* TOOLS EUROPE CFP REPOST (Paris, 12-15 May 1997)
@ 1996-12-11 0:00 Bertrand Meyer
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Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
TOOLS EUROPE '97
CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
Paris - CNIT la Defense, France, May 12-15, 1997
Program Chair:
Richard Mitchell (University of Brighton)
Tutorial, Workshop and Panel Chair:
Jean-Marc Nerson (ITMI, Paris)
Conference Chair:
Bertrand Meyer (ISE Inc., Santa Barbara)
Held every year since 1989, TOOLS EUROPE is the largest and
most important European conference entirely devoted to
Object-Oriented technology and its applications.
TOOLS EUROPE is characterized by a double emphasis: techni-
cal quality and relevance to practitioners. This year's
conference will continue this tradition.
The conference will combine invited talks by experts of
world repute from both industry and academia; tutorials on a
wide range of O-O topics at the beginner, intermediate and
advanced levels; panels on the issues of direct interest to
the community; an exhibition of products and services
featuring the latest development in the field; and technical
papers selected from the contributions submitted in response
to the present Call for Papers.
SUBMISSIONS
All submissions (papers, panels, and tutorials) will be
refereed and judged both on technical quality and on
relevance to practitioners.
TOOLS EUROPE 97 will put a special emphasis on the following topics:
+ Network programming and WEB applications.
+ Intranet and virtual businesses.
+ Reusability, reproducibility and maintainability.
+ Challenges of a component industry.
Contributions are expressly sought in this area.
Other suggested topics for the general conference includes:
+ O-O development and management.
+ O-O databases.
+ O-O concurrency and distribution
+ Reports of experiences.
PAPER SUBMISSIONS
All submitted papers should be in the range of 8 to 15
single-spaced pages and written in English.
Six copies of each submission should be sent by October 30, 1996 to:
TOOLS EUROPE '97, Attn: Dr. Richard Mitchell
Division of Computing
University of Brighton
Lewes Road, Brighton BN2 4GJ
United Kingdom
E-mail: <Richard.Mitchell@brighton.ac.uk>
voice: +44 1273 642458
voice (to leave messages): +44 1273 642451
web: http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/~rjm4
Fax +44 1 273 642405
PANEL, TUTORIAL AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Proposals for tutorials, panels and workshops are also solicited.
One page abstract should be sent by October 30, 1996 to:
All panel proposals should include a description of the proposed topic,
the
name, address and brief biography of the proposed panel chair, and the
list
of expected panelists. Important: it is the responsibility of the panel
proposer to secure the acceptance of all expected panelists before
sending
the proposal. (E-mail submissions are acceptable for panel and tutorial
proposals only.)
TOOLS EUROPE '97, Attn: Dr. Jean-Marc Nerson
ITMI Cap Gemini Group
86/90 rue Thiers
92513 Boulogne-Billancourt
France
E-mail: <JeanMarc.Nerson@itmi.cgs.fr>
Fax: +33 (0)1 49 10 51 02
Note: E-mail submissions are only acceptable for workshop, tutorial
and panel proposals. For such submissions, you should receive
an e-mail acknowledgment within one week.
To maximize their chances of acceptance, prospective authors
should read the ``GUIDELINES FOR TOOLS AUTHORS'' included
at the end of this announcement. (see also: http://www.tools.com)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: February 12, 1997.
Notification of acceptance: March 24, 1997.
Final manuscripts due: April 5, 1997.
PANEL AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
All panel proposals should include a description of the pro-
posed topic, the name, address and brief biography of the
proposed panel chair, and the list of expected panelists.
Important: it is the responsibility of the panel proposer to
secure the acceptance of all expected panelists before
sending the proposal.
Although there is no fixed format for tutorial proposals,
any such proposal should include the following elements: a
summary of the proposed tutorial; an indication of its level
(beginner, intermediate, advanced); a biography of the
presenter(s), including a list of any earlier tutorials
presented; and any supplementary materials (such as copies
of publications by the presenter) which can help evaluate
the proposal. Tutorials at TOOLS are normally one half-day
(four hours including a break). The following types of
tutorials are particularly sought for TOOLS EUROPE 97:
+ Any presentation of a topic of high potential interest
and not yet covered in conferences.
+ Any tutorial with a strong practical content, or based
on significant industrial developments.
+ A non-partisan survey of the major solutions available
in a certain area (tools, environments, methods,
languages, standards ...), based as much as possible
on actual experience rather than just knowledge
though the literature.
+ An in-depth, non-partisan critical survey of a specific
solution (in any area as defined above) which has
attracted much attention and is of interest to a wide
segment of the community.
OTHER O-O MEETINGS IN CONNECTION WITH TOOLS
Many special interest groups on object-oriented topics use
the opportunity of TOOLS to organize one of their regular or
exceptional events. Examples in previous years include
meetings of user groups for C++, Eiffel, NextSTEP, Smalltalk
OMT, and others, as well as standards committees.
Such meetings this year can take place on Friday, May 16,
or Saturday, May 17, 1997.
As in previous conferences, the TOOLS EUROPE '97 organizers
will help find a room. The events will also be advertised
in the final TOOLS program that will be mailed early 1997.
This form can be sent to:
TOOLS EUROPE '97
INFOPROMOTIONS
97 Rue du Cherche-Midi
75006 PARIS - FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0) 1 44 39 85 00 Fax: +33 (0)1 45 44 30 40
E-mail: x.fiquemo@infopromotions.fr
For paper copies please type or attach a business card.
