ECOOP 2014 - European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) 2014

The European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) is the premier international conference covering all areas of object technology and related software development technologies. The 28th edition of the ECOOP conferences series will take place from 28 July to 1 August, 2014 in Uppsala, Sweden. It will embrace a broad range of topics related to object-orientation, including:
Concurrent and parallel systems
Distributed and cloud computing, mobile systems
Service-oriented and web Programming
Programming environments
Versioning, refactoring, software evolution
Language definition and design, domain-specific languages
Language implementation, execution environments, compiler construction
Memory management, garbage collection
Testing, debugging, profiling, and performance analysis
Metrics and empirical studies
Design methods and design patterns
Aspects, components, modularity, and reflection
Software modelling, meta-modelling
Frameworks, product lines, and software architectures
Theoretical foundations, program analysis, and type systems
Specification, verification, model checking, program synthesis
Object ownership
Security
Real-time systems
Databases and object persistence
Energy-aware software
ECOOP 2014 solicits high quality submissions describing original and unpublished results. It encourages innovative and creative solutions to real problems, evaluations of existing solutions in ways that shed new insights, or both. The program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission as well as its general relevance and accessibility to the ECOOP audience according the following criteria:
Originality The paper presents new ideas and/or results relevant to object technology and related software development technologies, and places these appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. The paper clearly identifies what this contribution has accomplished and how it relates to previous work.
Significance The results in the paper have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in important or significant ways. The paper challenges or changes informed opinion about what is possible, true or likely.
Evidence The paper presents evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses and case studies.
Clarity The paper presents its claims and results clearly. It is organized so that it is easily understood by an audience with varied expertise.
NEW! This year, ECOOP will also consider submission of high quality reproduction studies. Common in other sciences, reproduction means independently reconstructing an experiment in a different context (e.g. virtual machine, platform, class of applications) in order to validate or refute important results of earlier work. A good reproduction study will include very thorough empirical evaluation, perhaps meeting a higher bar than that of the original paper. It will contain a detailed comparison with the previous results, seeking reasons for possible disagreements.