Motif'95: Call For Abstracts
Robert Belanger
August 1, 1995
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Motif'95 and CDE Developers Conference
The Fifth Annual International Conference On Motif and CDE
Application Development
Washington, DC, November 13-17, 1995
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The Motif'95 and CDE Developers Conference is the only
conference specifically for application developers using Motif and/or the
Common Desktop Environment. This year's conference features new courses and
tutorials on Motif/CDE development as well as sessions on cross-platform
application deployment strategies. This is the conference to attend when
you want to benefit from the experience of many experts. This conference will
allow you to meet the various people who shape Motif and CDE. Special session
on Cross-Platform, Experts predict the future. Many BOFs on interesting
topics are being scheduled.
But the heart of the conference, as always, is the collection
of new papers submitted by developers like you, from all over
the world, showing how you solved problems, how you integrated
technologies, and what you created. We encourage you to
submit an abstract. If your abstract is accepted, your paper
will be published in the Motif'95 and CDE Proceedings and you
will be invited to present it at the conference.
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Location and Important Dates
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Conference Location:
Washington Convention Center
Washington, DC
Conference Dates:
Tutorials: Monday, Nov. 13 through Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1995
Conference: Thursday, Nov. 16 through Friday, Nov. 17, 1995
Trade Show: Wednesday, Nov. 15 through Thursday, Nov. 16, 1995
Important Dates For Submissions:
Abstracts Due: August 1, 1995
Notification of Acceptance: September 1, 1995
Camera-Ready Papers Due: October 6, 1995
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Why You Should Participate:
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As you read this Call For Papers, Many questions are being raised in the
Motif/CDE and Computing community.
1. When will Motif2.0 and CDE converge and how will this
affect the developers and their code-base?
2. What impact will Motif have against Windows NT and
other flavors of Windows?
3. What is the acceptance of Motif/CDE on desktop platform at
user-level, e.g. Motif on Linux?
4. Should people develop on Motif and deploy on multiple platforms
or should they work on Windows and deploy on Motif among others?
Motif'95 and CDE Developers Conference is the only forum in
which to explore these questions, to learn out how to take
advantage of them, to see what other Motif developers are
doing, and to learn from the experts. It is also the only X window
Motif conference with a trade show, co-located with the 7th Annual
Open Systems World/FedUNIX.
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Courses:
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The conference also boasts the most complete collection of
courses for application developers. They are taught by
several of America's highest-rated instructors. Tutorial
topics for this year's conference include
Advanced Motif Programming,
Motif Introduction,
Motif and Database,
and several others.
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Submitting Your Abstract:
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Abstracts are being sought for the technical conference from
application programmers, systems programmers, technology
architects, style guide developers, project managers,
consultants, academics, hardware and software developers, and
others in the field.
You don't have to have made a major breakthrough to have your
paper accepted. The committee will be looking for good problem
definitions and practical solutions. You may choose a 25 or 40
minute time slot.
Papers that have been formally reviewed and accepted will be
presented during the conference and will be published in the
conference proceedings.
Formal Review:
The review committee is composed of experts on all aspects of
graphical user interface development and OSF/Motif included on
the committee are:
Robert Belanger of Visual Edge Software,
Bob Sheiffler of the X Consortium,
Daniel Dardailler of the X Consortium,
Ralph Swick of the X Consortium,
Bruce Gendler of Computer Sciences Corporation,
Steven Mikes of the X Advisor,
Dave Shaffer of ICS,
Paula Ferguson of O'Reilly and Associates,
Douglas Rand of Silicon Graphics Inc.,
Steve Auditore of Zona Research,
Nick Aiuto of Quotrum.
The committee will decide whether your abstract addresses
important challenges (large or small), whether your approach
seems promising, or whether your abstract should be accepted
for any other reason.
We present the following list of categories to trigger ideas
for abstracts. Not all topics will be covered at the meeting.
