REM 2013 - International Workshop on Reactivity, Events and Modularity

Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Patrick Eugster, Purdue University, United States
Kevin Pinte, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Guido Salvaneschi, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Mario Südholt, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Lukasz Ziarek, University at Buffalo, USA
Programming reactive applications is a challenging task. Reactivity must be properly expressed by suitable language abstractions, reactive code must be modular and extensible, easy to understand and to analyze. Researchers have proposed several solutions to address this issue, including event-based programming, functional-reactive programming and aspect-oriented programming. Many synergies exist between paradigms such as implicit invocations, aspects and joinpoints, asynchronous methods, first-class events, purely functional reactive frameworks and design and architectural patterns such as subject/observer and publish/subscribe respectively. The different paradigms have emerged from different communities, and with different motivations ranging from decoupling of runtime components in distributed and concurrent applications to decoupling of software modules, and consequently also exhibit subtle yet important differences in characteristics and semantics.
With the ever increasing pervasiveness of reactive, concurrent, and distributed systems, this workshop serves as a conduit for novel work in the context of reactive software design and implementation broadly construed, i.e., related to any of the above paradigms. Of particular interest is work which bridges between the different paradigms and helps clarify the relations between them. This workshop will gather researchers active in different communities. Among the goals of the workshop is to exchange new technical research results and to define better the field by coming up with taxonomies and overviews of the existing work.
Urlhttp://soft.vub.ac.be/REM13