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***** SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE JUNE 5 1998 *****
SIGAda '98 (formerly Tri-Ada)
Ada in Context
ACM SIGAda Annual International Conference
OMNI SHOREHAM HOTEL
WASHINGTON, DC, USA, NOVEMBER 8-12, 1998
SPONSORED BY ACM SIGADA,
IN COOPERATION WITH: SIGAPP, SIGBIO, SIGCAS, SIGCSE,
SIGPLAN, SIGSOFT, DC SIGADA, BALTIMORE SIGADA, and ADA-EUROPE.
http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sa98
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The ACM Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda) is dedicated to the
technical, business and educational issues related to the Ada
programming language. SIGAda '98, the successor to the annual Tri-Ada
exposition, will be this year's largest Ada-focused conference and is
being organized to attract participants from all segments of the
software engineering community. The SIGAda '98 conference proceedings
will be published as an issue of Ada Letters.
This year we are hoping to increase significantly the participation
of educators and students in the conference, both as authors and
conference registrants.
Ada features a proven track record in large-scale system development
and full support for object orientation, and facilitates writing
portable source programs. Ada's support for sound software engineering
is bringing the language increased attention in computing education
and across a broad range of application areas in government and
industry. Ada's unique ability to interface with software written in
other languages makes it a viable candidate for developing systems in
a multi-language environment. Current Ada projects span a spectrum
that encompasses finance, the Internet, and the Java Virtual Machine,
complementing the language's traditional context of hard real-time,
embedded systems in defense, space, industrial process control,
medical applications, commercial aviation, and ground transportation.
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The Conference Theme
We are soliciting conference contributions on the theme "Ada in
Context", pertinent to Ada or of general interest to the Ada community,
from authors inside and outside this community, in industry,
government, research, and education. Topics may include, but are not
limited to, Ada in the context of
* the Internet, the Web, and the National Information Infrastructure
* safety-critical and high-integrity applications
* multilanguage programming (e.g., Ada and Java or C++ in
collaboration)
* defense and non-defense applications
* object technology
* undergraduate, graduate, and secondary-school computing education
* pure and applied research
* software engineering practice
* the spectrum of programming languages and historical trends
* reengineering and maintenance of legacy systems
* making reuse real
* hybrid technology and COTS systems
* process improvement and the Capability Maturity Model
* software quality management
* the tension between better/cheaper/faster and reality
* the tradeoff between short-term gains and long-term quality
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EXPERIENCE REPORTS
Experience reports present timely results on the success or failure of
the application of Ada in real-world projects. Such reports will be
selected on the basis of the interest of the experience presented to
the community of Ada practitioners. You are invited to submit a 1-2
page description of the project and the key points of interest of
project experiences. Descriptions may be published in the final
program or proceedings, but a paper will not be required.
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Conference Grants for Educators
As in past years, SIGAda is offering grants to educators to attend the
conference. Grants cover the registration and tutorial fees; travel
funds are not available. More details on the grant program are
available at
http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sa98/grants.html.
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HOW TO SUBMIT
To facilitate electronic distribution to referees, kindly follow these
rules for submission. We prefer submission in the form of an ASCII or
PostScript file; other formats may be accepted, by prior arrangement
with the Program Chair.
Please deposit your contribution by anonymous ftp to
ftp://ftp.seas.gwu.edu/incoming/sigada98, and send a confirming e-mail
message to the Program Chair,Prof. Michael B. Feldman, The George
Washington University [log in to unmask]
Please be sure to write "SIGAda 98 submission" on the subject line of
the message. Please indicate the title of the submission and the names
and affiliations of authors. Identify one author as a point of contact
and provide an e-mail address, postal address, phone number and fax
number for this author. Please indicate whether a similar report on
this work has been submitted elsewhere.
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KEY DATES
* Friday, June 5, 1998: deadline for submission of experience
reports
* Monday, June 29, 1998: authors notified of acceptance
* Friday, August 14, 1998: deadline for final versions of papers and
experience reports
* November 8-12, 1998: SIGAda '98:
+ November 8-9: Tutorials
+ November 10-12: Conference
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Conference Officers
* Ed Seidewitz, General Co-Chair
DHR Technologies ([log in to unmask])
* Bill Thomas, General Co-Chair
MITRE ([log in to unmask])
* Michael Feldman, Program Chair
The George Washington University ([log in to unmask])
* Ben Brosgol, Exhibits Chair,
Aonix ([log in to unmask])
* Currie Colket, SIGAda Vice Chair for Meetings and Conferences
([log in to unmask])
* David Cook, Tutorial Chair
C.S. Draper Laboratory ([log in to unmask])
* David Harrison, Publicity Chair
Harris Technical Services Corp. ([log in to unmask])
* Hal Hart, Conference Treasurer
TRW ([log in to unmask])
* Alok Srivastava, Workshops Chair
TRW ([log in to unmask])
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Program Committee will include
* Elizabeth Adams, Richard Stockton College
* Ted Baker, Florida State University
* Brad Balfour, Objective Interface Systems
* Shan Barkataki, California State University, Northridge
* John Beidler, University of Scranton
* Jim Briggs, University of Portsmouth
* Deborah Cerino, Rome Laboratory
* Norman Cohen, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
* David Cook, C.S. Draper Laboratory
* James Cross, Auburn University
* Jerry van Dijk, Ordina Finance BV
* Dennis Frailey, Raytheon and Southern Methodist University
* Maretta Holden, Boeing
* James Hopper, SAIC
* Judy Kerner, Aerospace Corporation
* Robert Leif, AdaMed
* Karlotto Mangold, ATM Computer GmbH
* John McCormick, University of Northern Iowa
* Allen Parrish, University of Alabama
* Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog
* Erhard Ploedereder, University of Stuttgart
* Frances van Scoy, West Virginia University
* Edmond Schonberg, Ada Core Technologies and New York University
* Jag Sodhi, U.S. Army
* Alok Srivastava, TRW
* Alfred Strohmeier, University of Lausanne
* S. Tucker Taft, Intermetrics
* Joyce L. Tokar, DDC-I
* Debora Weber-Wulff, Technische Fachhochschule Berlin
* David Wood, Aonix
* Anna Yu, North Carolina A&T University
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Information on Exhibiting
The SIGAda conference, like its Tri-Ada predecessors, includes a large
and well-attended vendor exhibition. For specific information on
reserving exhibit space, please contact the Exhibits Chair,
Dr. Ben Brosgol
Tel: +1 781 221 7317
Fax: +1 781 270 6882
Email: [log in to unmask]
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