SIGAda 2002
Summary Conference Schedule
Note that any presentations shown below in red have been cancelled for the conference; however, the paper will be in the SIGAda 2002 Conference Proceedings.
Sunday, December 8
TUTORIAL PROGRAM
Full-Day Tutorials (9:00am - 5:30pm)
SF1 Introduction to Ada and Ada 95
David Cook, Ph.D. (Shim Enterprise),
Les Dupaix (Software Technology Support Center), and
Eugene Bingue, Ph.D. (Independent Consultant)
SF2 CORBA for Embedded Systems
S. Ron Oliver, Ph.D. (caress Corporation)
SF3 Common Criteria, Information Assurance, and Implications for the Ada Community
Michael McEvilley (Decisive Analytics Corporation)
7:00 - 9:00pm
 Workshop: Ada Semantic Interface Specification Working Group / Rapporteur Group (ASISWG/ASISRG)


Monday, December 9
Full-Day Tutorials (8:30am - 5:00pm)
MF1 SPARK - An Intensive Overview
Rod Chapman (Praxis Critical Systems)
Morning Tutorials (8:30am - 12:00 Noon)
MA1 Introduction to Tasking
Les Dupaix (Software Technology Support Center) and
Eugene Bingue, Ph.D. (Independent Consultant)
MA2 Implementing Design Patters in Ada 95
Matthew Heaney (On2 Technologies)
Afternoon Tutorials (1:30pm - 5:00pm)
MP1 Exceptions
Currie Colket (MITRE Corporation)
MP2 Embedded / Real-Time Ada95
Pat Rogers (Independent Consultant)
7:00 - 11:00pm
SIGAda Extended Executive Committee (EEC) Meeting
(Open to all)


Tuesday, December 10
9:00 - 10:30am Greetings from SIGAda Chair, Vice Chair for Meetings and Conferences, and Conference Chair

Introduction of Conference Officers and SIGAda Officers

Keynote Address:
The Impact of Free/Open Source Software on Software Engineering
Robert Dewar (Ada Core Technologies)

10:30 - 11:00am Mid-morning Break - Exhibits Open
11:00am - 12:20
 Industrial Strength Exception Freedom
Peter Amey and Roderick Chapman (Praxis Critical Systems, Ltd.)

Ada, CMM Level 4, and the C-130J Aircraft
Richard Conn (Lockheed Martin)

Automatic Detection of Runtime Errors Before Compilation
Chris Hote (PolySpace Technologies)

12:20 - 1:30pm
Mid-day Break and Exhibits
1:30 - 3:20 pm
 Invited Paper: The National Ignition Facility: Early Operational Experience with a Large Ada Control System
Robert Carey (Lawrence Livermore Laboratory)

Development of Distributed, Cross-Platform Simulator
Thomas C. Brooke

COTS Safety Critical Solutions
Greg Gicca (Aonix)

3:20 - 4:00pm
Afternoon Break & Exhibits
4:00 - 5:30pm WG9 Forum: WG9 is working to amend the Ada language to support the needs of the user community. A WG9 representative will provide a briefing on the plans for amending the Ada language for the 2005 timeframe. This presentation will nurture thinking about Ada language issues and their proposed solutions. It will prepare conference attendees for the events on Thursday morning when WG9 gathers feedback on the proposed solutions.
5:30pm
Adjourn
7:00 - 9:00pm
Conference Reception / Dinner


Wednesday, December 11
9:00- 10:30am
Announcements

SIGAda Awards

Keynote Address:
Ada: One Maverick's Perspective of Its Past, Present, and Potential for the Future
[Definitions: "Maverick: 1) an unbranded animal; 2) a person not labeled as belonging to any one party, faction, etc. who acts independently" specially in Texas]
Charles McKay (University of Houston at Clear Lake)

10:30 - 11:00am
Mid-morning Break and Exhibits
11:00am - 12:30pm Weaving Ada 95 Into the .NET Environment
Martin C. Carlisle, Rickey E. Sward, and Jeffrey W. Humphries (US Air Force Academy)

An Architectural Framework for Supporting Distributed Object Based Routing
Dhavy Gantsou (University of Valenciennes)

Visual Ada Developer
Leonid Dulman (DES Inc.)

12:30 - 2:00pm
Mid-day Break and Exhibits
2:00 - 3:50pm
Keynote Address:
The Essence of Information Assurance and Why It is Important to the Ada Community
Michael McEvilley (Decisive Analytics Corporation)

The Anatomy of an FAA-Qualifiable Ada Subset Compiler
V. Santhanam (Boeing)

Embedded Ada Solutions
Eddie Glenn (Rational Software)

3:50 - 4:30pm
Afternoon Break
4:30 - 6:00pm
 Creating a Symbiotic Relationship Between XML and Ada
Robert C Leif (Ada_Med)

Developing a Generic Genetic Algorithm
Melvin Neville and Anaika Sibley (Northern Arizona University)

Experimental Performance Analysis of Ada95 and Java Parallel Programs on SMP Systems
Dmitry Korochkin and Sergey Korochkin (National Technical University of Ukraine)

SafeBuild for Critical Software Developments
Pierre Dissaux (TNI-Valiosys)

Esteral Technologies Presentation
TBD (Esterel Technologies)

6:00 - 7:00pm Evening Break
7:00 - 11:00pm
 Workshop: Ada Application Program Interfaces Management

Workshop: Portable Common Tool Environment (PCTE) - Portable Common Interface Set (PCIS)

Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions (contact Workshops Chair to propose a BoF)


Thursday, December 12
9:00 - 11:30am
 WG9 Forum: WG9 will conduct workshops to address the five major areas where enhancements to the Ada Language are projected:
  • Real Time Features
  • High Integrity Features
  • Static Error Detection
  • Interfaces to Other Languages
  • Object Oriented Features
SIGAda 2002 attendees have the opportunity to discuss alternatives and provide feedback for the evolution of Ada.
11:30am - 12:00 noon
Short Break
12:00 - 1:00pm
 Forum: SIGAda, Its Mission and Future
Currie Colket (SIGAda Chair) and David Harrison (SIGAda Vice Chair for Meetings and Conferences)
1:00pm Closing Comments


WG9 Forums

Tuesday, December 10, 4:00pm

The ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22 WG9 is currently working to amend the Ada language to support the needs of the user community. A WG9 representative will provide a briefing on the plans for amending the Ada language for the 2005 timeframe. This presentation will nurture thinking about Ada language issues and their proposed solutions. It will prepare conference attendees for the events on Thursday morning when WG9 gathers feedback on the proposed solutions.

Thursday, December 12, 9:00am

WG9 will conduct workshops to address the five major areas where enhancements to the Ada Language are projectd:

  • Real Time Features
  • High Integrity Features
  • Static Error Detection
  • Interfaces to Other Languages
  • Object Oriented Features
SIGAda 2002 attendees have the opportunity to discuss alternatives and provide feedback for the evolution of Ada.


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updated 2 December 2002 - cgr