(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Affiliated Workshops ETAPS 2002 April 2002, Grenoble, France http://www-etaps.imag.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ETAPS, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software is a major international forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. After ETAPS'98 in Lisbon, ETAPS'99 in Amsterdam, ETAPS 2000 in Berlin and ETAPS 2001 in Genova, ETAPS 2002 will take place in Grenoble during April 2002 (the precise dates will be communicated later). ETAPS is a confederation of five main conferences: the International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC), the European Symposium On Programming (ESOP), Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE), Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures (FOSSACS) and Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS). Workshops affiliated to ETAPS 2002 will be held before, after or partly in parallel with the main conferences. Researchers and practitioners wishing to organize a workshop affiliated to ETAPS 2002 are invited to submit, by electronic mail in ASCII or Postscript format, proposals for workshops to the ETAPS 2002 Workshop Chair, by December 1st, 2000. Such a proposal should be no longer than two pages and should describe the topic of the workshop, the names and contact information of the organizers, the estimated dates for paper submissions, notification of acceptance and final versions (before Ferbruary 15, 2002), the expected number of participants and duration, the preferred period (pre- or post-ETAPS) and any other relevant information (e.g., invited speakers, panels, publication policy, demo sessions etc.). The proposals will be evaluated by the ETAPS 2002 organizing committee on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants to ETAPS 2002. Acceptance decisions will be made by December 15, 2000. The titles and brief information related to accepted workshop proposals will be included in the conference program and advertised in the call for participation. Workshop organizers will be responsible for producing a Call for papers, Web site, reviewing and making acceptance decisions on submitted papers and scheduling workshop activities in consultation with the local organizers. Any further information needed for preparing a workshop proposal can be obtained by contacting the ETAPS 2002 Workshop Chair: Rachid Echahed, Rachid.Echahed@imag.fr Important dates : December 1, 2000 : Workshop proposals December 15, 2000 : Notification of acceptance ETAPS 2002 Web site: http://www-etaps.imag.fr/ ------------- you received this e-mail via the individual or collective address categories@mta.ca