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Subject: TOOLS USA '96 Advance Program (Technology of Object-Oriented Languages & Systems)
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Mark your calendar for the upcoming TOOLS USA '96 and
associated Symposium on Teaching Object Technology
conferences in Santa Barbara, California from July 29-
August 2nd this summer. This year's special focus is
on Objects and the Internet.

Included below you will find:

   + TOOLS USA Advance Program and Registration Form
   + STOT (Symposium on Teaching Object Technology)
     call for papers - there's still time to submit
     a presentation! Deadline is March 31, 1996.

Regards,


-- Cynthia Garcia, TOOLS USA '96 Conference Coordinator
   270 Storke Rd, Suite 7, Santa Barbara, CA 93117 USA
   Phone [phone], Fax [phone]
   <[e-mail]>, Web: http://www.tools.com/tools

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                           TOOLS USA '96

         Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems

         TWENTIETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION

         Santa Barbara, California, July 29 - August 2, 1996

                          ADVANCE PROGRAM

    Program Chair: Raimund Ege, Florida International University
           Panel and Workshop Chair: Madhu Singh, Bellcore
                Conference Chair: Bertrand Meyer, ISE


TUTORIAL PROGRAM - July 29 - August 30
======================================

Each tutorial is a half-day, unless otherwise designated. You may
select a maximum of four to attend over the two-day tutorial period.

Analysis & Design Track
-----------------------

OPEN: A Third Generation OO Methodology
Professor B. Henderson-Sellers, Swineburne Univ. of Technology

     The tutorial will describe the collaborative OPEN methodology,
     which  combines  the best of MOSES, SOMA, Martin/Odell and BON
     with significant influences from several  other  methodologies
     such as OOram, RDD and OBA; as well as the formal OO language,
     Object-Z. In this presentation, the  overall  architecture  of
     OPEN  will  be  described  and highlights of the more advanced
     techniques included.

     BRIAN HENDERSON-SELLERS is Professor of Computer Science
     at Swineburne University of Technology in Australia.  He
     is author of four best-selling books on object technology.

The Unified Modeling Language
Robert John Hathaway III, Editor, Object Currents

     The UML (arch. Unified Method) is an important new development
     in  object  methodology of relevance to all. This presentation
     will examine: (1) the latest OML standard: metamodels, models,
     and  notation;  (2)  its  use  through  several  examples; (3)
     evaluation by the most modern standards of use; (4) comparison
     with  other  methods and efforts.  Participants will learn how
     to apply the UML within and to their development  process  and
     will  explore  effective  use of its advanced capabilities and
     potential. Attendees are expected to have  some  knowledge  of
     object methodology, especially Booch, OMT, or OOSE.

     BOB HATHAWAY   is  Editor In  Chief  of the  "Object Currents"
     Hypertext  Journal,   and  CEO of Cyberdyne Systems.  He has a
     decade of experience in object technology including languages,
     compilers, and methods (Booch and  OMT).

The Business Object Notation:
  OO Analysis & Design for  Large-scale systems
Jean-Marc Nerson, SOL, France

     Software reuse on a broad scale is generally recognized as the
     major  potential  of  object  technology. The B.O.N. method is
     focused on two software  development  principles,  which  play
     crucial  roles  in attaining this goal. The tutorial shows how
     the method avoid   impedance mismatches and uses a small  case
     study  is  used  to  explain the basic concepts and systematic
     tasks of the B.O.N. development process.

     JEAN-MARC NERSON is Managing Director of Societe des Outils du
     Logiciel  (Paris)  and  consults  on  large scale O-O projects
     worldwide with Fortune 500 companies. He co-authored with  Kim
     Walden  ``Seamless  O-O  Software Architecture: The Analysis &
     Design of Reliable Systems' (Prentice-Hall, 1995)

The Firesmith Method
Donald Firesmith, Knowledge Systems Corporation

     This  tutorial  presents  the  Firesmith  Method,   a   fourth
     generation object-oriented development method intended for the
     development of  large  complex  applications.   This  tutorial
     covers   basic   concepts,   modeling   techniques,   and  the
     development  process.   Future  directions  in  terms  of  the
     Unified Method and the OMEGA/OPEN Method Standard will also be
     addressed.

