Ada-Europe'2002 submission deadline approaching

Ada-Europe'2002 submission deadline approaching

[Dirk Craeynest]

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                         Updated Call for Papers

                 *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 31 ***

                     7th International Conference on
            Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2002

                   17 - 21 June 2002, Vienna, Austria

              http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2002.html

                  *** WEB SUBMISSION FORM AVAILABLE ***

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Sponsored by Ada-Europe, organized by Technical University Vienna, in
cooperation with ACM SIGAda.

General Information
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The 7th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
(Ada-Europe'2002) will take place in the year 2002 in Vienna, Austria.
The full conference will comprise a three-day technical program and
exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, and parallel workshops and
tutorials on Monday and Friday.

For more information, visit the conference Web site at
http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2002.html

Schedule
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- 31 October 2001:  Submission of papers, extended abstracts and
                    proposals for tutorials and workshops
- 10 January 2002:  Notification to authors
- 10 February 2002: Full papers required for accepted extended abstracts
- 10 March 2002:    Final papers (camera-ready) required
- 17-21 June 2002:  Conference

Topics
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The conference will provide an international forum for researchers,
developers and users of reliable software technologies.  Presentations
and discussions will cover applied and theoretical work currently
conducted to support the development and maintenance of software
systems.  Participants will include practitioners and researchers from
industry, academia and government.  There will be a special session on
embedded systems, including the use of Ada in this realm.

For papers, tutorials, and workshop proposals, the topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

+ Embedded Systems (special session).
+ Management of Software Development and Maintenance: Methods,
  Techniques and Tools.
+ Software Quality: Quality Management and Assurance, Risk Analysis,
  Program Analysis, Verification, Validation, Testing of Software
  Systems.
+ Software Development Methods and Techniques: Requirements Engineering,
  Object-Oriented Technologies, Formal Methods, Software Management
  Issues, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse.
+ Software Architectures: Patterns for Software Design and Composition,
  Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component and Class
  Libraries, Component Design.
+ Tools: CASE Tools, Software Development Environments, Compilers,
  Browsers, Debuggers.
+ Kinds of Systems: Real-Time Systems, Distributed Systems, Fault-
  Tolerant Systems, Information Systems, Safety-Critical and Secure
  Systems.
+ Applications in Multimedia and Communications, Manufacturing,
  Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Industry.
+ Ada Language and Tools: Programming Techniques, Object-Oriented
  Programming, New Approaches in Tool Support, Bindings and Libraries,
  Evaluation and Comparison of Languages, Language Extension Proposals.
+ Ada Experience Reports: Experience Reports from Projects using Ada,
  Management Approaches, Metrics, Comparisons with past or parallel
  Experiences in non-Ada Projects.
+ Education and Training.
+ Case Studies and Experiments.

Submissions
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Authors are invited to submit original contributions.  Submissions
should be in English.  An extended abstract (4-6 pages) or, preferably,
the full paper (up to 12 pages) should be sent using the Web submission
form.  For more information please see the conference Web site:
  http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2002.html
select "Call for Papers" and then "Web Submission Form".

Submissions should be in PDF, Postscript or ASCII format, and follow
the LNCS instructions (see 'Proceedings' below).  Submissions by other
electronic formats, such as a word processor source file, or by fax are
not accepted.  The Web submission form is the preferred procedure.
However, if you don't have access to the Internet, or you don't have an
appropriate Web browser, you may send your extended abstract or paper
by e-mail to the Program Co-Chair Johann Blieberger,
mailto:blieb@auto.tuwien.ac.at .  If electronic submission is not
available, please send five paper copies.  For e-mail or paper
submissions, the body of the electronic message or the first page
should identify the submission as a paper or extended abstract, and
should include in plain text: the title; name, current affiliation,
postal address, e-mail address, telephone and fax of each author; the
name of the designated contact person; a short abstract; and a list of
keywords ordered by relevance, including, whenever possible, topics and
subtopics taken from the list of topics of the conference.  If the
paper is submitted in Postscript, please be sure to select the option
"optimize for portability" in your printer driver.

To enable publication of the accepted papers before the conference,
strict adherence to the dates of the schedule is essential.  Authors of
extended abstracts must be prepared to submit a full version of their
paper before February 10, 2002.

Proceedings
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The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series by Springer, and will be available at the
start of the conference.  See the LNCS Authors Instructions page
( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ).

Awards
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There will be honorary awards for the best paper and the best
presentation.  See the Ada-Europe Prizes page for previous winners:
http://www.ada-europe.org/prizes.html .

Call for Tutorials
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A tutorial should address any of the topics of the theme of the
conference.  A tutorial will last a half or a 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 e-mail to the Tutorial
Chair Helge Hagenauer, mailto:hagenau@cosy.sbg.ac.at .
Full-day tutorial presenters get a free conference registration and
receive a fee for every paying participant in excess of 5; for half-day
tutorials, the benefits are also "half".

Call for Workshops
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Half- and full-day workshops can be held to address timely issues or to
initiate a longer term effort on a topic of interest.  Proposals should
be submitted by e-mail to the Program Co-Chair Alfred Strohmeier,
mailto:Alfred.Strohmeier@epfl.ch .

Exhibition
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The conference will be accompanied by a three-day commercial exhibition
on June 18, 19 and 20.  Vendors of software products and services should
contact the Exhibition Chair Thomas Gruber,
mailto:thomas.gruber@arcs.ac.at , at their earliest convenience for
further information and to ensure their inclusion.

Organization
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Program Committee: see online CfP at conference Web site

Conference Chair: Gerhard H. Schildt
Technical University Vienna, Dept. of Computer-Aided Automation
Treitlstr. 1-3, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Schildt@auto.tuwien.ac.at

Program Co-Chairs: Johann Blieberger & Alfred Strohmeier
(JB) Technical University Vienna, Dept. of Computer-Aided Automation
Treitlstr. 1-3, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Blieberger@auto.tuwien.ac.at
(AS) Swiss Fed.Inst.of Technology in Lausanne, Software Engineering Lab
CH-1015 Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland
Alfred.Strohmeier@epfl.ch

Tutorial Chair: Helge Hagenauer
University of Salzburg, Dept. Comp. Science & System Analysis
hagenau@cosy.sbg.ac.at

Exhibition Chair: Thomas Gruber
Austrian Research Centers Seibersdorf
Phone +43-5-0550-4106, Fax +43-5-0550-4199
thomas.gruber@arcs.ac.at

Publicity Chair: Dirk Craeynest
Offis nv/sa & K.U.Leuven
Weiveldlaan 41/32, B-1930 Zaventem, Belgium
Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be

Local Organization Chair: Bernd Burgstaller
Technical University Vienna, Dept. of Computer-Aided Automation
Treitlstr. 1-3, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Burgstaller@auto.tuwien.ac.at

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21 Oct 2001, BLIEB/AS/DC, based on 10/A4 + modif.

Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.

Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2002 Publicity Chair

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*** Intl. Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2002
*** June 17-21, 2002, Vienna, Austria *** http://www.ada-europe.org/ ***