Volume XX Number 1 March 2000

Table of Contents

Message from the Chair - Ben Brosgol............................................................................................................................................. 1

Newsletter Info

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

A Quarterly Publication of SIGAda,

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