Call for Contributions ECOOP 2003 17th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming July 21-25, 2003 Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany http://www.ecoop.tu-darmstadt.de ECOOP is the premier forum in Europe for bringing together practitioners, researchers, and students to share their ideas and experiences in a broad range of disciplines woven with the common thread of object technology. It is a well integrated collage of events, including outstanding invited speakers, carefully refereed technical papers, real world experiences in the form of practitioner reports, exciting panels, topic focused workshops, late-breaking demonstrations, and an interactive posters session. We invite high quality technical papers, workshop and tutorial proposals, demos, posters, and practitioners reports related to object technology. The conference will in particular welcome novel contributions based on new ideas and/or new areas for OO technology. TECHNICAL PAPERS: SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION. We invite high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience related to object technology. Paper submissions will be made electronically via the ECOOP 2003 online submission system (http://cyberchair.ecoop.org). Other submissions will not be accepted." For information about formatting your paper please consult the Springer LNCS web sites at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Please notice that ECOOP, along with other scientific conferences, accepts only original papers that have not been published (and are not under review for publication) elsewhere. Any double submissions will be rejected without review, and the other forum will be informed of the situation. The program committee will evaluate each contributed research and experience paper based on its relevance, novelty, significance, clarity, originality, and correctness. Research papers should describe work that advances the current state of the art. Experience papers should be of broad interest and should describe insights gained from practical application of object technology - of use to other researchers and practitioners. Papers must be written in English, and not longer than 10,000 words. Papers arriving late or clearly longer than the limit may be rejected immediately by the Program Chair. In any case, the referees will be allowed to ignore, for the purpose of their evaluation, any material exceeding the 10,000 words limit. TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS, POSTERS, DEMOS, DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM, and PRACTITIONERS REPORTS. We invite high quality proposals in any of the above tracks related to object technology. For details on submissions in one of these tracks, please consult the respective sites at http://www.ecoop.tu-darmstadt.de. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: Nov. 24, 2002 (Nov. 25, 6am GMT) Author Notification for Technical Papers: Feb. 10, 2003 Workshop Proposal Submission: December 1, 2002 Workshop Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: January 15, 2003 Tutorial Proposal Submission: December 1, 2002 Tutorial Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: Feburary 4, 2003 Doctoral Symposium Applications Deadline: March 1, 2003 Doctoral Symposium Notification Acceptance/Rejection: April 1, 2003 Demonstrations Proposal Submission: April 1st, 2003 Demonstrations Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 1st, 2003 Posters Proposal Submission: April 1st, 2003 Posters Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: May 1st, 2003 ECOOP 2003 is organized by AITO and Darmstadt University of Technology. Conference Chair Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland Program Chair Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research, UK Organizing Chair Mira Mezini, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Program Committee Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, The Netherlands Suad Alagic, University of Southern Maine, USA Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy Andrew Black, Oregon Health & Science University, USA Vinny Cahill, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Peter Dickman, University of Glasgow, UK Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, UK Urs Hoelzle, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan Mehdi Jazayeri, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Eric Jul, DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA Gary T. Leavens, Iowa State University, USA Joergen Lindskov Knudsen, Mjoelner Informatics, Denmark Boris Magnusson, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Berne, Switzerland Martin Odersky, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland Jens Palsberg, Purdue University, USA John Reppy, University of Chicago, USA Guy Steele, Sun Microsystems Labs Jan Vitek, Purdue University, USA Tutorial Chairs Max Mühlhäuser, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Krzysztof Czarnecki, DaimlerChrysler Research, Germany Workshop Chairs Alejandro Buchmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Frank Buschmann, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany Exhibition and Industrial Track Chair Michael Stal, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany Doctoral Symposium Chairs Erik Ernst, University of Aahrus, Danemark Lodewijk Bergmanns, University of Twente, Holland Poster and Demo Chairs David Lorenz, Northeastern University, USA Thomas Kühne, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Panels Chair Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, Holland Web Chair Michael Eichberg, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Publicity Chair Klaus Ostermann, Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany Student Volunteers Michael Haupt, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Financial Issues and Conference Secretary Gudrun Joers, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany