Jacques Malenfant – författare

This year, for the eighth time, the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) series, in cooperation with Springer, is glad to o?er the object-oriented research community the ECOOP 2004 Workshop Reader, a compendium of workshop reports pertaining to the ECOOP 2004 conference, held in Oslo from June 15 to 19, 2004. ECOOP 2004 hosted 19 high-quality workshops covering a large spectrum of hot research topics. These workshops were chosen through a tight peer review process following a speci?c call for proposals ending on November 30, 2003. We are very grateful to the members of the Workshop Selection Committee for their careful reviews and hard work to put together the excellent workshop program. We also want to thank all submitters, accepted or not, to whom the workshop program equally owes its quality. This selection process was then followed by a selection of workshop participants, done by each team of organizers based on an open call for position papers. This participant selection process ensured that we gathered the most active researchers in each workshop research area, and therefore a fruitful working meeting. Following the tradition of the ECOOP Workshop Reader, we strove for hi- quality, value-adding and open-ended workshop reports. The result, as you can judgefromthefollowingpages,isathought-provokingsnapshotofthecurrent- searchinobject-orientation,fullofpointersforfurtherexplorationofthecovered topics. We want to thank our workshop organizers who, despite the additional burden, did a great job in putting together these reports.

This year, for the eighth time, the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) series, in cooperation with Springer, is glad to o?er the object-oriented research community the ECOOP 2004 Workshop Reader, a compendium of workshop reports pertaining to the ECOOP 2004 conference, held in Oslo from June 15 to 19, 2004. ECOOP 2004 hosted 19 high-quality workshops covering a large spectrum of hot research topics. These workshops were chosen through a tight peer review process following a speci?c call for proposals ending on November 30, 2003. We are very grateful to the members of the Workshop Selection Committee for their careful reviews and hard work to put together the excellent workshop program. We also want to thank all submitters, accepted or not, to whom the workshop program equally owes its quality. This selection process was then followed by a selection of workshop participants, done by each team of organizers based on an open call for position papers. This participant selection process ensured that we gathered the most active researchers in each workshop research area, and therefore a fruitful working meeting. Following the tradition of the ECOOP Workshop Reader, we strove for hi- quality, value-adding and open-ended workshop reports. The result, as you can judgefromthefollowingpages,isathought-provokingsnapshotofthecurrent- searchinobject-orientation,fullofpointersforfurtherexplorationofthecovered topics. We want to thank our workshop organizers who, despite the additional burden, did a great job in putting together these reports.

For the fourth time this year, in cooperation with Springer-Verlag, the Eu- peanConferenceonObject-OrientedProgramming(ECOOP)conferenceseries is gladto o?erthe object-orientedresearchcommunity the ECOOP2000Wo- shop Reader, a compendium of workshop reports, panel transcripts and poster abstractspertainingtotheECOOP2000conference,heldinCannesandSophia Antipolis from 12 to 16 June. WorkshopReports Thisyear,ECOOP2000hosted22high-qualityworkshopscoveringalargesp- trum ofhotresearchtopics.Theseworkshopswerechosenfrom38 proposalsby a workshopselectioncommittee, followinga tight peer reviewprocess. Our?rst thanks go to the members of this selection committee who worked hard during late 1999and early 2000to select the best proposals,proposepotential merges, and help those selected to enhance their ?nal material. Given the quality of the proposals,theselectionwastough;wethereforeoweaspecialthankstoallofthe submitters fortheir e?orts,whichhelped inmakingtheECOOP2000workshop programa success.Together,the22workshopsheldinconjunctionwiththeconferenceattracted more than 500 position papers, and so gathered more that 500 participants on ' the Ecole Sup' erieure en Sciences Informatiques/Institut National de Recherche enInformatiqueetenAutomatique(ESSI/INRIA)campusofSophiaAntipolis on12-13June2000.Youwill?ndinthis volumethereportsfromtheworkshop organizersof 18 of these. Following the e?orts of our preceding workshop chairs, we strived for hi- quality value-adding and open-ended workshop reports. The result, as you can judge in the following pages, is a tremendous thought-provoking snapshot of thecurrentresearchinobject-orientation,fullofpointersforfurtherexploration of the covered topics. We have to thank in a very special way our workshop organizerswho,despitetheadditionalburdenputontheirshoulders,didagreat job.