[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

Workshop on Foundations of OO languages


[------ The Types Forum ------- http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~types ------]


                     CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

               The Third International Workshop on
             Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages
                             FOOL 3

                         July 24-25, 1996 
                  New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA 
                 Held in conjunction with LICS '96 
                and the Federated Logic Conference


While object-oriented programming languages have swept the programming
community over the last decade, it has taken longer for the language
theory community to develop sound theoretical foundations for these
languages.  However, work over the last several years has provided
a better understanding of the key concepts of object-oriented
languages, and has led to important developments in the type theory,
semantics, and verification of object-oriented languages.  This
workshop is designed to bring together researchers to share new
ideas and results.

The first two workshops in this series were sponsored jointly by the NSF 
and ESPRIT.  They were open by invitation only, with the first held in
association with the American Types Jumelage in October, 1993, at 
Stanford University, and the second held in association with LICS '94 
in Paris.  A report on the first two meetings appeared in ACM SIGPLAN 
Notices, March, 1994, pp. 3-11 and February, 1995, pp. 5-11.  Both
are also available through the FOOL home page at
	http://www.cs.williams.edu/~kim/FOOL.

This third workshop will be held at the  Hyatt-Regency Hotel 
in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and will be open to 
anyone interested in the general area of theoretical foundations 
of object-oriented languages.  The range of topics includes semantics,
calculi, type theory, and program verification of object-oriented 
languages, and foundational issues related to concurrent and distributed 
object-oriented languages.

Two program committee members will be giving hour-long tutorial/survey talks:

	Comparing object encodings, 
		Benjamin Pierce, Cambridge University --> Indiana University
		  
	Giving semantics to type object-oriented languages, 
		Cliff Jones, Manchester University
		
There will also be two hour-long invited talks:

	Classes = Objects + Data Abstraction,
		Kathleen Fisher, Stanford University,

	Interpreting typed objects in the typed pi-calculus,
		Davide Sangiorgi, INRIA, Ecoles des Mines, Sophia Antipolis

and 11 refereed contributed papers (see the FOOL web pages for the complete
schedule).

Registration and housing information is available through the FOOL web pages.
The deadlines for early registration and housing are June 28, 1996.  
Because of other conferences taking place it is important to make hotel 
reservations as early as possible.  Also please be aware that because of 
the Olympic games being held in the U.S. this summer, plane traffic will be 
particularly heavy into New York City airports, especially from Europe.  
You are strongly urged to make airline reservations as early as possible.

Program Committee:
  Kim Bruce, Williams College (Chair, kim@cs.williams.edu)
  Luca Cardelli, DEC-SRC
  Giuseppe Castagna, CNRS & Ecole Normale Superieure
  Cliff Jones, Manchester University
  Giuseppe Longo, CNRS & Ecole Normale Superieure
  John Mitchell, Stanford University
  Benjamin Pierce, Cambridge University
  Didier Remy, INRIA-Rocquencourt

Local Arrangements:
  Jon Riecke, Bell Laboratories

Any questions should be sent to fool-info@cs.williams.edu.  Information can
be forwarded on request via e-mail to those without world-wide web access.