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- From: Peter.Dickman@cl.cam.ac.uk (Peter Dickman)
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- Subject: CFP: OOPSLA'92 workshop on Objects in Large Distributed Applications
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- Date: 27 Jul 92 18:42:57 GMT
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- Call for Participation:
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- OOPSLA'92 - OLDA II
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- 2nd Workshop on Objects in Large Distributed Applications
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- To be held as part of OOPSLA'92 on October 18th in Vancouver, Canada
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- Following on from last years OLDA workshop at OOPSLA in Phoenix, the
- OLDA-II workshop will bring together a group of researchers, system
- developers and application programmers interested in large-scale
- object systems. Issues of scale and distribution have ramifications
- in a range of sub-disciplines of computer science, from language design
- to software engineering, influencing everything from operating system
- mechanisms to object models. In particular, low-level decisions can have
- profound effects at the highest levels of application modelling and
- system development. The aim of the workshop is to demonstrate these
- interactions and to address the fundamental problems raised by issues
- of scale and autonomy. It is intended that approximately half of the
- workshop will be devoted to systems and architectural issues, the other
- half to software engineering and applications.
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- Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to:
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- o Large scale and/or scalable distributed object-support systems
- (both experimental and commercial systems are welcome as are
- presentations of new architectural models, especially those
- which address issues of autonomy and fault-tolerance)
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- o Scalable solutions to particular problems in object-support systems
- eg: garbage collection, load balancing, location & naming
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- o Experiences in developing object-based applications:
- - which execute across wide-area networks
- - or involve large numbers of objects in a distributed system
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- o Development methodologies and software tools aimed at large-scale
- object-based distributed applications
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- Also acceptable, provided that they are likely to be of interest to a diverse
- audience interested in large-scale, object-based distributed systems are:
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- o Scalable algorithms, both at the system level (such as synchronisation
- and invalidation algorithms) and at the application level (eg scalable
- distributed algorithms for numerical or data processing applications)
- Such submissions should address issues of autonomy or failure: parallel
- algorithms that assume a fail-stop model are less likely to be accepted.
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- o New approaches that increase the degree of concurrency or fault-tolerance
- achievable in distributed applications, such as replication mechanisms
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- o Performance analyses and theoretical papers (eg: impossibility results)
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- Distributed Programming Languages:
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- OLDA-II will include a panel discussion addressing the language-level
- issues raised by large distributed object-based applications. Argus,
- Emerald, Guide, Hermes and ABCL/1 projects will all (hopefully) be
- represented. Guidelines for language-related position papers (for
- attendance and circulation only, not oral presentation) are available
- from the workshop organiser.
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- Simple notices, suitable for display, describing the workshop are available
- from the workshop organiser as a PostScript file.
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- Organiser:
- Peter Dickman
- ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics)
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- Postal Address:
- INESC, Rua Alves Redol 9, Apartado 10105, 1017 Lisboa Codex, PORTUGAL
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- E-mail: dickman@nicotina.inesc.pt
- Telephone: +351 1 31 00 248
- Fax: +351 1 52 58 43
-
- How to apply:
- Each attendee is requested to submit a position paper of 3 to 6 pages;
- longer papers, formatted to reduce the page count, are also acceptable.
- Electronic submissions in LaTeX are preferred, however PostScript or
- (in cases of extreme difficulty only) postal submissions are acceptable.
- Please e-mail your paper as a single message if at all possible. Large
- PostScript files should be compressed and uuencoded (as <author>.ps.Z).
- Please include full contact information (phone, e-mail etc) for the
- main author in your submissions.
-
- Please ensure that your submission can be printed without alteration on
- both European (A4) and US paper sizes. Accepted position papers will be
- made available to attendees, by electronic means, before the workshop.
-
- Submissions will be grouped into relevant categories and both long and
- short presentations solicited. Ample time will be reserved for discussion.
- All submissions will be subjected to an informal refereeing process.
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- If the submissions are of sufficient quality and quantity to justify doing
- so, publication of a proceedings of the workshop will be investigated.
- If this seems feasible the workshop contributors will be encouraged to
- consider extending or elaborating their submissions prior to publication.
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- Programme committee:
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- Peter Dickman ERCIM & INESC, Lisbon, Portugal
- Steve Freeman Univ. Cambridge, UK
- Wolfgang Gerteis Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
- Eric Jul Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark
- Sharon Lamb MCC Corporation, Texas, USA
- Allen Luniewski IBM Almaden, California, USA
- Mesaac Makpangou INRIA Rocquencourt, France
- Eliot Moss Univ. Massachusetts, Mass., USA
- Max Muhlhauser Univ. Kaiserlautern, Germany
- Jim Stamos IBM Almaden, California, USA
- Linda Strick GMD, Berlin, Germany
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- Important dates:
- Submission of position papers: Saturday 15th August
- Absolute deadline for late papers: Sunday 23rd August
- Notification of acceptance: Tuesday 15th September
- Workshop date: Sunday 18th October, 1992
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- Receipt of Submissions:
- An e-mail acknowledgement will be sent to the first author of each
- submitted position paper. If you haven't heard back within 3 days
- of e-mailing or 10 days of posting your paper, contact the organiser.
- Please note that papers submitted after the official (Aug 15) deadline,
- or containing more than 0.5 megabytes of PostScript, may be mildly
- discriminated against during the review process. Note also that there
- can be a week or more of postal delay when sending airmail to Portugal,
- and that e-mail to & from Portugal can sometimes be a little flakey.
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