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> From: Wolfgang De Meuter <wdmeuter at vub.ac.be>
> Date: Fri Feb 7, 2003  1:55:40 PM Europe/Zurich
> To: ecoop-info at 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 at vub.ac.be
> Vrije Universiteit Brussel
> Laboratorium voor Programmeerkunde
> Pleinlaan 2
> 1050 Brussel
> Belgium
>
> 2. Stéphane Ducasse
> ducasse at 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 at vub.ac.be
> Vrije Universiteit Brussel
> Laboratorium voor Programmeerkunde
> Pleinlaan 2
> 1050 Brussel
> Belgium
>
> 4. Ole Lehrmann Madsen
> Ole.L.Madsen at Alexandra.dk
> Aarhus University
> Department of Computer Science
> Åbogade 34,
> DK-8200 Århus N
> Denmark
>
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Prof. Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
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