Sponsored by the USENIX Association
The COOTS conference is intended to showcase advanced R&D work in object-oriented technologies and software systems. The conference emphasizes experimental research and experience gained by using object-oriented techniques and languages to build complex software systems that meet real world needs.
The COOTS conference will begin with two days of tutorials. We expect tutorial topics to include:
Tutorial proposal submissions must be received by February 6th, 1997. The preferred form of submission is via electronic mail to the Tutorial Chair, Doug Schmidt (schmidt@cs.wustl.edu). Tutorials selected for presentation at the conference will be announced by February 19th, 1997.
Two days of technical sessions will follow the tutorials. We seek papers describing original work concerning the design, implementation, experimentation, and use of object-oriented technologies. COOTS emphasizes advanced engineering aspects of object technology, focusing on experimental systems research and development on distributed objects, multimedia, operating systems, compiler technology, Java, and C++. While papers covering work in Java and C++ are strongly encouraged, the conference is broader in scope than its predecessors. In particular, we invite submissions describing results and work in other object-oriented or object-based languages.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
(Distributed systems, multimedia, real-time systems, financial services, human/computer interface, etc.)
(CORBA, DCOM, the Web, etc.)
(ORB Plus, Orbix, NextStep, DCOM, DSOM, Isis/RDO, Distributed Smalltalk, Java ORBs, etc.)
(C++, Java, Smalltalk, Modula-3, Eiffel, Ada95, etc.)
(Java, Python, Obliq, Phantom, etc.)
(OMG IDL, Microsoft IDL, etc.)
(STL, templates, implementation challenges)
Questions regarding a topic's relevance to the conference may be addressed to the program chair via electronic mail to vinoski@iona.com. Proceedings of the conference will be published by USENIX and will be provided free to technical session attendees; additional copies will be available for purchase from USENIX.
Awards will be given for the best paper and for the best student paper at the conference.
In addition, based upon feedback solicited at the conference from attendees, the program committee will select up to five papers to be published in revised and expanded form in a special issue of a suitable journal (last year's papers were published in the USENIX Computing Systems journal. To help authors prepare these papers for publication, we will have a BOF session organized as writers workshops.
This one-day post-conference workshop will focus on issues surrounding the rapid integration and dynamic collaboration of prefabricated components. The workshop topics include, but are not limited to, experiences and analyses of the following:
Technical paper submissions must be received by February 12th, 1997. Full papers should be 10 to 15 pages (around 5,000-6,000 words). In lieu of a full paper, authors may submit extended abstracts that discuss key ideas. Extended abstracts should be 5-7 pages long (about 2,500-3,500 words), not counting references and figures. The body of the extended abstract should be written in complete paragraphs. The objective of an extended abstract is to convince reviewers that a good, solid paper and presentation will result. Extended abstracts are intend to stimulate industrial participation and to allow publication of very current material.
All submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, and correctness. Each accepted submission will be assigned a member of the program committee to shepherd it through the preparation of the final paper. The assigned member will act as a conduit for feedback from the committee to the authors. Camera-ready final papers are due May 6, 1997.
Each submission must include a cover letter stating the paper title and authors along with the name of the person who will act as the contact to the program committee. Please include a surface mail address, daytime and evening phone number, an email address, and fax number for the contact person.
If you would like to receive detailed guidelines for submission and examples of extended abstracts, you may telephone the USENIX Association office at +1 (510) 528-8649, or email to cootsauthors@usenix.org or to the program committee chair (vinoski@iona.com).
The COOTS conference, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to another conference or publication and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere. Papers accompanied by "non-disclosure agreement" forms are not acceptable and will be returned to the author(s) unread. All submissions are held in the highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976.
Please send one copy of a full paper or an extended abstract to the program committee via one of the following methods. All submissions will be acknowledged.
Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial programs, registration fees and forms, and hotel information will be available beginning in April 1997. If you wish to receive the registration materials, please contact USENIX at:
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