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From: toni@usenix.org (Toni Veglia)
Subject: Call for Papers- 3rd Conf on Object-Oriented Tech & Systems (COOTS)
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ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

3rd Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS)
June 16-19, 1997
Portland Marriott Hotel, Portland, Oregon, USA

Sponsored by the USENIX Association
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Important Dates

   * Tutorial submissions due -- Feb 6th, 1997
   * Paper submissions due -- Feb 12th, 1997
   * Notification to authors -- March 4th, 1997
   * Camera-ready final papers due -- May 6th, 1997

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Overview

The COOTS conference is intended to showcase advanced R&D work in
object-oriented technologies and software systems. The conference
emphasizes experimental research and experience gained by using
object-oriented techniques and languages to build complex software
systems that meet real world needs.

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Preliminary Program Committee

Program Chair: Steve Vinoski, Hewlett-Packard
Tutorial Program Chair: Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University
David Cohn, University of Notre Dame
Daniel Edelson, IA Corporation
Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
Vince Russo, Purdue University
Murthy Devarakonda, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Jim Waldo, JavaSoft
Jonathan Shopiro, Novell
Dmitry Lenkov, Hewlett-Packard
Don Box, DevelopMentor
Other to be announced soon.
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Tutorials

The COOTS conference will begin with two days of tutorials. We expect
tutorial topics to include:

   * Distributed object systems (CORBA, DCOM, etc.)
   * Java and WWW programming languages
   * Object-oriented network programming
   * Design patterns for object-oriented systems
   * Concurrent object-oriented programming
   * Efficient and effective framework design
   * Evolution of ANSI/ISO C++ standardization
   * C++ Standard Template Library
   * Alternative object-oriented languages

Tutorial proposal submissions must be received by February 6th,
1997. The preferred form of submission is via electronic mail to
the Tutorial Chair, Doug Schmidt (schmidt@cs.wustl.edu). Tutorials
selected for presentation at the conference will be announced by
February 19th, 1997.
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Conference Topics

Two days of technical sessions will follow the tutorials. We seek
papers describing original work concerning the design,
implementation, experimentation, and use of object-oriented
technologies. COOTS emphasizes advanced engineering aspects of
object technology, focusing on experimental systems research and
development on distributed objects, multimedia, operating systems,
compiler technology, Java, and C++. While papers covering work in
Java and C++ are strongly encouraged, the conference is broader in
scope than its predecessors. In particular, we invite submissions
describing results and work in other object-oriented or
object-based languages.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

   * Applications of, and experiences with, object-oriented 
     technologies in various domains

          (Distributed systems, multimedia, real-time systems, 
	   financial services, human/computer interface, etc.)

   * Distributed object systems

          (CORBA, DCOM, the Web, etc.)

   * Implementations of commercial object infrastructures and reliable
     distributed objects

          (ORB Plus, Orbix, NextStep, DCOM, DSOM, Isis/RDO, Distributed
          Smalltalk, Java ORBs, etc.)

   * Object-oriented programming language development environments 
     and tools

          (C++, Java, Smalltalk, Modula-3, Eiffel, Ada95, etc.)

   * Content-oriented languages for programming in the WWW

          (Java, Python, Obliq, Phantom, etc.)

   * Interface description languages

          (OMG IDL, Microsoft IDL, etc.)

   * C++ standardization

          (STL, templates, implementation challenges)

Questions regarding a topic's relevance to the conference may be
addressed to the program chair via electronic mail to
vinoski@apollo.hp.com.  Proceedings of the conference will be
published by USENIX and will be provided free to technical session
attendees; additional copies will be available for purchase from
USENIX.

Awards will be given for the best paper and for the best student
paper at the conference.

In addition, based upon feedback solicited at the conference from
attendees, the program committee will select up to five papers to
be published in revised and expanded form in a special issue of a
suitable journal (last year's papers were published in the USENIX
Computing Systems journal. To help authors prepare these papers
for publication, we will have a BOF session organized as writers
workshops.

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Advanced Topics Workshop

This year's USENIX COOTS conference will conclude with an Advanced
Topics Workshop. Its goal is to provide an informal setting where
you can exchange in-depth technical information with your peers.
This workshop will be open to authors of accepted papers in the
conference, as well as participants who submit position papers
related to the workshop's topic. This topic will be determined
several months before the conference and a Call for Position
papers will be announced. Past USENIX C++ and COOTS conferences
have held Advanced Topics Workshops on a variety of topics
including: distributed object computing and implementation issues
related to C++, and distributed object computing over the WWW.

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What to Submit

Technical paper submissions must be received by February 12th,
1997. Full papers should be 10 to 15 pages (around 5,000-6,000
words). In lieu of a full paper, authors may submit extended
abstracts that discuss key ideas.  Extended abstracts should be
5-7 pages long (about 2,500-3,500 words), not counting references
and figures. The body of the extended abstract should be written
in complete paragraphs. The objective of an extended abstract is
to convince reviewers that a good, solid paper and presentation
will result.  Extended abstracts are intend to stimulate
industrial participation and to allow publication of very current
material.

All submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, and
correctness.  Each accepted submission will be assigned a member
of the program committee to shepherd it through the preparation of
the final paper. The assigned member will act as a conduit for
feedback from the committee to the authors.  Camera-ready final
papers are due May 6, 1997.

Each submission must include a cover letter stating the paper
title and authors along with the name of the person who will act
as the contact to the program committee. Please include a surface
mail address, daytime and evening phone number, an email address,
and fax number for the contact person.

If you would like to receive detailed guidelines for submission
and examples of extended abstracts, you may telephone the USENIX
Association office at +1 (510) 528-8649, or email to
cootsauthors@usenix.org or to the program committee chair
(vinoski@apollo.hp.com). An electronic version of this Call for
Papers is available at WWW URL http://www.usenix.org.

The COOTS conference, like most conferences and journals, requires
that papers not be submitted simultaneously to another conference
or publication and that submitted papers not be previously or
subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by
"non-disclosure agreement" forms are not acceptable and will be
returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the
highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings,
both as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright
Act of 1976.

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Where to Submit

Please send one copy of a full paper or an extended abstract to
the program committee via one of the following methods. All
submissions will be acknowledged.

   * Preferred Method: email (Postscript or ASCII) to 
     cootspapers@usenix.org

   * Alternate Method: postal delivery to
     USENIX COOTS Conference
     c/o Steve Vinoski
     Hewlett-Packard, MS CHR-03-WR
     300 Apollo Drive
     Chelmsford, MA 01824
     (TEL): +1 (508) 436-5904
     (FAX): +1 (508) 436-5122

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Registration Materials

Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial
programs, registration fees and forms, and hotel information will
be available beginning in April 1997. If you wish to receive the
registration materials, please contact USENIX at:

USENIX Conference Office
22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
Lake Forest, CA USA 92630
714 588-8649; Fax: +1 714 588-9706
Email: conference@usenix.org