The review committee is particularly interested in
A. Motif Widgets
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1. New kinds of Motif Widgets
2. Widgets for Specialized Domains
3. New kinds of Geometry Management for Motif
4. Experience Subclassing Motif Widgets
5. Formatted and structured text and compound documents in Motif
6. Proposals for Re-architecting Motif
7. Motif for character-cell terminals
8. Interactions between Motif and other Widget sets
9. Trends in Widget design
B. Style and Usability
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1. Problems in designing compliant applications
2. Additional usage rules for consistent suites of applications
3. Motif-consistent selection techniques for 3D graphics
4. Standards, guidelines, and design principles for Usability of Motif
applications
5. Usability testing of Motif-based applications
6. Choosing colors for Motif
7. Choosing usable icons
8. Style guides extending Motif
9. Designing a Motif application for the end-user
10. Trends in style guidelines for Motif
11. User interface architectures and Motif
C. Graphics, Animation and Multimedia
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1. Adding Multimedia to Motif
2. Adding Hypertext/Hypermedia to Motif
3. Integrating interactive 2D and 3D graphics with Motif
4. Audio output with Motif
5. Image processing with Motif
6. Animation in Motif
7. The integrating of new medias into a common Motif framework
8. Motif and HTML.
D. Other Input Devices
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1. Experience using Motif in mouseless environments
2. Voice control of Motif applications
3. Adapting Motif to the Differently-Abled
4. Pen-based Motif
5. Glove and Gesture-based input for Motif
E. Interchange
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1. Experience Interchanging Data with Motif
2. The Motif Clipboard
3. Experience using Drag & Drop
4. Interchanging data between PC/Mac and Motif applications
5. Implementing Dynamic Data Exchange in Motif
6. Implementing Linked Data in Motif
F. Practice and Experience
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1. Practical experiences with using Motif
2. Experience using Popup Menus
3. Experience using Tear-off Menus
4. Tricks and workarounds
5. Problems faced by new Motif users
6. Experiences with UIL, Building applications with UIL
7. Experience with Localization and internationalization of Motif
8. Motif applications for UNIX system and network management
G. Configuration, Validation, and Testing
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1. Experiences with porting Motif
2. Manual & Automated Testing of Motif-based programs
3. Building "correct" Motif shared libraries
4. Using imake and configuration management in Motif-based development
5. Debugging a Motif-based application
6. The engineering life-cycle of Motif-based applications
H. UIMS
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1. Building higher-level API's on top of Motif
2. Presentation Languages for Motif
3. Interface builders for Motif
4. Dialogue Management systems for Motif
5. Automated layout of Motif applications
6. Automated selection of Motif components
7. Extension languages
8. Visual programming and Motif
I. Desktop Management
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1. File Management and Selection for Motif
2. Graphical Shells for Motif
3. Workspace Management for Motif
4. Session Management for Motif
J. Other Languages
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1. Motif applications using ADA
2. Motif applications using C++
3. Motif applications using LISP
4. Motif applications using Smalltalk
K. Cross-Platform
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1. Development on Motif, deployment at large
2. Development elsewhere, deployment on Motif
3. Tricks and caveats
4. Experiences
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A good abstract will be 500 to 1,500 words in length and
include the following:
1. A description of the problem(s) and its importance.
2. Your solution including details of how it worked. If this
is work on emerging technology, try to show what the expected
impact will be. If your solution is based on commercial
hardware or software tools, name them. Abstracts from vendors
are welcome, but should not be sales pitches.
3. Data on how well it works: before/after comparisons, direct savings,
trade-off, etc.
4. Lessons learned and what you might have done differently.
5. The category (A through K) into which you would like your
paper placed.
Please also provide the following information about the
author(s): name, title, organization, daytime telephone,
surface mail address, email address (please), and FAX number
if possible.
Finally, tell whether you want a 25 or 40 minute time slot for
your presentation.
Where to send your abstracts:
Program Chairman, Robert Belanger at email: mo...@mcsp.com
OSW/FedUNIX Conference
10440 Shaker Drive, Suite 203
Columbia, MD 21046-1118
Telephone 301-596-8800
Fax 301-596-8803
URL: http://www.mcsp.com/OSW-FedUNIX
If you are not submitting an abstract, but think you may want
to attend, please send an email to osw...@mcsp.com
requesting early registration material. Include your surface
mail address, too, so you can get the whole brochure later.