[TYPES/announce] Call for papers: OOPS at SAC 2007

[Davide Ancona]

                            OOPS 2007 Call for Papers

               Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems

                       http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS07

Special Track at the 22nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2007

                      http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2007

                                  Seoul, Korea
                               March 11 - 15, 2007

- Important Dates

September  8, 2006: Paper Submission
October   16, 2006: Author Notification
October   30, 2006: Camera-Ready Copy
March 11--15, 2007: SAC 2007

- SAC 2007

For the past twenty-one years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
(SAC) has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer
scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application
developers from around the world.
SAC 2007 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied
Computing (SIGAPP), and is hosted by Seoul National University in
Seoul and The Suwon University in Gyeonggi-do.

- OOPS Track

Today's large scale software systems are typically designed and
implemented using the concepts of the object-oriented (OO) paradigm.
However, there is still a need for existing OO languages and
architectures to continuously adapt in response to demands for
new features and innovative approaches.
These new features, to name a few, include unanticipated software evolution,
security, safety, distribution, and interoperability.

The basic aim of the OOPS track at SAC 2007 is to promote and
stimulate further research on the object-oriented programming and
distributed-object paradigms.
This track will foster the development of extensions and
enhancements to the prevalent OO languages, such as Java, C\# and
C++, the formulation of innovative OO-based middleware
approaches, and the improvements to existing and well-established
distributed-object based systems.

Specifically, this track will invite papers investigating the
applicability of new ideas to widespread, and standard
object-oriented languages and distributed-object architectures.
A medium to long-term vision is also solicited, tackling general issues about
the current and future role of prevalent OO languages and distributed
architectures in Computer Science and Engineering.
Particularly of interest for this track are those papers that provide a thorough
analysis covering following aspects: theory, design,
implementation, applicability, performance evaluation, and
comparison/integration with existing constructs and mechanisms.

Original papers and implementation reports are invited from all areas of OO
programming languages and distributed-object computing.
The specific topics of interest for the OOPS track include, but are not limited to, the following:

  * Programming abstractions
  * Advanced type mechanisms and type safety
  * Multi-paradigm features
  * Language features in support of open systems
  * Aspect-oriented and Component-based programming
  * Reflection, meta-programming
  * Program structuring, modularity, generative programming
  * Compositional languages
  * Distributed Objects and Concurrency
  * Middleware
  * Heterogeneity and Interoperability
  * Applications of Distributed Object Computing

- Submission Instructions

Paper submissions should be sent electronically and in pdf format to
both track chairs, together with a separate plain text containing
title, authors, abstract, and contact information.

The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of
the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is
to facilitate a blind review process.

The preferred format for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings
Template (available through
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
The body of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (5 pages according to the above style).
All papers must be submitted by  September 8, 2006.

Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed.


- Proceedings and special issue

Accepted full papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference
proceedings, with the option (at additional expense) to add 3 more
pages. Accepted poster papers will be published as extended 2-page
abstracts in the same proceedings.

Please note that full registration is required for paper and poster
inclusion in the conference proceedings and CD. Student registration
does not cover paper and poster inclusion in the conference
proceedings, but it is only intended to encourage student attendance.

Finally, as it is customary, after the conference the accepted full
papers will be selected for publication on a special issue.

- Track Co-Chairs

Davide Ancona (davide at disi.unige.it)
DISI, Universita` di Genova

Mirko Viroli (mviroli at deis.unibo.it)
DEIS, Universita` di Bologna

- Program Committee

 > Shigeru Chiba, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
 > Alessandro Coglio, Kestrel Institute, USA
 > Pascal Costanza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 > Ferruccio Damiani, Università di Torino, Italy
 > Erik Ernst, DAIMI, Denmark
 > Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
 > Jacques Garrigue, Nagoya University, Japan
 > Jeffrey Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
 > Tom Hirschowitz, ENS Lyon, France
 > Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan
 > Doug Lea, Suny Oswego, USA
 > Giovanni Lagorio, Università di Genova, Italy
 > Francesco Logozzo, École Polytechnique, France
 > Hidehiko Masuhara, University of Tokyo, Japan
 > Tamiya Onodera, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Japan
 > Julian Rathke, University of Sussex, UK
 > Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies, Switzerland
 > Don Syme, Microsoft Research, UK
 > Tetsuo Tamai, University of Tokyo, Japan