SIGAda '98 Reminder

SIGAda '98 Reminder

[David F. Harrison]

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David F. Harrison       SIGAda '98 Publicity Chair
(703) 560-2047 (R)  (703) 760-0261 (W)


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              ***** SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE JUNE 5 1998 *****

                    SIGAda '98 (formerly Tri-Ada)
                           Ada in Context

              ACM SIGAda Annual International Conference

                        OMNI SHOREHAM HOTEL
               WASHINGTON, DC, USA, NOVEMBER 8-12, 1998

                      SPONSORED BY ACM SIGADA,
           IN COOPERATION WITH: SIGAPP, SIGBIO, SIGCAS, SIGCSE,
       SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, DC SIGADA, BALTIMORE SIGADA, and ADA-EUROPE.

                 http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sa98
     _________________________________________________________________

   The ACM Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda) is dedicated to the
   technical, business and educational issues related to the Ada
   programming language. SIGAda '98, the successor to the annual Tri-Ada
   exposition, will be this year's largest Ada-focused conference and is
   being organized to attract participants from all segments of the
   software engineering community. The SIGAda '98 conference proceedings
   will be published as an issue of Ada Letters.

   This year we are hoping to increase significantly the participation
   of educators and students in the conference, both as authors and
   conference registrants.

   Ada features a proven track record in large-scale system development
   and full support for object orientation, and facilitates writing
   portable source programs. Ada's support for sound software engineering
   is bringing the language increased attention in computing education
   and across a broad range of application areas in government and
   industry. Ada's unique ability to interface with software written in
   other languages makes it a viable candidate for developing systems in
   a multi-language environment. Current Ada projects span a spectrum
   that encompasses finance, the Internet, and the Java Virtual Machine,
   complementing the language's traditional context of hard real-time,
   embedded systems in defense, space, industrial process control,
   medical applications, commercial aviation, and ground transportation.

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The Conference Theme

   We are soliciting conference contributions on the theme "Ada in
   Context", pertinent to Ada or of general interest to the Ada community,
   from authors inside and outside this community, in industry,
   government, research, and education. Topics may include, but are not
   limited to, Ada in the context of
     * the Internet, the Web, and the National Information Infrastructure
     * safety-critical and high-integrity applications
     * multilanguage programming (e.g., Ada and Java or C++ in
       collaboration)
     * defense and non-defense applications
     * object technology
     * undergraduate, graduate, and secondary-school computing education
     * pure and applied research
     * software engineering practice
     * the spectrum of programming languages and historical trends
     * reengineering and maintenance of legacy systems
     * making reuse real
     * hybrid technology and COTS systems
     * process improvement and the Capability Maturity Model
     * software quality management
     * the tension between better/cheaper/faster and reality
     * the tradeoff between short-term gains and long-term quality
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  EXPERIENCE REPORTS

   Experience reports present timely results on the success or failure of
   the application of Ada in real-world projects. Such reports will be
   selected on the basis of the interest of the experience presented to
   the community of Ada practitioners. You are invited to submit a 1-2
   page description of the project and the key points of interest of
   project experiences. Descriptions may be published in the final
   program or proceedings, but a paper will not be required.
     _________________________________________________________________

Conference Grants for Educators

   As in past years, SIGAda is offering grants to educators to attend the
   conference. Grants cover the registration and tutorial fees; travel
   funds are not available. More details on the grant program are
   available at

   http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sa98/grants.html.

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  HOW TO SUBMIT

   To facilitate electronic distribution to referees, kindly follow these
   rules for submission. We prefer submission in the form of an ASCII or
   PostScript file; other formats may be accepted, by prior arrangement
   with the Program Chair.

   Please deposit your contribution by anonymous ftp to
   ftp://ftp.seas.gwu.edu/incoming/sigada98, and send a confirming e-mail
   message to the Program Chair,Prof. Michael B. Feldman, The George
   Washington University mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu

   Please be sure to write "SIGAda 98 submission" on the subject line of
   the message. Please indicate the title of the submission and the names
   and affiliations of authors. Identify one author as a point of contact
   and provide an e-mail address, postal address, phone number and fax
   number for this author. Please indicate whether a similar report on
   this work has been submitted elsewhere.
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  KEY DATES
     * Friday, June 5, 1998: deadline for submission of experience
       reports
     * Monday, June 29, 1998: authors notified of acceptance
     * Friday, August 14, 1998: deadline for final versions of papers and
       experience reports
     * November 8-12, 1998: SIGAda '98:
          + November 8-9: Tutorials
          + November 10-12: Conference
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   Conference Officers

     * Ed Seidewitz, General Co-Chair
       DHR Technologies (seidewitz@acm.org)
     * Bill Thomas, General Co-Chair
       MITRE (bthomas@mitre.org)
     * Michael Feldman, Program Chair
       The George Washington University (mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu)
     * Ben Brosgol, Exhibits Chair,
       Aonix (brosgol@aonix.com)
     * Currie Colket, SIGAda Vice Chair for Meetings and Conferences
       (colket@acm.org)
     * David Cook, Tutorial Chair
       C.S. Draper Laboratory (cookd@software.hill.af.mil)
     * David Harrison, Publicity Chair
       Harris Technical Services Corp. (dharrison@acm.org)
     * Hal Hart, Conference Treasurer
       TRW (hal.hart@acm.org)
     * Alok Srivastava, Workshops Chair
       TRW (alok.srivastava@trw.com)
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   Program Committee will include

     * Elizabeth Adams, Richard Stockton College
     * Ted Baker, Florida State University
     * Brad Balfour, Objective Interface Systems
     * Shan Barkataki, California State University, Northridge
     * John Beidler, University of Scranton
     * Jim Briggs, University of Portsmouth
     * Deborah Cerino, Rome Laboratory
     * Norman Cohen, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
     * David Cook, C.S. Draper Laboratory
     * James Cross, Auburn University
     * Jerry van Dijk, Ordina Finance BV
     * Dennis Frailey, Raytheon and Southern Methodist University
     * Maretta Holden, Boeing
     * James Hopper, SAIC
     * Judy Kerner, Aerospace Corporation
     * Robert Leif, AdaMed
     * Karlotto Mangold, ATM Computer GmbH
     * John McCormick, University of Northern Iowa
     * Allen Parrish, University of Alabama
     * Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog
     * Erhard Ploedereder, University of Stuttgart
     * Frances van Scoy, West Virginia University
     * Edmond Schonberg, Ada Core Technologies and New York University
     * Jag Sodhi, U.S. Army
     * Alok Srivastava, TRW
     * Alfred Strohmeier, University of Lausanne
     * S. Tucker Taft, Intermetrics
     * Joyce L. Tokar, DDC-I
     * Debora Weber-Wulff, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
     * David Wood, Aonix
     * Anna Yu, North Carolina A&T University
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Information on Exhibiting

   The SIGAda conference, like its Tri-Ada predecessors, includes a large
   and well-attended vendor exhibition. For specific information on
   reserving exhibit space, please contact the Exhibits Chair,

   Dr. Ben Brosgol
   Tel: +1 781 221 7317
   Fax: +1 781 270 6882
   Email: brosgol@aonix.com