From garlan+@RILA.ABLE.CS.CMU.EDU Tue Apr 19 10:29:14 EDT 1994 Article: 15045 of cmu.cs.general Xref: economic.mess.cs.cmu.edu cmu.cs.general:15045 Newsgroups: cmu.cs.general Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!garlan From: garlan+@RILA.ABLE.CS.CMU.EDU (David Garlan) Subject: Doctoral Symposium at OOPSLA Message-ID: Originator: garlan@RILA.ABLE.CS.CMU.EDU Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: rila.able.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 00:40:38 -0400 Lines: 56 The Doctoral Symposium is a new event at OOPSLA'94. It will provide an intimate forum for advanced graduate students working on problems in object-oriented systems, languages and applications to discuss their work with one another and with experts in the field. We hope to broaden the research perspectives of the participating students, provide specific constructive feedback into their thesis projects, and initiate a peer network that will assist students in becoming integrated into the OOPSLA community. We invite submissions on a wide range of topics -- language design and implementation, tools and environments, components and frameworks, user interfaces, principles and theory, reflection and meta-level architectures, concurrent and distributed systems, databases and persistence, design methods, and object-oriented software engineering more generally. If you are unsure whether your research topic fits within the OOPSLA topic space, please contact the Symposium chair (by email). The Symposium is intended only for advanced doctoral students; participants should already have their thesis topic chosen and accepted by a thesis committee. The work may already be underway or may be in the planning phase, but if the latter, the student must be able to provide specific details of how the work will be carried out, and of the nature of the results expected. It is expected that most participants will be one year (or less) removed from thesis completion. To apply for participation in the Symposium, students should prepare an extended abstract describing their thesis project. The abstract should be relatively short (700-1000 words), and should be organized into a problem statement (including relevant background), the approach being taken and its rationale, and the expected findings and their implications for research and/or practice. The abstract should make clear (or if desired an accompanying cover letter can make clear) what portions of the work have actually been carried out. Because we expect a large number of contributions, I am also requesting that each applicant ask their thesis advisor to send a short email note of recommendation (to rosson@cs.vt.edu). Note that THIS REQUEST WAS NOT MENTIONED IN THE PUBLISHED CALL. Applicants should submit an ELECTRONIC version of their extended abstracts (in ASCII form, please) to rosson@cs.vt.edu; the abstracts must be received NO LATER THAN MAY 17, 1994. The abstracts (and advisor recommendations) will be reviewed by the panel of 4-5 experts participating as mentors in the Symposium. Nine or ten students will be selected to participate in the one-day event, with decisions made as a function of research significance and originality, strength of advisor's recommendation, relevance to OOPSLA, and progress. Student participants will receive partial travel compensation, free conference registration, and meals during the Symposium. Mary Beth Rosson, OOPSLA'94 Doctoral Symposium Chair Computer Science Department Virginia Tech rosson@cs.vt.edu