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The submission site for ECOOP 2015 research papers is now open at: https://ecoop2015.hotcrp.com/ The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is the premier international conference covering all areas of object technology and related software development technologies. The 29th edition of the ECOOP conferences series will take place from 6-10 July, 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic. Invited Speakers Jade Alglave Gilad Bracha Andrey Breslav Kim Bruce Craig Chambers Jong-Deok Choi Cliff Click Philippa Gardner Robert Grimm Sumit Gulwani Hadi Hariri Suresh Jagannathan Shriram Krishnamurthi Julia Lawall Bertrand Meyer Martin Odersky Filip Pizlo Tony Printezis Mooly Sagiv Shan Shan Huang Marc Shapiro Bjarne Stroustrup Emina Torlak Tomas Vojnar Philip Wadler Eran Yahav Call for Papers ECOOP 2015 will embrace a broad range of topics related to object-orientation, including: - Concurrent and parallel systems - Distributed and cloud computing, mobile systems - Service-oriented and web programming - Programming environments - Versioning, refactoring, software evolution - Language definition and design, domain-specific languages - Language implementation, execution environments, compiler construction - Memory management, garbage collection - Testing, debugging, profiling, performance analysis - Metrics, empirical studies - Design methods, design patterns - Aspects, components, modularity, reflection - Software modelling, meta-modelling - Frameworks, product lines, software architectures - Theoretical foundations, type systems, ownership - Program analysis, abstract interpretation - Specification, verification, model checking, program synthesis - Security - Real-time systems - Databases, object persistence - Energy-aware software ECOOP 2015 solicits high quality submissions describing original and unpublished results. It encourages innovative and creative solutions to real problems, evaluations of existing solutions in ways that shed new insights, or both. Following recent precedent, it also encourages the submission of reproduction studies. The programme committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission as well as its general relevance and accessibility to the ECOOP audience according the following criteria: Originality The paper presents new ideas and/or results relevant to object technology and related software development technologies, and places these appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. The paper clearly identifies what this contribution has accomplished and how it relates to previous work. Significance The results in the paper have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in important or significant ways. The paper challenges or changes informed opinion about what is possible, true or likely. Evidence The paper presents evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses and case studies. Clarity The paper presents its claims and results clearly. It is organized so that it is easily understood by an audience with varied expertise. For reproduction studies: Empirical Evaluation Common in other sciences, reproduction means independently reconstructing an experiment in a different context (e.g. virtual machine, platform, class of applications) in order to validate or refute important results of earlier work. A good reproduction study will include thorough empirical evaluation, meeting high statistical standards. It will contain a detailed comparison with the previous results, seeking reasons for possible disagreements. As is tradition, ECOOP Proceedings are published in Springer LNCS. Paper Submission Only papers that have not been published and are not under review for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Double submissions will be rejected without review. If major parts of an ECOOP submission have appeared elsewhere in any form, authors are required to notify the ECOOP 2015 programme chair and to explain the overlap and relationship. Authors are also required to inform the programme chair about closely related work submitted to another conference while the ECOOP submission is under review. Submissions will be carried out electronically via the Hotcrp website: http://ecoop15.hotcrp.com/ Papers must be written in English, and be no longer than 25 pages using the LNCS style, including references, figures and integral appendices. See below for information about additional appendices. For more information about formatting, please consult the Springer LNCS web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Reviewing Following the recent history of other programming language conferences, ECOOP 2015 will use light double-blind reviewing whereby authors’ identities are withheld until the reviewer submits their review (as usual, reviews are also anonymous). To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: author names and institutions must be omitted, and references to authors’ own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the work of …”). However, nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). A document answering frequently asked questions that hopefully addresses many common concerns is available: http://2015.ecoop.org/track/research-track#FAQ-on-Double-Blind-Reviewing When in doubt, contact the programme chair. Additional Material Clearly marked additional appendices, not intended for the final publication, containing supporting proofs, analyses, statistics, etc, may be included beyond the 25 page limit. There is also an option on the paper submission page to submit supplementary material, e.g., a technical report including proofs, or the software used to implement a system that cannot easily be anonymized. This material will be made available to reviewers after the initial reviews have been completed when author names are revealed. As usual, reviewers may choose to use the supplemental material or not at their discretion. However, the paper must stand alone and reviewers are under no obligation to read any additional material. Reviewers are more likely to consult additional appendices rather than separate technical reports. Authors of papers that have been submitted but not accepted by previous prestigious conferences may additionally submit a Note to Reviewers. The Note to Reviewers should a) identify the previous venue(s) (e.g. ESOP ’15, OOPSLA ’14); b) list the major issues identified by the reviews at those venues; and c) describe the changes made to the paper in response to those reviews. Such notes will not be made available to a reviewer until after the initial review has been completed and author names are revealed. Response period Authors will be given a 72-hour period (from Friday, 13 February 2015 to Sunday 15 February 2015) to read and respond to the reviews of their papers before the programme committee meeting. Responses will have no length limit but concision will be highly appreciated by the programme committee. Artifact Evaluation To reward the creation of artifacts and support replication of experiments, authors of accepted research papers can submit artifacts (such as tools, data, models, or videos) to be evaluated by an Artifact Evaluation Committee. Artifacts that pass muster will be recognized formally, and the Artifact Evaluation Committee will give an award for the best artifact. For more information, please follow this link: http://conf.researchr.org/track/ecoop15/ecoop15-artifacts Important Dates for ECOOP’15 Research Papers All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth, i.e. Howland Island/Baker Island (GMT/UTC-12 hours), unless otherwise indicated Submission deadline: 21 Dec 2014 Author response start: 13 Feb 2015, 0:00 GMT Author response end: 15 Feb 2015, 23:59 GMT Acceptance notification: 11 Mar 2015 Camera-ready copy submission: 29 Apr 2015 Main conference dates: 6-10 Jul 2015 For More Information For additional information, clarification or answers to questions please contact the ECOOP Programme Chair, John Boyland bo...@uw... |