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			Download CfP         Paper Submission (CLOSED)         Workshop on Exception Handling for a 21st Century Programming Language Read CfP Poster Submission Download CfP The original Call for Papers (CfP) can be downloaded in the following formats : The Call for Papers in PostScript-format (gzipped for size) The Call for Papers in PDF-format Call for Papers General Information The 6th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (Ada- Europe'2001) will take place in the year 2001 in the historic university town of Leuven, near Brussels, Belgium. The full conference will comprise a three- day technical program and exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, and parallel workshops and tutorials on Monday and Friday. For more information, visit the conference Web site at http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2001.html Schedule 16 October 2000        Submission of papers, extended abstracts and tutorial/workshop/poster proposals 11 December 2000        Notification to authors 11 January 2001        Full papers required for accepted extended abstracts 12 February 2001        Final papers (camera-ready) required 14-18 May 2001        Conference Topics The conference will provide an international forum for researchers, developers and users of reliable software technologies. Presentations and discussions will cover applied and theoretical work currently conducted to support the development and maintenance of software systems. Participants will include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government. There will be a special session on e-business and Internet-based applications, including the use of Ada in this realm. For papers, tutorials, posters and workshop proposals, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to: E-business and Internet-based applications (special session). Management of Software Development and Maintenance: Methods, Techniques and Tools. Software Quality: Quality Management and Assurance, Risk Analysis, Program Analysis, Verification, Validation, Testing of Software Systems. Software Development Methods and Techniques: Requirements Engineering, Object-Oriented Technologies, Formal Methods, Software Management Issues, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse. Software Architectures: Patterns for Software Design and Composition, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component and Class Libraries, Component Design. Tools: CASE Tools, Software Development Environments, Compilers, Browsers, Debuggers. Kinds of Systems: Real-Time Systems, Distributed Systems, Fault-Tolerant Systems, Information Systems, Safety-Critical and Secure Systems. Applications in Multimedia and Communications, Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Industry. Ada Language and Tools: Programming Techniques, Object-Oriented Programming, New Approaches in Tool Support, Bindings and Libraries, Evaluation and Comparison of Languages, Language Extension Proposals. Ada Experience Reports: Experience Reports from Projects using Ada, Management Approaches, Metrics, Comparisons with past or parallel experiences in non-Ada Projects. Education and Training. Case Studies and Experiments. Submissions Authors are invited to submit original contributions. Submissions should be in English. An extended abstract (4-6 pages) or, preferably, the full paper (up to 12 pages) should be sent using the web submission form. For more information please see the conference web page. Submissions should be in PDF, Postscript or ASCII format, and follow the LNCS instructions (see 'Proceedings' below). Submissions by other electronic formats, such as a word processor source file, or by fax are not accepted. The Web submission form is the preferred procedure. However, if you don't have access to the Internet, or you don't have an appropriate Web browser, you may send your extended abstract or paper by e-mail to the Program Co-Chair Dirk Craeynest. If electronic submission is not available, please send five paper copies. For e-mail or paper submissions, the body of the electronic message or the first page should identify the submission as a paper, extended abstract or poster, and should include in plain text: the title; name, current affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, telephone and fax of each author; the name of the designated contact person; a short abstract; and a list of keywords ordered by relevance, including, whenever possible, topics and subtopics taken from the list of topics of the conference. If the paper is submitted in Postscript, please be sure to select the option "optimize for portability" in your printer driver. To enable publication of the accepted papers before the conference, strict adherence to the dates of the schedule is essential. Authors of extended abstracts must be prepared to submit a full version of their paper before January 11, 2001. Proceedings The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer, and will be available at the start of the conference. See the LNCS Authors Instructions page ( http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ). Awards There will be honorary awards for the best paper and the best presentation. See the Ada-Europe Prizes page for previous winners. Call for Tutorials A tutorial should address any of the topics of the theme of the conference. A tutorial will last a half or full day. The proposals should include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, a detailed outline of the presentation, a description of the presenter's teaching experience in general and with the proposed topic, duration (half day or full day), level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), expected audience experience and background. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Tutorial Chair Luc Bernard. Full-day tutorial presenters get a free conference registration and receive a fee for every paying participant in excess of 5; for half-day tutorials, the benefits are also "half". Call for Workshops Half- and full-day workshops can be held to address timely issues or to initiate a longer term effort on a topic of interest. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Program Co-Chair Alfred Strohmeier. Call for Posters Poster presentations are invited exclusively from academia on on-going research projects, new concepts, and system implementations. An exhibition area will be provided and presentations will be accommodated. Submissions should be sent in PDF, Postscript or ASCII format, by e-mail to the Program Co-Chair Dirk Craeynest. Exhibition The conference will be accompanied by a three-day commercial exhibition on May 15, 16 and 17. Vendors of software products and services should contact t at their earliest convenience the Exhibition Chair Yvan Barbaix for further information and to ensure their inclusion.   [ Back to index page ]     Last Changed : 24/Oct/2000   Contents of this page : Dirk Craeynest   Webmaster : Dirk Walravens