The refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2003, held in Darmstadt, Germany in July 2003. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on aspects and components; patterns, architecture, and collaboration; types; modeling; algorithms, optimization, and runtimes; and formal techniques and methodology.

An important contribution to our understanding of autobiography, its history and the Australian experience.

I couldn’t decide on the direction I wanted to take these memories that would be the most fulfilling. ‘How To’ books are all over the place, and boating is just like fishing or whatever, no matter what you think you know...someone else knows more and better...and it’s true, they do! Maybe make it a novel? No, I’m not that good at making things up. I decided to make it an adventure type of autobiography story/novel with some sex thrown in because everyone told me ‘sex sells’...the feelings and emotions were real...not made up, and that’s even better. Whew...glad to have made a decision.

A young woman determines to find out what happened to her missing sister in this tense and twisting psychological thriller Elvie McCulloch’s sister Sophie has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run – and never came home. Several young woman in the area have disappeared in similar circumstances, and Elvie’s family fears the worst. As Elvie is driving to her new job late at night, the naked, emaciated body of a young woman crashes from high above onto an oncoming car. Elvie recognises her as Lorna Lennox, who has been missing for weeks. But why was she up there? Where had she been all this time? And why was she running for her life? Teaming up with retired detective Billy Hopkirk, who has been retained by the mother of one of the missing girls to find her daughter, Elvie determines to find out the truth. But as the pair alternately collaborate with and infuriate investigating police detectives Anderson and Costello, they find themselves up against a terrifying enemy. Someone who has killed before. Someone who will kill again, for pure enjoyment. Someone they call The Night Hunter.