Keynote presentations

Technical sessions

Panels and workshops

See also the tutorial program (28-29 July).

The conference will include six keynote presentations : James Coplien, Joseph Gil, David Harel, Bertrand Meyer, John Potter and Richard Soley. (Some of the titles yet to be announced.)

James Coplien, Bell Laboratories

Joseph Gil, Technion

Joseph (Yossi) Gil is on the faculty at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa. His work covers parallel computation, object technology, design patterns, algorithms, parsing, re-engineering and computer-aided geometric design. He will talk about patterns and how they change the practice of software construction. (See



David Harel, The Weizmann Institute

David Harel is the author of the classic book "Algorithmics" and, as the creator of the Statecharts formalism for modeling the behavior of complex systems, a pioneer in the area of visual languages. He is a professor at the Weizmann institute in Jerusalem and one of the founders of i-Logix, Inc. (For more details see David's home page.)




Bertrand Meyer, ISE: The next software breakthrough.

Bertrand Meyer is the author of several best-selling books on object technology and software engineering, including the recent second edition of Object-Oriented Software Construction. In this talk he will describe his view of the next major development which, after object technology and the Internet, can change the face of the software world.




John Potter, Macquarie University: Java and Eiffel: a de facto relationship?

John Potter is head of the Distributed Object Technology Group at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). His publications cover distribution, concurrency, Eiffel, formal specification and design methods. (See John's home page.)




Richard Soley, OMG

Richard Soley is Vice President and Technical Director of the Object Management Group (OMG) where he oversees the product directions for standards in distributed object-oriented systems, and chairs the 1000+ member Technology Committees. He has played a key role in the design of the CORBA architecture. (For more details see Richard's home page.)


TECHNICAL SESSIONS





Session S1: FRAMEWORKS 1

Applying Object-Oriented Technology to Embedded Software

Ikeda Nobuyuki et al., Toshiba Corporation, Japan

A Framework for Temporal Data Models - Exploiting Object-Oriented Technology

Iqbal Goralwalla, M. Tamer Ozsu, Duane Szafron, Univ. of Alberta, Canada

Pattern-Based Framework for Multimedia Distributed Applications

S. Gievska, S. Jordanoski, D. Davcev, St. Kiril and Metodij Univ., Macedonia





Session S2: PATTERNS 1

New Coding Patterns for Object Management

Adair Dingle, Thomas Hildebrandt, Univ. of Seattle, USA

The Translator pattern -- External Functionality with Homomorphic Mappings

Thomas Kühne, Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Germany

Incremental Table-Based Method Dispatch for Reflective Object-Oriented Languages

Wade Holst, Duane Szafron, Univ. of Alberta, Canada





Session S3: VISUALIZATION

Object-Oriented Visualization of Program Logics

S.-P. Lahtinen, Erkki Sutinen, J. Tarhio, A.-P. Tuovinen, Univ. of Helsinki, Finland

Films as Graphical Comments in the Source Code of Programs

Hanspeter Mössenböck, Johannes Kepler Univ., Austria

SOLAT - A Simple O-O Language Analyzing Tool

Wolfgang Golubski, Bjarne Pohlers, Univ. of Siegen, Germany





Session S4: METHODOLOGY

Steering Object-Oriented Scientific Computations

T.-Y. Yang, G. Furnish, P. Dubois, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (US)

Towards an Abstract Language for Dynamic Modelling in OOD

K. Normark, Aalborg Univ., Denmark

From Specification to Management of Composite Object Behavior

M. Magnan, S. Vauttier, C. Oussalah, LGI2P/EMA, France





Session S5: SPECIFICATION

Inheriting and Modifying Behavior

Neelam Soundarajan, Stephen Fridella, Ohio State Univ., USA

Extending Object-Z for Specifying Real-Time Systems

K. Periysamy, V. S. Alagar, University of Manitoba and Concordia University, Canada

ROAD/EE - A Prototyping Environment for Object-Oriented Specifications

Naoki Tamura, Tsuyoshi Nakajima, Univ. of Colorado, USA





Session S6: MODELING

Mapping the OO-Jacobson Approach into Function Point Analysis

Alain Abran, Tho-Hau Nguyen, Thomas Fetcke, Univ. du Québec, Canada

Framework Composition - Problems, Causes and Solutions

Michael Mattsson, Jan Bosch, Univ. of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden

Extending the Concept of Mixin to Multidimensional Objects

H. J. Borron, INRIA, France





Session S7: INTERFACES

Java Implementation of User Interface Frameworks

N. Bencomo, F. Losavio, F. Marchena, A. Matteo, Univ. Central, Venezuela

A Scripting Language Interface to C++ Libraries

Harald Winroth, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

A Visual Programming Interface for Smalltalk

R. Giffen, I. Tomek, Acadia Univ., Canada





Session S8: TOOLS

T++: A Test Case Generator Using a Debugging Information Based Technique for Source Code Manipulation

J. Gil, B. Holstein, Technion (Israel)

Mechanical Generation of Robust Class Hierarchies

J. Frigo, R. Neumann, W. Zimmermann, Univ. Karslruhe, Germany

Callback Implementations in C++

P. Jakubik, Sunquest Information Systems





Session S9: FRAMEWORKS 2

Dynamically Extensible Objects in a Class-Based Language

R. Schmidt, Aarhus Univ., Denmark

A Meta-Object Protocol for Distributed O-O Applications

L. Seinturier, L. Duchien, G. Florin, CNAM (France)

An Object Oriented Framework for Distributed, Interoperable Process Engineering Environments

Noureddine Belkhatir, IMAG, France





Session S10: PATTERNS 2

A Catalogue of General-Purpose Software Design Patterns

W. Tichy, Karlsruhe Univ. (Germany)

Operator Design Pattern for Data Parallel Computation

Jean-Lin Pacherie, IRISA (France)

A Family of Patterns

W. Tichy, Karlsruhe Univ. (Germany), P. Feiler, Software Engineering Institute (USA)



PANELS AND WORKSHOPS

Panel: Object Languages: How many need we learn?

Moderator: Richard Riehle, AdaWorks (USA)

Panel: Swim or Sink with Java

Moderator: Roy Phillips, Technical Resource Connection (Perot Systems) (USA)

Eiffel User Workshop

Moderators: James McKim (Hartford Graduate Center, USA) and Richard Mitchell (Univ. of Brighton, UK). Call for contributions still open.

Workshop: O-O Metrics

Moderator: Christine Mingins, Monash Univ. (Australia)

Workshop: O-O Analysis and Design Methodology for Year 2000 and Beyond

Moderators: Brian Henderson-Sellers and Rob Allen (Swinburne Univ., Australia) (to be confirmed)

Workshop: Distributed O-O Techniques for Tools/Application Integration

Moderator: Christian Zeidler (Asea Brown Boveri, Germany)

Workshop: Bringing CASE to the Coal-Face: Usable, Intelligent, Methodology-Independent CASE

Moderator: Daniela Mehandjiska-Stavreva, Massey Univ. (New Zealand)

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