From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!SEI.CMU.EDU!Judy.Bamberger From: Judy.Bamberger@SEI.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: TRI-Ada '91 CALL FOR PAPERS etc ... Message-ID: <9009141744.AA00308@fa.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 14 Sep 90 17:44:43 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet List-Id: Please circulate this within your internal sites and re-post as appropriate. The success of the TRI-Ada '91 event depends on all of us being alert to attracting the best and brightest and most articulate to discuss key issues (managerial, research, roll-up-your-sleeves practical, policy, educational, etc) in a forum where we can all benefit and learn. Thank you, Judy Bamberger Chairperson, TRI-Ada '91 ============================================================================== TRI-Ada '91 San Jose Convention Center San Jose CA October 21 - 25, 1991 Call for Participation 1991 marks the fourth year for the TRI-Ada Conference and Exposition. Each year, this event, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Ada (ACM SIGAda), examines critical issues to the Ada and software engineering community. This year's TRI-Ada builds on that past success and highlights the theme: Ada: Today's Accomplishments; Tomorrow's Expectations Ada is moving into mainstream use: leaving its defense-only image behind. The conference organizing committee mirrors this, drawing its members from commercial industry and academia, as well as from government and its software/systems suppliers and vendors of Ada and software engineering tools. Ada is continuing to expand its influence internationally. The conference organizing committee itself has a distinctly international flavor this year, with members coming from three continents. The TRI-Ada '91 Conference and Exposition provides an international forum for vendors, software engineers, educators, system procurers, and project managers to share and discuss relevant issues. TRI-Ada '91 will demonstrate accomplishments in Ada and software engineering fields, and will describe expectations for tomorrow's systems. The Conference program will consist of contributed papers, invited lectures, panels, reports on practical experience, and tutorials. This brochure tells you how you can share your professional talents and participate actively in this event. Presentation topics: - Call for papers and panels - Call for tutorials and for experience reports - New opportunities for vendors and exhibitors - Other meetings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chair: Conference Treasurer: Judy Bamberger Lyn Plinta Software Engineering Institute Alcoa Laboratories Pittsburgh PA 15213 USA Aluminum Company of America bamberg@sei.cmu.edu Alcoa Center PA 15069 USA +1-412-268-5795 plinta1%aldts.decnet@ +1-412-268-5758 (FAX) aldncf.alcoa.com +1-412-337-2604 +1-412-337-2005 (FAX) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers and Panels TRI-Ada '91 solicits abstracts for papers and proposals for panels focusing on Ada and software engineering in the following areas: - Technical: where the language, reinvention, and freedom once reigned, now becoming libraries, reusable assets, and formal development methods. - Management: where the anticipation and expectations are now achievements with sound business analyses. - Education and training: where Ada and software engineering techniques, toys best left to students and research labs, are now tools used to teach students, real-world practitioners, and managers alike. - Policy and standards: where Ada and its community, isolated onto itself, are reaping the benefits of integration with other standards activities, other software engineering disciplines, other development communities. Paper abstracts must be 3 - 5 pages and must be sufficiently detailed (including a bibliography) to facilitate an appropriate review. The Program Committee must understand how the work is similar to and different from related work of others. Where available, presentation of empirical data (metrics) and tradeoffs is encouraged. Contributions that describe results, not just proposals, of applying Ada or software engineering techniques are solicited in any of these areas. Panels provide the opportunity for interaction between "experts" and the audience. As with papers, panels discussing technical, management, education and training, policy and standards issues are welcomed. Panel proposals must provide the following information: - The controversial topic or question to be discussed or debated. - A description of the panel, containing 1 - 3 concise, objective, paragraphs identifying topics to be covered, questions to be put to panelists, issues to be debated, roles the panelists may take for the debate (if it is a pro/con type situation), etc. - An indication as to why the subject matter is of significant interest to the community, including the expected benefits for the listeners (i.e., why a panel presentation is appropriate versus a paper). - A list of proposed participants - people, organizations, functions, and their status (i.e., "confirmed," "interested," "not yet contacted"), to identify what the individual is bringing to a panel as well as who the panelist is. - Contingency plans (e.g., if key panelists need to drop out). