The 5^th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies will take place in 2000 in Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany, from June 26 to 30, 2000. The conference offers a technical programme and exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, and a series of tutorials on Monday and Friday.

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The conference provides an international forum for researchers, developers and users of reliable software technologies. Presentations and discussions cover applied and theoretical work currently conducted to support the development and maintenance of software systems.

The technical programme includes keynote addresses, session papers by the international community with refereed contributions from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the USA.

Kenotes:
Support of technology development in the Information Society,
Mr. Rainer ZIMMERMANN, Head of Unit E2, European Commission, Directorate General Information Society, 200, Rue de la Loi , B - 1049 Brussels Belgium
Kingcat MCAS - Monitoring, Control and Alarm System for a luxury motor yacht implemented in Ada and Java,
Reto Weiss, Kingcat MCAS Project Manager/Software Engineer, Paranor AG, Juraweg, 3046 Wahlendorf, Switzerland
Ada after 10 years of usage - is there a commercial future?
Bryan Pflug, Chief Engineer, Simulation & Software Engineering, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle, USA

The proceedings of the conference will be published in the LNCS Series by Springer.

There will be additional short presentations on various interesting topics and two sessions, in which vendors present their commercial products.

An exhibition concurrent to the conference offers an opportunity to explore the latest developments by the commercial marketplace.

The tutorials on Monday and Friday offer an excellent opportunity for obtaining in-depth knowledge in important technologies of the field.

Potsdam is the capital of the state Brandenburg and situated a few miles west of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Both cities offer many historic and modern attractions and an exciting environment to visitors. The venue of the conference is the hotel Seminaris  specializing in conferences and meetings. It is situated at the waterfront of a picturesque lake and near the world-famous palace Sanssouci . Social events on Tuesday and Wednesday, including a musical appearance of Lady Ada, round out a week well spent to catch up on the latest developments in reliable software technologies.

The conference is supported and sponsored by
Ada Europe, Ada Deutschland e.V., ACM SIGAda, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.,
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, ACT Europe, Aonix, CAS GmbH, CSC PLOENZKE, DDC-I, Green Hills, Information Processing Ltd., Irvine, PeerLogic, PolySpace, Praxis Critical Systems and Rational.

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