darcyh@eiffel.UUCP (Darcy Harrison) (08/31/90)
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL EIFFEL USER CONFERENCE CHATEAU LAURIER, OTTAWA, ONTARIO October 23, 1990 During OOPSLA / ECOOP week Call for participation and registration form The sixth Eiffel Users Conference will reflect the growth of the Eiffel family, which now encompasses Scandinavia, Australia, Italy, France, Benelux, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Apart from industrial organizations, Eiffel is also being utilized by a rapidly growing number of universities around the world for the teaching of software engineering. As with the five past conferences, the October 1990 meeting will provide a forum for users to share experiences past conferences and to interact with implementors. An added attraction of the sixth conference is the emerging availability of third-party Eiffel tools and libraries of reusable classes. The conference will be held in Ottawa, Ontario, on October 23, 1990 during the week of OOPSLA / ECOOP '90. The venue of the conference is the meeting room at Chateau Laurier, located at 1 Rideau, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 8S7, tel. (613)232-6411. The conference will proceed half-day, from 1pm to 5:30pm, followed by a reception. The meeting will be devoted to user presentations and 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: *Presentations of reusable components written in Eiffel. *Reports on experiences with Eiffel. *Description of current or future projects. *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 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 Interactive Software Engineering Attn.: User Conference 270 Storke Road, Suite 7 Goleta, CA 93117 Telephone (805)685-1006, fax (805)685-6869 E-mail: users@eiffel.com Please use one copy of the form per participant. The form should be mailed as soon as possible to ensure space in the conference. The meeting is free to users with current Eiffel licenses and authors of accepted papers. The cost is US$ 100 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 Sixth International Eiffel User Conference: NAME: ____________________________________________ COMPANY: ____________________________________________ ADDRESS: ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ TELEPHONE:__________________ FAX:____________________ / / 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: / / Fee enclosed (US$ 100) / / I am an Eiffel user with a current license. -- -- Darcy Harrison darcyh@eiffel.com