Apologizes for multiple receptions.


Important Note: Program committee of the research track will select
papers that will be published in an special issue of the Journal of
Computer Languages. A description of the research track is available
at the end of this email.


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                             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  attendants 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 practitioners, 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 practitioners.  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 at iam.unibe.ch) AND Stephane Ducasse (ducasse at 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 at 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



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                        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 at iam.unibe.ch

          Roel Wuyts (University of Berne)
          email: roel.wuyts at iam.unibe.ch


Program Committee:
==================
          - Prof. Andrew Black (Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
          - Dr. Noury  Bouraqadi (Ecole 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:
======================
          - Best papers will be published in a special issue of the 
journal
of Computer Languages
          - 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.

-- 
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Dr. Noury Bouraqadi
Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. G.I.P
http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/noury
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