halhart@AJPO.SEI.CMU.EDU (08/15/90)
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halhart
Subject: Env. Refr. Model & Sharing/Interoperability Meetings
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 90 11:03:54 EDT
From: halhart
In case you missed this announcement in other places, or just
wanted more info about this, the Environment Committee of SIGAda
is providing meeting rooms next week for those interested in
discussing (and actually working on) the two following issues:
(1) efforts to forge a community-wide consensus on a "reference model"
for software engineering environments (or at least SEE frameworks),
whose purpose would be to facilitate better normalized comparisons
of functionality between different environment products & projects,
to advance community agreements on the needed common interfaces
within SEE architectures, etc., and
(2) strategies for sharing of data and capabilities between different
SEE's (or tool suites) that were not co-designed to so interoperate.
The meetings are at the Sheraton at Redondo Beach (California) the afternoon
of Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 20-21, with Wed. Aug 22 optionally available
for those available to stay for follow-up work and writing. It will be
determined by participants on Monday whether the two topics are worked
in two parallel working groups, or are addressed as separate-but-related
parts of the same one working group.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE NOT VIEWED BY THE MEETING ORGANIZERS AS
ADA-SPECIFIC ISSUES. THE WORK BEING PROMOTED HERE IS INTENDED TO BE
FOR SEE'S FOR ANY LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. PARTICIPATION IN THE SEVERAL
PREDECESSOR AND ONGOING RELATED ACTIVITIES HAS NOT BEEN EXCLUSIVELY
ADA-ORIENTED. ALL INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS ARE WELCOME.
Previous related activities and discussions have occurred recently
in e-mail discussion groups, at the SETA1 workshop in June, and at
I.W.CASE & NIST workshops in May. A major focus of much of this
activity is a draft document titled "A Reference Model for Computer
Assisted Software Engineering Envronment Frameworks" by HP (Bristol,
England) and the European Computer Manufacturer's Association (ECMA),
which is now undergoing review as a candidate for ECMA standardization.
The NIST working group has just finished merging comments on the ECMA
draft, and these reports will be the starting point for the Aug. 20-21
meetings. A major weakness identified by the NIST WG was inadequate
description of "INTEGRATION" mechanisms in the ECMA lists of SEE
services; proposing something substantial addressing this weakness
will be a major goal of the Aug. 20-21 meeting. The reference
model work will be led by Dr. Maria (Lolo) Penedo, who led the reference
model subgroup at SETA1, organized the OMS review of the ECMA document
for NIST, and book-bossed the entire set of NIST review comments.
Hal Hart, who chaired the "Sharing between Heterogeneously Architected
Environments" panel at SETA1, will lead the 2nd working group, if
we do divide into two; it is possible that progress on the reference
model issue is a prerequisite for progress on the "sharing" issue, so
meeting as a single group most of the time is likely.
Summaries will be provided to all interested parties afterwards,
and plans will be made for subsequent cooperation between these
SIGAda working groups and related standards-making and standards-
coordination groups.
Following is the schedule for the meetings:
MONDAY, Aug. 20:
Noon-2pm: Summary of SETA1 Final Working Group reports
(an open session of broader interest)
2-5pm: Formation of discussion/working group(s),
start work
TUESDAY, Aug. 21:
3-10pm: Continue work & discussions (stop time to be
adjusted by group consensus, likely early evening)
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 22
3-10pm: Continue (optional -- for those available)
These meetings have been planned with only slight overlap with the regular
SIGAda meeting ("Spotlighting SIGAda's Working Groups") which occurs
8:30-5pm Tuesday-Thursday, and till Noon Friday, Aug. 21-24. Attendees
may make their own choice as to how much to attend of the SIGAda meeting,
but all are welcome to "take delivery" of the approx. 20 SIGAda WG
paperware and software products being distributed at this meeting
(compiler benchmarks, numerics packages, 2167A tailorings, hard real-
time guidelines, Ada 9X updates, etc.). Dr. Barry Boehm and AJPO
officials are keynoters Tuesday morning.
If you are not already registered for the meeting, there is
a meeting registration fee of $95 for SIGAda members, $125
for non-members. In addition to refreshments and meeting room facilities,
these fees buy you the large set of SIGAda working group products,
whose cost was budgetted above the registation fee; SIGAda is heavily
subsidizing this meeting and all committee/working group side-meeting
facilities in an attempt to promote real community-wide WORK, not just
normal project presentations, in a novel way.
Rooms may still be available at the Sheraton for the SIGAda group rate of
$93: 213/318-8888. The Sheraton is 6 miles (20 minutes) south of LAX.
Take Super Shuttle from LAX and save car rental or taxi fare. The
multi-faced Redondo Beach Pier is a 5-minute walk south of the Sheraton.
Hopefully we will see several of you there on Monday. If you are
coming and get a chance to reply, please send us a msg saying so.
For TERI PAYTON, SIGAda Environment Committee Chairperson,
-- Hal Hart, "Sharing" panel/working group organizer
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