From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5edd17a539c6224f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." Subject: SAN DIEGO ACM SIGAda SEPTEMBER MEETING Date: 1997/09/05 Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970905223829.00720418@mail.4dcomm.com> X-Deja-AN: 270240400 Sender: Ada programming language X-Sender: rleif@mail.4dcomm.com (Unverified) Comments: cc: Bob Hawkins , TEAM-ADA@ACM.ORG, William Currie Colket Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: FROM: Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. Chair San Diego ACM SigAda TO: San Diego ACM SigAda Members and Other Interested Parties ANNOUNCEMENT: SAN DIEGO ACM SIGAda SEPTEMBER MEETING {If this is a duplicate, please excuse. My e-mail program had a problem and gave inadequate diagnostics.} NOTE NEW MEETING LOCATION! DATE: 5 September, 1997 SPEAKER: Ed Colbert SUBJECT: "Colbert's Object-Oriented Software Development Method" DATE: Thursday, 25-Sepember, 1997 TIME: 6:30 PM Pizza ($5.00) and a chance to network and meet the experts. Lecture Starts promptly at 7:00 PM DURATION: About 45 Minutes PLACE: Aonix, was Thomson (Note new address below) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT: This presentation will explore Colbert's Object-Oriented Software Development method (OOSD) and its support for Ada, including Ada 95. OOSD focuses on the objects of a problem throughout development, and is particularly compatible with Ada. OOSD has been praised for addressing real-time issues, for quickly communicating the information developed during analysis and design, and for allowing exceptionally high re-use of both design representation and code. It has been applied to a variety of systems, including command & communication, flight software, business information, and simulations, and has been used for system engineering and enterprise modeling. NASA Langley Research Center recently put on the Web a Software Engineering Process Guide using OOSD (URL http://sw-eng.LaRC.NASA.gov/guidebook/index.htm). KEY CONCEPTS: OOSD seeks to identify the objects in a problem, to understand the structural and behavioral modularity and operational characteristics of each object, and to recognize objects which are members of a common class and so share properties, treating the system itself as an object. OOSD's early focus on objects generates a model of the system that is effective for analysis (validation & verification) and communication among developers, customers, management, and quality-assurance personnel. The model is unusually consistent, closely follows the "real world", can be tested early, and is easy to modify and re-use. A particularly thorough verification procedure establishes that the system is correctly implemented and achieves the required properties. OOSD is founded on Ada concepts. It models concurrency based on Ada tasking, and includes a notation for modeling objects and their interactions that supports analysis of deadlock and race conditions, a Harel-based behavior description that integrates the functional and dynamic models characteristic of other methods, and, based on work by Tom Gilb, forms to capture and analyze the operational characteristics of an object. OOSD also supports mathematical analysis of scheduling. Speaker Brief Biography: Ed Colbert is President of Absolute Software Co., Inc. Ed has been teaching object-oriented methods and software engineering since 1982. He is currently consulting on applying object-oriented methods to projects with TRW, Pulinco AG, and Honeywell. He created the Object-Oriented Software Development method, which supports analysis and design for implementation in languages such as Ada, C++, and SmallTalk. He is the chair of the newly formed Patterns Working Group of the ACM Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda), and was recently the SIGAda Vice-Chair for Liaison (Spring 1997 and 1989-95) and Ada Awareness Manager (1995-97). Ed has recently delivered presentations at Ada Europe (England, 1997), TRI-Ada (Los Angeles, 1996 & '95), Ada UK (London, 1995), UNICOM (England, 1993), OOPSLA (Washington, D.C., 1993), ObjectExpo (New York, 1993), ObjectExpo-Europe (England, 1992), LOOK (Denmark, 1992), OOP (Germany, 1992), and SCOOP-Europe (England, 1991). He is a graduate of the University of Michigan (M.S. Computer & Communication Sciences, 1981; B.S. (honors) Chemistry and Biology, 1979). SPEAKER'S Address and Affiliation: Ed Colbert Absolute Software Co., Inc. 686 Mural St. Oceanside, CA 92057-6367 Phone: 760-726-0186 FAX: 760-726-4123 E-mail: colbert@abssw.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please RSVP Robert C. Leif, By e-mail, if you wish to join the preprogram pizza meal ($5.00 per person). RSVP Tel. & Fax Robert C. Leif (San Diego ACM SIGAda Chair) (619) 582-0437 (Voice and FAX), e-mail rleif@rleif.com (Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.). Please include the number of individuals desiring pizza, any special requirements, your name, telephone number and/or e-mail number when responding by telephone, Fax, or E-mail. Please Include the Words Pizza or SigAda in the Subject line of your e-mail. I am on travel 6-22 September. Directions: Directions to Aonix (was Thomson): 1. Take 805 to Governor Drive exit. 2. From Governor Drive, make left at first light, to Greenwich Drive. 3. Take first right, to Shoreham Place. 4. Proceed to cul-de-sac - 5040 Shoreham Place. 5040 Shoreham Place San Diego, CA 92122 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you are not on this distribution and wish to receive these announcements, please send your e-mail address to rleif@rleif.com If you are on this distribution and do not wish to continue to receive these announcements, please notify Robert Leif at rleif@rleif.com. Inclusion of your e-mail address will facilitate its removal from the SigAda mailing list. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert C. Leif, Ph.D., PMIAC, Vice President & Research Director Ada_Med, a Division of Newport Instruments Tel. & Fax (619) 582-0437