[Note the call for demos] AADEBUG'2000 Fourth International Workshop on Automated Debugging Munich, Germany, 28-30 August 2000 http://www.irisa.fr/lande/ducasse/aadebug2000/ Call for papers and demos Over the past decades automated debugging has seen major achievements. However, as debugging is by necessity attached to particular programming paradigms, the results are scattered. The aims of the workshop are to gather common themes and solutions across programming communities, and to cross-fertilize ideas. Original research as well as practical experience reports are welcome. Typical topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to): * automated debugging, * declarative debugging, * knowledge-based debugging, * algorithmic debugging, * assertion-based debugging, * trace analysis, * software testing, * program slicing, * monitoring, * performance debugging, * parallel and distributed debugging, * debugging by simulation for any kind of programming paradigms (sequential, parallel, distributed, real-time, logic programming, functional, object-oriented, imperative, visual languages.) Demonstration of tools and research prototypes that implement new ideas in debugging automation will be part of the AADEBUG'2000 technical program. Demos will be given in sessions together with technical paper presentations. Presenters will be responsible for providing and operating all necessary computing equipment and connecting it to the data projection equipment provided. Accepted papers and demo descriptions will be included in the workshop proceedings, probably published on the web. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit journal versions of their papers to a special issue of the Journal of Automated Software Engineering on automated debugging. Submission of Papers Contributors should be aware that the prospective audience will not necessarily be familiar with the addressed programming paradigms, which should, therefore, be briefly introduced. Papers should be no longer than 5000 words in length, including a 150 to 200 word abstract. Submit papers by sending a Ghostview-readable Postscript file containing the article to the program chair: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Concurrently send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the title of the paper, names of the authors, full address of the correspondent and a 150 to 200 word abstract of the paper. Authors having problems to submit by email should contact the program chair. Submission of Demos Demo descriptions should be non longer than 2000 words including a 150 to 200 word abstract. Submit papers by sending a Ghostview-readable Postscript file containing the article to the demo chair: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Concurrently send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the title of the demo, names of the authors, full address of the correspondent and a 150 to 200 word abstract of the paper. Authors having problems to submit by email should contact the program chair. Important Dates * Papers and demos submission before March 31, 2000 * Notification of acceptance by May 15, 2000 * Final version of paper before June 30, 2000 Program Chair Mireille Ducassé IRISA/INSA Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu F- 35042 France cedex Fax: +33 2 99 28 64 58 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Program Committee Members Mikhail Auguston, New Mexico State University, USA (demo chair) Bernd Bruegge, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany (local chair) Wlodzimierz Drabent, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Mireille Ducasse, IRISA/INSA, France (program chair) Keith Gallagher, Loyola College in Maryland, USA Thomas Gross, CMU, USA and ETH Zurich, Swizterland David R. Hanson, Microsoft Research, USA Mariam Kamkar, Linköping University, Sweden Bogdan Korel, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Henrik Nilsson, Linköping University, Sweden Pascale Thevenod-Fosse, LAAS-CNRS, France Frank Tip, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Kazunori Ueda, Waseda University, Japan Roland Wismüller, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany