Ada-Belgium'99 Seminar - Nov 19 - Ada 95 Works!

[dirk@neptunus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Dirk Craeynest)]

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                         Call for Contributions

  A d a - B e l g i u m ' 9 9   -   9 t h   A n n u a l   S e m i n a r

                        A d a   9 5   W o r k s !

                        Friday, November 19, 1999
                      (exact location TBD), Belgium

    http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~dirk/ada-belgium/events/local.html

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Ada-Belgium is a non-profit volunteer organization whose purpose is to
promote the use in Belgium of the Ada programming language, the first
ISO standardized object-oriented language and a great language for
engineering reliable systems.

Ada-Belgium is soliciting contributions for presentation during its
next Annual Seminar, to be held in central Belgium on Friday, November
19, 1999. Attendees will include industry, government and university
representatives that are active and interested in Ada software
development and management. The language of the Seminar is English.

This ninth Annual Ada-Belgium Seminar will feature tutorial, paper and
project presentations. Once more, we are preparing a program with
first class invited speakers, such as the previous years John Barnes
('94), Robert Dewar ('95), Tucker Taft ('96), Bill Beckwith ('97) and
Brian Dobbing ('98), and lots of free Ada-related material, e.g. free
Ada CD-ROMs in all Seminars from '94 on, copies of the Ada 95
Reference Manual and Rationale ('95), of the Ada 95 Quality and Style
Guide ('96), of the CORBA IDL to Ada 95 mapping document ('97), etc.

Theme of the Seminar will be "Ada 95 Works!".

Presentations will show that Ada 95 is a viable alternative to be
considered for your next project, as well as share practical
experiences, describe available products, etc.

Contributions consistent with the general theme of the Seminar,
outlined below, are hereby invited:
  * Presentations supporting the theme of the Seminar.
  * Experience reports of projects using or trying out Ada technology.
  * Short technical presentations of available products.

More general contributions are also welcome, such as on:
  * Management of Ada software development projects, including the
    transition to Ada 95.
  * Experiences with Ada development, lessons learned.
  * Ada technology.
  * Ada research projects in universities and industry.

Those interested to present at the Seminar should submit a short
abstract (10-15 lines) in English by July 26, 1999, via e-mail to
ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.ac.be for consideration by the board.

Short presentations will get a time-slot of 20-30 minutes. For longer
presentations, the organizers will work out a schedule with the
authors. Proceedings with full papers of the presentations will be
available at the Seminar.

Dates:

  * July 26, 1999: deadline for submission of abstracts.
  * end of August, 1999: notification of acceptance.
  * October 21, 1999: deadline for submission of final papers.
  * November 19, 1999: Ada-Belgium'99 Seminar.

For additional information on the Ada-Belgium'99 Seminar please
contact the Ada-Belgium Board at the e-mail address listed.

Dirk Craeynest
Ada-Belgium Board
ada-belgium-board@cs.kuleuven.ac.be

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                           Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our
    activities: ACT Europe, John Robinson & Associates, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven), Koninklijke Militaire School / Ecole
   Royale Militaire (K.M.S./E.R.M.), OFFIS nv/sa, Rational Software
Corporation, Top Graph'X, and Universite' Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.).

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   Internet at the Ada-Belgium World-Wide-Web pages and is updated
                       regularly. Check out URL

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