Invitation to Participate in SIGAda 2002 at Houston At Clear Lake, Texas, 8-12 December

Invitation to Participate in SIGAda 2002 at Houston At Clear Lake, Texas, 8-12 December

[Currie Colket]

Dear comp.lang.ada:

SIGAda will be conducting its SIGAda 2002 Conference in Houston at Clear
Lake, Texas this December from 8-12 December. Houston has been an
excellent technology-based city and is home to many NASA activities. Our
planned hotel venue will be right across the street from the
NASA/Johnson Space Center. We are currently working with NASA for a tour
of their facilities as part of our evening activities.

This is an excellent venue for our Ada/software engineering conference.
You are encouraged to submit Technical Articles, Extended Abstracts,
Experience Reports, Workshops, Panel Sessions, Posters, and Tutorials
for the Conference. Technical Articles are Double Blind Referred.
Detailed information to submit is provided in the attached CFP. Please
let your friends and colleagues know about the conference and the
opportunity to participate!

If you are planning to participate, please contact the appropriate
person ASAP since the deadline dates are nearing.

We look forward to seeing you in sunny Texas!  This is a beautiful time
to go to Texas as the the weather is extremely pleasing and beaches are
still pleasant. Please find attached the Call For Participation. More
information can be found at the SIGAda 2002 Home Page at:

    http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2002/

v/r
Currie Colket
Chair ACM SIGAda

If there are any question, please contact Dr. John McCormick, the
Program Chair, at McCormick@cs.uni.edu or myself at colket@acm.org.

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 Call for Participation - SIGAda 2002

ACM SIGAda Annual International Conference

8-12 December 2002
Houston at Clear Lake, Texas, USA
Sponsored by ACM SIGAda
http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2002/

Approval pending by ACM

Constructing reliable software is an engineering challenge. The
application of methods, tools, and languages interrelate to make the
challenge easier or more difficult. This conference focuses on the
interaction among these three aspects of software engineering,
especially how features in a language such as Ada drive the tools,
methods, and ultimately correctness, reliability, and quality of the
resulting software. Especially welcome are papers that analyze Ada with
respect to these factors or in comparison with other languages. This
conference will gather industrial experts, educators, software
engineers, and researchers interested in developing and testing reliable
software. Technical or theoretical papers as well as experience reports
with a focus on Ada are solicited. Possible topics include but are not
limited to:

       Reliability needs and styles
       Safety and high integrity issues
       Use of Ada Distributed Systems Annex
       Process and quality metrics
       Testing and validation
       Standards
       Use of ASIS for new Ada tool development
       Relationships between Ada and real-time Java
       Mixed-language development
       Ada in XML environments
       Quality Assurance
       Ada education
       Use of Real-Time CORBA
       Real-time networking/quality of service guarantees
       Fault tolerance and recovery
       Distributed system load balancing
       Static and dynamic code analysis
       Performance analysis
       Debugging complex systems
       Integrating COTS software components
       System Architecture and Design
       Information Assurance

How You Can Contribute

SIGAda 2002 is interested in receiving contributions in seven
categories: Technical Articles, Extended Abstracts, Experience Reports,
Workshops, Panel Sessions, Posters, and Tutorials.

Contributions from students are actively solicited.

Technical Articles present significant results in research, practice, or
education. These papers will be double-blind refereed and published in
the Conference Proceedings. Papers should not exceed 5000 words
(equivalent to approximately 10 pages, typeset 10-point on 16-point
spacing).

Please submit Technical Articles to the Program Chair, John McCormick
(McCormick@cs.uni.edu).

Extended Abstracts discuss current work for which early submission of a
full paper may be premature. If your abstract is accepted, you will be
expected to produce a full paper, which will appear in the proceedings.
Extended abstracts will be competitively reviewed. Clearly state the
contribution of the work being described, its relationship with previous
work by you and others (with bibliographic references), results to date,
and future directions. Please do not exceed 2500 words (equivalent to
approximately 5 pages typeset 10-point on 16-point spacing).

Please submit Extended Abstracts to the Program Chair, John McCormick
(McCormick@cs.uni.edu).

Experience Reports present timely results on the application of Ada and
related technologies to the design and implementation of applications
such as the following: avionics, aerospace, automobile, command and
control, consumer electronics, process control, transportation, trading
systems, energy, medical systems, simulation, telecommunications, etc.
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 will be
published in the final program or proceedings, but a paper will not be
required.

Please submit Experience Reports to the Program Chair, John McCormick
(McCormick@cs.uni.edu).

Workshops are focused work sessions, which provide a forum for
knowledgeable professionals to explore issues, exchange views, and
perhaps produce a report on a particular subject. A list of planned
workshops and requirements for participation will be published in the
SIGAda 2002 Advance Program. Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the
Program Committee and selected based on their applicability to the
conference and potential for attracting participants. Proposals should
state the problem or issue to be addressed, the coordinator(s), and
criteria for participant selection.

Please submit Workshop proposals to the Program Chair, 5 May 2002
(McCormick@cs.uni.edu).

Panel Sessions gather a group of experts on a particular topic who
present their views and then exchange views with each other and the
audience. Panel proposals should be 1-2 pages in length, identifying the
topic, coordinator, and potential panelists.

Please submit Panel Session Proposals to the Program Chair, John
McCormick (McCormick@cs.uni.edu).

Posters provide a different forum for both completed work and work in
progress. Poster proposals should be 1-2 pages in length. We
particularly encourage students to showcase their work as a poster at
SIGAda 2002.

Please submit Poster Proposals to the Program Chair, John McCormick
(McCormick@cs.uni.edu).

Tutorials offer the flexibility to address a broad spectrum of topics
relevant to Ada, and those enabling technologies which make the
engineering of Ada applications more effective. Submissions will be
evaluated based on relevance, suitability for presentation in tutorial
format, presenter's expertise, and past performance. Tutorial proposals
should include the expected level of experience of participants, an
abstract or outline, the qualifications of the instructor(s), and the
length of the tutorial.

Please submit Tutorial proposals to the Tutorials Chair, David Cook
(david.cook@hill.af.mil).

Best Student Paper Award. $500 plus free conference registration and
lodging will be given to the student author(s) of the paper selected by
the program committee as the best submitted and authored by one or more
students.

Please submit questions on the conference to the Conference Chair, Salih
Yurttas (Yurttas@CS.TAMU.Edu).

Vendors. Please contact Hal Hart (Hal.Hart@ACM.Org) for information
about participation at SIGAda 2002.

 Deadline for Tutorial submissions:     13 June 2002
 Deadline for other submissions:         13 June 2002


The Program Committee will Include:

     Martin Carlisle, USAFA
     David Cook, STSC/Shim Enterprises
     Ed Falis, Ada Core Technologies
     Franco Gasperoni, ACT-Europe
     Greg Gicca, Aonix
     Dick Hull, Lenoir-Rhyne College
     S. Ron Oliver, caress Corporation
     Juan A. de la Puente, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
     Pat Rogers, Software Arts & Sciences
     Joyce Tokar

Conference Home Page is:

    http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2002/