TOOLS Europe 2012
50th International Conference on Objects, Models, Components, Patterns
May 29–31 2012, Prague, Czech Republic
Program | Keynotes | Topics | Submissions | Dates | Committees
Becoming commonplace is a technology's ultimate proof of success. TOOLS Europe 2012 will celebrate the "triumph of objects" by welcoming researchers and practitioners who develop and use object-oriented techniques, models, components and patterns as enabling technologies in diverse domains. Started in 1989, the TOOLS conference series has played a major role in the development of object technology and, with its emphasis on practically useful results, has contributed to making it mainstream and ubiquitous.
TOOLS Europe encourages contributions on all aspects of object technology and related fields. In particular, every topic in advanced software technology falls within the scope of TOOLS. Contributions demonstrating practical applications backed up by formal analysis and thorough experimental evaluation are particularly welcome.
The preliminary program is available in a separate page.
Keynote Speakers
- Lionel Briand
- Alan Kay (remote talk by video conference)
- Bertrand Meyer
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Object technology, programming techniques, languages, tools
- Language implementation techniques, compilers, run-time systems
- Distributed and concurrent object systems, multicore programming
- Patterns, pattern languages and tool support for patterns
- Program verification and analysis techniques
- Trusted, reliable and secure components
- Testing of object-oriented systems
- Component-based programming, modeling, tools
- Model-driven development
- Empirical studies on programming models and techniques
- Domain specific languages and language design
- Aspect-oriented programming and modeling
- Industrial-strength experience reports
- Real-time object-oriented programming and design
Submissions
TOOLS Europe 2012 welcomes submissions in the following categories:
- Full research papers (up to 16 pages)
- Tool demonstration papers (up to 8 pages)
- Short papers, such as experience reports or position statements (up to 8 pages)
Submitted papers must be written in English and present original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere.
Submissions must be in LNCS format (see Springer's instructions at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The page limits above include figures and bibliographic references. Additional material intended for referees but not for publication in the final version — for example details of proofs — may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. Referees will be at liberty to ignore appendices, and papers must be understandable without them.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=toolseurope2012.
All contributions will be subject to a rigorous selection process, with a stress on significance, originality and clarity.
Accepted papers will be published as conference proceedings by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one author of every accepted paper (in every category) is required to present the paper at the conference.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Object Technology (JOT). Outstanding submissions will be considered for the EAPLS best paper award of TOOLS 2012.
Important Dates
- Abstract submission:
6 January 201210 January 2012 - Paper submission:
13 January 201219 January 2012 - Acceptance notification:
2 March 20128 March 2012 - Camera-ready copy:
23 March 201226 March 2012 - Conference: 29–31 May 2012
The submission site is closed. All deadlines refer to 23:59 in the UTC-12 time zone. Please feel free to contact the PC chairs about any questions regarding the submission dates or topics.
Committees
Program Chairs
- Carlo A. Furia, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Sebastian Nanz, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Program Committee
- Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
- Lorenzo Bettini, University of Torino, Italy
- Yuriy Brun, University of Washington, USA
- S.C. Cheung, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
- Gordon Fraser, Saarland University, Germany
- John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark
- Angelo Gargantini, University of Bergamo, Italy
- Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, France
- Mark Harman, University College London, United Kingdom
- Michael Huth, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
- Yves Le Traon, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Yang Liu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Jerzy Nawrocki, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
- Nathaniel Nystrom, University of Lugano, Switzerland
- Manuel Oriol, University of York, United Kingdom
- Alessandro Orso, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
- Richard Paige, University of York, United Kingdom
- Alexander K. Petrenko, Moscow State University, Russia
- Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, USA
- Peter Sestoft, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Andrey Terekhov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
- Zdeněk Troníček, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Naoyasu Ubayashi, Kyushu University, Japan
- Antonio Vallecillo, University of Malaga, Spain
- Kapil Vaswani, Microsoft Research, Bangalore, India
- Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA
- Amiram Yehudai, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Michal Young, University of Oregon, USA
- Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Lu Zhang, Peking University, China
Conference Chair
- Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich and Eiffel Software
Publicity Chair
- Scott West, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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