[TYPES] OOPS'05

[Davide Ancona]

                             OOPS 2005 Call for Papers

                 Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Systems

Special Track at the 20th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2005

                            http://oops.disi.unige.it/OOPS05

                                 March 13-17, 2005
                               Santa Fe, New Mexico
               the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM
                      http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2005

- Important Dates

September 3, 2004: Paper Submission
October 15,  2004: Author Notification
November 5,  2004: Camera-Ready Copy
March 13-17, 2005: SAC 2005

- SAC 2005

For the past nineteen years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
has been a primary gathering forum for applied computer scientists,
computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers
from around the world.
SAC 2005 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing,
and is hosted by New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM, USA.

- 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 the SAC 2005 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


- Proceedings

Papers accepted for the OOPS track will be published by ACM  both in the SAC 2005
proceedings and in the Digital Library, with the option
(at additional expense) to add 3 more pages. A set of selected papers, which
did not get accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers and
will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium
proceedings. Finally, last year a number of OOPS full papers
was selected for an extended version to be published on a special issue of
the Journal of Object Technology (http://www.jot.fm),
which is expected to appear by the end of this year, and we
are confident that a special issue for OOPS 2005 will follow next year.


- Co-Chairs

Davide Ancona
DISI, Universita' di Genova

Rajeev Raje
Department of Computer and Information Science
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Mirko Viroli
DEIS, Universita' di Bologna


- Program Committee

* Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of India, India
* Viviana Bono, Universita` di Torino, Italy
* John Boyland, University of Wisonsin, USA
* Giuseppe Castagna, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
* Alessandro Coglio, Kestrel Institute, USA
* Pierre Cointe, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
* Pascal Costanza, University of Bonn, Germany
* Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, UK
* Erik Ernst, DAIMI, Denmark
* Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
* Jeffrey Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
* Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan
* Raymond Klefstad, University of California at Irvine, USA
* Doug Lea, Suny Oswego, USA
* Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Manish Parashar, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, USA
* Giovanni Rimassa, Whitestein Technologies, CH
* Vladimiro Sassone, University of Sussex, UK
* Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Texas at Austin, USA
* Don Syme, Microsoft Research, UK
* Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, The Netherlands
* Jan Vitek, Purdue University, USA
* Elena Zucca, Universita` di Genova, Italy

- Submission Instructions

* Submit your paper electronically either in the PDF or the postscript format.
   Please note that neither the hardcopy nor the fax submissions will be accepted.

* 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 4,000 words (5 pages according to the above style).

* All submissions must be sent by September 3, 2004 at the e-mail address mviroli at deis.unibo.it;
   the message must have the subject "OOPS Submission", and its body must contain
   the paper title and the authors' name and affiliation.


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