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Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:45:00 +0100
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Ada-Europe'97

International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies

"Good software engineering practice, based on appropriate 
techniques and supported by suitable tools, is the solution
to the software crisis"

The Tower Hotel, London, 2-6 June 1997
 
http://www.sis.port.ac.uk/adauk/Ada-Europe/Conference/1997/

The cost of developing and maintaining computer systems is 
increasingly dependent on the cost of the software component. 
As the requirements of customers get more complex, so too do 
the needs of the software engineers who must meet them. 

The problems of managing software development are as great as 
the problems of engineering the system itself. Good software 
engineering practice, based on appropriate techniques 
supported by suitable tools, is seen as the solution to this 
"software crisis".  

Software engineering needs better techniques and tools, and 
those that already exist need to be better publicised and 
better understood.  This conference meets that need.

The 1997 Ada-Europe Conference will be held between 2-6 June 
1997 in London's Tower Hotel, overlooking Tower Bridge and 
adjacent to the Tower of London.  

The Conference aims to bring together users and vendors of 
software engineering tools, and those who research and teach 
related techniques, to discuss and exchange new developments 
and to share good practice.

The Conference will consist of tutorials, presentations and 
demonstrations of software engineering products.

Participation in the Conference is invited from all those in 
the software engineering community -  users, vendors, 
educators and researchers.

Organisation

Ada-Europe'97 is organised, on behalf of Ada-Europe, by Ada UK 
in co-operation with ACM SIGAda (approval pending).

For more information, please contact: 
The Ada-Europe Conference Administrator: Helen Byard,
c/o Ada UK, PO Box 322, York YO1 3GY, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1904 412740   Fax: +44 1904 426702
Email: admin@adauk.org.uk
or the Conference Chairman: Bill Taylor,
Email: 101576.2126@compuserve.com

To register your email address to receive further information, 
send mail to topprg@sis.port.ac.uk

Schedule

14 October 1996	
	Submission of extended abstracts and tutorial proposals 
20 December 1996
	Notification to authors 
21 February 1997
	Final papers (camera-ready) required 
2 - 6 June 1997
	Conference 

Call for papers

Authors are invited to submit papers on original research or 
reports on relevant experience of software engineering 
techniques and tools.  Suggested topics include but are not 
limited to:
* object-oriented analysis, design and programming
* benefits and drawbacks of using formal methods
* managing software development
* experiences of introducing Ada 95
* programming languages for software engineering
* safety-critical software
* systems implemented in more than one programming language
* comparisons of software engineering techniques and tools
* the use of Ada in applications
* teaching software engineering or programming

Extended abstracts (of 3-6 pages) should be submitted to 
either of the Co-Programme Chairs.  Authors should provide the 
following information: title of paper, name of author(s), 
author's affiliation, postal and electronic mail addresses, 
telephone and fax numbers and a list of keywords ordered by 
relevance. Submissions must be in English. Submitting 
abstracts by electronic mail is preferred (plain ASCII); if 
submitting on paper, please provide 5 copies. Submissions by 
fax are not accepted. To enable publication of the accepted 
papers before the conference, strict adherence to the dates of 
the schedule is essential. The deadline for abstracts is 14 
October 1996.

Proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science series.

Co-Programme Chairs:

Keith Hardy,
Ultra Electronics Ltd Command & Control Systems, Knaves Beech 
Business Centre, Loudwater, High Wycombe, Bucks, HP10 9UT, UK
Email: Keith_Hardy@ueccs.ccmail.compuserve.com

Jim Briggs,
Dept of Information Science, University of Portsmouth, Milton 
Campus, Locksway Road, Southsea, Hants, PO4 8JF, UK
Email: briggsjs@sis.port.ac.uk

Call for tutorials

A tutorial should address any of the topics of the theme of 
the conference or any other topic on Software Engineering. A 
tutorial will last a half or full day. The proposals should 
include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, a 
detailed outline of the presentation, a description of the 
presenter's teaching experience in general and with the 
proposed topic, duration (half day or full day), level of the 
tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), expected 
audience experience and background. Proposals should be 
submitted by email to the Tutorial Chair by the deadline of 14 
October 1996.

Brian Tooby, High Integrity Systems,
Astra Centre, Edinburgh Way, Harlow, Essex, CM20 2BE, UK
Email: brian@tooby.demon.co.uk

Call to vendors

Vendors of software engineering tools are invited to 
demonstrate their products during the Conference.  Priority 
will be given to tools relating to object-oriented development 
and to products supporting Ada 95.

For further information, contact
Helen Byard, 
c/o Ada UK, PO Box 322, York YO1 3GY, UK
Email: admin@adauk.org.uk

Conference Committee

Bill Taylor (Transition Technology Ltd.)	Conference Chair
Jim Briggs (University of Portsmouth)		Co-Programme Chair
Keith Hardy  (Ultra Electronics Ltd. Command & 
		Control Systems) 		Co-Programme Chair
Brian Tooby (High Integrity Systems)		Tutorial Chair
Robert Topp  (University of Portsmouth)		Publicity Chair
John Barnes (JBI)				President, Ada-Europe
Helen Byard (Ada UK)			Administrator