The Combined 14th Workshop for PhD Students in Object-Oriented Systems and Doctoral Symposium

The PhDOOS workshop differs from other workshops because the range of participants is much smaller (only PhD students) but has a wide scope of topics. Even with the limitation to PhD students in Object Oriented Systems, the presentations covered topics such as Generic Ownership, Generic Algorithms, Model Driven Architecture, Prediction of Size, QoS assessment, Frameworks, Teaching of Frameworks and Object Calculus. Several topics of shared interest were identified and targeted in separate discussion groups on a general theme on the future of object oriented programming. As the participants had various research interests covering very different parts of the OO spectrum, we can confidently state that these topics reflect actual concerns and needs of the OO community, and emerge from its concrete needs. This document is to be complemented by a workshop proceedings online document which will contain the full versions of the presented papers.