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The European Smalltalk User Group is proud to announce that it will organize an academic track for the 12th year of existence of the ESUG Conference with an excellent program committee.

Scope:
The goal of the academic track is to have a forum for publications related to Smalltalk and dynamically-typed languages. We encourage authors to submit excellent quality papers as we plan to produce proceedings. The organizing committee strongly discourages the submission of product presentations and other marketing related material. The academic track is about research!

A non exhaustive list of topics is

• new languages features (mixins, AOP,...)
• meta and reflective programming
• code analysis (refactoring,...)
• process development (Agile processes, Unit testing, ...)
• virtual machines (optimization, new trends, ...)
• frameworks (web, graphical...)
• software evolution (metrics,...)

The best papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier international journal "Computer Languages"

Program Chair:

Program Committee:

• Prof. Andrew Black (Oregon Health and Science University, USA)
• Dr. Gilad Bracha (SUN, USA)
• Dr. Noury Bouraqadi (Ecole des Mines de Douai, France)
• Prof. Serge Demeyer (University of Antwerpen, Belgium)
• Prof. Theo D'Hondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium)
• Prof. Christophe Dony (University of Montpellier, France)
• Prof. Stephane Ducasse (University of Berne, Switzerland)
• Dr. Robert Hirschfeld (DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany)
• Prof. Ralph Johnson (University of Urbana Champain, USA)
• Prof. M. Marchesi (University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy)
• Prof. Kim Mens (Universit%E9 catholique de Louvain la Neuve, Belgium)
• Dr. Serge Stinckwich (Universit%E9 de Caen, France)
• Prof. Dave Thomas (Bedarra, USA-Canada)
• Prof. Roel Wuyts (Universit%E9 Libre de Bruxelle, Belgium)

Important Dates:

• Deadline: 21 of May 2004
• Notification of acceptance: 1st of July 2004
• Final version: 21st of July 2004

Format information:

• http://www.esug.org/summerschools/2003_Bled/elsevier.sit
• http://www.esug.org/summerschools/2003_Bled/elsevier.zip

Preferred format: PDF
Maximum paper length 15 pages

How to submit a paper:
Send your paper in pdf format to Noury Bouraqadi, Roel Wuyts, and Stephane Ducasse.