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From: John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: SIGAda 2007 extended early registration rates Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:04:49 -0700 SIGAda 2007 has extended its early registration rates through November 1st! This allows everyone to take advantage of the lower rates during the time that the government is working under a Continuing Resolution (CR) for appropriations. Note that current policy regarding a Continuing Resolution does not prohibit attendance at conference tutorials, workshops, and sessions which are directly related and relevant to current duties and responsibilities of software engineers, information technology specialists, IT security engineers, managers, etc. Such attendance is justified and can currently be funded by the federal government. The SIGAda 2007 conference falls under this policy. As the SIGAda 2007 conference is scheduled shortly after the government's new fiscal year, we encourage all federal government employees and contractors to take this opportunity to attend and register using the early registration rates, now extended through November 1st to everyone. More information is available on our website at http://www.sigada.org/conf/sigada2007/ SIGAda 2007 includes Tutorials on Exposing Ada Web Services Using a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Ada 2005, Security by Construction, and Languages for Safety-Critical Software: Issues and Assessment DO178/DO278. It also includes Technical Papers such as High Assurance Profile for CORBA, Neural Networks, and SPARK Ada. Exhibitors are Lockheed Martin, AdaCore, OC Systems, Praxis, Northrop Grumman, Telelogic, Genco Systems, ARTiSAN Software, Ellidiss Software, Aonix, and Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. The workshops include a Two-Day Summit on Software Analysis sponsored by NIST and the Department of Homeland Security. All the Workshops are free with a minimum one-day conference registration. The conference will have a grand Banquet on Tuesday evening with outstanding Ethnic Cultural Performances. As a recent note of interest to the Ada community, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has just announced Government Acceptance of a multi billion dollar Ada based core Air Traffic Control System developed on budget and ahead of schedule (see http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=7714 for details).
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:42:03 -0400 From: "Roby, Clyde G" <roby@IDA.ORG> Subject: SIGAda 2007 Conference Approaching To: SIGADA-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG ACM SIGAda Annual International Conference November 4-9, 2007 Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC, USA Join us this year in Fairfax (Washington DC) from November 4th through the 9th for the annual ACM SIGAda Conference. This year's program includes two and a half days of technical presentations from researchers, academia and industry. Topics include Using Ada in a Service-Oriented Architecture, Languages for Safety-Critical Software (DO-178B/DO-278), Security by Construction, etc. Our conference also includes two days of outstanding tutorials led by some of the most respected technical leaders in the industry. The conference will also have a two-day Workshop on Static Analysis sponsored by NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology). All the Workshops are free with minimum one day registration. We have three outstanding keynote speakers this year. Joe Jarzombek, National Cyber Security, US Government Wanted: Software with Assurance Built-in Jeff O'Leary, FAA Federal Aviation Administration and Ada (Next-Gen ATC Systems) Rod Chapman, Praxis High-Integrity Systems Correctness by Construction: Putting Engineering (Back) into Software! Large Ada user corporations such as Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are one of the sponsors of the conference. Important dates: (you can request an extension) Hotel rate deadline: October 04, 2007 Early registration: October 08, 2007 You can find more detailed information in the Advance Program on the conference web site. Link to Advance Program: http://www.sigada.org/conf/sigada2007/advance-program.html SIGAda 2007 web site: http://www.sigada.org/conf/sigada2007/ If you need a few days beyond the early rate cutoff date, contact our Registration Chair (contract information on the web site) and request an extension. For an extension to the hotel rate availability, please contact me. See you in Fairfax, Virginia! Conference hotel is close to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy National Space Museum http://www.nasm.si.edu/udvarhazy/ home of Space Shuttle Enterprise. Alok Srivastava ACM SIGAda 2007 Conference Chair
From: John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Call for SIGAda Award Nominations
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:09:43 -0700
Dear Members of the Ada Community:
On Wednesday, 7 November 2007, the 2007 SIGAda Awards will be
presented in a special morning plenary session at the SIGAda 2007
conference in Fairfax, VA. (See http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2007/
if you have somehow missed announcements of this year's annual SIGAda
international conference.)
We welcome your nominations of deserving recipients.
The ACM SIGAda Awards recognize individuals and organizations who have
made outstanding contributions to the Ada community and to SIGAda.
The two categories of awards are:
(1) Outstanding Ada Community Contribution Award
-- For broad, lasting contributions to Ada technology & usage.
(2) ACM SIGAda Distinguished Service Award
-- For exceptional contributions to SIGAda activities & products.
Please consider who should be nominated this year. You may nominate a
person for either or both awards, and as many people as you think
worthy. One or more awards will be made in both categories.
Please visit http://www.acm.org/sigada/exec/awards/awards.html#Recipients
and peruse the names of past winners. This may help you think about
the measure of accomplishment that is appropriate. You may be aware
of people who have made substantial contributions that have not yet
been acknowledged. Nominate them. Consider what you believe to be the
best developments in the Ada community or SIGAda in the last year; the
last 5 years; since Ada's inception. Who was responsible? Nominate
them.
Please note that anyone who has received either of the two awards
remains eligible for the other. Perhaps there is an outstanding
SIGAda volunteer who has won our Distinguished Service Award and who
has also made important contributions to the advance of Ada
technology, or visa versa. Nominate him or her!
The nomination form is available on the SIGAda website at
http://www.acm.org/sigada/exec/awards/awards.html. (You need to visit
this website to see past award winners' names, and also a picture of
the statuette which is the award among other things, so you don't
nominate someone who has already won an award in a category.) Submit
your nomination as an e-mail or e-mail attachment to SIGAda-
Award@ACM.ORG.
The ACM SIGAda Awards Committee, comprised of volunteers who have
previously won an award, will determine this year's recipients from
your nominations.
Call our attention to the people who are most deserving, by nominating
them. And please nominate by OCTOBER 15!
Your participation in the nominations process will help maintain the
prestige and honor of these awards.
Thank you,
John McCormick
Chair ACM SIGAda
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:47:17 -0400
From: SIGAda Webmaster <roby@ida.org>
Subject: Monthly Reminder for SIGAda
To: SIGADA-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
Message for August 2007:
Don't forget about our annual SIGAda conference:
o SIGAda 2007
Washington, DC, USA
4-8 November 2007
http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2007/
Don't forget about other upcoming Ada-related conferences:
o Ada Conference UK 2007
Manchester, UK
25 September 2007
[http://www.ada-uk-conference.co.uk/]
o Ada-Europe 2008
13th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies
Venice, Italy
16-20 June 2008
http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2008.html
o Systems & Software Technology Conference (SSTC) 2008
Denver, CO, USA
2008
http://www.sstc-online.org/
o IRTAW-14 (14th International Real-Time Ada Workshop)
and:
o Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2007
Portland, Oregon, USA
12-15 August 2007
http://www.podc.org/
o ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2008)
Portland, Oregon, USA
12-15 March 2008
http://www.cs.duke.edu/sigcse08/
o ITiCSE (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education) 2008
School of Industrial Engineering, Madrid, Spain
June 2008
o DASIA (DAta Systems In Aerospace) 2008
[...]
Clyde Roby, SIGAda Secretary
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 21:05:22 -0400 From: Michael Feldman <mfeldman@GWU.EDU> Subject: REMINDER: May 16 submission deadline for SIGAda 2007 conference To: TEAM-ADA@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Hello everyone, I just want to take a minute of your time to remind you that submissions are due May 16 for the ACM SIGAda 2007 International Conference, which will take place in Washington, DC, Nov. 4-8. The Call for Participation is on the web at http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2007/ This is a very broad CfP; you should bear in mind that the conference is [among others] actively soliciting papers in computing education and CSE research, especially regarding education at all levels in areas of importance to the Ada community: real-time, reliable, and safety-critical software systems. Ada 2005, ISO/IEC 8652, was formally approved by ISO [...] in January 2007. Full Ada 2005 compilers for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh are available under the GNU General Public License from http://libre.adacore.com . Among the many important systems in which Ada has a strong presence are the Boeing 777 and 787, the FAA Air Traffic Control system, and the European high-speed rail system, including the new French line on which the new speed record of 574.8 km/h was set on April 3. Note that educator grants are available to cover conference and tutorial registration. Thanks for your time; I hope to see you at the conference! Michael Feldman The George Washington University Publicity Chair, SIGAda 2007
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:08:53 -0400
From: Clyde Roby <roby@IDA.ORG>
Subject: SIGAda and Conferences reminder
To: SIGADA-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
Message for April 2007:
Don't forget about our annual SIGAda conference:
o SIGAda 2007
Washington, DC, USA
4-8 November 2007
http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2007/
Don't forget about other upcoming Ada-related conferences:
o IRTAW-13 (13th International Real-Time Ada Workshop)
Woodstock, Vermont, USA
17-19 April 2007
http://www.adaresource.org/irtaw13/
o Systems & Software Technology Conference (SSTC) 2007
Tampa Bay, Florida, USA
18-21 June 2007
http://www.sstc-online.org/
o Ada-Europe 2007
Geneva, Switzerland
25-29 June 2007
http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2007.html or
http://adae2007.eig.ch/
and:
o ITiCSE 2007 (Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education)
Dundee, Scotland
25-27 June 2007
http://iticse2007.computing.dundee.ac.uk/
o DASIA (DAta Systems In Aerospace) 2007
Naples, Italy
29 May to 1 June 2007
http://perso.orange.fr/eurospace/dasia.html
o [ duplicates removed; see above -- dc ]
[...]
