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- Subject: Call for Papers: 2nd USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 17:25:06 -0600
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Washington University.
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- Announcement and Call for Papers
-
- 2nd Conference on
- Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems
- (COOTS)
-
- June 17-21, 1996
- Toronto, Canada
-
- Sponsored by the USENIX Association
- ======================================================================
-
- IMPORTANT DATES
-
- o Tutorial submissions due: Feb 7th, 1996
- o Paper submissions due: Feb 13, 1996
- o Notification to authors: March 5, 1996
- o Camera-ready final papers due: May 7, 1996
- o Conference June 17-21, 1996
-
- PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-
- Program Chair: Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University
- Tutorial Program Chair: Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
-
- Donald Box, Developmentor
- Kraig Brockschmidt, Microsoft
- David Chappell, Chappell and Associates
- Andrew Chien, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- David Cohn, University of Notre Dame
- Jim Coplien, AT&T Bell Labs
- Murthy Devarokonda, IBM Watson Research Labs
- Peter Druschel, Rice University
- Daniel Edelson, IA Corporation
- Nayeem Islam, IBM Watson Research Labs
- Dennis Kafura, Virginia Tech
- Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
- Dmitry Lenkov, Hewlett-Packard
- Mark Linton, Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute
- Vince Russo, Purdue University
- Jerry Schwarz, Declarative Systems
- Kevin Shank, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Michael Stal, Siemens AG
- Bjarne Stroustrup, AT&T Bell Labs
- Steve Vinoski, Hewlett-Packard
- Jim Waldo, SUN Microsystems Labs.
-
- OVERVIEW
-
- The COOTS conference is intended to showcase advanced R&D work in
- object-oriented technologies and software systems. The conference
- emphasizes experimental research and experience gain by using
- object-oriented techniques and languages to build complex software
- systems that meet real world needs.
-
- TUTORIALS
-
- The COOTS conference will begin with two days of tutorials. The
- tutorial program will offer a selection of tutorials from among
- several tracks. We expect tutorial topics to include:
-
- * Distributed object systems (CORBA, Network OLE, DSOM, etc.)
- * C++ Standard Template Library
- * Object-oriented network programming
- * Design patterns for object-oriented systems
- * Evolution of ANSI/ISO C++ standardization
- * Concurrent object-oriented programming
- * Efficient and effective framework design
- * Alternative object-oriented languages
-
- Tutorial proposal submissions must be received by February 7th, 1996.
- The preferred form of submission is via electronic mail to the
- Tutorial chair Doug Lea (dl@g.oswego.edu). Tutorials selected for
- presentation at the conference will be announced by February 20th,
- 1996.
-
- CONFERENCE TOPICS
-
- Two days of technical sessions will follow the tutorials. We seek
- papers describing original work concerning the design, implementation,
- experimentation, and use of object-oriented technologies. Like the
- USENIX C++ Conferences from which it is derived, COOTS emphasizes
- advanced engineering aspects of object technology, focusing on
- experimental systems research and development on distributed objects,
- multimedia, operating systems, compiler technology, and C++. While
- papers covering work in C++ are strongly encouraged, the conference is
- broader in scope than its ancestors. In particular, we invite
- submissions describing results and work in other object-oriented or
- object-based languages.
-
- Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
-
- * Applications of, and experiences with, object-oriented
- technologies in various domains
- . (Distributed systems, multimedia, real-time systems,
- financial services, human/computer interface, etc.)
-
- * Distributed object systems
- . (CORBA, Network OLE, DSOM, etc.)
-
- * Implementations of commercial distributed object infrastructures
- and reliable
- distributed objects
- . (Orbix, NextStep, Network OLE, DSOM, Isis/RDO, etc.)
-
- * C++ standardization
- . (STL, templates, implementation challenges)
-
- * Object-oriented programming language development environments and
- tools
- . (C++, Modula-3, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Ada95, etc.)
-
- * Content-oriented languages for programming in the WWW
- . (Java, Python, Obliq, Phantom, etc.)
-
- * Interface description languages
- . (DCE IDL, OMG IDL, Microsoft ODL, etc.)
