| This year, for the eighth time, the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) series, in cooperation with Springer, is glad to offer the object-oriented research community the ECOOP 2004 Workshop Reader, a compendium of workshop reports pertaining to the ECOOP 2004 conference, held in Oslo from June 15 to 19, 2004.
ECOOP 2004 hosted 19 high-quality workshops covering a large spectrum of hot research topics. These workshops were chosen through a tight peer review process following a specific call for proposals ending on November 30, 2003. We are very grateful to the members of the Workshop Selection Committee for their careful reviews and hard work to put together the excellent workshop program.
We also want to thank all submitters, accepted or not, to whom the workshop program equally owes its quality. This selection process was then followed by a selection of workshop participants, done by each team of organizers based on an open call for position papers. This participant selection process ensured that we gathered the most active researchers in each workshop research area, and therefore a fruitful working meeting.
Following the tradition of the ECOOP Workshop Reader, we strove for high quality, value-adding and open-ended workshop reports. The result, as you can judge from the following pages, is a thought-provoking snapshot of the current research
in object-orientation, full of pointers for further exploration of the coveredtopics. We want to thank our workshop organizers who, despite the additional burden, did a great job in putting together these reports.
Each report you will find in this volume provides you with a starting point to understand and explore the currently debated issues in each area of concern. To achieve this, after summarizing the workshop goals, each report offers a critical summary of the participants’ position papers as well as a transcript of the actual debates aroused by the talks. You will also find the full list of participants, with contact information, as well as the list of contributed position papers. Several of the reports also add a list of relevant publications and Web sites, including the workshop home page, where you will usually find the contributed position papers themselves as well as other material that goes into each covered topic more closely.
Finally, as editors, we harmonized the report titles to mention only the topics of the workshops and to avoid repeated references to ECOOP 2004. However, each workshop report should be referenced as “Report from the ECOOP 2004 Workshop on ...” where you fill in the blanks with the workshop title. |
