As in previous years, the Eiffel Summit will be held in cooperation with TOOLS USA '98 (Santa Barbara, August 3-7, 1998). The event will be held on Tuesday, August 4, 1998.

The meeting will provide a forum for Eiffel users and developers to meet, share experiences, learn about ongoing Eiffel projects, interact with the developers of the technology and exchange with peers who have been successful in implementing Eiffel-generated application. The Workshop will open with a presentation by Bertrand Meyer, president of ISE Inc. and main designer of Eiffel.

Contributions are being sought on all aspects of Eiffel and related topics. Examples may include:

Reports and experiences with ongoing Eiffel projects

• Appropriate and inappropriate problem domains for Eiffel
• The impact of Eiffel on a organizations existing culture
• Effects of Eiffel on legacy systems
• Examinations of major successes and failures

Eiffel tools and reusable components, libraries

• Design patterns
• Contract patterns
• Framework design
• Interfacing Eiffel to other languages

Future developments

• Embedded applications
• Internet applications
• Multimedia applications
• Distributed applications

Methodological issues, project management

• CASE tool vendors and Eiffel
• The impact of Eiffel on team roles
• UML and Eiffel
• Component management

Teaching Eiffel and object technology

• Reports from legacy engineers now using Eiffel
• Comparing the ease of using Java and Eiffel

Eiffel and the rest of the world (C/C++, Java, CORBA, OLE, ActiveX)

Anything of potential interest to an Eiffel–aware audience

In submitting your proposal, please include:

1. Name and affiliation
2. Contact information
3. Experience with Eiffel
4. Ideas and issues to share during the session

Proposals should be submitted electronically in plain text format.

Submissions should be directed to:
Christopher Creel
Eiffel Summit Chair
tools@tools-conferences.com

Christopher Creel is an information architect with The Technical Resource Connection, a consulting firm that develops enterprise architectures, distributed computing, Internet/intranet applications, and software engineering processes. TRC builds large-scale distributed applications (primarily front-end of multi-tier systems) and embedded applications using technologies such as Java, Eiffel, the Internet and CORBA.