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It is our great pleasure to announce for April 20 the first Dresden Symposium of Software- and Multimedia Technology. Three events take place, for which the programs are attached:
In the morning of April 20, we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Prof. Meißner, the founder of our study program of Multimedia Informatics with an honorary colloquium „Perspectives of Media Informatics“. Several distinguished speakers will contribute to the program. Since the media informatics study line is the largest line in Germany, and the ST group shares a big deal of the educational efforts, we are proud about „our“ event. For instance, in 2006, Prof. Aßmann has conducted more than 100 oral exams, of which about 2/3 are for media computer science students, and he can see in these exams that the line delivers many high-quality engineers, well educated in advanced design patterns, component-based software engineering, or project management. http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/content/news/pdf/einladung_ehrenkoll_web.pdf
In the afternoon, the second OUTPUT demonstration day of the study line of media informatics will take place. This is an exciting demo event with a lot of things to see in 2-D and 3-D, virtual, augmented, and full reality!
In parallel, the first „Innovationsforum Software Saxony“ will take place, with many contributions of the members of the IT-network software Saxony. There will be two exciting tracks, „Software for embedded systems“ (e.g., a talk about real-time Java in cars) and „Software Innovations in Saxony“ (e.g., a talk about the German „Gesundheitskarte“). Also, Prof. Friedrich Steimann from FU Hagen, one of the best young German computer scientists, will give a talk on interface-, aspect- and role modeling.
We look forward to an exciting day with an interesting program for industry, students, and academia. We expect 400-500 participants and a fully-boothed entrance hall. Don't miss the day, take part, meet students, or rent a booth!
In December and February, the newly-founded IT-network Software Saxony (IT-Arbeitskreis Silicon Saxony) met again. We had interesting presentations of companies in the Dresden region (SAP-SI, Communardo, itemic) and discussed the future program of the IT-network.
The web site of the IT-network has gone online (http://www.software-saxony.de)
Contact Ms Simone Happ of Telecom Multimedia Systems Dresden mailto:simone.happ@t-systems.com or register directly by email to mailto:MMS.Kundenmanagement@t-systems.com.
After the first „Innovationsforum Software Saxony“ (see above), the next meeting will take place in July 2007.
The Förderverein "Freunde und Förderder der Informatik" (FFFI), the non-profit student sponsoring organization of the Faculty of Computer Science http://www.fffi.de, looks forward to a new Alumni Ball on Oct 27, 2007 in the „Ball- und Brauhaus Watzke“. We ask all students, alumni and friends of the faculty to visit the ball. Order tickets or sponsor with Silvia.Kapplusch@tu-dresden.de.
Prof. Aßmann gave an invited talk at LDTA at the ETAPS conference in Braga, Portugal. http://www.di.uminho.pt/ldta07 The topic was how to apply role modeling in language composition and extension.
Also at ETAPS, the Software Composition 2007 (SC 2007) took place, for which Prof. Aßmann serves on the Steering Committee. The workshop had about 60 submissions and was now extended to roughly two days.
End of February, the annual meeting of the REWERSE network took place in Munich. Jakob Henriksson, Birgit Demuth, and Prof. Aßmann presented the work of the Working Group I3 „Composition and Typing“, in particular, our new composition environment REUSEWARE (http://www.reuseware.org). This meta-environment allows for the engineering of composition environments for different languages, and we are experimenting with an Xcerpt composition tool (http://www.reuseware.org/xcerptware) and an OWL/N3 environment.
Please, have a look at our new, fully reorganized OCL portal http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/oclportal
New papers:
Uwe Aßmann, Birgit Demuth, Falk Hartmann. Risiken in der Softwareentwicklung. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Technischen Universität Dresden, Band 55 (2006) Heft 3-4, 2006
New Springer Book with Contribution of ST: "Ontologies for Software Engineering and Software Technology". ST has contributed a paper "Ontologies, Metamodels, and the Model-Driven Paradigm". Here is the book http://www.springer.com/east/home?SGWID=5-102-22-173660189-0&changeHeader=true&SHORTCUT=www.springer.com/3-540-34517-5
New master's theses are available:
Holger Kampfmeyer. Formalization of Design Patterns by Means of Ontologies.
Lennart Reuther. Konsolidierung von Ressourcenbeschreibungen auf der Basis von Ontologien.
Ralph Engelmann. Wartung und Pflege von Programmversionen mittels Merge-Algorithmen.
