Volume XX Number 1 March 2000
Table of Contents
Message from the Chair - Ben Brosgol............................................................................................................................................. 1
Editorial Policy.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Key Contacts............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5
SIGAda Working Groups........................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Local SIGAda Chapters........................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Ada Around the World......................................................................................................................................................................... 10
1999 SIGAda Awards Winners and 2000 Nominations - Hal Hart.............................................................................................. 12
Meetings
Ada Europe.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 16
SIGAda 2000............................................................................................................................................................................................ 18
SIGAda '99 Workshop: ASIS - Extensions for Higher Level Abstractions.............................................................................. 19
Reviewed Papers
Diversely Designed Classes for Use by Multiple Tasks - Alexander Romanovsky................................................................... 25
Two Approaches to Teaching Software Components Using Ada 95 - David S. Gibson........................................................... 38
An IDL to Ada95 Mapping to Support Propagation Modeling - D. Needham, S. Demurjian, T. Peters.................................. 58
Agent Oriented Programming with Ada 95: Application to financial markets - Ferial Benachour Hait.................................... 67
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