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From: Wolfgang De Meuter wdmeuter@vub.ac.be Date: Fri Feb 7, 2003 1:55:40 PM Europe/Zurich To: ecoop-info@ecoop.org Subject: ECOOP03 Workshop on Object-oriented Language Engineering for the Post-Java Era

                           Workshop @ ECOOP2003
                                    Call for Papers
             Object-oriented Language Engineering for the 

Post-Java Era ( More info will be made available at http://prog.vub.ac.be/~wdmeuter/PostJava/ )

Abstract The advent of Java has always been perceived as a major breakthrough in the realm of object-oriented languages. And to some extent it was: it turned academic features like interfaces, garbage-collection and meta-programming into technologies generally accepted by industry. Nevertheless Java also acted as a brake especially to academic language design research. Whereas pre-Java Ecoop’s and Oopsla’s traditionally featured several tracks with a plethora of research results in language design, more recent versions of these conferences show far less of these. And those results that do make it to the proceedings very often are formulated as extensions of Java. Therefore they necessarily follow the Java-doctrine: statically typed single-inheritance class-based languages with interfaces and exception handling. “On the grapevine” we know that people are still interested in language design that radically diverges from this doctrine. Their papers somehow don’t seem to make it because of several reasons. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers in object-oriented language design who adhere language features and languages that do not fit into the mainstream.

Format The plan is to structure the workshop as follows: a) Before the lunch break, a selected number of authors will be invited so present their position paper. The selection will be based on the originality and visionariness of the work or of the defended position (see below). b) After lunch, we will split up in groups – depending on the number of participants and depending on their interests – in order to have discussion. c) A final plenary session will be organized to reflect on the discussion held by the groups.

Rules for attending Potential attendants are expected to submit

• either a long (max 10 page) paper presenting scientific results

about OO language design (a language, a feature, ...)

• either a short (max 5 page) essay defending a position about

whereto object-oriented language design should be heading.

Attendee background Everyone is welcome but at least some knowledge of a few representative object-oriented languages will be necessary to follow the discussions

Importand dates: Call for Papers: February 5, 2003 Position paper due: April 21, 2003 Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2003 Deadline Early Registration: June 16, 2003 Workshop: June 22, 2003

Minimum number of attendees 10

Maximum number of attendees: 30

Contact info and affiliation of the organizers

1. Wolfgang De Meuter (primary contact)

wdmeuter@vub.ac.be Vrije Universiteit Brussel Laboratorium voor Programmeerkunde Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussel Belgium

2. Stéphane Ducasse

ducasse@iam.unibe.ch University of Berne Instituet fuer Mathematik und Informatik University Bern, IAM-SCG Neubrueckstrasse 10 CH-3012 Bern Switzerland

3. Theo D’Hondt

tjdhondt@vub.ac.be Vrije Universiteit Brussel Laboratorium voor Programmeerkunde Pleinlaan 2 1050 Brussel Belgium

4. Ole Lehrmann Madsen

Ole.L.Madsen@Alexandra.dk Aarhus University Department of Computer Science Åbogade 34, DK-8200 Århus N Denmark

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