Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!mr.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.rain.org!not-for-mail From: Bertrand Meyer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.clu,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.lisp.x,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.beta,comp.databases.object Subject: TOOLS EUROPE CFP REPOST (Paris, 12-15 May 1997) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:11:57 -0800 Organization: Interactive Software Engineering Inc. Lines: 385 Message-ID: <32AF941D.41C67EA6@eiffel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: outback.eiffel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3 sun4c) Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.lang.ada:60992 comp.lang.clu:10272 comp.lang.modula2:24750 comp.lang.modula3:17211 comp.lang.lisp.x:11666 comp.lang.sather:13070 comp.lang.beta:10907 comp.databases.object:21518 (Note extended deadline.) 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: 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: 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. ____________________________________________________________ | | |Last Name: | |___________________________________________________________ | | | |First Name: | |___________________________________________________________ | | | |Company Name: | |___________________________________________________________ | | | |Company Address: | |___________________________________________________________ | | | |City, state, zip, country: | | | |____________________________________________________________| | | |Phone: ___________________________ Fax: ___________________ | | | |I intend to: | | [ ] submit a paper [ ] submit a tutorial | | [ ] submit a workshop proposal [ ] submit a panel proposal| |Title: | |___________________________________________________________ | |___________________________________________________________ | | | |[ ] My company is interested in exhibiting. | | Please send me an exhibitor information kit | | | |____________________________________________________________| 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. ==================================================================== Bertrand Meyer, ISE Inc., Santa Barbara (California) 805-685-1006, fax 805-685-6869, TOOLS Web page: http://www.tools.com