======================================================================== ======== The European Smalltalk User Group invites you to the Smalltalk Joint Event 11th ESUG Smalltalk Conference & ESUG Research Track Tuesday, August 25, - Friday, August 29, 2003 & Camp Smalltalk Saturday, August 23 - Sunday, August 24, 2001 Bled, Slovenia

Information and Preliminary Call for Contributions ======================================================================== ========

GENERAL INFORMATION ===================

For the 11th consecutive year, the European Smalltalk User Group organizes a Smalltalk Conference to bring together Smalltalk users from both academia and industry in a friendly atmosphere. As always the attendents will enjoy tutorials, workshops and demonstrations on various Smalltalk related subjects. New this year is that the talks are scheduled primarily in the morning and that the afternoon focuses on concrete collaborations between participants and workshops.

Continuing a strong tradition in organizing Smalltalk events for Smalltalk practicioners, this year promises to be very exiting. ESUG organizes a Smalltalk Joint Event comprised of Camp Smalltalk, Advanced Seminars and a Research track: - An official (and free) Camp Smalltalk, starting the week-end before and continuing the rest of the week. - The Advanced Seminars, where invited speakers and technical presenters show concrete applications and research using Smalltalk. - ESUG Research Track: an academic research track with top-of-the-line program committee. A separate call for paper was issued for this event, which is attached to this mail at the bottom.

All these exiting events will take place in the last week of August, between the 23rd and 29th.

As always, we cannot make this work without contributions from the actual Smalltalk practioners. Therefore we invite people to submit proposals to present papers (both academic or industrial, technical or experience report), or to exhibit. Together with invited speakers and Campers this promises to be another exciting Smalltalk event.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE SPEAKERS =====================================

Prospective speakers must clearly explain the format they would like to use (tutorial, experience report, workshop or demo). Each proposal must include a valid e-mail address and an abstract of around 200 words. All proposals have to be sent to Roel Wuyts (wuyts@iam.unibe.ch) AND Stephane Ducasse (ducasse@iam.unibe.ch), in plain ASCII pasted in the body of the e-mail (NOT attached).

Hot topics include, but are not limited to, - web service applications using Smalltalk - experience using eXtreme Programming - distributed applications - new Smalltalk implementations and optimizations - Smalltalk Development Tools - Language improvements or enhancements

Exhibitors or sponsors should directly contact the ESUG board for more information (esug-info@esug.org).

PRACTICAL INFORMATION =====================

The Conference takes place in Bled, in Slovenia. Bled is a city in the north west of Slovenia, under mountains. It is near the Austrian and the Italian border, with the beautiful Italian city of Venice only three hours away.

More information about the city of Bled can be found in English at the following URL: http://www.bled.si/eng/informacije/obledu.htm.

The conference will be held in hotel Golf (http://www.gp-hoteli-bled.si/ang/golf.htm). This hotel has all necessary facilities (internet and beamers) to support a successful organization. Conference attendees have to book accommodation themselves this year, either at this hotel or at other hotels in Bled.

IMPORTANT DATES ===============

deadline for proposals: April 11th notification of acceptance: April 28th camera ready copy for slides of accepted speakers: July 7th

======================================================================== ======== CALL FOR PAPERS ESUG Research Track 25-29 Aug 2003

Bled Slovenia http://www.esug.org/ ======================================================================== ========

The European Smalltalk User Group is proud to announce that the 11th Annual ESUG Conference will include a refereed academic track. A strong program committee has been selected and we expect the academic track to include high-quality papers. Proceedings will be published.

Scope: ====== The goal of the academic track is to have a forum for academic publications related to research in Smalltalk and dynamically-typed languages. We encourage authors to submit excellent quality papers as we plan to produce proceedings.

A non-exhaustive list of topics is - new languages features (mixins, AOP,...) - multi-agent systems - meta and reflective programming - code analysis (refactoring,...) - process development (Agile processes, Unit testing) - virtual machines (optimization, new trends) - integrated development environments (browsers, visualization, ...) - frameworks (web, graphical...) - software evolution (metrics,...) Program Chair: ============== Stephane Ducasse (University of Berne) email: ducasse@iam.unibe.ch Roel Wuyts (University of Berne) email: roel.wuyts@iam.unibe.ch

Program Committee: ================== - Prof. Andrew Black (Oregon Health and Science University, USA) - Dr. Noury Bouraqadi (Ecoles de Mines de Douai, France) - Prof. Serge Demeyer (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium) - Prof. Theo D'Hondt (Universiteit Vrije Brussels, Belgium) - Prof. Stephane Ducasse (Universitaet Bern, Switzerland) - Prof. Ralph Johnson (University of Illinois, USA) - Eliot Miranda (Cincom, USA) - Joseph Pelrine (MetaProg, Switzerland) - Dave Simmons (Quasar, USA) - Dr. Serge Stinckwich (University of Caen, France) - Dave Thomas (Bedarra, USA-Canada) - Dr. Roel Wuyts (Universitaet Bern, Switzerland)

Important Dates: ================ - Deadline: 15th of April 2003 (and not 15th of March as originally mentioned) - Notification of acceptance: 1st of June 2003 - Final version: 1st of July 2003

Important Information: ====================== - Preferred format: PDF - Maximum paper length 15 pages

Information related to the ESUG Academic Track inside the ESUG Conference Organization: ======================================================================== =============== We plan to have the Academic track the first day of the Conference: the 25 of August 2003.

The web site is under construction at http://www.esug.org/

------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- Roel Wuyts Software Composition Group roel.wuyts@iam.unibe.ch University of Bern, Switzerland http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~wuyts/ Board Member of the European Smalltalk User Group: www.esug.org