ECOOP 2005 - Object-Oriented Programming: 19th European Conference, Glasgow, UK, July 25-29, 2005. Proceedings

by Andrew Black (Editor)

The 19th Annual Meeting of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming—ECOOP 2005—took place during the last week of July in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. This volume includes the refereed technical papers p- sented at the conference, and two invited papers. It is traditional to preface a volume of proceedings such as this with a note that emphasizes the importance of the conference in its respective ?eld. Although such self-evaluations should always be taken with a large grain of salt, ECOOP is undisputedly the pre- inent conference on object-orientation outside of the United States. In its turn, object-orientationis today’s principaltechnology not only for programming,but also for design, analysisand speci?cation of softwaresystems. As a consequence, ECOOP has expanded far beyond its roots in programming to encompass all of these areas of research—whichis why ECOOP has remained such an interesting conference. But ECOOP is more than an interesting conference. It is the nucleus of a technical and academic community, a community whose goals are the creation and dissemination of new knowledge. Chance meetings at ECOOP have helped to spawn collaborations that span the boundaries of our many subdisciplines, bring together researchers and practitioners, cross cultures, and reach from one side of the world to the other. The ubiquity of fast electronic communication has made maintaining these collaborations easier than we would have believed possible only a dozen years ago. But the role of conferences like ECOOP in establishing collaborations has not diminished.

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Published August 25, 2005

About the author

Born and raised in Ohio, Andrew Black is a writer of weird fiction with a Midwestern flair. He has written stories for Short-Story.Me, SNM Horror Magazine, and the anthology Eye Witness Zombie from May December Publications. He maintains a blog of writing tips, rants, weird news and movie and book reviews at maskofreason.wordpress.com.

Influences on his writing come from H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Lin Carter, Brian Lumley, R.A. Salvatore, and Stephen King. Many of his stories are set in and around a fictionalized version of his rural Ohio hometown, and incorporate local folklore and ghost stories.

Andrew currently resides in Hilliard, Ohio, with his fickle muse, an old black housecat named Luna.

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