     DONALD FIRESMITH is author  of  "Object-Oriented  Requirements
     Analysis:     A  Software  Engineering  Approach"  (1993)  and
     "Testing  Object-Oriented  Software"   (4th   quarter   1996),
     coauthor  of  "The  Dictionary  of  Object Technology" (1995),
     editor of two anthologies on OO testing (1996-1997), and is a
     senior technical staff member at Knowledge Systems Corporation.

Reuse
-----

An in-depth Look at Reusability
Dr. Bertrand Meyer, ISE, USA

     Drawing on  the  experience  of  thousands  of  widely  reused
     classes,  this  presentation  will  explain  the  issues, both
     managerial  and  technical,  that  must  be  addressed  for  a
     successful  reuse policy. It will review what managers must do
     to promote reuse  in  their  organization,  and  describe  the
     technical tools that are necessary to produce large numbers of
     high-quality reusable components. The technical  part  of  the
     presentation   will   be  based  on  the  Eiffel  approach  to
     reusability and reliability. Attendees will be presented  with
     a  number  of  examples  of  good  (and  bad) reusable library
     design.

     BERTRAND MEYER is  president  of  ISE  Inc.  (Santa  Barbara),
     editor  of  two  book  series (Prentice Hall's Object-Oriented
     Series and Addison-Wesley's ``Eiffel in Practice''),  chairman
     of   the  TOOLS  conferences  (Technology  of  Object-Oriented
     Languages  and  Systems)   and   associate   member   of   the
     applications  section of the French Academy of Sciences. He is
     the author of many books including two available  in  Japanese
     (``Object-Oriented  Software Construction'', ``Introduction to
     the Theory of Programming Languages''), ``Object Success''  (a
     presentation of object technology for managers), ``Eiffel: The
     Language'',  and  ``Reusable  Software''  (on  the  tutorial's
     topics).

The Impact of Reuse on an Information Age Economy
Brad Cox, George Mason University, USA

     This tutorial addresses one of the most  perplexing  questions
     of  the  often-touted  transitions to software engineering via
     reusable software components (Software-ICs) in the small,  and
     to an information age economy in the large.
     Now that  object  technologies  ranging  from  object-oriented
     programming  languages  to  graphical  user  interfaces to the
     world  wide  web  have  made  it   technically   feasible   to
     manufacture  objects  made  of bits, what does it mean to buy,
     sell and own them?

     BRAD COX is the author  of  "Object-Oriented  Programming:  An
     Evolutionary  Approach"  and the originator of the Objective-C
     programming language. He is a faculty member at   George Mason
     University (Program for Social and   Organizational Learning),
     and founder of  the  Coalition  for  Electronic  Markets.

Object-Oriented Software Composition
Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Berne, Switzerland

     Object-oriented languages and methods support the  development
     of  applications  from  standard  software  architectures  and
     generic  software   components   as   defined   by   so-called
     "frameworks",   or   abstract   class  hierarchies.   Although
     object-oriented  techniques  to   a   large   extent   support
     application  development  from components, it is not generally
     possible  to  construct  applications  merely   by   composing
     software   components.    In  this  tutorial  we  will  survey
     compositional software technology, and we will  identify  some
     of the current limitations and open problems.

     OSCAR NIERSTRASZ is  Professor  of  Computer  Science  at  the
     Institute  of  Computer  Science  of  the University of Berne,
     where he leads a research group in Software Composition. He has
     served on the program committees of many conferences including
     ECOOP and OOPSLA, and as the program Chair of ECOOP '93.

Encapsulation and Class Interface Specification
Raimund Ege, Florida International University, USA

     The tutorial illustrates how encapsulation is supported during
     software  development by analysis and design methodologies and
     object-oriented programming languages. The  major  programming
     languages,  such  as  Eiffel,  C++,  Smalltalk,  and  Java are
     evaluated  and  compared  with  regard  to  their  support  of
     encapsulation   control  and  ease  of  establishing  reusable
     components.

     RAIMUND EGE is an Associate Professor of Computer  Science  at
     the  Florida  International University, Miami. He is author of
     "Programming   in an  Object-Oriented  Environment"  (Academic
     Press,   1992)  and  "Object-Oriented  Programming  with  C++"
     (Academic Press, 1994). He is currently  the  program chairman
     of the TOOLS USA conference.

