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		   Announcement and Call for Papers

			  2nd Conference on
	       Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems
			       (COOTS)

                          June 17-21, 1996
			   Toronto, Canada

                Sponsored by the USENIX Association
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IMPORTANT DATES

	o Tutorial submissions due:                Feb 7th, 1996
	o Paper submissions due:                   Feb 13, 1996
	o Notification to authors:                 March 5, 1996
	o Camera-ready final papers due:           May 7, 1996

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program Chair: Douglas C. Schmidt, Washington University
Tutorial Program Chair: Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego

Donald Box, Developmentor
Kraig Brockschmidt, Microsoft
David Chappell, Chappell and Associates
Andrew Chien, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
David Cohn, University of Notre Dame
Jim Coplien, AT&T Bell Labs
Murthy Devarokonda, IBM Watson Research Labs
Peter Druschel, Rice University
Daniel Edelson, IA Corporation
Nayeem Islam, IBM Watson Research Labs
Dennis Kafura, Virginia Tech University
Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
Dmitry Lenkov, Hewlett-Packard
Mark Linton, Silicon Graphics Inc.
Calton Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute
Vince Russo, Purdue University
Jerry Schwarz, Declarative Systems
Kevin Shank, Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael Stal, Siemens AG
Bjarne Stroustrup, AT&T Bell Labs
Steve Vinoski, Hewlett-Packard
Jim Waldo, SUN Microsystems Labs.

OVERVIEW

The COOTS conference is intended to showcase advanced R&D work in
object-oriented technologies and software systems.  The conference
emphasizes experimental research and experience gain by using
object-oriented techniques and languages to build complex software
systems that meet real world needs.

TUTORIALS

The COOTS conference will begin with two days of tutorials.  The
tutorial program will offer a selection of tutorials from among
several tracks.  We expect tutorial topics to include:

   * Distributed object systems (CORBA, Network OLE, DSOM, etc.)
   * C++ Standard Template Library
   * Object-oriented network programming
   * Design patterns for object-oriented systems
   * Evolution of ANSI/ISO C++ standardization
   * Concurrent object-oriented programming
   * Efficient and effective framework design
   * Alternative object-oriented languages

Tutorial proposal submissions must be received by February 7th, 1996.
The preferred form of submission is via electronic mail to the
Tutorial chair Doug Lea (dl@g.oswego.edu).  Tutorials selected for
presentation at the conference will be announced by February 20th,
1996.

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Two days of technical sessions will follow the tutorials.  We seek
papers describing original work concerning the design, implementation,
experimentation, and use of object-oriented technologies.  Like the
USENIX C++ Conferences from which it is derived, COOTS emphasizes
advanced engineering aspects of object technology, focusing on
experimental systems research and development on distributed objects,
multimedia, operating systems, compiler technology, and C++.  While
papers covering work in C++ are strongly encouraged, the conference is
broader in scope than its ancestors.  In particular, we invite
submissions describing results and work in other object-oriented or
object-based languages.

Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

   * Applications of, and experiences with, object-oriented
     technologies in various domains  
	. (Distributed systems, multimedia, real-time systems, 
	   financial services, human/computer interface, etc.)

   * Distributed object systems	
   	. (CORBA, Network OLE, DSOM, etc.)

   * Implementations of commercial distributed object infrastructures
     and reliable  
     distributed objects 
	. (Orbix, NextStep, Network OLE, DSOM, Isis/RDO, etc.)

   * C++ standardization
   	. (STL, templates, implementation challenges)

   * Object-oriented programming language development environments and
     tools 
	. (C++, Modula-3, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Ada95, etc.)

   * Content-oriented languages for programming in the WWW
	. (Java, Python, Obliq, Phantom, etc.)

   * Interface description languages 
   	. (DCE IDL, OMG IDL, Microsoft ODL, etc.)

Questions regarding a topic's relevance to the conference may be
addressed to the program chair via electronic mail to
schmidt@cs.wustl.edu.  Proceedings of the conference will be published
by USENIX and will be provided free to technical session attendees;
additional copies will be available for purchase from USENIX.