____________________________________________________________
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|First Name: |
|___________________________________________________________ |
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|Company Name: |
|___________________________________________________________ |
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|Company Address: |
|___________________________________________________________ |
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|City, state, zip, country: |
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|____________________________________________________________|
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|Phone: ___________________________ Fax: ___________________ |
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|I intend to: |
| [ ] submit a paper [ ] submit a tutorial |
| [ ] submit a workshop proposal [ ] submit a panel proposal|
|Title: |
|___________________________________________________________ |
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|[ ] My company is interested in exhibiting. |
| Please send me an exhibitor information kit |
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|____________________________________________________________|
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Francois Bancilhon F
Eduardo Casais D
Bernard Coulange F
Jean-Marc Geib F
Yossi Gil IL
Ian Graham UK
Gerhard Goos D
Brian Henderson-Sellers AUS
Laura Hill UK
Ian Maung UK
Roger Osmond USA
Meilir Page-Jones USA
Kim Walden S
Tony Wasserman USA
Wolf Zimmerman D
===========================================================================
SOME GUIDELINES FOR
PROSPECTIVE TOOLS AUTHORS
Thank you very much for considering the submission of a paper to
TOOLS. The following informal notes are meant to help you make
sure that your proposal will have the best chance of acceptance
by the program committee.
General
TOOLS is a scientific conference with emphasis on applications.
This means that contributions should be scientifically valid and
at the same time carry significant interest for industry
practitioners.
The program committee's task is to build a high-quality
conference program which will be interesting and informative for
conference participants as well as readers of the Proceedings. In
other words, the program committee acts as a ``consumer's
-- advocate'' for these two groups of (tough) consumers. Your task
is to convince the committee that your paper, if selected, will
please that audience, and that it should be made part of the
program.
Remember, the Committee is not so much trying to ``judge'' you as
it is thinking about how it will be judged by its constituency -
attendees and readers.
One more general note - about the OO in TOOLS. The
Conference's theme is Object-Oriented technology. While there is
no universally accepted definition of what ``object-
orientedness'' exactly means, professionals in the field usually
agree that they ``recognize it when they see it''. We assume that
you are one of these professionals and have no doubt that your
contribution fits within the general framework of object-oriented
methods, techniques, tools, languages, systems, libraries and
environments.
Required components
Any contribution should include the following components:
*Introduction stating precisely the problem addressed in the
paper.
*Mention of and comparison with other relevant work, including
bibliography.
*Clear explanation of the impact of object-oriented technology on
the work described, and/or conversely.
*Description of concepts or experiences; if a system is
described, basic specification, design or implementation
decisions, major problems encountered, nature of solutions
devised.
*Conclusion assessing the results of the work described and its
limitations.
Conceptual papers
Any contribution describing new concepts, or new aspects of
existing concepts, should emphasize the potential relevance of
these concepts to practitioners.
The paper should make it clear where the novelty lies.
Experience reports
Any paper describing a practical experience (e.g. application of
a certain method, language, tool to a certain problem) should
describe:
*The exact elements used (e.g. version X of environment Y).
*Any external constraints that may have affected the outcome
(e.g. hardware choices, available manpower and other resources,
level of expertise, deadlines).
*Differences and similarities with standard practice for other
projects (the state of the art), especially within the same
organization.
*The place of the project in the author's organization (e.g.
experiment in a research laboratory, pilot project with no
immediate consequence on the organization's operational
activities, full-scale operational development).
*Evaluation of results obtained so far (acceptance by the
organization, use as basis for new developments, rejection of
results, etc.), indicating what criteria where used for
evaluation (authors' opinion only, management assessment) and
whether the evaluation is subjective only or is based on more
systematic criteria (e.g. metrics).
*The brand of O-O technology used and its role in the experience.
*An analysis of benefits and limitations of the experience, with
emphasis on lessons to be drawn for similar undertakings by
others. Note that it is an important section for judging the
quality of a scientific paper that describes an experience.
Quality of the English
The Program Committee realizes that English, the official
language of TOOLS, is a foreign language for many authors. It is
the Committee's responsibility, however, to make sure that
listeners to your presentation at the Conference, and readers of
your paper in the Proceedings, will be able to benefit from your
work - which implies that they will understand it. You are not
expected to write like F. Scott Fitzgerald (and you are strongly
advised against writing like William Faulkner). But your English
should be grammatically correct, and understandable by competent
professionals worldwide. The last comment, by the way, also
means that if you are a native English speaker you should stay
away from English colloquialisms, idioms and metaphors; in other
words, use only "international conference English".
If you are uncertain as to the acceptability of a certain term or
phrase, try to find a native speaker to help you. If this is
impossible, go for the simplest and the clearest form of
expression, using a good grammar and dictionary (no excuse for
spelling mistakes).
Both the British and American brands of English are acceptable
(this note uses the American form). But you must be consistent:
if you use center (American for centre), then do not write
behaviour (British for behavior).
The rest is up to you. Thanks again, and the best of our
encouragements.
The TOOLS program committee.
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Bertrand Meyer, ISE Inc., Santa Barbara (California)
805-685-1006, fax 805-685-6869, <bertrand@eiffel.com>
TOOLS Web page: http://www.tools.com
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