-
- Questions regarding a topic's relevance to the conference may be
- addressed to the program chair via electronic mail to
- schmidt@cs.wustl.edu. Proceedings of the conference will be published
- by USENIX and will be provided free to technical session attendees;
- additional copies will be available for purchase from USENIX.
-
- In addition, based upon feedback solicited at the conference from
- attendees, the program committee will select five papers to be
- published in revised and expanded form in a special issue of a
- suitable journal. To help authors prepare these papers for
- publication, we will have one or more BOF sessions organized as
- "writers workshops." The writers workshop format has a group of
- "discussants" read the paper carefully before the session. During the
- writers workshop the discussants examine the strengths and weaknesses
- of each paper, accentuating positive aspects and suggesting
- improvements in content and style. The author is "invisible" during
- this discussion, and is expected to take notes and revise the paper in
- accordance with the comments.
-
- ADVANCED TOPICS WORKSHOP
-
- This year's USENIX COOTS conference will conclude with an Advanced
- Topics Workshop. The goal of this workshop is to provide an informal
- setting in which to exchange in-depth technical information with your
- peers. This workshop will be open to authors of papers in the
- conference, as well as participants who submit position papers related
- to the workshop's topic. This topic will be determined several months
- before the conference and a Call for Position papers will be
- announced. Past USENIX C++ conferences have held Advanced Topics
- Workshops on a variety of topics including distributed object
- computing and implementation issues related to C++ language features.
-
- WHAT TO SUBMIT
-
- Technical paper submissions must be received by February 13th, 1996.
- Full papers should be 10 to 15 pages (around 5,000-6,000 words). In
- lieu of a full paper, authors may submit extended abstracts that
- discuss key ideas. Extended abstracts should be 5-7 pages long (about
- 2,500-3,500 words), not counting references and figures. The body of
- the extended abstract should be written as complete paragraphs. The
- objective of an extended abstract should be to convince reviewers that
- a good, solid paper and presentation will result. Extended abstracts
- are intend to stimulate industrial participation and to allow
- publication of very current material.
-
- All submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, and
- correctness. Each accepted submission will be assigned a member of
- the program committee to act as its shepherd through the preparation
- of the final paper. The assigned member will act as a conduit for
- feedback from the committee to the authors. Camera-ready final papers
- are due May 7, 1996.
-
- Please accompany each submission by a cover letter stating the paper
- title and authors along with the name of the person who will act as
- the contact to the program committee. Please include a surface mail
- address, daytime and evening phone number, and, if available, an email
- address and fax number for the contact person.
-
- If you would like to receive detailed guidelines for submission and
- examples of extended abstracts, you may telephone the USENIX
- Association office at +1 510 528-8649, or email to
- cootsauthors@usenix.org or to the program committee chair
- (schmidt@cs.wustl.edu). An electronic version of this Call for Papers
- is available at WWW URL http://www.usenix.org.
-
- The COOTS conference, like most conferences and journals, requires
- that papers not be submitted simultaneously to another conference or
- publication and that submitted papers not be previously or
- subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by
- "non-disclosure agreement" forms are not acceptable and will be
- returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the
- highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both
- as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of
- 1976.
-
- WHERE TO SUBMIT
-
- Please send one copy of a full paper or an extended abstract to the
- program committee via one of the following methods. All submissions
- will be acknowledged.
-
- o Preferred Method: email (Postscript or ASCII) to
- cootspapers@usenix.org
-
- o Alternate Method: postal delivery to
- USENIX COOTS Conference
- c/o Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt
- Department of Computer Science
- Washington University
- Campus Box 1045
- One Brookings Drive
- St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899
- U.S.A.
- (TEL): +1 314 935-7538
- (FAX): +1 314 935-7302
-
- REGISTRATION MATERIALS
-
- Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial
- programs, registration fees and forms, and hotel information will be
- available beginning in April 1996. If you wish to receive the
- registration materials, please contact USENIX at:
-
- USENIX Conference Office
- 22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
- Lake Forest, CA USA 92630
- +1 714 588-8649; Fax: +1 714 588-9706
- Internet: conference@usenix.org
- --
- Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt (schmidt@cs.wustl.edu)
- Department of Computer Science, Washington University
- St. Louis, MO 63130. Work #: (314) 935-7538; FAX #: (314) 935-7302
- http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
-