[TYPES/announce] CFP: ECOOP 2015: European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming

[Ondřej Lhoták]

The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is the
premier international conference covering all areas of object technology
and related software development technologies. The 29th edition of the
ECOOP conferences series will take place from 6-10 July, 2015 in Prague,
Czech Republic.

Invited Speakers

Jade Alglave
Gilad Bracha
Andrey Breslav
Kim Bruce
Craig Chambers
Jong-Deok Choi
Cliff Click
Philippa Gardner
Robert Grimm
Sumit Gulwani
Hadi Hariri
Suresh Jagannathan
Shriram Krishnamurthi
Julia Lawall
Bertrand Meyer
Martin Odersky
Filip Pizlo
Tony Printezis
Mooly Sagiv
Shan Shan Huang
Marc Shapiro
Bjarne Stroustrup
Emina Torlak
Tomas Vojnar
Philip Wadler
Eran Yahav

Call for Papers

ECOOP 2015 will embrace a broad range of topics related to
object-orientation, including:

- Concurrent and parallel systems
- Distributed and cloud computing, mobile systems
- Service-oriented and web programming
- Programming environments
- Versioning, refactoring, software evolution
- Language definition and design, domain-specific languages
- Language implementation, execution environments, compiler construction
- Memory management, garbage collection
- Testing, debugging, profiling, performance analysis
- Metrics, empirical studies
- Design methods, design patterns
- Aspects, components, modularity, reflection
- Software modelling, meta-modelling
- Frameworks, product lines, software architectures
- Theoretical foundations, type systems, ownership
- Program analysis, abstract interpretation
- Specification, verification, model checking, program synthesis
- Security
- Real-time systems
- Databases, object persistence
- Energy-aware software

ECOOP 2015 solicits high quality submissions describing original and
unpublished results. It encourages innovative and creative solutions
to real problems, evaluations of existing solutions in ways that shed
new insights, or both. Following recent precedent, it also encourages
the submission of reproduction studies. The programme committee will
evaluate the technical contribution of each submission as well as its
general relevance and accessibility to the ECOOP audience according the
following criteria:

Originality

The paper presents new ideas and/or results relevant to object
technology and related software development technologies, and places
these appropriately within the context established by previous research
in the field. The paper clearly identifies what this contribution has
accomplished and how it relates to previous work.

Significance

The results in the paper have the potential to add to the state of the
art or practice in important or significant ways. The paper challenges
or changes informed opinion about what is possible, true or likely.

Evidence

The paper presents evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence
include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental
results, statistical analyses and case studies.

Clarity

The paper presents its claims and results clearly. It is organized so
that it is easily understood by an audience with varied expertise.

For reproduction studies: Empirical Evaluation

Common in other sciences, reproduction means independently
reconstructing an experiment in a different context (e.g. virtual
machine, platform, class of applications) in order to validate or
refute important results of earlier work. A good reproduction study
will include thorough empirical evaluation, meeting high statistical
standards. It will contain a detailed comparison with the previous
results, seeking reasons for possible disagreements.

As is tradition, ECOOP Proceedings are published in Springer LNCS.

Paper Submission

Only papers that have not been published and are not under review for
publication elsewhere can be submitted. Double submissions will be
rejected without review. If major parts of an ECOOP submission have
appeared elsewhere in any form, authors are required to notify the
ECOOP 2015 programme chair and to explain the overlap and relationship.
Authors are also required to inform the programme chair about closely
related work submitted to another conference while the ECOOP submission
is under review.

Submissions will be carried out electronically via the Hotcrp website:

http://ecoop15.hotcrp.com/

Papers must be written in English, and be no longer than 25 pages
using the LNCS style, including references, figures and integral
appendices. See below for information about additional appendices. For
more information about formatting, please consult the Springer LNCS web
site:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Reviewing

Following the recent history of other programming language conferences,
ECOOP 2015 will use light double-blind reviewing whereby authors’
identities are withheld until the reviewer submits their review (as
usual, reviews are also anonymous). To facilitate this, submitted papers
must adhere to two rules:

author names and institutions must be omitted, and

references to authors’ own related work should be in the third
person (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather
“We build on the work of …”).

However, nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens
the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult
(e.g., important background references should not be omitted or
anonymized). A document answering frequently asked questions that
hopefully addresses many common concerns is available:
http://2015.ecoop.org/track/research-track#FAQ-on-Double-Blind-Reviewing
When in doubt, contact the programme chair.

Additional Material

Clearly marked additional appendices, not intended for the final
publication, containing supporting proofs, analyses, statistics, etc,
may be included beyond the 25 page limit. There is also an option on
the paper submission page to submit supplementary material, e.g., a
technical report including proofs, or the software used to implement
a system that cannot easily be anonymized. This material will be made
available to reviewers after the initial reviews have been completed
when author names are revealed. As usual, reviewers may choose to use
the supplemental material or not at their discretion. However, the paper
must stand alone and reviewers are under no obligation to read any
additional material. Reviewers are more likely to consult additional
appendices rather than separate technical reports.

Authors of papers that have been submitted but not accepted by previous
prestigious conferences may additionally submit a Note to Reviewers.
The Note to Reviewers should a) identify the previous venue(s) (e.g.
ESOP ’15, OOPSLA ’14); b) list the major issues identified by the
reviews at those venues; and c) describe the changes made to the paper
in response to those reviews. Such notes will not be made available to
a reviewer until after the initial review has been completed and author
names are revealed.

Response period

Authors will be given a 72-hour period (from Friday, 13 February 2015
to Sunday 15 February 2015) to read and respond to the reviews of their
papers before the programme committee meeting. Responses will have no
length limit but concision will be highly appreciated by the programme
committee.

Artifact Evaluation

To reward the creation of artifacts and support replication of
experiments, authors of accepted research papers can submit artifacts
(such as tools, data, models, or videos) to be evaluated by an Artifact
Evaluation Committee. Artifacts that pass muster will be recognized
formally, and the Artifact Evaluation Committee will give an award for
the best artifact.

For more information, please follow this link:

http://conf.researchr.org/track/ecoop15/ecoop15-artifacts

Important Dates for ECOOP’15 Research Papers

All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth, i.e. Howland Island/Baker
Island (GMT/UTC-12 hours), unless otherwise indicated

Submission deadline: 21 Dec 2014
Author response start: 13 Feb 2015, 0:00 GMT
Author response end: 15 Feb 2015, 23:59 GMT
Acceptance notification: 11 Mar 2015
Camera-ready copy submission: 29 Apr 2015
Main conference dates: 6-10 Jul 2015

For More Information

For additional information, clarification or answers to questions please
contact the ECOOP Programme Chair, John Boyland boyland at uwm.edu