Call for Papers

Objects, Components, Architectures, Services
and Applications for a Networked World

in conjunction with MALCEB'2002

Messekongresszentrum (Fair and conference center)
Erfurt, Thuringia
Germany
October 7-10, 2002

Conference History and Guiding Principles

Ever-evolving and increasingly powerful information and communication technologies have substantially changed the nature of global relationships, sources of competitive advantage and opportunities for economic and social development. The Internet, portable computers/devices and wireless communication technologies have turned the globe into an interconnected network of individuals, firms, organizations, and governments communicating and interacting with each other through a variety of channels.

Net.ObjectDays (NODe) is one of the main international conferences that focus on object-oriented and internet-based technologies, concepts, services, and applications. It is the integrative successor of the well known JavaDays, STJA, and JIT conferences and is organized in this format for the third time. It puts strong emphasis on the active exchange of concepts and technologies between academia and industry. Continuing in this tradition, this year's NODe will offer the opportunity to meet and work with leaders from research and industry.

NODe 2002 especially focuses on topics such as object-oriented (distributed) technologies, concepts and systems, agent-related technologies and concepts, advanced database systems and the Web, and E-Commerce, including both the engineering and use of web-based application systems. Since Java and Smalltalk play a key role in the above-mentioned areas, we consider them to be of particular interest for the conference. As systems ought to be engineered well to be able to cope with the influx of the above-mentioned technologies in a positive way, the integrative factor of software architectures and component-driven technologies (especially their demands with regards to structures (patterns and architectures) and processes (enhanced life-cycles and workflows)) form additional focuses of NODe 2002. However, as in the years before, NODe will be open to questions and aspects of object-oriented and Internet-based technology in general and invites submissions related to a wide variety of topics in these areas.

The Main Conference

The Conference provides a forum for the presentation of mature research results that fit the general theme “Objects, Components, Architectures, Services and Applications for a Networked World “. Special emphasis will be given to the practical applicability and evaluation of reported results. Research papers will be fully reviewed. In addition to the technical program, the conference will include keynote talks by internationally well-known experts and panel discussions.

This years NODe will cover three main topics:

• Object-oriented technologies and concepts
• Agent technology and E-business
• Database Systems, Middleware and the Web

Beside research papers, we strongly encourage submissions from industry. Our special interest is in the state-of-the-art applications under industrial conditions and finished or on-going case studies. A full review of these papers will be the rule. However, we also offer industrial participants the opportunity to indicate that they want to present/publish without going through the full review process. In this case the NODe-PC will apply an application-oriented quality and interest check to ensure high standards and provide an opportunity to present/publish in specially marked sessions/sections of the proceedings.

Conference languages are both German and English. However, we strongly encourage submissions and talks in English to allow our international guests to attend the presentations.

Topics of Interest

Object-Oriented Technologies and Concepts

Agent Technologies and E-Business

Database Systems, Middleware and the Web

Workshops

Since NODe is dedicated to the exchange of research ideas it will host an exciting variety of high-level workshops. These workshops provide a forum for highly focused meetings, dealing with the specific topics and interests of the participants. Papers should be submitted directly to the workshop of your choice. All submissions will be fully reviewed by specialized workshop PCs. Accepted workshop-papers will be presented in special tracks of the NODe main conference and will be published in the official conference proceedings and on CD. Outstanding workshop papers will be included in an extra best of proceedings that will be published with a major publishing company.

Tutorials

The conference will offer a full day of tutorials from renowned experts in the fields. Tutorials will take place on the special tutorial day (Monday, Oct. 7).

Young Researcher Workshop

NODe will continue to offer young researchers a forum to present to and discuss their ideas with a highly interested audience and well-known experts.

Proceedings

All papers will be published in the conference proceedings and on a conference CD. Additionally, the best papers of the conference will be published by a well-known publishing company in the form of best of proceedings.

Submission guidelines:

Submit your contribution in English, using a pdf or postscript-format to:

Formatting instructions and templates for Word and TeX can be found at:

If you have any questions contact one of the program chairs:

Mehmet Aksit University of Twente Department of Computer Science Postbox 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherland aksit@cs.utwente.nl Phone +31-(0)53-4892638 Fax +31-(0)53-4893247

Mira Mezini TU Darmstadt Department of Computer Science Alexanderstr. 10 D-64283 Darmstadt Germany mezini@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Phone +49 6151 165311 Fax +49 6151 165410

or

scp-node@netobjectdays.org

Additional Information

 
3rd International Symposium on Multi-Agent Systems, Large Complex Systems, and E-Businesses (MALCEB'2002)
 

which is taking place as part of NODe 2002.