In addition, based upon feedback solicited at the conference from
attendees, the program committee will select five papers to be
published in revised and expanded form in a special issue of a
suitable journal.  To help authors prepare these papers for
publication, we will have one or more BOF sessions organized as
"writers workshops."  The writers workshop format has a group of
"discussants" read the paper carefully before the session.  During the
writers workshop the discussants examine the strengths and weaknesses
of each paper, accentuating positive aspects and suggesting
improvements in content and style.  The author is "invisible" during
this discussion, and is expected to take notes and revise the paper in
accordance with the comments.

ADVANCED TOPICS WORKSHOP

This year's USENIX COOTS conference will conclude with an Advanced
Topics Workshop.  The goal of this workshop is to provide an informal
setting in which to exchange in-depth technical information with your
peers.  This workshop will be open to authors of papers in the
conference, as well as participants who submit position papers related
to the workshop's topic.  This topic will be determined several months
before the conference and a Call for Position papers will be
announced.  Past USENIX C++ conferences have held Advanced Topics
Workshops on a variety of topics including distributed object
computing and implementation issues related to C++ language features.

WHAT TO SUBMIT

Technical paper submissions must be received by February 13th, 1996.
Full papers should be 10 to 15 pages (around 5,000-6,000 words).  In
lieu of a full paper, authors may submit extended abstracts that
discuss key ideas.  Extended abstracts should be 5-7 pages long (about
2,500-3,500 words), not counting references and figures.  The body of
the extended abstract should be written as complete paragraphs.  The
objective of an extended abstract should be to convince reviewers that
a good, solid paper and presentation will result.  Extended abstracts
are intend to stimulate industrial participation and to allow
publication of very current material.

All submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, and
correctness.  Each accepted submission will be assigned a member of
the program committee to act as its shepherd through the preparation
of the final paper.  The assigned member will act as a conduit for
feedback from the committee to the authors.  Camera-ready final papers
are due May 7, 1996.

Please accompany each submission by a cover letter stating the paper
title and authors along with the name of the person who will act as
the contact to the program committee.  Please include a surface mail
address, daytime and evening phone number, and, if available, an email
address and fax number for the contact person.

If you would like to receive detailed guidelines for submission and
examples of extended abstracts, you may telephone the USENIX
Association office at +1 510 528-8649, or email to
cootsauthors@usenix.org or to the program committee chair
(schmidt@cs.wustl.edu).  An electronic version of this Call for Papers
is available at WWW URL http://www.usenix.org.

The COOTS conference, like most conferences and journals, requires
that papers not be submitted simultaneously to another conference or
publication and that submitted papers not be previously or
subsequently published elsewhere.  Papers accompanied by
"non-disclosure agreement" forms are not acceptable and will be
returned to the author(s) unread.  All submissions are held in the
highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both
as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S.  Copyright Act of
1976.

WHERE TO SUBMIT

Please send one copy of a full paper or an extended abstract to the
program committee via one of the following methods.  All submissions
will be acknowledged.

  o Preferred Method: email (Postscript or ASCII) to
             cootspapers@usenix.org

  o Alternate Method: postal delivery to
              USENIX COOTS Conference
              c/o Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt
              Department of Computer Science
              Washington University
              Campus Box 1045
              One Brookings Drive
              St. Louis, Missouri 63130-4899
              U.S.A.
              (TEL): +1 314 935-7538
              (FAX): +1 314 935-7302

REGISTRATION MATERIALS

Materials containing all details of the technical and tutorial
programs, registration fees and forms, and hotel information will be
available beginning in April 1996.  If you wish to receive the
registration materials, please contact USENIX at:

        USENIX Conference Office
        22672 Lambert Street, Suite 613
        Lake Forest, CA USA   92630
        +1 714 588-8649; Fax: +1 714 588-9706
        Internet: conference@usenix.org


-- 
Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt 			(schmidt@cs.wustl.edu)
Department of Computer Science, Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130. Work #: (314) 935-7538; FAX #: (314) 935-7302
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/