Call for Papers

Goals


The goal of this workshop is to provide a progressive and open-minded forum at ECOOP dedicated to the future of distributed object technology. Today, distributed computing has become a ubiquitous technology in the form of the Internet and the Web. We focus on two future trends of this technology in particular: the integration of everyday (physical) objects in the web (a vision sometimes referred to as the "Internet of Things") and the provision of software as a service via the network (cloud or utility computing, "Software as a Service"). This workshop focuses in particular on the (object-oriented) development of such systems. The question that we want to address is: how can we program, structure and organize such systems in a manageable way?


We solicit constructive ideas, new programming paradigms, novel programming language abstractions, frameworks, tools or architectures for distributed object computing in general and the Internet of Things and Cloud Computing in particular. We are equally interested in alternative (non-object-oriented) approaches to solving these problems, provided that the differences (advantages and/or disadvantages) with object-oriented technology receive attention. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:


  • State-of-the-art distributed object systems
  • OO representations for the physical objects of the Internet of Things
  • OO interfaces to RFID-technology
  • OO abstractions for Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Language abstractions for developing Software as a Service
  • Combining objects with other paradigms (e.g. events, publish/subscribe, tuples, dataflow, REST, ...)
  • Alternative (non-OO) approaches to the above (and their pros/cons)
  • ...


For details, please read the Topics of Interest.

Attendance


Prospective participants are invited to submit a 5-page position paper or essay that describes an idea, a position, a language, a framework, etc. related to the topics outlined above. Submissions should be in ACM style and in PDF format and e-mailed to Tom Van Cutsem. These papers will be reviewed by the organizing committee primarily based on relevance and originality. To ensure that there is room for discussion, the workshop is limited to 30 participants. The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM digital library.


Workshop Organization


This workshop lasts one day. The goal is to have as much discussion as possible. Before noon, there will be short presentations of accepted papers to provide food for discussion and to get to know the participants. In the afternoon, we will try to identify common themes. Based on that, we identify breakout groups that can discuss about more specific topics in parallel. We close off by summarizing the discussions of the groups.


Important dates


Submission deadline: April 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 8, 2009
Camera-ready copy: May 25, 2009
Workshop: July 7, 2009


Organizers


Tom Van Cutsem
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Jorge Fox
Lero The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Ole Lehrmann Madsen
Aarhus University and Alexandra Institute, Denmark
Eric Jul
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gilad Bracha
Ministry of Truth, USA