Judy.Bamberger@SEI.CMU.EDU (12/14/90)
Attached is, once again, the call for papers for TRI-Ada '91. Please note that
we are trying to broaden the attendance and appeal of the event. We are
looking for good papers dealing with Ada technical issues, of course, but also
education and management issues as well. Transition and barrier-blasting
ideas are also solicited (in fact, there were a few sessions on just those
issues, and they were well attended).
What this means is that there is the opportunity for involvement across the
full spectrum of software engineering spectrum. We are soliciting papers,
panels, tutorials, experience reports, workshops, birds-of-a-feather, etc -
that focus on Ada and software engineering issues. Full-fledged tracks will
emphasise management issues, education and training, and technical issues, with
standards and policies addressed within each as appropriate. TRI-Ada offers an
opportunity to *demonstrate* technology as well as talk and meet people.
Traditionally, organizations have used TRI-Ada as one mechanism by which many
projects can do broad-brush transition of their technologies and marketing of
corporate and individual strengths and skills. I encourage you all to consider
how best you, your project, and your organization can become involved. Please
disseminate this in your organization; thank you!
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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
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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)
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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).
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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.
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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Tutorial length:
Full day (6 hours) or
Half day (3 hours)
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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]
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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.
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