However, existing OO languages and platforms need to evolve to meet the continuous demand for new abstractions, features, and tools able to reduce the time, effort, and cost of creating object-oriented software systems, and improving their performance, quality and usability.

To this aim, OOPS is seeking for research advances bringing benefits in all those typical aspects of software development, such as modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, concurrency and distribution, code generation, analysis, verification, testing, debugging, evaluation, deployment, maintenance, reuse, and software evolution and adaptation.

The specific OO related topics of interest for the OOPS track include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Aspects and components
• Code generation, and optimization, just-in-time compilation
• Context-oriented programming
• Databases and persistence
• Distribution and concurrency
• Dynamic and scripting languages
• Evaluation
• Feature Oriented Software Development and Programming
• Formal verification
• Integration with other paradigms
• Interoperability, versioning and software evolution and adaptation
• Language design and implementation
• Modular and generic programming
• Reflection, meta-programming
• Runtime verification
• Secure and dependable software
• Static analysis
• Testing and debugging
• Type systems and type inference
• Virtual machines

TRACK CHAIR

Davide Ancona

DIBRIS, University of Genova

(davide AT disi.unige.it)

Prospective papers should be submitted to the track in pdf format using the START submission system for regular and SRC papers available through the SAC 2016 home page.

Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed; all papers should represent original and previously unpublished works that are currently not under review in any conference or journal. Both basic and applied research papers are welcome.

SAC 2016 will use double-blind reviewing; to facilitate this, author name(s) and institution(s) must be omitted, and references to authors' own related work should be in the third person.

The format of the paper must adhere to the sig-alternate style. Full papers are limited to 6 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages at extra charge (80 USD per page). Posters are limited to 3 pages with the option for up to 1 additional page at extra charge (80 USD). The length of the SRC abstracts is 2 pages with no additional pages at extra charge.

Papers that fall short the above requirements are subjected to rejection. All papers must be submitted by September 28, 2015 (extended strict deadline). For more information please visit the SAC 2016 home page.

Accepted papers will be published by ACM in the annual conference proceedings. Accepted posters will be published as 3-4 pages extended abstracts in the same proceedings (the additional third page will be charged 80 USD).

An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the work. This is a requirement for all accepted papers, posters, and invited SRC submissions to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of scheduled papers, posters, and student research abstracts will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. Student registration is only intended to encourage student attendance and does not cover inclusion of papers/posters in the conference proceedings.

Finally, following the tradition of the past OOPS editions, depending on the quality and the overall number of accepted papers, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a journal special issue, after the conference.