SC 2008 is the 7th Symposium on Software Composition. It is the premier symposium that brings together the research and industrial communities in order to develop a better understanding of how software components may be used to build and maintain large software systems.

SC 2008 is co-located with ETAPS 2008 in Budapest, Hungary and will be held on March 29-30 2008.

Paper Submission is now open

The goal of the Software Composition Symposium series is to advance the research in all areas of component-based software development. Main challenges cover their development, reuse, composition, and verification. Another challenges is that component-based software development should scale from large systems down to devices with limited computing capabilities.

Topics of interests include but are not restricted to:

* Composition and adaptation techniques
* Composition languages, calculi and type systems
* Aspect-oriented programming
* Semantics-based composition and analysis of component systems
* Verification, validation and testing techniques
* Dynamic composition and reconfiguration
* Composition issues in industrial-strength component systems and frameworks
* Composition aspects of service-oriented architectures
* Software composition in pervasive computing environments
* Mashups - software composition for the Web
* Visual composition environments and tools
* Model-driven composition
* Business Process orchestration
* Performance optimization of composite systems

Papers relating theory and practice are particularly welcome.