ECOOP 2009 - 23rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming

Call for Papers
The ECOOP 2009 conference invites high quality papers presenting research results or experience in all areas relevant to object technology, including work that takes inspiration from, or builds connections to, areas not commonly considered object-oriented. ECOOP wishes to embrace a broad range of topics, therefore the following list of topics is by no means exclusive:

Analysis, design methods and design patterns
Concurrent, real-time or parallel systems
Databases, persistence and transactions
Distributed and mobile systems
Frameworks, product lines and software architectures
Language design and implementation
Testing and metrics
Programming environments and tools
Theoretical foundations, type systems, formal methods
Versioning, compatibility, software evolution
Aspects, Components, Modularity, Reflection
Collaboration, Workflow
Research papers should advance the current state of the art, and both experimentally based work and mathematical results are welcome. Experience papers should describe novel insight gained from the practical application of object technology, in such a way that it is of interest to a broad group of researchers and practitioners.

A paper should explain its contributions in both general and technical terms, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and comparing it with previous work. Authors should strive to make their papers understandable to a broad audience. Papers will be evaluated according to originality and significance, precision and correctness, presentation and clarity, and relevance.

Papers must be written in English, and be no longer than 25 pages, including references, appendices and figures, and written using the LNCS style. For more information about formatting please consult the Springer LNCS web site at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
Important Dates
Paper submission: 20 December 2008
Authors' response period: 16-18 February 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 13 March 2009
ECOOP conference: 6-10 July 2009

During the author response period, authors will be given the opportunity to read and respond to the reviews of their papers. Responses will be at most 500 words, and should be used to answer explicit questions in reviews, or correct factual mistakes.