At its 12th edition, the PhDOOS workshop has become an established annual meeting of PhD students in object-orientation. The main objective of the workshop is to offer an opportunity for PhD students to meet and share their research experiences, to discover commonalities in research and studentship, and to foster a collaborative environment for joint problem-solving. PhD students from both industry and academia are encouraged to attend in order to ensure a broad, unconfined discussion. Senior researchers are also welcomed during the plenary sessions, as they may provide insightful viewpoints and advices to the PhD participants.

The workshop also aims at strengthening the international Network of PhD Students in Object-Oriented Systems (PhDOOS). Initiated during the 1st edition of this workshop series at ECOOP'91, this network counts approximately 125 members from all over the world. There is a mailing list and a WWW site, used mainly for information and discussion on OO-related topics.

The workshop sessions cover a broad range of subjects related to object-orientation, including but not restricted to: languages, semantics, conceptual modeling, applications, distribution, databases, patterns, frameworks, metrics, reuse, testing, graphics, user interfaces, and numeric. The workshop is divided into plenary sessions and subgroup discussion sessions. The subgroups will be formed before the workshop, based on the research interests of the participants. At the workshop, the main part of the technical programme consists of presentations and subgroup discussions. Results and summaries from the subgroup discussions will be presented at a plenary session. The plenary session will also feature two to three invited speakers talking about the interesting research hot-spots, personal experiences, research methodology, etc. These could be an unique opportunity to hear or ask things not discussed elsewhere, and to have an "unplugged" discussion with a well-known personality of our field.

Invited Speakers

There will be two invited talks this year:

Further details will be announced in this page.