2002 Proceeding- Conference Chair:
- Mamdouh Ibrahim
- Sponsor:
- sigplan
Welcome to OOPSLA 2002! OOPSLA is well known as the premier forum for object technology. This year, the conference is held in Seattle, Washington offering practitioners, researchers, and students a week full of opportunities to learn, contribute, and exchange ideas and experiences in a broad range of disciplines woven with the common thread of object technology.In preparation for this year's OOPSLA, hundreds of people (mostly volunteers) have done their best to create an outstanding technical conference with a wide variety of events and activities designed to benefit a wide spectrum of participants ranging from novices to experts and everyone in between. The conference is a well-integrated collage of activities, including: outstanding invited speakers, carefully refereed technical papers, real world experiences in the form of practitioner reports, exciting panels, comprehensivetutorial program, topic-focused workshops, symposia specifically designed for educators and for doctoral students, late-breaking demonstrations, interactive posters session, DesignFest and CodeFest providing the opportunity to work on a real problem with others in the field, exhibit featuring major corporations, small companies, research organizations, and publishers., birds-of-a-feather sessions for informal discussions, and plenty of social opportunities for mingling and professional networking.New this year are two special tracks, Onward! and Web Services. The Onward! Track is designed to foster thinking out of the box in search for new computing models, and the focus of the second track is the hot topic of Web Services. Also, the OOPSLA Posters has been extended to include the first ACM SIGPLAN Student Research Competition.Two volumes have been published to document the state of object technology as represented by the OOPSLA 2002 technical program. The OOPSLA 2002 Proceedings is the archival record of the technical papers. This volume, The OOPSLA 2002 Companion, contains summary of the poster descriptions, demo descriptions, Doctoral Symposium and Student Research entries.