William Cook

   * Fundamentalist Functional Programming
     Erik Meijer (Microsoft)

10:30-12:00 Technical papers 4
Session Chair: William Cook

   * Feature Featherweight Java: A Calculus for Feature-Oriented
     Programming and Stepwise Refinement
     Sven Apel, Christian Kastner and Christian Lengauer.
   * Lightweight Dependent Classes
     Tetsuo Kamina and Tetsuo Tamai.
   * Typing Communicating Component Assemblages
     Michael Lienhardt, Vivien Quema, Alan Schmitt and Jean-Bernard  
Stefani.

14:00-15:00 Technical papers 5
Session Chair: David Abrahams

   * Polymorphic Embedding of DSLs
     Christian Hofer, Klaus Ostermann, Tillmann Rendel and Adriaan  
Moors.
   * Pantaxou: a Domain-Specific Language for Developing
     Safe Coordination Services
     Julien Mercadal, Nicolas Palix, Charles Consel and Julia Lawall.

15:30-17:00 Technical papers 6
Session Chair: Mark Grechanik

   * Program Refactoring using Functional Aspects
     Sven Apel, Christian Kastner and Don Batory.
   * Rigorous and Practical Refactoring-Based Framework Upgrade
     Ilie Savga, Michael Rudolf, Sebastian Gotz and Uwe Assmann.
   * An abstraction for reusable MDD components
     Vinay Kulkarni and Sreedhar Reddy.