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Call for Participation -
BCS-FACS Evening Seminar: Evolving Critical Systems

From: "Paul.Boca@googlemail.com" <paul.boca@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional,comp.specification.z,comp.software-eng,comp.theory,comp.specification.misc
Subject: *** Evening Seminar by Prof Mike Hinchey, 28 Jan, UK: Evolving
	Critical Systems
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:45:09 -0800 (PST)

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       BCS-FACS Evening Seminar Series


             Evolving Critical Systems

        Professor Mike Hinchey (Lero, Ireland)


                  28 January 2010

                          6pm

               BCS London Offices
               First Floor,
               The Davidson Building
                5 Southampton Street
               London WC2E 7HA

        http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/london-office-guide.pdf

Increasingly software can be considered to be critical, due to the
business or other functionality which it supports. Upgrades or changes
to such software are expensive and risky, primarily because the
software has not been designed and built for ease of change.
Expertise, tools and methodologies which support the design and
implementation of software systems that evolve without risk (of failure
or loss of quality) are essential.   We address a research agenda for
building software that (a) is highly reliable and (b) retains this
reliability as it evolves, either over time or at run-time. We propose
Evolving Critical Systems as an area for research to tackle the
challenge and Outline a number of scenarios to highlight some of the
important research questions that should be asked of the community.
Given that software evolution can be seen as a compromise between cost
and risk, the most pressing question to ask is which processes,
techniques and tools are most cost-effective for evolving critical
systems?"

Refreshments will be served from 5.15pm.

The seminar is free of charge and open to everyone. If you would
like to attend, please email Paul Boca [Paul.Boca@googlemail.com]
by >>>26 January<< . Pre-registration is required.

BCS-FACS Website: http://www.bcs-facs.org

Location of venue: http://www.bcs.org/upload/pdf/london-office-guide.pdf

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Last update: 2010/01/13.