darcyh@eiffel.UUCP (Darcy Harrison) (11/06/90)
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL EIFFEL USER CONFERENCE RAMADA RENAISSANCE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA November 27, 1990 (During the TOOLS PACIFIC week) Call for participation and registration form The seventh Eiffel Users Conference will be the first ever to be held in the Pacific region, reflecting the growing use of Eiffel in industrial and academic organizations in the Far East. The Conference will take place during the week of TOOLS (Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems), held in Sydney on November 28-30. As with the past six conferences, the November 1990 meeting will provide a forum for users to share experiences and interact with implementors. An added attraction of the seventh conference is the emerging availability of third-party Eiffel tools and libraries of reusable classes. The conference will be held in Sydney, Australia, on November 27. The venue is the Ramada Renaissance, 30 Pitt Street, Sydney. The conference will proceed half-day, from 1pm to 5:30pm, followed by a reception. The meeting will be devoted to user presentations and panel discussions. Representatives of Interactive Software Engineering will give a preview of future developments of their implementation and tools. The conference is open to Eiffel users and to anyone maintaining a serious interest in Eiffel. Participants are invited to submit contributions on Eiffel-related topics; contributions may be in the form of technical presentations, or proposals for working groups or panels. Authors of accepted contributions will attend the meeting free of charge. Technical presentations may be submitted as either complete papers or one-page abstracts. Examples include: + Reports on experiences with Eiffel. + Description of current or future projects. + Interfaces with other tools and systems (graphics packages, database management systems, expert systems etc.). + Presentations of reusable components written in Eiffel. + Role of Eiffel for teaching software engineering and computer science. Abstracts, including those for incomplete or ongoing work are acceptable. Presentations should be made in English. Possible topics for working groups or panels are: + Procedures for sharing reusable classes between users. + Language standardization. + Using Eiffel for teaching. + User views on the evolution of the language, tools and library. + User Group Activities. For any information on the format of the meeting, or to discuss a possible contribution, you may contact: Darcy Harrison - Attn: Eiffel Users Conference Interactive Software Engineering 270 Storke Road, Suite 7 Goleta, CA 93117 Telephone: 805-685-1006 Fax: 805-685-6869 Electronic mail: users@eiffel.com Registration and submissions All prospective participants, whether or not they wish to submit a presentation, should return the form below to Darcy Harrison at the address above or to Myriam Wever - Attn: Eiffel Users Conference Victoire P/L 8 Jane Street Balmain, NSW Australia 2041 Telephone +61 (2) 810 25 02 Fax +61 (2) 810 37 26 Please use one copy of the form per participant. To ensure space at the conference, please send a copy by Fax or E-mail as soon as possible. The meeting is free to users with current Eiffel licenses and authors of accepted presentations. The participation fee is US$ 100 (or Australian $125) for all other attendees. The fee includes conference material and the evening reception. Practical information (schedule etc.) will be mailed to registered participants. _____________________________________________________________________ Please register the following person to the Seventh International Eiffel User Conference: Name: ___________________________________________________________________ Company: ________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Telephone: ________________ Fax: ___________________ E-mail: _______________ / / I am submitting a presentation. (Please enclose title and abstract on a separate sheet.) / / I would like to chair / / a working group / / a panel on the following topic: / / I am an Eiffel user with a current license. -- -- Darcy Harrison darcyh@eiffel.com