Jendrik Johannes. Complex Composition Operators for Semantic Web Languages.
Christian Wende: Konzeption einer QVT Engine im Rahmen des Dresden OCL Toolkits
You are invited to contribute to these conferences, in which members of ST are on the Program Committee:
21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP). This year, ECOOP is coorganized by ST. http://2007.ecoop.org/ Sponsoring welcome!
On Feb 1, Prof. Aßmann took part in the program committee meeting in Aarhus. Only high-quality papers were selected (acceptance ratio about 1:6), so that we will have an interesting program.
2nd Workshop on Roles and Relationships in Object Oriented Programming, Multiagent Systems, and Ontologies at ECOOP 2007. http://normas.di.unito.it/zope/roles07, July 30-31, 2007, Berlin.
Workshop on Model-Driven Software Adaptation (M-ADAPT) at ECOOP 2007. July 30, 2007, Berlin.
REWERSE Reasoning Web Summer School, 3-7th September 2007, Dresden http://www.reasoningweb.org. We have an excellent program, including an industrial track with contribution of three companies from Dresden (T-Systems MMS, intergator, SAP CEC). PhD students, please register.
International Conference TOOLS EUROPE 2007 - Objects, Models, Components, Patterns, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 24-28 June 2007 http://tools.ethz.ch
Workshop „First Intl. Workshop on Towers of Models (TOWERS)“ at TOOLS Europe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 24-28 June 2007 http://www.model-transformation.org/TOWERS2007/ Paper deadline May 1.
Workshop "Variability Management and Programming Languages (VPML)" at TOOLS Europe, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 24-28 June 2007 http://tools.ethz.ch/callforworkshops.html. Watch out for the call for papers.
2nd International Summer School on Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering (GTTSE 07), Braga, Portugal. 2007, 02-07 July, 2007. http://www.di.uminho.pt/GTTSE2007. Please, PhD students in software engineering, register!
Prof. Aßmann will give an invited talk on aspect-oriented web services at the European Conference of Web Services (ECOWS), Nov 26-28, 2007 in Halle/Germany. Paper submission is open until June 8 http://www.ecows2007.uni-halle.de
You are invited to visit these conferences, to which members of ST group have contributed:
7th Int. Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2007) http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~hws/CBSE10, July 9-11, 2007, Medford (Boston area, USA)
Workshop on Modelling in Software Engineering at ICSE 2007. http://mse07.sse.cs.tu-bs.de/index.php, May 19-20, 2007, Minneapolis (USA)
Third European Conference on Model Driven Architecture® - Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA). Haifa – Israel, June 11 - 15, 2007, http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/ecmda2007
10th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES), April 20, 2007, Acropolis, Nice, France
7th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2007), Como, Italy, July 16-20, 2007 http://www.icwe2007.org
Feel free to contact Prof. Aßmann, if you want to collaborate in one of these research programs:
New IKT program of the German government (IKT 2010) http://www.ikt2020.de
Basic Research in EU, Framework FP 7 http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/kct/fp7.htm
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Dec 04, 2006: Prof. Luis Pereira, partner in the EU network REWERSE, received an honorate PhD degree from the Technische Universität Dresden. Prof. Luis Pereira is the inventor of definite clause grammars (DCG), the standard method of parsing in Prolog, as well as many other innovations. The degree was handed out by the rector, Prof. Hermann Kokenge, in the rector's hall. On Dec 5, a scientific workshop was held in the department in honor of Prof. Pereira, to which ST contributed a talk and a demo about the composition environment for ontologies http://www.computational-logic.org
In Oct 2006, Birgit Demuth organized the 6th OCL Workshop at the UML/MoDELS Conferences „OCL for (Meta-)Models in Multiple Application Domains (OCLApps 2006)“. The proceedings are available under http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/OCLApps2006
Recently, the ST group published a press release about our SuReal BMBF project on MDA for real-time software, available under http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/article.php?node_id=1&ln=de&article_id=114. The SuReal project is part of the Software Engineering initiative 2006, and is our flagship project for adding verification to MDA, to end at quality-driven development. Simone Röttger, Mirko Seifert and Katja Lehmann design a UML profile for real-time, develop a translator to a model checker language, and design a process to guide the real-time software engineer in the development http://www.sureal-projekt.org.
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Prof. Uwe Aßmann
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Software Engineering
Technische Universität Dresden
Fakultät
für Informatik
Institut für Software- und
Multimediatechnik
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