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Experience Reports The Experience Track at TRI-Ada '91 is intended to capture the hard-core lessons learned from actual Ada usage in real-world, for-profit projects. The purpose of these sessions is to present and discuss systems engineering, software engineering, Ada, tool, personnel, and policy decisions/rationale from real-world (for-profit) programs. Presentations will be selected based on the degree to which they contain specific rationale for decisions on the following subjects: - Difficulties encountered - System size/complexity - Substantive technical issues determination - Quantitative system data - Compiler and tool problems - Hardware architecture - Usefulness of management - Software architecture techniques - Tradeoffs among hardware, - Why Ada was beneficial/not systems software, and beneficial applications software - What would be done differently next time Presentations must limit inclusion of program descriptions, putting the focus on the "why," not the "what." A substantial question and answer interchange must be stimulated. Please ensure that the abstract contains sufficient specific information to permit evaluation against the above criteria. Abstracts of the accepted presentations will be included in the Conference Proceedings at the discretion of the authors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Submission information: Mar 1, 1991 3 - 5 pages Submission of paper/panel/ 6 copies experience abstract due 3 - 5 keyword identifiers on to Track representative cover (below) For papers only: Apr 30, 1991 Identifying information on Acceptance notification to all cover only (to authors allow anonymous review) Aug 1, 1991 For papers and panels only: Camera ready papers/panel Level of paper/panel (e.g., statements/(optional) beginner, novice, experience abstracts due advanced) ----------------------------------- Orientation of paper/panel Final full paper length: (e.g., managers, technical 10 - 12 pages staff, educators) Paper presentation length: For experience reports only: 30 minutes Application area, customer, developer(s) Final panel description length: 6 - 8 pages Panel length: 90 minutes Final experience overview length: 6 - 10 pages (optional) Experience report length: 90 minutes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Track: Management Track: Rick Gross Joan Bebb U.S. Air Force TRW SAF/AQK One Space Park Washington DC 20330-1000 USA Redondo Beach CA 90278 USA rgross@sysp2.hq.af.mil jbebb@sei.cmu.edu rgross@sei.cmu.edu +1-213-812-8691 +1-202-697-6513 +1-213-813-7600 (FAX) +1-202-697-8313 (FAX) (202 becomes 703 October 1990) Education Track: Experience Reports Track: Robert Dewar Mike Ryer New York University Intermetrics 73 5th Avenue 733 Concord Avenue New York NY 10003 USA Cambridge MA 02138 dewar@acf2.nyu.edu ryer@inmet.inmet.com +1-212-741-0957 +1-617-661-1840 (and FAX during +1-212-242-3722 (FAX) business hours) +1-617-868-2843 (FAX during non-business hours) Send all other abstracts to: Program Chairperson: Garth Glynn Ferranti International Ty Coch Way Cwmbran Gwent NP44 7XX UNITED KINGDOM glynng@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu +44-633-871111 +44-6333-61177 (FAX) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Liaison Representatives: Angel Alvarez Colin Connaughton Technical University of Madrid Computer Sciences of Australia, SPAIN AUSTRALIA aalvarez@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu +61-2-901-1111 +34-1-549-5700 x313 +61-2-901-1122 (FAX) +34-1-243-2077 (FAX) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Tutorials Tutorials have always been an important part of all past TRI-Ada events. They provide the opportunity for subject area experts to share their expertise with other members of their profession. Tutorials must address issues covered by the Conference: technical, management, education and training, and policy and standards. Tutorials should cover the broad spectrum of interests to the Ada community, including the more familiar Ada language-oriented topics, as well as risk management, bindings to other languages and associated standards (e.g., SQL, X-Windows), and object-oriented programming paradigms (e.g., C++, Smalltalk, as well as Ada). Tutorial proposals must include: - 1 - 3 paragraph overview of the tutorial - Tutorial outline and duration (i.e., full day or half day) - Level and orientation of audience (including any assumed prerequisites) - Materials to be provided with the tutorial (e.g., software, special reports) - Instructor(s) background and prior offerings of the course (if any) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Submission information: Mar 1, 1991 3 - 5 pages Submission of abstract due to 6 copies Tutorial Chairperson or 3 - 5 keyword identifiers on Vice-Chairperson cover Apr 30, 1991 Level of tutorial (e.g., Acceptance notification to all beginner, novice, advanced) authors Orientation of tutorial (e.g., Aug 1, 1991 managers, technical Camera ready tutorial materials staff, educators) due ----------------------------------- Tutorial length: Full day (6 hours) or Half day (3 hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tutorial Chairperson: Tutorial Vice-Chairperson: Dick Dye Jean-Pierre Rosen CTA Inc N8910 AdaLOG National Testbed 115 Avenue du Maine Falcon AFB CO 80912-5000 USA F-75014 Paris FRANCE dyer@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu rosen@enst.fr +1-719-380-2578 +33-1-43-22-44-50 +1-719-380-3100 (FAX) +33-1-43-21-72-21 (FAX) [put N8910 on address] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACM SIGAda is pleased to host the TRI-Ada '91 Conference and Exposition, October 21 - 25, 1991, at the San Jose Convention Center. All members of Conference Central invite you to attend and encourage you to participate. See you in San Jose for TRI-Ada '91! In keeping with Ada's color being green, TRI-Ada '91 is trying to be a "green," ecologically considerate, event. All TRI-Ada '91 publicity will be done on recycled paper. The TRI-Ada '91 staff encourages you to think ecologically as you prepare for TRI-Ada '91. Please share this announcement with your colleagues, and recycle it when you are done. ACM approval pending. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------