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Call for Participation and Contributions

25th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2011)

25 – 29 July, Lancaster, UK

http://ecoop11.comp.lancs.ac.uk/

http://twitter.com/ecoop2011

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The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is a premium conference covering all areas of object technology and related software development technologies. ECOOP 2011 will take place on 25 - 29 July, 2011 in Lancaster, UK. Of particular interest to ECOOP 2011 are advancements of object technology and related software development technologies to serve the needs of the current software landscape characterized by the presence of multicore computers, mobile devices and new kinds of platforms like the cloud, as well as the move from stand-alone systems to services, advanced web applications, software product lines and ultra-large systems. ECOOP 2011 wishes to embrace a broad range of topics related to object-orientation, so the following list of suggested topics is by no means exclusive.

- Analysis and design methods and patterns

- Databases, persistence, transactions

- Distributed, concurrent, mobile, real-time systems

- Empirical and application studies

- Frameworks, product lines, software architectures

- Language design and implementation

- Modularity, aspects, features, components, services, reflection

- Software development environments and tools

- Static and dynamic software analysis, testing, and metrics

- Theoretical foundations, type systems, formal methods

- Versioning, compatibility, software evolution

ECOOP 2011 solicits high quality submissions describing original and unpublished results. Papers will be evaluated according to originality and significance, precision and correctness, presentation and clarity, and relevance. Incremental improvements over previously published work should have been evaluated through systematic, comparative, empirical or experimental evaluation. Submissions of papers describing groundbreaking approaches to emerging problems will be considered based on timeliness and potential impact.

Only papers that have not been published and are not under review for publication elsewhere may be submitted. Double submissions will be rejected without review. Authors are required to disclose prior publication (formal or informal) of parts of the paper submitted to ECOOP or of closely related papers. Such prior publications must be cited and their relationship to the current submission explained. Authors are also required to inform the ECOOP 2011 program chair about closely related work submitted to another conference while the ECOOP submission is under review.

Submissions will be carried out electronically via CyberChair. Papers must be written in English, and be no longer than 25 pages, including references, appendices and figures, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site at http://www.springer.com.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: December 15, 2010, 23:59 (Samoan)

Acceptance notification: March 1, 2011

Camera-ready copy: April 17, 2011, 23:59 (Samoan)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Conference Chair: Awais Rashid (Lancaster University)

Program Chair: Mira Mezini (Darmstadt University of Technology)

Organising Chairs: Phil Greenwood (Lancaster University), Ruzanna Chitchyan (Lancaster University)

Social Program and Conference Management: Yvonne Rigby (Lancaster University)

Workshop Chairs: Sophia Drossopoulou (Imperial College London), Eric Eide (University of Utah)

Summer School Chairs: James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington), Jan Vitek (Purdue University)

Publicity Chairs: Joao Araujo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Joost Noppen (Lancaster University), Alberto Sardinha (Instituto Superior Tecnico)

Poster and Demos Chairs: Hidehiko Masuhara (University of Tokyo), Ana Moreira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Research Projects Symposium Chairs: Steffen Zschaler (Lancaster University), Geir Horn (Sintef)

Web Chair: Raffi Khatchadourian (Ohio State University)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Sven Apel, University of Passau, Germany =
Gavin Bierman, Microsoft Research, UK
Andrew P. Black, Portland State University, USA
Gilad Bracha, SAP Labs, USA
Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Sophia Drossopoulu, Imperial College London, UK
Erik Ernst, Aarhus University, Denmark
Patrick Eugster, Purdue University, USA
Dick Gabriel, IBM Research, USA
David Grove, IBM Research, USA
Robert Hirschfeld, HPI, Germany
Jean-Marc Jezequel, Rennes 1 & INRIA, France
Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego, USA
Crista Lopes, University of California, Irvine, USA
Mira Mezini, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany (Chair)
Todd Millstein, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
James Nobles, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zeeland
Klaus Ostermann, University of Marburg, Germany
Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Awais Rashid, Lancaster University, UK
Frank Tip, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Laurie Tratt, Middlesex University, UK
Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Adam Welc, Intel Labs, USA
Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
Matthias Zenger, Google, Switzerland
Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA
Elena Zucca, DISI, University of Genova, Italy