Object-oriented programming

ECOOP'98, the twelfth European conference on object-oriented programming will be held in Brussels, Belgium, from 20 to 24 July 1998. The conference will be hosted by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and will be supported by the Association Internationale pour les Technologies Objets.

The aim of the conference is to discuss the latest research in object technology and will comprise tutorials, workshops, demonstrations and poster sessions. The topics to be covered during the tutorial sessions will include the following:

- Techniques for object-oriented analysis and design;
- Designing concurrent object-oriented programmes in Java;
- Configuration management;
- Testing object-oriented components;
- Advanced programming styles and idioms.

Examples of the issues to be addressed in the workshops include:

- Object-oriented software architecture;
- Tools and environments for business rules;
- Secure Internet mobile computations;
- Learning and teaching objects successfully;
- Object-oriented technology and real-time systems.

The technical plenary sessions of the conference will consist of 24 technical papers and will cover topics such as:

- Modelling ideas and experiences;
- Design pattern and frameworks;
- Multiple paradigms under one roof;
- Language problems and solutions;
- Distributed memory systems;
- Reuse, adaptation and hardware support;
- Software engineering practices, methods and human concerns.
For further information, please contact:

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Lab for System and Software Engineering
ECOOP'98 Tutorial Chair
Ms. Viviane Jonckers
2 Pleinlaan
B-1050 Brussels
Tel. +32-2-6292967; Fax +32-2-6292870
E-mail: viviane@info.vub.ac.be