5th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Orientation in Operating Systems

5th IEEE International Workshop on Object-Orientation in Operating Systems

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

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		   Announcement and Call for Papers
		   Fifth International Workshop on
	       Object-Orientation in Operating Systems
			      IWOOOS '96

			 Seattle, Washington
				
			 October 27-28, 1996

			      Sponsored by
	  The IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems
	    and Application Environments (TCOS) (pending)
			 and USENIX
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The fifth International Workshop on Object-Orientation in Operating
Systems will bring together researchers and practioners who are
interested in object-oriented approaches to operating systems design,
development, and application support.  The purpose of the workshop is
to provide an informal format and atmosphere in which ideas and
current work can be presented and discussed at length.  The workshop
is designed to encourage the full participation of each attendee: both
presenters and participants will be active contributors throughout the
workshop.

This year's workshop will be held in Seattle, Washington, just prior
to the Second Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
which will be held in Seattle, Washington from October 29-November 1.
We hope that the conjunction of the two events will foster
cross-fertilization between related research communities.

The focus of the workshop is on how to effectively use objects inside
operating systems and how to provide system support for object
oriented applications in a variety of application domains.

Subjects of particular interest include:

       + Using objects to make operating systems customizable,
	extensible and adaptable

       + Design patterns in operating systems

       + Objects on WWW and their OS support

       + Persistent objects and their OS support

       + Mobile Objects and their OS support

The workshop is structured to encourage the submission of explorative
work in the form of position papers. Position papers should be a
maximum of 2500 words and should present initial work, new ideas, or a
strong position statement.

Attendance will be by invitation only.  To be invited, an attendee
must either submit a position paper.  All submissions will be
reviewed.  All accepted papers will be published in a proceedings.
The official language for the conference will be English.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

  Workshop Chair:	       Andrew Black (Oregon Graduate Institute)
  Program Chair:	       Nayeem Islam (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
  Local Arrangement Co-Chairs: Michael Jones (Microsoft) and
                               Crispin Cowan (Oregon Graduate Institute)

  Publicity Chair:		Douglas Schmidt (Washington Universtiy)
  Publication Chair:		Luis-Felipe Cabrera (IBM)
  Finance Chair:		David Cohn (University of Notre Dame)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Mustaque Ahamad (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Henri Bal (Vrieje University)
Gary Lindstrom (University of Utah)
Eric Manning (University of Victoria)
Satoshi Matsuoka (University of Tokyo)
Gregor Kiczales (Xerox Parc)
Sacha Krakowiak (IMAG, France)
Jim Purtilo (University of Maryland)
John Rosenberg (University of Sydney)
Margo Seltzer (Harvard University)
Santosh Shrivastava (Univesity of Newcastle-upon-tyne)
Mario Tokoro (Keio University)

IMPORTANT DATES:

  Position Papers:			July 1, 1996
  Invitations issued:			July 30, 1996
  Camera-ready copy due: 		Sept 1, 1996

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Each submission should have a principal author, to whom all messages
will be sent; please provide e-mail and postal addresses as well as
telephone and fax numbers. A notice will be sent to the principal
author upon receipt of every paper.

Electronic submission via email is strongly encouraged.  Please send
your paper to the program chair at

  nayeem@watson.ibm.com

Submissions are required to be in HTML, ASCII, or Postscript
(uuencoded).  Electronic submissions will be ACK'ed within a day or so
of receipt.  If the submission could not be successfully printed out
on paper then the program chair will attempt to confer with the sender
via email about what to do as an alternative submission means.  Note:
if you do not receive any acknowledgement message at all within a
period of several days then the submission message may have gotten
lost in transit and you should send a short email message to the
program chair to alert him to the difficulty.
-- 
Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt 			(schmidt@cs.wustl.edu)
Department of Computer Science, Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130. Work #: (314) 935-7538; FAX #: (314) 935-7302
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/