From: pwd@cl.cam.ac.uk (Peter Dickman)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: CFP: OOPSLA'92 workshop on Objects in Large Distributed Applications
Keywords: Architectures, System & SE Issues, Languages, Applications
Date: 28 Jul 92 09:06:18 GMT
Reply-To: dickman@nicotina.inesc.pt (Peter Dickman)
Organization: ERCIM & INESC, posted via Univ. Cambridge Computer Lab, UK


(Apologies if this gets posted twice)

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Call for Participation:
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                            OOPSLA'92 - OLDA II 

         2nd Workshop on Objects in Large Distributed Applications

    To be held as part of OOPSLA'92 on October 18th in Vancouver, Canada



    Following on from last years OLDA workshop at OOPSLA in Phoenix, the
    OLDA-II workshop will bring together a group of researchers, system
    developers and application programmers interested in large-scale
    object systems. Issues of scale and distribution have ramifications
    in a range of sub-disciplines of computer science, from language design
    to software engineering, influencing everything from operating system
    mechanisms to object models. In particular, low-level decisions can have
    profound effects at the highest levels of application modelling and
    system development. The aim of the workshop is to demonstrate these
    interactions and to address the fundamental problems raised by issues
    of scale and autonomy. It is intended that approximately half of the 
    workshop will be devoted to systems and architectural issues, the other 
    half to software engineering and applications.

  Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to:
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    o Large scale and/or scalable distributed object-support systems
      (both experimental and commercial systems are welcome as are
       presentations of new architectural models, especially those
       which address issues of autonomy and fault-tolerance)

    o Scalable solutions to particular problems in object-support systems
        eg: garbage collection, load balancing, location & naming

    o Experiences in developing object-based applications:
        - which execute across wide-area networks
        - or involve large numbers of objects in a distributed system

    o Development methodologies and software tools aimed at large-scale
      object-based distributed applications

  Also acceptable, provided that they are likely to be of interest to a diverse
  audience interested in large-scale, object-based  distributed systems are:

    o Scalable algorithms, both at the system level (such as synchronisation
      and invalidation algorithms) and at the application level (eg scalable
      distributed algorithms for numerical or data processing applications)
      Such submissions should address issues of autonomy or failure: parallel
      algorithms that assume a fail-stop model are less likely to be accepted.

    o New approaches that increase the degree of concurrency or fault-tolerance
      achievable in distributed applications, such as replication mechanisms

    o Performance analyses and theoretical papers (eg: impossibility results)


  Distributed Programming Languages:
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    OLDA-II will include a panel discussion addressing the language-level
    issues raised by large distributed object-based applications. Argus,
    Emerald, Guide, Hermes and ABCL/1 projects will all (hopefully) be
    represented. Guidelines for language-related position papers (for
    attendance and circulation only, not oral presentation) are available
    from the workshop organiser.

  Simple notices, suitable for display, describing the workshop are available
  from the workshop organiser as a PostScript file. 

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  Organiser:
    Peter Dickman
    ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics)

  Postal Address:
    INESC, Rua Alves Redol 9, Apartado 10105, 1017 Lisboa Codex, PORTUGAL

    E-mail:        dickman@nicotina.inesc.pt
    Telephone:     +351 1 31 00 248
    Fax:           +351 1 52 58 43 

  How to apply:
    Each attendee is requested to submit a position paper of 3 to 6 pages;
    longer papers, formatted to reduce the page count, are also acceptable.
    Electronic submissions in LaTeX are preferred, however PostScript or
    (in cases of extreme difficulty only) postal submissions are acceptable.
    Please e-mail your paper as a single message if at all possible. Large
    PostScript files should be compressed and uuencoded (as <author>.ps.Z).
    Please include full contact information (phone, e-mail etc) for the
    main author in your submissions.

    Please ensure that your submission can be printed without alteration on
    both European (A4) and US paper sizes. Accepted position papers will be
    made available to attendees, by electronic means, before the workshop.

    Submissions will be grouped into relevant categories and both long and
    short presentations solicited. Ample time will be reserved for discussion.
    All submissions will be subjected to an informal refereeing process.

    If the submissions are of sufficient quality and quantity to justify doing
    so, publication of a proceedings of the workshop will be investigated. 
    If this seems feasible the workshop contributors will be encouraged to 
    consider extending or elaborating their submissions prior to publication.

  Programme committee:

     Peter    Dickman       ERCIM & INESC, Lisbon, Portugal
     Steve    Freeman       Univ. Cambridge, UK
     Wolfgang Gerteis       Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
     Eric     Jul           Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark
     Sharon   Lamb          MCC Corporation, Texas, USA
     Allen    Luniewski     IBM Almaden, California, USA
     Mesaac   Makpangou     INRIA Rocquencourt, France
     Eliot    Moss          Univ. Massachusetts, Mass., USA
     Max      Muhlhauser    Univ. Kaiserlautern, Germany
     Jim      Stamos        IBM Almaden, California, USA
     Linda    Strick        GMD, Berlin, Germany

  Important dates:
     Submission of position papers:     Saturday 15th August
     Absolute deadline for late papers: Sunday   23rd August
     Notification of acceptance:        Tuesday  15th September
     Workshop date:                     Sunday   18th October, 1992

  Receipt of Submissions:
     An e-mail acknowledgement will be sent to the first author of each
     submitted position paper. If you haven't heard back within 3 days
     of e-mailing or 10 days of posting your paper, contact the organiser.
     Please note that papers submitted after the official (Aug 15) deadline,
     or containing more than 0.5 megabytes of PostScript, may be mildly
     discriminated against during the review process. Note also that there
     can be a week or more of postal delay when sending airmail to Portugal,
     and that e-mail to & from Portugal can sometimes be a little flakey.
     
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