Clyde Roby, SIGAda Secretary
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:43:09 -0400
From: Michael Feldman <mfeldman@GWU.EDU>
Subject: Call for Participation: SIGAda 2007 International Conference
To: SIGADA-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
Please accept our apology if you receive several copies of this message.
We can't remove duplicates from a variety of listserv lists.
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SIGAda 2007
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Call for Participation - SIGAda 2007
ACM SIGAda Annual International Conference
Submission Due Date: 16 May 2007
Conference on Software Development for
Safety, Security, and High Reliability Systems
November 4-8, 2007
Washington, DC, USA
Sponsored by ACM SIGAda, the ACM Special Interest Group on Ada
http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2007/
(Approval pending by ACM)
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SUMMARY
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Constructing high reliability software is an engineering challenge that can
now be met in many domains. The application of software engineering methods,
tools, and languages interrelate to make the challenge easier or more
difficult.
This conference focuses on safety, security and high reliability systems and
the issues related to their development. Topics such as applied software
engineering principles, conforming to specific safety or security standards,
testing philosophies, programming language selection, etc. will be discussed.
The conference will gather industrial experts, educators, software engineers,
and researchers interested in developing, analyzing, and certifying reliable,
cost-effective software. Technical or theoretical papers as well as experience
reports with a focus on, or comparison with, Ada are solicited. Possible
topics include but are not limited to:
* Safety, security and high integrity development issues
* Language selection for a high reliability system:
Ada, C, C++, Java, C#, or others
* Use of high reliability subsets or dialects:
Java HIP, MISRA C, Ravenscar, SPARK, etc.
* High reliability standards and their issues:
DO-178B, EIC 61508, FDA, SAE, CC, EAL, etc.
* Process and quality metrics
* Analysis, Testing, and Validation
* Use of ASIS for new Ada tool development
* Mixed-language development
* Quality Assurance
* Performance Analysis
* High reliability software engineering education
* High reliability development experience reports
* Real-time networking/quality of service guarantees
* Fault tolerance and recovery
* Distributed system load balancing
* Static and dynamic code analysis
* Debugging complex systems
* Integrating COTS software components
* System Architecture & Design
* Information Assurance in the age of terrorism
* Use of new Ada 2005 features/capabilities
* Ada products evaluated per Common Criteria, Protection Profiles,
or Security Targets
HOW YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE
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SIGAda 2007 is interested in receiving contributions in six major
categories: Technical Articles, Extended Abstracts, Experience Reports,
Workshops, Panel Sessions, and Tutorials. Contributions from students
are actively solicited.
* TECHNICAL ARTICLES present significant results in research,
practice, or education. These papers will be double-blind refereed
and published in the Conference Proceedings and in Ada Letters.
Articles will also be considered for poster presentations.
Please submit Technical Articles by 16 May 2007 to the Program
Chair, Leemon C. Baird III (leemon.baird at usafa.af.mil).
* EXTENDED ABSTRACTS discuss current work for which early submission
of a full paper may be premature. If your abstract is accepted,
you will be expected to produce a full paper, which will appear in
the proceedings. Extended abstracts will be double-blind refereed.
Clearly state the contribution of the work being described, its
relationship with previous work by you and others (with
bibliographic references), results to date, and future directions.
Please submit Extended Abstracts by 16 May 2007 to the Program
Chair, Leemon C. Baird III (leemon.baird at usafa.af.mil).
