ECOOP 2006 Doctoral Symposium and PhD Students Workshop
Introduction
The main objective of the event is to offer an opportunity for PhD students to meet and share their research experiences, to discover commonalities in research and studentship, and to foster a collaborative environment for joint problem-solving.
The 16th edition of the Doctoral Symposium and PhD Workshop will be held as part of ECOOP 2006, Nantes, France. As the name suggests, this is a two-session event: a Doctoral Symposium and a PhD Students Workshop.
The event is organized by the international Network of PhD Students in Object-Oriented Systems (PhDOOS). One of the goals of the event is the strengthening of PhDOOS. Initiated during the 1st edition of these workshop series at ECOOP'91, this network counts approximately 100 members from all over the world. There is a mailing list and a web site, used mainly for information and discussion on OO-related topics.
Event format
Date: July 4, 2006
Academic Panel: Awais Rashid, Julia Lawall, John Murphy, Thierry Coupaye, Birger Møller-Pedersen, Ole Lehrmann Madsen, Horvath Zoltan
| 8:30-8:40 | Welcome |
| 8:40-9:20 | DS1: An Architecture for Portable Serious Games, Ahmed BinSubaih |
| 9:20-10:00 | DS2: Detection and Correction of Defects Defects in Object-Oriented Architectures, Naouel Moha |
| 10:00-10:40 | DS3: Semantic Modelling for Variabilities, Mikhail Roshchin |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-11:40 | DS4: Toward Automatic Upgrading of Component-Based Applications, Danny Dig |
| 11:40-12:40 | Invited Speaker: Gary T. Leavens, "Lessons from my Career" Dr. Leavens is a Professor of Computer Science, at Iowa State University. His major research interests include programming and specification language design and semantics, formal methods (program specification and verification), object-oriented programming languages, aspect-oriented programming languages, component-based systems, information assurance, functional programming, type theory, distributed programming languages. |
| 12:40-13:40 | Lunch |
| 13:40-14:20 | DS5: On Distributed Verification of Generalized Interaction Models of Software Components, Viliam Holub |
| 14:20-14:55 | WS1: Ripple Effect: A Complexity Measure for Object Oriented Software, Haider Bilal |
| 14:55-15:30 | WS2: Towards the re-usability of software metric definitions at the meta level, Jacqueline A. McQuillan |
| 15:30-15:50 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50-16:25 | WS3: Measuring the Complexity of Aspect-Oriented Programs with Multiparadigm Metric, Norbert Pataki |
| 16:25-17:00 | WS4: Transformation of UML Design Model into Performance Model: A Model-Driven Framework, Ramrao Wagh |
| 17:00-17:35 | WS5: Overview of the Refactoring Discovering Problem, Javier Perez |
| 17:35-17:50 | Closing |
Dinner: 20:00
Various pictures from the event, thanks to Simon.
Important Dates
Paper submission date: (CLOSED) May 15, 2006, 23:59 Apia time
Notification of acceptance: May 21
Call for Papers
Topics and work practices
Potential topics are those of the main ECOOP conference, i.e. all topics related to object technology including but not restricted to:
- Analysis and design methods
- Concurrent, real-time, parallel systems
- Databases and object persistence
- Patterns
- Distributed and mobile object systems
- Aspects oriented programming
- Frameworks and software architectures
- Language design and implementation
- Object testing and metrics
- Programming environments
- Software components
- Reflection, adaptability, composability and reusability
- Theoretical foundations
Doctoral Symposium
The goal of the doctoral symposium session is to provide PhD students with useful feedback towards the successful completion of their disertation research. Each student is assigned an academic panel, based on the specifics of that student's research. The student will give a presentation of 20-25 minutes (exact time will be announced later), followed by 15-20 minutes of questions and feedback. The experience is meant to mimic a "mini-" defence interview ("viva"). The benefit of the student, aside from the actual feedback, is gaining familiarity with the style and mechanics of such an interview.
(eligibility criteria) To participate, the student should be far enough in their research to be able to present their idea, a clear research proposal, and some preliminary work/results, but, ideally, still have at least another 12 months until defending their dissertation.
To participate, please submit:
- a 3-4 page abstract in the llncs format. For convenience, a LaTeX template is available here.
- a letter from your supervisor. This letter should include a candid assessment of the current status of your dissertation research and an expected date for dissertation submission. Fax this to +353 1 700 5508, attn: Mircea Trofin
The abstract should be focused on the following points:
problem description:
- what is the problem being addressed?
- what is the significance of this problem?
- why can the current state of the art not solve this problem?
goal statement:
- what is the goal of your research?
- what artifacts (tools, theories, methods) will be produced, and how do they address the stated problem? how are the artifacts going to help reach the stated goal?
method:
- what experiments, prototypes, or studies need to be produced/executed?
- what is the validation strategy? how will it be demonstrated that the goal was reached?
Note that this is not a typical technical paper submission, and that the focus is not on technical details, but rather on research method.
Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the committee.
PhD Students Workshop
This session is addressed primarily to PhD students in the early stages of their PhD work. The goal is to allow participants to present their research ideas and obtain feedback from the rest of the workshop attendees. Each participant will give a 20-25 minute presentation, which will be followed by 10-15 minutes of discussions (exact times will be announced later).
To participate, please submit a 6-10 page position paper in the llncs format (LaTeX template), presenting your idea or current work. The paper should contain (at least) a problem description, a detailed sketch of a proposed approach, and related work. It is expected that there would be no results available, therefore, the goal of the paper is to inform on a problem and to present a high level (possible) solution.
Committee
Mircea Trofin (chair), University College Dublin
Ada Diaconescu, Dublin City University
Stephanie Balzer, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zurich
Robert Bialek, University of Copenhagen
Simon Denier, Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Additionally, we'd like to thank the following for their help with the review process
Adrian Mos, INRIA Rhone-Alpes
Michael Lienhardt, INRIA Rhone-Alpes