Important dates

Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: May 16, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: May 30, 2003

Tutorial submission guidelines

As in previous years, TOOLS USA '03 is soliciting proposals for high quality tutorials. Tutorials are normally one half-day (3.0 hours). Topics of interest in the OO field, and not yet covered in other conferences, are particularly sought for presentation. Tutorials should be innovative, with a strong practical content, or based on significant industrial developments, and be of interest to a significant part of the software community. Examples include:

Non-partisan survey of the major solutions available in areas such as tools, environments, methods, languages, standards, etc., and based, as much as possible, on actual experience rather than just knowledge though the literature.

In-depth, non-partisan critical survey of a specific solution (in any area as defined below) which has attracted much attention.

A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:

Software programming techniques and tips

Microsoft .NET, Web Services, SOAP, XML

Real-time & distributed development

Security & testing

Mission-critical development & formal specifications

Libraries, reuse & trusted components

OO migration, implementation and project management

Refactoring, Agile and Extreme Programming

In submitting your tutorial proposal, please include the following:

	1. Title: attractive without being too long
	2. Presenter(s): full name and contact information
	3. Abstract: concise description of the content and goals of your tutorial (200 words or less). The abstract will be used in the Advanced Program.
	4. Tutorial level: beginner, intermediate, advanced
	5. Required experience
	6. Attendee benefits
	7. Tutorial resume: has this tutorial been given before?
	8. Biography of the presenter(s), including a list of any earlier tutorials presented any supplementary materials (such as publications by the presenter) which can help evaluate the proposal and its presenter(s)
	9. Are you planning on submitting a tutorial-related paper or article to the conference?

Proposals for tutorials should be submitted via email, in plain text format, to info@tools-conferences.com (with subject "TOOLS USA 2003 Tutorial Submission), no later than May 16, 2003.