Final CFP: 7th ECOOP PHDOOS workshop [NB: <1 week deadline]

Final CFP: 7th ECOOP PHDOOS workshop [NB: <1 week deadline]

[Erik Ernst]

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|  7th ECOOP Workshop for Doctoral Students in Object-Oriented Systems  |
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|                   Jyvaskyla, Finland, June 9/10, 1997                 |
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

  The aim of the workshop is to bring together PhD students who are
  working on foundations, design, implementation, or application of
  object-oriented systems and methods.

  The workshop will provide an opportunity for PhD students to
  meet, to discuss their research, and to further develop their
  working skills.  It will generally be interactive, focusing on
  active work in groups.

  Another function of the workshop is to continue and enlarge the
  international network of PhD students in object-oriented systems
  (PhDOOS), which has been initiated at the 1st workshop, held in
  conjunction with ECOOP'91 in Geneva/Switzerland.  The PhD network
  counts approximately 125 members from all over the world, all of
  them PhD candidates.  The network's mailing list and WWW pages
  are used mainly for information and discussion of OO-related
  topics.  More information on the PhDOOS can be found at
  http://mbi.dkfz-heidelberg.de/PhDOOS/

  It is also a tradition to take advantage of the fact that people
  are gathered, by going together to a restaurant or similarly
  after the regular programme of the day.

TOPICS

  The technical programme of the workshop will be held in subgroups,
  followed by a summary session of all attendants.  In the subgroups,
  discussions on 3-4 related topics will be held, bringing together
  participants who work in related areas.  The discussions will be
  based on position statements and paper presentations (see below).
  The corresponding abstracts and papers will be electronically
  distributed among the participants in advance.  An overview of the
  work of each subgroup will be prepared and presented in the plenary
  session later.

  The non-technical programme consists of two keynote talks by
  invited speakers about the PhD-getting process and conducting
  research, a writing workshop, and discussions about the results of
  the preECOOP initiative of the PhDOOS network, about further
  developments of the PhDOOS network, and about the social situation
  of PhD students.

  The workshop results will be collected in a report covering the 
  technical as well as the non-technical results.

HOW TO APPLY

  Since this workshop is associated with the PhDOOS Network you should
  become a member of this network to participate in the workshop. 
  If you are not already a member you should send a one-page (500
  words) abstract of your dissertation research. The abstract should
  be submitted electronically as soon as possible, using the WWW form

    <URL:http://mbi.dkfz-heidelberg.de/PhDOOS/CfP.html>

  or by email to 

    <URL:mailto:A.M.Demiris@DKFZ-Heidelberg.de>.

  Applicants can either apply for a short position statement of 5
  minutes or a presentation of 20 minutes time.  If applying for 
  a presentation, a paper covering its contents has to be submitted.
  This paper would typically be 3-8 pages and its primary purpose is
  to give other participants an overview of your work and allow them
  to recall it later on.  If you want to give a short position
  statement then you should just notify us about it.  Papers and
  notifications should be submitted electronically till April 15th,
  1997, to eernst@daimi.aau.dk.  The papers and the network abstracts
  will be made available to the workshop participants prior to the
  workshop and will serve as the basis for the technical discussions
  at the workshop.  

TIMETABLE

  April 15th, 1997:    deadline for paper submission and notification of
                       short position statemtents to eernst@daimi.aau.dk 
  May, 2nd, 1997:      notification of acceptance, distribution of
                       abstracts and papers, call for working group
                       proposals
  May, 20th, 1997:     notification on established working groups

ORGANIZERS:

  Frank Gerhardt           gerhardtf@str.daimler-benz.com
  Mercedes-Benz AG, OD/IT
  Methoden und Verfahren
  E702
  D-70322 Stuttgart
  Germany

  Lutz Wohlrab             lwo@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
  Technische Universitaet Chemnitz-Zwickau
  Fakultaet fuer Informatik
  Lehrstuhl Betriebssysteme
  D-09107 Chemnitz
  Germany

  Erik Ernst               eernst@daimi.aau.dk
  Department of Computer Science 
  University of Aarhus
  Ny Munkegade, Bldg. 540
  DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark


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| PhD students normally not able to attend due to a lack of funding     |
| are encouraged to contact Lutz about this.  We have obtained some     |
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Erik Ernst                            eernst@daimi.aau.dk
Computer Science Department of Aarhus University, Denmark