2nd CFP Ada-Belgium'99 Seminar - Nov 19 - Ada 95 Works!

2nd CFP Ada-Belgium'99 Seminar - Nov 19 - Ada 95 Works!

[Dirk Craeynest]

Please find appended the updated Call for Contributions for the 9th
annual Ada-Belgium Seminar.  Feel free to forward to anyone who might
be interested.

Updates:

* The seminar will be held in Leuven, near Brussels.

* Invited speaker is John Barnes.  He will give two extended
  presentations: one on the SPARK language and toolset for developing
  "more correct" Ada 95 programs, and one on how to use some of the
  advanced new features in Ada 95.

* We especially invite Ada 95 project presentations (even short ones).

Dirk Craeynest - Ada-Belgium

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                       2nd 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
                             Leuven, Belgium

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

                  DEADLINE for submission of abstracts
                          Monday, July 26, 1999

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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 Leuven 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.

Overview
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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.

Invited Speaker
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We are happy to announce that John Barnes will give presentations on
the following topics:

(1) An Overview of SPARK

The SPARK language consists of a subset of Ada with embedded annotations
in the form of Ada comments. One of the keys to developing correct
software is using appropriate abstractions. This presentation will show
how the SPARK language and its associated tools improve the completeness
and correctness of abstractions and thus lead to Ada programs which are
more likely to be correct.

(2) Advanced Ada

Ada 95 contains many advanced features which give the programmer greater
control over various aspects of programs.  Examples are the ability to
define storage pools, to manipulate exception occurrences, to handle
streams, and to control visibility. This presentation will discuss a
number of such topics illustrated by examples.

Call for Contributions
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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.
  * Ada 95 project presentations (even short ones).

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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 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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