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            WOON '96 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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"The White OO Nights" - a 2-day international conference focusing on
object-oriented technology, WOON '96, is to be held at St. Petersburg,
Russia, on June 20 and 21, 1996. Object technology experts from West
and East gather together to share their ideas and experiences with each
other at a very special time of a year - the White Nights - no darkness
at all - nearly 24 hours of daylight. During the following weekend
there will be an optional sightseeing programme including visiting 
the Hermitage and Peterhof (If you stay over the weekend, the
airline fares are rather low).

Important Dates:

        o Submissions due                       March 31st, 1996
        o Notification to authors               May 10th, 1996
        o Final pre-conference draft due        June 5th, 1996
        o Conference                            June 20th-21st, 1996
        o Proceedings draft due                 August 31st, 1996



WOON '96 welcomes high quality papers describing relevant research in, or
experience with, the object oriented paradigm. A non-exhaustive list of
suggested topics:

        * Reports of experience with OO technology
        * Migration towards OO software development
        * Management and training issues
        * OO user interfaces, persistence and databases
        * Class management and evolution
        * Empirical and field studies
        * Production, distribution and revenue collection of
             industrial-quality reusable components
        * Design and Implementation of OO languages.
        * Software engineering aspects  

Conference Co-chairs:
          Dr. Alexander Smolyaninov, St. Petersburg State
                              Electrotechnical University
          Alexei Shestialtynov, SIG Compiter (Moscow)

Program committee

   Chair: Hans Steffen, University Darmstadt
          Vladimir Baula, Moscow State University
          Klaus Dittrich, University Zuerich
          Ernst-Erich Doberkat, University Dortmund
          Per Grape, Enea Data
          Alan Hendrikson, Pulse Train Technology
          Hans-Juergen Hoffmann, University Darmstadt
          Oleg Karatcharov, SiG Computer Inc
          Vladimir Khoroshevsky, Russian Academy of Science 
          Jim McKim, Hartford Graduate Center
          Richard Mitchell, University of Brighton
          Jean-Marc Nerson, Societe des Outils du Logiciel
          Frances Paulisch, Siemens
          Wolfgang Pree, University of Linz 
          Vsevolod Strigevskii, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute
          Karl-Heinz Sylla, GMD-SET
          Richard Wiener, University of Colorado
          Heinz Zuellighoven, University Hamburg



Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper, in
English, to the program chair (woon@sigco.com) by no later than
March 31st, 1996.  Papers should be formatted in Postscript, RTF
format or ASCII. They should not exceed 10 pages and should be prefaced
with ASCII text containing the paper's title, authors' names, contact
name, email address, postal address, phone number, and a 100-word 
abstract.

Authors will get a confirmation of receipt within 5 days.

Proposals for tutorials, panels and workshops are also solicited.


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Russia has been (and still is) a major force in most topics - even in
computer science.  A surprising number of software development efforts
within the former Soviet Union are using object-oriented programming
and object-oriented design to build production software systems. Major
universities teach object oriented methods and there is some research in 
this
area. Besides this there is much cooperation between Western and Russian
companies and research institutes.

It seems to be the right time for the first international conference in
Russia about object oriented technology. This conference should:

- help East and West to learn from one another
- help to build new connections
- give the opportunity to present and to learn about
  o the actual state of research in OO technology
  o OO based developments
  o practical experiences with OO


The conference will be held at the St. Petersburg university. 
Accommodations
will be provided on-site.  Additional accomodations will be available in
St. Petersburg.  Airport limousine service between St. Petersburg Airport
and the conference site will be provided.
The conference organizers will help you in gathering the necessary visas.

General conference questions:

Alexei Shestialtynov                     Frieder Monninger
SiG Computer, Inc. (Moscow)              SIG Computer GmbH
Tel: +7 095 192 1630                     D 35619 Braunfels
32 block 2 Kashirskoye Shosse            Tel: +49 6472 2096
Moscow, 115522 Russia                    fm@sigco.com
alexei@sigco.com
                  http://www.sigco.com/woon