[ANN] 14th European Smalltalk Research Conference

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>>           14th European Smalltalk Research Conference
>>                     4 - 8 September 2006
>>                    Prague, Czech Republic
>> http://www.esug.org/conferences/ 
>> 14thinternationalsmalltalkconference2006/
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>> Although Smalltalk is one of the oldest object-oriented  
>> programming languages, its conception and programming environment  
>> can still be considered as a design pearl and as a beacon in the  
>> realm of programming languages and programming environments. The  
>> bulk of its modern contenders are still lacking many of the  
>> features that Smalltalkers find as mundane as essential.  
>> Nevertheless, as software engineering practices and new  
>> application fields evolve, Smalltalk should keep up. This concerns  
>> the language, its implementation technology, its programming tools  
>> as well as the software development culture it supports.  This  
>> research conference invites research papers that report on  
>> original scientific research conducted in and/or for Smalltalk.  
>> Topics of interest include:
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>> - Aspects, Aspect languages and Applications
>> - Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing,  
>> Embedded Systems.
>> - Compilation Technology, Optimization, Virtual Machines
>> - Formalizations
>> - Language Engineering, Extensions
>> - Model Driven Engineering
>> - Programming in the Large, Design, Architectures, Components
>> - Programming Environments, Browsers, User Interfaces, ...
>> - Reasoning About Code (Analyses, Refactoring, Type Inferencing,  
>> Metrics)
>> - Reflection and Metaprogramming
>> - Testing, Extreme Programming.
>> - Web Services, Internet Applications, Event-driven Programming.
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>> Important dates:
>> - Submission Deadline: Sunday 28th May, 0hrs CET.
>> - Notification of acceptance: 15 of July 2006.
>> - Final Submission: 1st August 2006.
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>> Papers:
>> Papers (max. 25 pages, references included) are to be submitted by  
>> email and should be in pdf-format. Send the paper to Wolfgang De  
>> Meuter ([hidden email]). A selection of the best papers will  
>> be published in the Elsevier journal "Computer Languages, Systems  
>> & Structures". If the paper is accepted for publication in the  
>> journal, it will have to abide by elsevier's guidelines. Check out  
>> http://authors.elsevier.com/GuideForAuthors.html?PubID=638299&dc=GFA.
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>> Program Committee:
>> -Dave Simmons, Smallscript Corporation, USA,  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Noury Bouraqadi, Ecole des Mines de Douai, France,  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Nathanael Schaerli, Google R&D, Zurich, Switzerland,  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Andrew Black, Portland State University, USA, ([hidden email])
>> -Serge Stinckwich, Université de Caen, France  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Joseph Pelrine, MetaProg GmbH, Switzerland, ([hidden email])
>> -Alan Knight, Cincom, USA, ([hidden email])
>> -Thomas Kuehne, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany,  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Christophe Roche, Université de Savoie, France,  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Maja D'Hondt, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille,  
>> France, ([hidden email])
>> -Maximo Prieto, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina,  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Brian Foote University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA,  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Dave Thomas, Bedarra Research Labs, USA, ([hidden email])
>> -Gilad Bracha, SUN Java Software, USA, ([hidden email])
>> -Serge Demeyer, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Pierre Cointe, Ecole de Mines de Nantes, France,  
>> ([hidden email])
>> -Michel Tillman, Real Software, Belgium, ([hidden email])
>> -Tudor Girba, Universität Bern, Switzerland, ([hidden email])
>> -Wolfgang De Meuter (PC Chair), Vrije Universiteit Brussel,  
>> Belgium ([hidden email])