From: Pascal Costanza
Subject: CFP+deadline extension: Workshop on Object-oriented Language Engineering for the Post-Java Era
Date:
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FYI
Workshop Call for Papers
Object-oriented Language Engineering for the Post-Java Era
@ ECOOP 2003 (July 22, Darmstadt - Germany )
Abstract
The advent of Java has always been perceived as a major breakthrough in
the realm of object-oriented languages. And to some extent it was: it
turned academic features like interfaces, garbage-collection and
meta-programming into technologies generally accepted by industry.
Nevertheless Java also acted as a brake especially to academic language
design research. Whereas pre-Java Ecoop�s and Oopsla�s traditionally
featured several tracks with a plethora of research results in language
design, more recent versions of these conferences show far less of
these. And those results that do make it to the proceedings very often
are formulated as extensions of Java. Therefore they necessarily follow
the Java-doctrine: statically typed single-inheritance class-based
languages with interfaces and exception handling.
�On the grapevine� we know that people are still interested in language
design that radically diverges from this doctrine. Their papers somehow
don�t seem to make it because of several reasons. The goal of this
workshop is to bring together researchers in object-oriented language
design who adhere language features and languages that do not fit into
the mainstream.
Format
The plan is to structure the workshop as follows:
a) Before the lunch break, a selected number of authors will be invited
so present their position paper. The selection will be based on the
originality and visionariness of the work or of the defended position
(see below).
b) After lunch, we will split up in groups � depending on the number of
participants and depending on their interests � in order to have
discussion.
c) A final plenary session will be organized to reflect on the
discussion held by the groups.
Rules for attending
Potential attendants are expected to submit
- either a long (max 10 page) paper presenting scientific results
about OO language design (a language, a feature, ...)
- either a short (max 5 page) essay defending a position about whereto
object-oriented language design should be heading.
Attendee background
Everyone is welcome but at least some knowledge of a few representative
object-oriented languages will be necessary to follow the discussions
Importand dates:
Call for Papers: February 5, 2003
Position paper due: May 1, 2003
Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2003
Deadline Early Registration: June 16, 2003
Workshop: July 22, 2003
Minimum number of attendees
10
Maximum number of attendees:
30
Contact info and affiliation of the organizers
1. Wolfgang De Meuter (primary contact)
········@vub.ac.be
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Laboratorium voor Programmeerkunde
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussel
Belgium
2. St�phane Ducasse
·······@iam.unibe.ch
University of Berne
Instituet fuer Mathematik und Informatik
University Bern, IAM-SCG
Neubrueckstrasse 10
CH-3012 Bern
Switzerland
3. Theo D�Hondt
········@vub.ac.be
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Laboratorium voor Programmeerkunde
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussel
Belgium
4. Ole Lehrmann Madsen
············@Alexandra.dk
Aarhus University
Department of Computer Science
�bogade 34,
DK-8200 �rhus N
Denmark
Workshop Reader
The goal is to write a workshop report that really reflects the
workshop:
- inclusion of a summary of the position papers
- a summary of the discussions and the plenary session
Additional info
More info will be made available at
http://prog.vub.ac.be/~wdmeuter/PostJava/
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Pascal Costanza University of Bonn
···············@web.de Institute of Computer Science III
http://www.pascalcostanza.de R�merstr. 164, D-53117 Bonn (Germany)