Conference announcements

Call for Participation - 1994 Ada-Belgium Seminar

In Cooperation with ACM/SIGAda

November 23, 1994

U.L.B., Brussels, Belgium

Highlights:

John Barnes will give a three hour tutorial on Ada 9X (that's right: the John Barnes...);
the latest edition of his book Programming in Ada - Plus an Overview of Ada 9X is an (optional) part of the registration package (at a special price);
thanks to ACM/SIGAda, we're able to offer early registrations a free copy of the new Ada CDROM from Walnut Creek (November Edition), i.e. a copy of the Public Ada Library (PAL) on a 2 disk set.

Call for Participation - 1994 Ada-Belgium Seminar
in Cooperation with ACM/SIGAda
November 23, 1994
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

Ada-Belgium organises its fourth annual Seminar that will focus on Ada technologies, experiences with Ada, and especially on Ada9X. Attendees will include industry, military and university representatives that are active and interested in Ada software development and management.

Programme

 8.30  Registration and coffee

 9.30  Welcome address,
       by Luc Bernard (Offis), President of Ada-Belgium.

 9.35  Tutorial: Object Oriented Programming in Ada9X - first part,
       by J.G.P. Barnes (John Barnes Informatics, UK)

11.00  Coffee break + Exhibition

11.30  Student paper: My First Experience with Ada,
       by S. De Vroey (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

11.50  Petri Nets in Ada,
       by M. Gobin (Royal Military Academy)

12.15  Lunch + Exhibition

14.00  Ada and Persistence: Realization with an OODBMS O2,
       by P. Bazex, T. Millan and F. Mulatero (Université Paul
       Sabatier, Toulouse, France)

14.20  Implementing an Efficient Fault Tolerance Mechanism in Ada 9X:
       an Early Experiment with GNAT,
       by Y. Kermarrec, L. Nana Tchamnda (ENST de Bretagne, Brest,
       France) and L. Pautet (Telecom Paris, France)

14.40  Coffee break + Exhibition

15.10  Tutorial: Object Oriented Programming in Ada9X - second part,
       by J.G.P. Barnes (John Barnes Informatics, UK)

16.40  Closing session, possibly including company presentations
       and an Ada 9X workshop

Exhibition

During the Seminar, an exhibition about the Ada-Belgium repository, the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM, the Public Ada Library, ... will be organised.

Free Offer

Copies of the Walnut Creek Ada CDROM, provided by ACM/SIGAda, will be freely distributed to the first registered participants, up to the amount available.

Location

The seminar takes place in the Auditorium A, Campus Plaine of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels. Parking facilities are available on the Campus (map available on request).

Documentation

The texts of the presentations will be (freely) delivered on the Seminar day. Moreover, during the Seminar, the last edition of John Barnes' famous book "Programming in Ada, Plus an Overview of Ada 9X" will be available at a promotional price.

Participation fee

3300 BF for Ada-Belgium members     (2000 BF without the book)
4500 BF for non-members             (3000 BF without the book)
1200 BF for students (without lunch) (200 BF without the book)

The attached registration form has to be returned, signed, preferably before November 15.

Seminar secretariat

1994 Ada-Belgium Seminar Secretariat
CP 202, Campus Plaine of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Bruxelles
Tel.: 02/650.5611, Fax: 02/650.5609
E-mail: ada@belgium.eu.net

To the Ada-Belgium home page.

Dirk Craeynest (Dirk.Craeynest@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)