First OOPSLA Workshop on
Language Mechanisms for
Programming Software Components
Organizers:
Vugranam C. Sreedhar, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
David H. Lorenz, Northeastern University
Abstract
Although there are many models for component-based software development,
most of these models are based on sets of standards and frameworks (APIs),
and are implemented on top of a mainstream Object-Oriented programming
language. Very little research has been done in understanding and promoting
the key concepts in Component-Oriented programming; that is, identifying
what exactly is Component-Oriented programming and what language mechanisms
exist for Component-Oriented style of programming. This workshop intends to
bring together researchers, practitioners, and implementers to present their
experience in component programming in a forum that will allow them to
collaborate and exchange ideas.
This workshop's goal is to address two questions:
Track: Components; Languages
Call for Paper is ASCII Format: cfp.txt; cfp.html
Maximum Number of People: 40
Themes and Goals
For the past 20 years OO programming style has played a crucial role in the development of large-scale software systems. Languages like Simula, Smalltalk, C++, Beta, Dylan, Eiffel, Self, and Java are considered Objected-Oriented programming languages. These languages allow one to express some fundamental properties of Object-Oriented style of programming. For instance, some consider classes, inheritance (sub-classing), inclusion polymorphism (late binding), and parametric polymorphism (genericity) to be key ingredients of OO style of programming. Almost all of the above languages support at least 3 of these key ingredients.
Even before OO languages were mainstream, OO programming was practiced using disciplined procedural programming. Nowadays, so it seems, CO programming is practiced using disciplined OO programming. The goal of this workshop is to bring researchers together to focus on what linguistic mechanisms are key to software components and to their development. There are two fundamental questions to be addressed in this workshop:
Scope
The scope of the workshop includes (but is not limited to):
Important Dates:
Agenda Submission Guidelines:
(See also CFP.)
Submissions can be full technical
papers or short position papers, using the ACM Proceedings
Guidelines
(nine point font on ten point baseline, two columns per page).
Technical papers must not exceed 8 pages, and short position papers
should not exceed 4 pages. All papers must be submitted electronically.
The electronic copy of the paper, in PDF or portable Postscript
format with no encoding, condensing or encapsulation, should be
emailed to: David H. Lorenz
<oopsla-submit@ccs.neu.edu>.
Papers submissions will be reviewed by the program committee using
criteria appropriate to their category. The submitted papers will be
evaluated based on their originality, relevance, technical quality and
presentation.
The accepted papers, after revised by the authors, will be published
in a Workshop Proceedings as an NU-CCS Technical Report. The electronic
submissions, including supporting code and examples, will be collected and
distributed to the workshop participants on a workshop CDROM. The workshop
will be summaries in a poster at the OOPSLA poster session. The papers
and panel discussion will also be disseminated to the larger community
by making them publicly available. All accepted papers will be posted
at that workshop website prior to the workshop date for participants to
read them before they attend the workshop.
Workshop Organizers Vugranam C. Sreedhar is a Research Staff Member
at the IBM--T. J. Watson Research Center. He has a Ph.D. from McGill
University, Montreal. He is currently focusing his research in the area
of software components and middleware. In his previous incarnation he
worked at Hewlett Packard Company in the core optimizing compiler team for
the Itanium iA64 architecture. He has previously served on the ACM PLDI
conference program committee. He has also organized two workshops
(Dynamo 2000 and OM 2001). He has also served on program committee of
FDDO2000 and HiPC 2001.
David H. Lorenz is an Assistant Professor of
Computer Science at Northeastern University. He has a Ph.D. from
the Technion--Israel Institute of Technology. Prof. Lorenz's
research interests include concepts of software components, with
special interest in adaptive components and component-based design
(particularly JavaBeans technology). He teaches courses in Programming
Languages, Object-Oriented Design, and Component-Based Programming. He
has served on the program committees of International Technology of
Object-Oriented Languages and Systems Europe Conferences (TOOLS Europe
2000: Enterprise Architecture, Patterns, Components; and TOOLS
Europe 2001: Components for Mobile Computing). He is a member
of editorial board of International Journal of Information Technology
and Decision Making, World Scientific Publishing Co.
Contacts
Send all submissions to:
oopsla-submit@ccs.neu.edu
Vugranam C. Sreedhar
David H. Lorenz
Program Committee
(Tentative.)
The Workshop will start with a short multiple-choice quiz to on the
accepted paper. This is intended to be a humorist icebreaker and to
reward participants who do read the papers before attending the
workshop... The format of the Workshop will consist of an introductory
presentation by the Workshop Chairs, followed by a series of 15 minutes
(full papers) and 5 minutes (position papers) formal and interactive
presentations of all accepted papers, including time for group
discussion. Audience are highly encouraged to make each presentation as
interactive as possible. Demos are welcomed. There will be one or two
keynote speeches. There will also be a lively BoF session at the end
of workshop.
See tentavive schedule.
IBM TJ Watson Research Center
30 Saw Mill River Road,
Hawthorne, NY 10532
(914) 784-7325 sreedhar@watson.ibm.com
111 Cullinane Hall, College of Computer Science,
Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
(617) 373-2076 lorenz@ccs.neu.edu