* 1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar - 96/11/22 (Call for Participation)
@ 1996-10-30 0:00 Dirk Craeynest
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Call for Participation
1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar
Ada: the solution to integrate technologies
Friday, November 22, 1996
Eurocontrol, Brussels, Belgium
Organized with Assistance from
Eurocontrol CFMU, EC-DGXII, ACM SIGAda & AJPO
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/96/961122-abs.html
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Ada-Belgium is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the use
in Belgium of the Ada programming language, the first ISO standardized
object-oriented language.
Ada offers commercial developers an ideal blend of consistency,
maturity, reliability, and performance. Ada supports the
creativity and innovation of top technical talent while providing
the discipline and engineering required for critical software
systems. No other language is as uniquely qualified for building
viable, cost-effective, long-term software solutions. It is a
choice you need to consider.
From: "Ada - The Language For A Complex World" (Ada Resource
Association)
We are pleased to announce that on Friday, November 22, 1996, Ada-Belgium
organizes its 6th Annual Seminar at the premises of Eurocontrol in Brussels.
Attendees will include industry, government and university representatives
that are active and interested in Ada software development and management.
Highlights of the 1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar
* Invited speaker is S. Tucker Taft, Chief Scientist in the Intermetrics
Products and Technology Group and currently Technical Director
developing Intermetrics' Ada 95 technology, called "AdaMagic".
* Papers will be presented on the use of Ada in Belgian industrial,
research, and teaching projects respectively.
* Thanks to the assistance of DG XII at the European Commission, a
printed copy of the Ada 95 Quality and Style: Guidelines for
Professional Programmers will be given to each attendee.
* Thanks to ACM SIGAda and the AJPO, we can once more offer free copies
of the latest Ada CD-ROM set from Walnut Creek (July 1996 Edition),
i.e. 1.2 GB of Ada documentation, information, source code and
ready-to-run tools and compilers from the Public Ada Library (PAL) on a
2 disk set (list price $39.95).
This is an event not to be missed! Do not delay to register!
(And be sure to request your FREE copy of the Ada CD-ROM set.)
More information is available below and via the 1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar
Home Page at URL
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/96/961122-abs.html
Looking forward to meet many of you in Brussels.
Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Belgium Board
ada@belgium.eu.net
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Invited speaker: Tucker Taft
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Tucker Taft is Chief Scientist in the Intermetrics Products and Technology
Group and is currently Technical Director developing Intermetrics' Ada 95
technology, called "AdaMagic". He is also leading development for
Intermetrics' Ada 95-to-Java byte-code compiler, called "AppletMagic". (*)
>From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Taft led the Ada 9X language design team, culminating
in the February 1995 approval of Ada 95 as the first ISO standardized
object-oriented programming language.
(*) A downloadable beta version of AppletMagic is available at
http://www.inmet.com/javadir/download/index.html
See also the document "Twelve reasons to use Ada 95 for Java applet
development" at
http://www.acm.org/sigada/wg/web_ada/rewebada.html
and the Web-page "Ada and WWW/Java" at
http://www.adahome.com/Resources/Ada_Java.html
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Preliminary Program
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08:30 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome (Ada-Belgium)
09:35 - 10:00 Presentation of Eurocontrol CFMU
(Peter Schmutz, head Software Section, Eurocontrol CFMU)
10:00 - 11:00 Exploiting Java Technology using Ada: an overview
(Tucker Taft, Intermetrics)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Tutorial: the use of Ada for Java development
(Tucker Taft, Intermetrics)
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 15:00 Ada and technologies integration: a real size experience
(Philippe Waroquiers, Eurocontrol CFMU)
15:00 - 15:30 Polynomial Homotopy Continuation,
a portable Ada software package
(Jan Verschelde, K.U.Leuven)
15:30 - 16:00 Indexed sequential files in Ada: a didactical example
(Marc A. Gobin, R.M.A.)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00 Ada and the external world: practical experiences
(Tucker Taft, Intermetrics)
18:00 End of the Seminar
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Abstracts
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* Presentation of Eurocontrol CFMU
(Peter Schmutz, head Software Section, Eurocontrol CFMU)
A general presentation of Eurocontrol, the European Organization for the
Safety of Air Navigation, will be given: its main objectives, the role of
the main divisions (CFMU, EEC, CRCO, Eatchip, ...), and an overview of Ada
usage in the different projects.
The main part of the presentation will provide more details about the
Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU). The different subsystems of the CFMU
project will be presented: Archive, Env, Strat, RTA/RCA, with special
emphasis on TACT and IFPS, the most "critical" systems in terms of
availability.
* Exploiting Java Technology using Ada: an overview
(Tucker Taft, Intermetrics)
Ada 95's chief designer Tucker Taft describes how Ada exploits the emerging
Java technology to respond to today's new Internet-based computing paradigm.
This talk will explain how Ada 95 has been adapted to the Java "platform,"
achieving full interoperability between Ada 95 and Java code, and opening up
the exciting new Internet-based computing paradigm to the reliability and
productivity of Ada-based development.
* Tutorial: the use of Ada for Java development
(Tucker Taft, Intermetrics)
This tutorial will introduce the attendees to writing Java-compatible
applets in Ada 95.
