*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** JSSST International Symposium Series 2nd International Symposium on Object Technologies for Advanced Software >>> ISOTAS '96 <<< 11-15 March, 1996, Kanazawa, Japan, Sponsored by: Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (JSSST), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) In cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT, IEEE Computer Society*, IEICE*, IPSJ* (*requesting) --- AIMS AND GOALS --- Object technologies are attracting ever increasing attentions in various areas of research and development for advanced software: * Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) reduces the complexity of large-scale software development through inheritance/encapsulation/class libraries/framework. OOP also serves as a basis of new generations of programming languages in concurrent and reflective computing, etc. There is also strong affinity to so-called autonomous `agent-oriented programming'. * Object-Oriented Databases (OODB) have been proposed as a model for next generation database systems, which are expected to overcome the limitations of conventional data models. Currently OODB are used in a wide variety of important application areas such as engineering and multimedia information systems, where the fusion of OOP and OODB shows a great promise in providing much more effective architecture for advanced database systems. * Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) promises to present solutions to numerous difficulties the software engineers face today. Examples include: OO requirement analysis, OO formal specifications, OO design, OO software databases, etc. The diversity of different areas suggest that there are underlying, fundamental principles common to a wide range of software development activities. Following up the success of the first ISOTAS, the second ISOTAS focuses again on the object technologies to shed light on such principles. By bringing together the leading researchers in the areas of OOP, OODB, and OOSE, we hope to deepen the understanding of object technologies and establish a solid framework for future advanced software development. --- SCOPE --- The scope of this symposium focuses on advanced object technologies in programming, database, and software engineering. Specific object technologies include, but are not limited to, theories and practices of: OO programming languages OO reflective programming OO concurrent/parallel programming OO formal specification languages OO database programming languages OO database management systems OO software databases OO software development and environments OO operating systems Constraint-based object models OO user interfaces Active/Situated objects Agent-oriented programming Agent-oriented software systems --- INSTRUCTIONS --- The submitted paper should cover original research materials, must not be longer than 5,000 words in length (including the abstract and keywords), and must be written in English. The cover page should include authors' names, affiliations, complete postal/E-mail addresses, telephone/facsimile numbers, and keywords. Submit five (5) copies by July 1, 1995 to: Prof. Satoshi MATSUOKA School of Information Engineering The University of Tokyo 7-3-1 Bunkyo-ku, Hongo, Tokyo 113, Japan Phone: +81-3-3812-2111 ex. 7431 The proceedings of ISOTAS'96 will be published by Springer-Verlagas a volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The proceedings of ISOTAS'93 was published as LNCS #742, and saw widespread international circulation. --- IMPORTANT DATES --- Papers Due: 1 July 1995 Notification to Authors: 15 October 1995 Camera-Ready Copy Due: 10 December 1995 --- SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE --- Symposium Chair: Takuya KATAYAMA (JAIST) Symposium Series Committee Chair: Mario TOKORO (Keio U./Sony CSL) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Kokichi FUTATSUGI (JAIST), Satoshi MATSUOKA (U. of Tokyo) Workshop Chair: Koichiro OCHIMIZU (JAIST) Tutorial Chair: Jiro TANAKA (U. of Tsukuba) Finance Chair: Naoki YONEZAKI (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) Executive Chair: Yoichi SHINODA (JAIST) Local Arrangement Chair: Tatsuo NAKAJIMA (JAIST) Publicity Chair: Takuo WATANABE (JAIST) Exhibition Chair: Masato SUZUKI (JAIST) --- PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS --- Tsuneo AJISAKA Kyoto U. Mehmet AKSIT Twente U. Craig CHAMBERS U. of Washington Andrew CHIEN U. of Illinois Pierre COINTE U. of Nantes Steven FEINER Columbia U. Bjorn FREEMAN-BENSON Carleton U. Dennis GANNON Indiana U. Shinichi HONIDEN Toshiba Hiroshi ISHIKAWA Fujitsu Lab. Yutaka ISHIKAWA RWC Lab. Ralph JOHNSON U. of Illinois Kazuhiko KATO U. of Tsukuba Gregor KICZALES Xerox PARC Roger KING U. of Colorado Karl LIEBERHERR Northeastern U. Jose MESEGUER SRI Eliot MOSS U. of Mass. Shin NAKAJIMA NEC Tatsuo NAKAJIMA JAIST K. NARAYANASWAMY USC-ISI Oscar NIERSTRASZ U. of Bern Shojiro NISHIO Osaka U., ISOTAS'93 PC Co-Chair David NOTKIN Washington U. Atsushi OHORI Kyoto U. Rikio ONAI NTT Lab. Tamiya ONODERA IBM Beng Chin OOI N. U. of Singapore Lee OSTERWEIL U. of Mass. Jens PALSBERG Aarhus U. Motoshi SAEKI Tokyo Inst. of Tech. Etsuya SHIBAYAMA Tokyo Inst. of Tech. Yoichi SHINODA JAIST Jiro TANAKA U. of Tsukuba Dave THOMAS Object Tech. Intl. Takuo WATANABE JAIST Grant E. WEDDELL U. of Waterloo Kazumasa YOKOTA Kyoto U. Yasuhiko YOKOTE Sony CSL Akinori YONEZAWA U. of Tokyo, ISOTAS'93 PC Co-Chair Masatoshi YOSHIKAWA NAIST Stanley B. ZDONIK Brown U. Roberto ZICARI J.W. Goethe U. --- ON-LINE INFORMATION --- Further up-to-date information on the symposium is available via WWW at: http://www.jaist.ac.jp/misc/meetings/ISOTAS96 or http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~scg/OOinfo/CFP/ISOTAS96/ In the future, this home page will provide: advance program, site information, registration information, and so on. ALL CORRESPONDENCES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO THE LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: Prof. Tatsuo NAKAJIMA School of Information Science Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) 15 Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-12, Japan Phone:+81-761-51-1303, Facsimile: +81-761-51-1149 E-mail: isotas96@jaist.ac.jp