Please meet in the MOTOR LOBBY (that is the street level entrance) to the
Pan Pacific hotel on Sunday evening at 5:15 to go to dinner.
Here are the papers that will be presented at the conference.
OOPSLA'98 Home Page
For the fifth time, OOPSLA is sponsoring a Doctoral Symposium. As in previous years, the symposium is designed as an intimate forum for doctoral students working on problems in object-oriented systems, languages and applications to discuss their work with one another and with experts in the field. Our goal is to broaden the research perspectives of the participating students, provide specific constructive feedback on the dissertation projects described, and initiate a peer network to assist students' integration into the OOPSLA community.
We invite submissions on a wide range of topics -- language design and implementation, tools and environments, components and frameworks, user interfaces, principles and theory, reflection and meta-level architectures, concurrent and distributed systems, databases and persistence, design methods, and object-oriented software engineering more generally. If you are unsure whether your research topic fits within the OOPSLA topic space, please contact the Symposium chair (by email).
The Symposium is intended only for advanced doctoral students; participants should already have specified their dissertation topics and had their proposals accepted by their committees. The work may already be underway or may be in the planning phase, but if the latter, the student must be able to provide specific details of how the work will be carried out, and of the nature of the results expected. It is expected that most participants will be one year (or less) removed from completing their PhD at the time of application.
To apply for participation in the Symposium, students should obtain an application from the Chair. This form asks for a description of the dissertation research, a timeline of the work remaining to be carried out, and a short letter of recommendation from the advisor. APPLICATIONS NOT USING THE FORM WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Applications will be reviewed by the panel of 4-5 experts recruited to serve as mentors in the Symposium. Nine or ten students will be selected to participate in the one-day event, with decisions made as a function of the proposed research's significance and soundness, strength of advisor's recommendation, and the student's likelihood of benefiting from the symposium. Student participants will receive free conference registration.
Application forms may be requested by email from:
John D. McGregor, OOPSLA'98 Doctoral Symposium Chair
Computer Science Department, Clemson University
oopsla_doc_symp@acm.org