8:30-10:00AM - General Session: Forum on New Research Directions
Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

• "Aspect Oriented Programming"
  Gregor Kiczales
  Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
• "Software Agents and Network-Based Software --- New Research Directions"
  Dr. Mario Tokoro
  Director, Sony Computer Science Laboratory.

10:30AM-noon

Technical Papers:
Distributed Systems Tools
Chair: Joe Sventek (Hewlett Packard Laboratories)

• "Garbage Collecting the World: One Car at a Time"
  Richard Hudson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Ron Morrison (University of St. Andrews), J. Eliot B. Moss (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), David S. Munro (University of St. Andrews)
• "Ephemerons: A New Finalization Mechanism"
  Barry Hayes (Placeware, Inc.)
• "The Design and Performance of a Hard Real-Time Object Event Service"
  Tim Harrison, David Levine, Douglas C. Schmidt (Washington University, St. Louis)

Practitioner Reports:
Language and Infrastructure
Chair: Jay Almarode (GemStone Systems, Inc.)

• "Turning Lightbulbs into Objects"
  Bernd Bruegge, Seongju Chang, Truman Fenton, Benedict Fernandes, Volker Hartkopf, Tae Kim, Ricardo Pravia, Aseem Sharma (Carnegie Mellon University)
• "Building High-Performance Applications and Servers in Java"
  Sandeep K. Singhal, Binh Q. Nguyen, Richard Redpath, Michael Fraenkel, Jimmy Nguyen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and IBM Software Solutions)
• "The Design and Development of an OO Simulation Language"
  Aleks Gollu (UC Berkeley)

Panel:
UML: The Language of Software Blueprints?
Chair: Derek Coleman (King's College, London)

The Unified Modeling Language, nee Unified Method, was launched two years ago at OOPSLA '95. Since then, the members of this panel have been working closely with UML in different roles, including UML designer, end user, consultant, CASE tool expert and object-oriented methodologist. Here they pool their experience to take a sanity check, considering questions such as: Is UML stable enough to be used on real projects today? Does UML give any advantage over existing methods? Isn't the language too large and complex? Is it well enough defined to be a real standard? Is the meta-model stuff really necessary? Will UML foster the development of improved methods and CASE tools?

Panelists:
John Artim (Orient Overseas Container Lines - USA)
Viktor Ohnjec (Genesis Development Corporation)
Erick Rivas (Platinum Technologies)
Jim Rumbaugh (Rational Software)
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock (ParcPlace-Digitalk)

1:30-3:00PM

Invited Speakers:

"Components: How Far Can We Go?"
Noah Mendelsohn,
Lotus Development Corporation

Over the past few years component software has gone from a curiosity to a driving force in the software industry. Several good component models have emerged, and there's been lots of debate about them. Less attention has been paid to the components themselves: what makes a good component? What kinds of software can be componentized? Which components should be interchangeable with other components? This talk will explore these questions and other aspects of the"component revolution".

Noah Mendelsohn is a Consulting Engineer at Lotus Development, where he is the senior architect responsible for component technologies. He has been active as a computer programmer since 1968. Prior to joining Lotus, he did research and development on operating systems, programming languages, distributed systems, and parallel systems, primarily at IBM, Stanford University, and MIT.

"Compiling Object-Oriented Languages: Achievements and Promise"
J. Eliot B. Moss,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Object-oriented languages were introduced and have flourished because of their software engineering or systems building benefits. But those benefits come at a cost of features that, at least initially, were hard to optimize. This talk is for the non-specialist in language implementation, and summarizes recent results and the state of the art in object-oriented language optimization, with speculation as to the next hard problems as well. Along the way there may be insights as to how to structure code to be optimizer-friendly, without throwing away benefits of object-orientation.

Eliot Moss received the degrees of S.B., S.M., E.E., and Ph.D., all in computer science from M.I.T. He served four years as a staff programmer in the U.S. Army and has been a professor in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst since 1985. He is a former National Science Foundation Young Investigator and Lilly Teaching Fellow, and has been involved with every OOPSLA conference. He directs the Object Systems Laboratory, which focuses on implementation and performance of object-oriented programming languages, object stores, and related systems. His research group has implemented Smalltalk and Persistent Smalltalk, a whole program optimizer for Modula-3, the Mneme persistent object store, a Persistent C++ layered on Mneme, and a Java virtual machine forperformance research.

Technical Papers:
Patterns and Methods
Chair: Ward Cunningham (Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc.)

• "Tiling Design Patterns - A Case Study Using the Interpreter Pattern"
  David H. Lorenz (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
• "Composite Design Patterns"
  Dirk Riehle (Ubilab, Union Bank of Switzerland)
• "An Open Implementation Analysis and Design for Lightweight Threads"
  Matthew Haines (University of Wyoming)

Practitioner Reports:
Reuse and Testing
Judy Hirsch (Andersen Consulting, LLP)

• "How to Achieve 7.52 Function-Points per Manday with Object Technology"
  Gerald Zincke (GMO GmbH)
• "Experiences Developing a Bank Loan System"
  Gordon Sheppard (American Management Loan Systems, Inc.)
• "The Chrysler Payroll Project"
  Richard Garzaniti (Chrysler), Jim Haungs (TeamTools)

3:30-5:00PM

Technical Papers:
Databases
Chair: Jacob Stein (Sybase)

• "Migrating Relational Data to an OODB: Strategies and Lessons from a
  Molecular Biology Experience"
  Jon Oler, Gary Lindstrom, Terence Critchlow (University of Utah)
• "The ODMG Object Model: Does it Make Sense?"
  S. Alagic (Wichita State University)
• "Mini-Panel : The ODMG Standard"
  Moderator: Jacob Stein
  Panelists: Suad Alagic, Representative of ODMG

Technical Papers:
Specialization
Chair: Yossi Gill (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)

• "Class Hierarchy Specialization"
  Frank Tip, Peter F. Sweeney (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
• "Declarative Specialization of Object-Oriented Programs"
  Eugen N. Volanschi, Charles Consel, Gilles Muller (IRISA/INRIA University of Rennes), Crisin Cowan (Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology)

Panel:
The OT Life-cycle: From Eureka! to Shrink Wrap
Chair: Laura Hill (Robertson, Stephens & Co.)

Over the past years, the Object Technology community has seen the birth of a number of new technology ideas that have changed the way we do computing. In this panel, object technology experts will examine the origination, evolution and psychology of new ideas in a round table discussion that will attempt to get to the heart of how we as technologists create, buy, sell, and grow ideas.

Panelists:
Bruce Anderson (IBM Object Technology Practice)
Adele Goldberg (Neometron Inc.)
Gregor Kiczales (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
Colin Scott (Andersen Consulting)
Kevin Tyson (Enterprise Engineering Systems)

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