Call for Contribution and Participation
Workshop on
at the
European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2007)
31. July 2007, Berlin, Germany

and
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION
for a chapter of a planned
LNCS State-of-the-Art Survey on
Multiparadigm Programming

While OO has become ubiquitously employed for design, implementation, and even conceptualization, many practitioners recognize the concomitant need for other programming paradigms according to problem domain. We seek answers to the question of how to address the need for other programming paradigms - or even domain specific languages - in the general context of OO languages. Can OO programming languages effectively support other programming paradigms or the embedding of other languages?

The answer seems to be affirmative, at least for some paradigms. For example, significant progress has been made for the case of functional programming in C++. Additionally, several efforts have been made to integrate support for other paradigms as a front-end for OO languages (the Pizza language, extending Java, is a prominent example).

This workshop seeks to bring together practitioners and researchers in this developing field to compare notes on their work - describe existing, developing, or proposed techniques, idioms, methodologies, language extensions, or software for expressing non-OO paradigms in OO languages; or theoretical work supporting or defining the same. High-level presentations of position are welcome, and reports of work in progress, are welcome.

Areas of Interest

The workshop will consist of short presentations with interspersed discussion sessions, and longer general discussions of themes or topics derived from some common element of subsets of presentations. We expect the majority of the participants to give presentations. Prospective participants may submit either presentation abstracts or full papers. All accepted materials will be distributed at the workshop and also made available at the MPOOL 2007 Web site.

We have received approval from Springer to solicit chapters for a report on the state of the art in multiparadigm programming, to be published as a volume of the LNCS series. Authors of selected papers will have the opportunity to revise and expand their papers into chapters for this publication.

For authors of accepted presentations who require justification for travel the organizers can provide official letters of invitation.

Prospective authors are invited to submit abstracts or full papers in PDF, postscript, or Microsoft Word. Authors of accepted papers are responsible for submitting the final version using the Springer LNCS LaTeX template to ensure inclusion in the proceedings. Submission and email correspondence to mpool07@multiparadigm.net.

May 13th, 2007: Abstracts due.

May 20th, 2007: Notification of acceptance.

July 13th, 2007: Final materials due for distribution at workshop.

Submission deadline for contributions to the LNCS State-of-The-Art report is to be determined.

This workshop is a joint organization by the University of Applied Sciences, Regensburg, Germany, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.

Gerald Baumgartner (Louisiana State University, Louisiana, USA)
Timothy Budd (Oregon State University, Oregon, USA),
Kei Davis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA),
Zoltán Horváth (University Eötvös Loránd of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
Jaakko Järvi (Texas A&M University, Texas, USA),
Herbert Kuchen (University of Münster, Münster, Germany),
Erik Meijer (Microsoft Corporation, USA)
Jörg Striegnitz (University Of Applied Sciences Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany),
Peter Van Roy (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium).