Technology of Object-Oriented Languages, Systems and Architectures

TOOLS Eastern Europe 2002 was the third annual conference on the technology of object-oriented languages and systems. It was held in Eastern Europe, more specifically in Sofia, Bulgaria, from March 13 to 15. In my capacity of program chairman, I could count on the support from the Programming Technology Lab of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel to set up the technical program for this con­ ference. We managed to assemble a first class international program committee composed of the following researchers: • Mehmet Aksit (Technische Hogeschool Twente, Netherlands) • Jan Bosch (Universiteit Groningen, Netherlands) • Gilad Bracha (Sun Microsystems, USA) • Shigeru Chiba (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) • Pierre Cointe (Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France) • Serge Demeyer (Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen, Belgium) • Pavel Hruby (Navision, Denmark) • Mehdi Jazayeri (Technische Universitiit Wien, Austria) • Eric Jul (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) • Gerti Kappel (University of Linz, Austria) • Boris Magnusson (University of Lund, Sweden) • Daniela Mehandjiiska-Stavreva (Bond University, Australia) • Tom Mens (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) • Christine Mingins (Monash University, Australia) • Ana Moreira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) • Oscar Nierstrasz (Universitiit Bern, Switzerland) • Walter Olthoff (DFKI, Germany) • Igor Pottosin (A. P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Russia) • Atanas Radenski (Winston-Salem State University, USA) Markku Sakkinen (University of Jyvilskyl!l. , Finland) • • Bran Selic (Rational, Canada) • Andrey Terehov (St.