Internet, distribution, concurrency
-----------------------------------

From C++ to Advanced Java in One Day (Full Day)
Desmond D'Souza, ICON Computing, USA

     This  tutorial  will  enable  developers  to  effectively  and
     efficiently  make  the transition from C++ to Java, within the
     framework of a solid object-oriented design paradigm. Covering
     key  differences  between  the  languages  as  well as between
     corresponding design  approaches,  it  will  illustrate  these
     differences  with  a series of examples.

     DESMOND D'SOUZA is the president of ICON Computing, Inc. and a
     member of the faculty at the Software Quality Institute at the
     University of Texas  at  Austin.  He   has  worked with object
     technology since 1985. He is the author of the  Education  and
     Training  column in the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming
     and in Report on Object Analysis and Design.

Effective utilization of CORBA technology
Alan Noble, Schlumberger, USA

     This  tutorial  presents an overview of the CORBA architecture
     and  its  components  and  describes  the  steps required  to
     develop a CORBA  application, using  specific examples in C++.
     This tutorial will be beneficial to both  software  developers
     and  managers  seeking  to  learn more about CORBA and acquire
     practical  knowledge  of  how  to  build  CORBA  applications.
     Knowledge of C++ will be helpful, though not required.

     ALAN  NOBLE  is  a  software   engineering   specialist   with
     Schlumberger  in  San  Jose, California.  He has over 10 years
     experience developing and managing software projects  on  Unix
     and   Microsoft  Windows  systems.   He  has  been  developing
     distributed object-oriented applications since  1986  and  has
     been deploying CORBA applications since 1993.

Object-Oriented Distributed Computing
Mohamed Fayad, University of Nevada

     This tutorial focuses on  object-oriented  distributed  system
     developments  (OODS),    and    examines  the  advancements in
     distributed systems arena: client/server,  the   collaborative
     computing   based   on  peer-to-peer  networks,  and  enabling
     technologies, such as OO software engineering, OO  distributed
     operating  system  technology,  and  application technologies.
     OLE/COM,   CORBA,   SOM/DSOM,  DEC  Object  Broker,  and other
     approaches will be discussed,  supported by case   studies and
     "lessons learned".

     MOHAMED FAYAD is Associate Professor at University of  Nevada,
     a  CACM  Associate  Editor,  Editor-in-Chief  of IEEE Computer
     Society  Press  Practices  Board   in   Computer   Science   &
     Engineering.

O-O methods
-----------

Testing Object-Oriented Software
Donald Firesmith

     This tutorial presents  the  basic  issues  involving  object-
     oriented testing including encapsulation, inheritance, message
     passing, common bugs in object-oriented software, the  object-
     oriented  development  cycle,  and  OOPL differences regarding
     testing.  This  tutorial  also  presents  PLOOT,  the  Pattern
     Language   for  Object-Oriented  Testing,  which  includes  27
     patterns covering class/cluster testing,  testing  techniques,
     test  case  form and location, test infrastructure, acceptance
     testing, and the testing process.

     DONALD FIRESMITH is author  of  "Object-Oriented  Requirements
     Analysis:     A  Software  Engineering  Approach"  (1993)  and
     "Testing  Object-Oriented  Software"   (4th   quarter   1996),
     coauthor  of  "The  Dictionary  of  Object Technology" (1995),
     editor of two anthologies on OO testing (1996-1997), and is a
     senior technical staff member at Knowledge Systems Corporation.

Application of Design Patterns in Commercial Domains
Wolfgang Pree, University of Linz, Austria

     The  tutorial gives   an  overview of  state-of-the-art design
     patterns  approaches,  focusing  on  those  that  support  the
     development    of   frameworks.   "Hot Spot"   cards  will  be
     introduced. Case studies illustrate how to apply hot spot cards
     together with  design  patterns   in   commercial  application
     domains including  bank-specific systems, reservation  systems
     and point-of-sale systems in retail trade stores.

     WOLFGANG PREE is an Associate Professor at the  University  of
     Linz.  He  has  consulted  and taught object-oriented software
     design and development for numerous companies  in  Europe  and
     the U.S. Dr Wolfgang Pree's work focuses on the development of
     domain-specific frameworks.  He  is  the  author  of  ``Design
     Patterns  for Object-Oriented Software Development'' (Addison-
     Wesley, 1995).

Designing sound classes
Meilir Page-Jones, Wayland Systems, USA

     Some specific topics that will be  explored  in  the  tutorial
     are:  Coupling  and  cohesion:  are they still relevant?; What
     interdependencies (connascence) should  we  look  out  for  in
     OOD?;  The  class  as  a  state-space:  Subclasses  and  their
     invariants;  Principles  of  contravariance  and   covariance;
     Principle  of closed behavior; Class interfaces: the good, the
     bad and the ugly; Uses  and  abuses  of  inheritance;  Demands
     imposed by reusability.

     MEILIR  PAGE-JONES  is   president   and   senior   consulting
     methodologist  at Wayland Systems Inc. in Bellevue, WA. He  is
     author of  three books: "The  Practical  Guide  to  Structured
     Systems Design",  "Practical   Project Management",  and "What
     Every Programmer Should Know about Object-Oriented Design".

Effective Use of Object Databases
Nimish Doshi, Versant Object Technology, USA

     This tutorial presents a brief history and comparison of  past
     database    technologies    with   current   object   database
     technologies. It will go over what is an object database, some
     terminology,  and  the  features  that are available today and
     what is needed for the future. An example will be given on how
     the  object  paradigm  is  used  to  solve  an object database
     application problem. Finally, a  brief  discussion  about  the
     ODMG  (Object  Database  Management  Group)  standards will be
     presented. The tutorial assumes that the attendees have  basic
     knowledge  of OO and database concepts and have had some prior
     programming experience.

     NIMISH DOSHI is systems engineer at Versant Object Technology.
     He previously  worked at  Bellcore  as a software engineer  in
     provisioning systems and  computer security,  and his research
     there  lead   to  past  TOOLS papers covering  object oriented
     scripting    for  database   access  and   objects   used   as
     communication agents for database access.

Applications and Techniques
---------------------------

An Introduction to Python
Paul F. Dubois, LLNL, USA

     Python is an object-oriented  interpreted  language  which  is
     small and easy to learn. It is very easy to extend Python with
     your own compiled code  or  to  embed  Python  into  your  own
     application.   Python  is very portable, available at no cost,
     has a large library of user-contributed modules, and an active
     international  user community. Python  is  particularly useful
     for  Web  applications   and  there   are   extensive  library
     components  in  this  area.  This  tutorial  will  include  an
     introduction to the new array extension  which  permits near-
     compiled-speed   numerical computations, and basic pointers on
     how to get started if you want to  combine  Python  with  your
     own C, C++, Fortran, or Eiffel.

     PAUL DUBOIS is a mathematician at Lawrence Livermore  National
     Laboratory.   He  is responsible for large projects in Fortran
     and C++ for the Inertial Confinement  Fusion  Program.  He  is
     author of the EiffelMath Library, and editor of the Scientific
     Programming Department of Computers in Physics.

Spartan C++
Yossi Gil, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

     The SPARTAN C++  (Style  for  fault  Prevention  and  Rigorous
     Techniques  for  Attuning and Normalizing C++) methodology was
     developed at the Software Systems  Laboratory  in  cooperation
     with  software  industry.  It  comprises  a set of Spartan C++
     coding  rules   which,   without   limiting   creativity   and
     expressiveness,    allows  programmers   to   concentrate   on
     implementation rather than on fault  search.  Debugging  using
     The presentation also gives guidelines for  migration  to  and
     adapting implementing SPARTAN C++.

     YOSSI GIL is an independent consultant  the  director  of  the
     Software Systems Laboratory at the Faculty of Computer Science
     at  the  Technion.   He  has  conducted  numerous   industrial
     tutorials  and  course     on UNIX internals, C, C++, OOP, OOD
     and User Interfaces.  His current research focuses on software
     technology  and  parallel  processing.

Programming  by  Contract:  Advanced  Principles   and   Specifying
Abstract Data Types
James   C. McKim,  Jr., Hartford  Graduate Center, USA and  Richard
Mitchell, University of Brighton, United Kindom

     In this tutorial we provide a number of Principles  for  using
     PBC  to  rigorously document class interfaces in a way that is
     accessible to technically oriented software  developers.  With
     each  Principle  we  present  an example, a justification, and
     advice about when it  might  be  appropriate  to  violate  the
     Principle   (and   how   to  document  such  violations).
     Finally, we will present recent work that shows that  many  of
     the  classic  Abstract Data Types may be specified using these
     principles and the mechanisms  for  supporting  PBC  that  are
     available in Eiffel today.

     JIM MCKIM has  more  than  twenty  years  experience  teaching
     mathematics  and computer science. He has authored, coauthored
     and reviewed a number of textbooks and articles in both areas.
     His research interests include object oriented programming and
     design  in  general,  and  class  interface  specification  in
     particular.   RICHARD  MITCHELL is   on  the  Faculty   at the
     University   of   Brighton.  He has been teaching, researching
     and consulting in the computing field since 1978, specializing
     in  software  engineering.  For the last 5 years, his work has
     focussed on object technology.


Object Technology for Scientific Programming
Paul Dubois, LLNL

     This tutorial shows how to design reusable scientific software
     components  in  object-oriented languages, with an emphasis on
     the speaker's designs for the EiffelMath Library. Examples are
     given  from  both  Eiffel and C++ applications. Mixed-language
     implementation issues and performance issues are discussed.

     PAUL DUBOIS is a mathematician at Lawrence Livermore  National
     Laboratory.   He  is responsible for large projects in Fortran
     and C++ for the Inertial Confinement  Fusion  Program.  He  is
     author of the EiffelMath Library, and editor of the Scientific
     Programming Department of Computers in Physics.


CONFERENCE PROGRAM - July 31 - August 1
=======================================

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
---------------------

"Superdistribution: Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier"
Brad Cox, Designer of the Objective-C language

     Component-based software has the potential  of  resolving  the
     software   crisis.   But  achieving  this  potential  involves
     addressing the problems of buying, selling  and  owning  goods
     made  of  bits,  which don't abide by the conservation of mass
     laws that  have  been  the  underpinnings  of  commerce  since
     antiquity.   This  keynote  will define the characteristics of
     component-based development  and  examine  current  technology
     against this goal.

"Concurrency: Addressing the  needs  of  reliable,  high-performance
distributed applications"
BERTRAND  MEYER,  Interactive   Software   Engineering   (USA)

How can the object-oriented model cover concurrent  programming  as
effectively   as it addresses sequential computation? State-of-the-
art thinking will be  illustrated  through  a  number  of  examples
borrowed from diverse application  areas  of  concurrency: resource
sharing, distribution,  locking, real-time applications.   Bertrand
Meyer, ISE

"Is there Software Engineering after Java?"
ROGER OSMOND, Amalasoft (currently consulting at EMC Corporation)

Java is a runaway locomotive. It seems the world, and not just
the programming world, is racing toward Java at a pace unmatched
in the brief history of computing. Are software engineering and
software engineers going to be the pennies flattened on the tracks
of the Java juggernaut?


RICHARD WIENER, Editor of Journal of Object-Oriented Programming

"Learning OO: Does the choice of language really matter?"

TECHNICAL SESSIONS
-----------------

Technical sessions will include presentations on:
        LIBRARIES, FRAMEWORK, PATTERNS
        USER INTERFACES, TOOLS and ENVIRONMENTS
        METHODOLOGIES, MODELING and SPECIFICATION
        PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES and EXPERIENCES
        DISTRIBUTION and PERFORMANCE
        PERSISTENCE and SIMULATION
        DISTRIBUTION & CONCURRENCY
        DOCUMENTATION & TESTING

Paper presentation titles and schedules to be announced.

WORKSHOPS
---------

"Approaches to Distribution and Concurrency" workshop

"Java's place in the world of OT" workshop

"Banking and Finance: First-hand experiences with OT" workshop

"10 Years of Eiffel: What's in store for the future"  full-day conference
  workshop

"Databases: Does one really need an OODB?" workshop

"Scaling up" workshop

"Methodology Independent CASE" workshop

"OT Methodology - Is it Stable Now?" workshop

PANELS
======

"Reuse: Is It For Real or a Lip Service"

"Is OT Losing Steam?"

"Conceptial Schema and Ontolog"

"Object Oriented Repository"


STOT - SYMPOSIUM ON TEACHING OBJECT TECHNOLOGY - August 2
=========================================================
See call for papers below

Advance Registration Form and practical information
---------------------------------------------------

Registration fees                     Before June 30   After June 30

Tutorials only                        $ 690.00         $     790.00
 (July 29 & July 30)
Conference only                       $ 360.00         $     420.00
 (July 31 & Aug 1)
Tutorials and Conference              $ 980.00         $   1,120.00
 (July 29-Aug.1)
Full Time Faculty (Tutorials only)    $ 450.00         $     500.00
Full Time Faculty (Conference only)   $ 250.00         $     300.00
Full Time Faculty (Conf. & Tutorials) $ 690.00         $     790.00
Full Time Students (Tutorials only)   $ 200.00         $     250.00
Full Time Students (Conference)       $ 120.00         $     150.00
Full Time Students (Conf. & Tutorials)$ 300.00         $     350.00
STOT Teaching Symposium               $ 150.00         $     200.00
 (August 2) if registered for conf.
STOT Teaching Symposium               $ 225.00         $     300.00
 (Symposium only)

REGULAR AND FACULTY REGISTRATION
Prices include; a copy of the  tutorial  notes  for  each  tutorial
attended;  a  copy  of  the  conference proceedings (for conference
attendees); breaks; lunches; beach barbecue on  Monday,  July   29;
conference dinner and event on Wednesday, July 31;  and free  access
to  the  exhibit.

STUDENT REGISTRATION
Prices include; a copy of the  tutorial  notes  for  each  tutorial
attended;  a  copy  of  the  conference proceedings (for conference
attendees); breaks; and free access to the exhibit. Tickets for
the lunches, beach barbecue, and conference dinner/event may be
purchased separately.

Payment  should  be  made  by  check, credit card or  international
money  order to TOOLS Conferences and  accompany  the  registration
form.  Substitutions   will  be  accepted  at  any  time.   Written
cancellations  received by June 30 will be liable to a  50  percent
service fee. After this date there will be no refund.

TOOLS USA '96 will be held at the Fess Parker's  Red  Lion  Resort,
the most beautiful resort on the south coast, right across from the
Santa Barbara beach  which offers many recreational  opportunities.
Rooms  are  available  for  conference   attendees at  the  special
rates  of  $120  single/double,  $140  triple  and  $160  quadruple
(guaranteed   until  July  7).   For  reservations  contact:  Fess
Parker's Red Lion Resort, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd, Santa  Barbara,  CA
93103, phone [phone]  or [phone], Fax [phone].
To  benefit  from the  special rate you must mention that  you  are
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Additional information on Santa Barbara history, activities
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Travel arrangements:

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Barbara. Free shuttle service  from  the airport to  the  Red  Lion
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please   contact   International  Travel  of  Santa  Barbara, Phone
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receive a discount if you mention Star Number S1476MB when making
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                      CALL FOR PAPERS

THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON TEACHING OBJECT TECHNOLOGY

Santa Barbara, Fess Parker's Red Lion Resort, 2 August 1996

(part of the TOOLS USA 96 conference week)


The Third Symposium on Teaching Object Technology (STOT3)
is a large-scale event to be devoted exclusively to OO
education. This symposium will be an opportunity for teachers
in academia, training managers in companies and everyone with
an interest in object technology to discuss the problems and
techniques of teaching this approach under these various and
contrasting constraints.   This year will have a slightly different
format to previous years.

Dr. John Pugh will be keynoting the Symposium.

In addition, offers of panels and/or workshops are
sought to complement the technical paper sessions.

Papers are solicited now and should be submitted to the
Chairman (see details below) preferably by email in ASCII
or plain TeX (i.e. no personal embedded macros) by March 31, 1996.
Papers should be submitted as final drafts, equivalent in length
to 10-20 double spaced pages. Papers will be refereed by the
international technical committee for quality and appropriateness
to the conference theme.  Notification of acceptance will be given
by April 20, 1996 and final camera-ready copies of accepted papers
due June 1. A limited distribution of accepted Symposium papers
will be made to attendees (i.e. we do not intend a formal
"publication" of a conference proceedings beyond those attending).
However, papers of sufficiently high quality *will* be considered
for inclusion in the Proceedings volume for TOOLS 20.

Deadlines summary:
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        Submissions due March 31, 1996
        Acceptances mailed out April 20, 1996
        Final CRC manuscripts due June 1, 1996

Papers to be submitted to:

        Professor Brian Henderson-Sellers
        School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
        Swinburne University of Technology
        John Street
        PO Box 218
        Hawthorn, Victoria  3122
        Australia
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        email: [e-mail]