* Ada and technologies integration: a real size experience
(Philippe Waroquiers, Eurocontrol CFMU)
The TACTICAL system is a system developed in Ada by Eurocontrol (CFMU) to
help solving the air traffic congestion problem.
This presentation will first present the functionality and then the
architecture of the system. Among others, the following points will be
addressed: the distributed aspects of the system; interfacing with the
external world (usage of TCP/IP, SNA, Motif, Oracle, ...); usage of some
Unix features from Ada (e.g. shared memory).
* Polynomial Homotopy Continuation, a portable Ada software package
(Jan Verschelde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
The aim is to report on our experiences in building a high-quality software
package for solving polynomial systems. The qualities of the program reside
in the performance of the developed numerical methods and in the good
software practice used in designing and implementing.
We will present the structure of our software, indicate its main features
and show some applications. Besides that, we comment on the use of Ada in an
applied math research project. Hereby we will describe the advantages of
software engineering with Ada and list the difficulties we had to counter.
Jan Verschelde obtained his bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the
K.U.Leuven in 1990. Since then he worked at the Computer Science Department
on the development of methods and software for solving polynomial systems.
In May 1996, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on `Homotopy Continuation Methods
for Solving Polynomial Systems'. Currently he is post-doctoral researcher at
K.U.Leuven.
* Indexed sequential files in Ada: a didactical example
(Marc A. Gobin, Royal Military Academy, Brussels)
As an introduction to a course on implementing data bases, the working of an
indexed sequential file system is explained. Indexed sequential files are
not included in the Ada reference manual, but can be (easily ?) implemented.
To serve its purpose the implementation should be easy to explain, easy to
use and as efficient as possible.
In this paper the main features of an indexed sequential package will be
explained and the different choices and restrictions will be justified. The
result is a quite efficient package for defining and using the traditional
index sequential concepts.
Note: the entire package is available as freeware and can be obtained in
source form from the Ada-Belgium WWW-server, section Free Ada Software
provided by Belgian Ada users. The entire package is Ada83 compatible.
* Ada and the external world: practical experiences
(Tucker Taft, Intermetrics)
We will report on the general approaches to building Ada 95 interfaces to
non-Ada subsystems, for C, C++ and Java, and with some specific experiences
relating to Windows 32, the Java AWT, and perhaps Microsoft Foundation
Classes (if we have gotten that far by November). The aim is more to show
the public what has been done already, not to be an "abstract" lecture on
the basic Ada 95 features for interface programming.
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Free Offer
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Copies of the Walnut Creek Ada CD-ROM set, bought by Ada-Belgium through an
agreement with the Ada Joint Program Office (AJPO) via ACM SIGAda, will be
freely distributed to the first registered participants, up to the amount
available. (Last year we could satisfy all demands.)
These CD-ROM sets include ports to lots of platforms of the GNU Ada 95
compiler (GNAT).
Documentation
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It has become a tradition that lots of interesting documents are distributed
(freely) on the Seminar day.
For this 6th Annual Seminar, each participant will be offered, a.o., the Ada
95 Quality and Style: Guidelines for Professional Programmers, a valuable
document for any serious (prospective) Ada user.
Moreover, printed proceedings with papers of the presentations, copies of
slides, and lots of additional documents and papers will be distributed.
Location
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The Seminar takes place at the premises of Eurocontrol in Brussels (Haren),
Belgium. Parking facilities are available.
See also "How to get there?" on the 1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar Home Page.
Participation fee
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4000 BEF for Ada-Belgium members
5000 BEF for non-members
Free registration for students, including Ph.D. students (without lunch)
The participation fee includes all coffee breaks and lunch, full
documentation, and a free Walnut Creek Ada CD-ROM set (up to the amount
available). Students can optionally pay for lunch.
The attached Registration Form has to be returned, signed, preferably before
Monday November 18. Students may arrange registration through their
institution.
Seminar secretariat
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1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar Secretariat
c/o Eurocontrol - CFMU
Attn.: Ms. K. Van Hollebeke
Raketstraat 96
B-1130 Brussel
Belgium
Phone: +32-2-729.96.51
Fax: +32-2-729.90.22
E-mail: ada@belgium.eu.net
WWW: http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/
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Acknowledgements
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We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our
activities: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Koninklijke
Militaire School / Ecole Royale Militaire, (K.M.S./E.R.M.), OFFIS N.V./S.A.,
Rational Software Corporation , Trasys N.V./S.A , and Universite' Libre de
Bruxelles (U.L.B.).
Special thanks to Eurocontrol CFMU (Central Flow Management Unit of the
European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation), DG XII at the
European Commission (Directorate-General XII: Science, Research and
Development), ACM/SIGAda (ACM Special Interest Group on the Ada programming
language) and AJPO - AdaIC (Ada Joint Program Office - Ada Information
Clearinghouse) for their support of this event.
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Information on this and other Ada-Belgium events is available on the
Internet at the Ada-Belgium World-Wide-Web pages and is updated regularly.
Check out URL
http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html
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Dirk (Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be for Ada-Belgium e-mail)
*** 1996 Ada-Belgium Seminar: Nov 22, Tucker Taft on Ada 95, Java, ...
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