* EXPERIENCE REPORTS present timely results on the application of Ada
and related technologies to the design and implementation of
applications such as the following: avionics, aerospace, automobile,
command and control, consumer electronics, process control,
transportation, trading systems, energy, medical systems,
simulation, telecommunications, etc. 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 will be published in the final program or
proceedings, but a paper will not be required.
Please submit Experience Reports by 16 May 2007 to the Program
Chair, Leemon C. Baird III (leemon.baird at usafa.af.mil).
* WORKSHOPS are focused work sessions, which provide a forum for
knowledgeable professionals to explore issues, exchange views, and
perhaps produce a report on a particular subject. A list of planned
workshops and requirements for participation will be published in
the SIGAda 2007 Advance Program. Workshop proposals will be
evaluated by the Program Committee and selected based on their
applicability to the conference and potential for attracting
participants. Proposals should state the problem or issue to be
addressed, the coordinator(s), and criteria for participant
selection.
Please submit Workshop proposals by 16 May 2007 to the Workshops
Chair, Bill Thomas (BThomas@MITRE.org).
* PANEL SESSIONS gather a group of experts on a particular topic who
present their views and then exchange views with each other and the
audience. Panel proposals should be 1-2 pages in length, identifying
the topic, coordinator, and potential panelists.
Please submit Panel Session Proposals by 16 May 2007 to the Program
Chair, Leemon C. Baird III (leemon.baird at usafa.af.mil).
* TUTORIALS offer the flexibility to address a broad spectrum of
topics relevant to Ada, and those enabling technologies which make
the engineering of Ada applications more effective. Submissions
will be evaluated based on relevance, suitability for presentation
in tutorial format, presenter's expertise, and past performance.
Tutorial proposals should include the expected level of experience
of participants, an abstract or outline, the qualifications of the
instructor(s), and the length of the tutorial.
Please submit Tutorial proposals by 16 May 2007 to the Tutorials
Chair, David A. Cook (DCook at AEgisTG.Com).
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Final acceptance will be contingent on at least one co-author
registering for and presenting the contribution at the Conference.
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* OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARD. An award will be given to the
student author(s) of the paper selected by the program committee
as the outstanding student contribution to the conference.
* VENDORS. Please contact S. Ron Oliver (SROliver at CSC.CalPoly.Edu)
for information about participation at SIGAda 2007.
Please submit any questions on the conference to the Conference Chair,
Alok Srivastava (Alok.Srivastava at AUATAC.Com).
IMPORTANT VISA INFORMATION FOR NON-US SUBMITTERS
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General Visa Information
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The sites http://www.UnitedStatesVisas.gov and http://travel.state.gov have
information about obtaining a visa for those traveling to the United States.
Both sites have links to websites for U.S. embassies and consulates
worldwide. The embassy and consulate websites have very helpful information
about procedures, timelines, communities served, required documentation,
and fees.
Letters from ACM
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International registrants should be particularly aware and careful about
visa requirements, and should plan travel well in advance. All visa
inquiries must be handled by ACM Headquarters. Please send your request for
a letter in support of a visa application to Ashley Cozzi (acozzi at acm.org),
and include your name, mailing address, and fax number, as well as the name
of the conference you are attending. (Authors of papers/posters should also
include the title). Please note that ACM does not issue formal "letters
of invitation" to any of its conferences.
(end of announcement)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 06:23:18 -0500
From: Clyde Roby <roby@IDA.ORG>
Subject: SIGAda and Conferences reminder
To: SIGADA-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG
Message for February 2007:
Don't forget about our annual SIGAda conference:
o SIGAda 2007
Washington, DC, USA
4-8 November 2007
http://www.acm.org/sigada/conf/sigada2007/
Don't forget about other upcoming Ada-related conferences:
o [ duplicates removed; see above -- dc ]
and:
o SIGCSE 2007
Covington, KY, USA
7-10 March 2007
http://www.cs.potsdam.edu/sigcse07/
o [ duplicates removed; see above -- dc ]
[...]
Clyde Roby, SIGAda Secretary
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 06:40:02 -0500 From: Clyde Roby <roby@IDA.ORG> Subject: SIGAda and Conferences reminder To: SIGADA-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG Message for December 2006: [ deleted; see updated version above -- dc ]
The ACM SIGAda'2007 Conference will be held in Washington, DC, USA. The date of the event is from Sunday November 4 until Thursday November 8, 2007.
The SIGAda'2007 Conference web site will be available shortly.
ACM SIGAda Extended Executive Committee Meeting
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, Mon Nov 13, 2006
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