Overview

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.