| ACCEPTED PAPERS
Among 26 submitted papers,
10 were selected for publication .
SAC 2004
Over past eighteen years, the ACM
Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has become a primary
forum for applied computer scientists and application developers around
the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2004 is
sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP)
and is presented in cooperation with other ACM Special Interest
Groups.
SAC 2004 is hosted by the University of Cyprus in Nicosia,
Cyprus.
OOPS TRACK: AIMS AND
TOPICS
Today's large scale software systems
are typically designed and implemented using the concepts of the
object-oriented model. However, there is still a need for the existing OO
languages and architectures to continuously adapt in response to demands
for new features and paradigms. These new features include topics such as
dynamic software evolution, security, safety, distribution, and
expressiveness, to name a few.
The basic aim of the OO track at the
SAC 2004 is to promote and stimulate the research on the object-oriented
programming and distributed-object paradigms. This track will foster the
development of extensions and enhancements to the prevalent OO languages,
like Java, C# and C++, the formulation of innovative OO-based middleware
approaches, and the improvements to existing and well-established
distributed-object based systems.
Specifically, this track promotes
papers investigating the applicability of new proposals to widespread, and
standard defacto object-oriented languages and distributed-object
architectures. A medium to long-term vision is also solicited, tackling
general issues about the current and future role of prevalent OO languages
and distributed architectures in Computer Science and Engineering.
Particularly of interest for this track are those papers that provide a
thorough analysis covering several of the following aspects: theory,
design, implementation, applicability, performance evaluation, and
comparison/integration with existing constructs and
mechanisms.
Original papers and implementation reports are invited
from all areas of OO programming languages and distributed-object
computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the
following:
> Programming abstractions
> Advanced type
mechanisms and type safety
> Multi-paradigm features
>
Language features in support of open systems
> Aspect-oriented and
component-based programming
> Reflection, meta-programming
>
Program structuring, modularity, generative
programming
> Compositional languages
> Distributed objects
and concurrency
> Middleware
> Heterogeneity and
interoperability
> Applications of distributed object
computing
For prospective authors of papers that address general advances in
programming languages or do not specifically focus on the improvements
to the object-oriented domain (e.g., OO languages, OO systems, OO architectures),
please also look at the Programming Languages
track of SAC 2004.
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TRACK
CHAIRMEN
> Davide
Ancona
DISI, Università di Genova,
Italy
davide@disi.unige.it
> Rajeev
Raje
Department of Computer and Information
Science,
Indiana University, Purdue University
Indianapolis
rraje@cs.iupui.edu
> Mirko
Viroli
DEIS Università di Bologna,
Italy
mviroli@deis.unibo.it
PROGRAM
COMMITTEE
> Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology,
India
> Viviana Bono, Universita' di Torino, Italy
> Jan Bosch,
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
> Gilad Bracha, Sun
Microsystems, USA
> Giuseppe Castagna, Ecole Normale Superieure,
France
> Alessandro Coglio, Kestrel Institute, USA
> Pierre Cointe,
Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
> Pascal Costanza, University of Bonn,
Germany
> Geoff Coulson, Lancaster University, UK
> Kei Davis, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, USA
> Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College,
UK
> Erik Ernst, DAIMI, Denmark
> Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University,
USA
> Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
> Atsushi
Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan
> Ray Klefstad, University of
California at Irvine, USA
> Doug Lea, Suny Oswego, USA
> Don Syme,
Microsoft Research, UK
> Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, The
Netherlands
> Jan Vitek, Purdue University, USA
> Philip Wadler, Avaya
Labs, USA
> Elena Zucca, Universita' di Genova, Italy
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
> Submit your paper
electronically either in the PDF or the postscript format. Please
note that neither the hardcopy nor the fax submissions will be
accepted.
> The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in
the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person.
This is to facilitate a blind review process.
> The preferred format
for the submission is the ACM SIG Proceedings Template (available through
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
The body of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately 6 pages
according to the above style).
> All submissions must be sent by
September 6, 2003 at the e-mail address mviroli@deis.unibo.it;
the message must have the subject "OOPS
Submission", and its body must contain the paper title and the
authors' name and affiliation.
PROCEEDINGS
Paper
accepted for the OOPS track will be published by ACM both in the SAC 2004
proceedings and in the Digital Library. A set of selected papers, which
did not get accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers and
will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium
proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
September 6, 2003: Paper Submission
October
18, 2003: Author Notification
November 8, 2003: Camera-Ready
Copy
March 14-17 2004: SAC 2004
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