Choose-news January 2006

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CHOOSE Talk in Bern - Wed Feb 1 - Joseph Pelrine - How Agile Works -- Complexity and Agility

by Oscar Nierstrasz

The CHOOSE executive board is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Joseph Pelrine (MetaProg) on 'How Agile Works -- Complexity and Agility'. This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members, even the drinks after the talk! Non-CHOOSE members are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/si-appl.html) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit http://www.choose.s-i.ch/. NOTE: registration for this event is required. Please fill out the registration form at the end of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How Agile Works -- Complexity and Agility ========================================= When: Wednesday, February 1, 2006 Where: Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 002 (<= NB *** not 001! ***) Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/ Speaker ------- Joseph Pelrine Agenda ------ 17h15-18h30 Talk and Q/A Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment. Abstract ======== The use of so-called "Agile" methods such as eXtreme Programming and Scrum has helped many software projects to success, although it’s not always clear why and how. An understanding of the roots of agility, though, is is a requirement for adopting and adapting agile processes in organizations. New research in the field of social complexity theory provides an explanation for when and how agile methods work. By using techniques from this relatively new field, developers and managers can more easily adapt agile methods to the idiosyncracies of specific organizations and projects, are more aware of weak signals that can lead to problems, and can design interventions to correct them. This talk provides a short introduction to social complexity theory, especially the Cynefin multi-ontological sense-making framework, and illustrates its application to agile software development. Bio === Joseph Pelrine is C*O of MetaProg, a company devoted to increasing the quality of software and its development process, and is one of Europe's leading experts on eXtreme Programming as well as Europe's first certified ScrumMaster Practitioner and Trainer. He has had a successful career as software developer, project manager and consultant, and has spoken about it at such diverse places as IBM, OOPSLA and the Chaos Computer Club. His work focus is on field of social complexity and its application to Agile processes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ------------ Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail! Fill in the form below and sent it to <mailto:choose@glue.ch>. Thanks. I want to register to the following event: ___ Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ZIP/City:______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member [ ] JUGS member [ ] SI member [ ] Non-Member

18 years, 10 months

CHOOSE Talk CANCELLED - Jan 24, 2006 - Pierre Alain Muller

by Oscar Nierstrasz

Due to unexpected circumstances, the CHOOSE Talk by Pierre Alain Muller, planned for today, Jan. 24, 2006 at 17h15, has had to be cancelled. Please pass this information on to any colleagues who were planning to attend, and accept our apologies for the last minute change of plans. Kind regards, Oscar Nierstrasz --- Prof. Dr. O. Nierstrasz -- Oscar.Nierstrasz(a)iam.unibe.ch Software Composition Group -- http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg University of Berne -- Tel/Fax +41 31 631.4618/3355 vcard: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~oscar/oscarNierstrasz.vcf

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REMINDER -- CHOOSE talk in Bern Tue Jan 24 @ 17h15 -- Two or three things I have learned about model-driven development

by CHOOSE

The CHOOSE executive board and the Software Composition Group of the University of Berne are pleased to invite you to a presentation. When: Tuesday 24th of January, 2006, @17h15 Where: Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universität Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hörsaal 001 Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/ Title: ==== Two or three things I have learned about model-driven development Abstract: Model-driven development (MDD) of software applications is currently gaining a lot of attention. On one hand, the OMG (Object-Management Group) is undertaking a significant standardization effort to promote the MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) initiative, a body of standards for model-driven development. On the other hand, practitioners try to understand what MDD is meaning for them and how this approach might affect the software development processes. In both cases, early experience reports are relevant to better understand how the MDD vision can be turned into reality. In this talk we report on the experience gathered in developing and using a model-driven CASE tool for Web information systems. Hopefully, lots of this experience can be generalized and applied to other kinds of model-driven developments. This talk will highlight the issues encountered, detail their rationales and consequences and offer general statements of direction widely applicable to model-driven development, so that this experience may be useful to any kind of MDD effort. Bio: === Pierre-Alain Muller is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Mulhouse, France; he is currently spending two years with INRIA in Rennes, France. His research interests include software engineering and model-driven engineering; he is leading the Kermeta meta-language development, and coordinating the RNTL OpenEmbeDD project. Before joining academia, he has been CEO of ObjeXion Software from 1999 to 2002 and consultant with Rational Software from 1988 to 1993. He has authored "Instant UML" in 1997 and founded the <<UML>> series of conferences (with J. Bezivin) in 1998. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is free even the drinks after the talk! Non-CHOOSE members are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/si-appl.html) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit http://www.choose.s-i.ch/. NOTE: registration for this event is required because we have to prepare the apero. Please fill out the registration form at the end of this e-mail. REGISTRATION ------------ Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail! Fill in the form below and sent it to <mailto:choose@glue.ch>. Thanks. I want to register to the following event: Contract-Based Testing Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ZIP/City:______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member [ ] JUGS member [ ] SI member [ ] Non-Member

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26.1.06: Swiss Open Business Lunch in Bern

by Ursula Burri

Sehr geehrtes CHOOSE-Mitglieder Die Swiss Open Systems User Group lädt Sie ein, sich für den nächsten Swiss Open Business Lunch vom 26.1.06 anzumelden: 11.45 Uhr: Fédéral Entrecôte Café, Bärenplatz 31, Bern/BE (vor dem Bundeshaus), Tel.: 031 311 16 24 Pascal Habegger, 4teamwork, hält zu Beginn einen Kurzvortrag zum Thema: Subversion - Was ist anders als bei CVS Abstract: Das Kurzreferat gibt einen praxis-orientierten Ueberblick über die Versionsverwaltung mit Subversion. Bio: Pascal Habegger, 1970, Informatikstudium/Dissertation an der Universität Bern, Mitinhaber 4teamwork GmbH. Seit mehr als drei Jahren als Leiter der Entwicklung für 4teamwork, Bern tätig. Hier ist er verantwortlich für die Entwicklung Internet-basierter Plattformen auf der Basis der OSS-Produkte Zope und Plone. Gerne erwarten wir Ihre Anmeldung unter <http://www.ch-open.ch/events/lunchbe.html> bis zum 25.1.06. Mit freundlichen Gruessen Ursula Burri -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Swiss Open Systems User Group Tel.: +41 1 350 26 56 (freitags) /ch/open Fax: +41 1 350 26 55 Postfach 2322 E-mail: <mailto:info@ch-open.ch> CH-8033 Zuerich WWW: <http://www.ch-open.ch> Sekretariat Ursula Burri E-mail: <mailto:uburri@ch-open.ch> /ch/open ist Mitglied von ICTswitzerland <http://www.ictswitzerland.ch/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Systems for open minded people!

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Free Java7 and C#3.0 new Feature conference

by stéphane ducasse

The Logiciels and Systèmes team of the LISTIC, IMUS (Institute of Management) of the University of Savoie and Thesame would like to invite you to the free presentation: Comparing C# 3.0 and Java 7 New Features, the 7th february 2006 at 17h30 at l'Espace Rencontre du Parc des Glaisins. During this unique presentation in France, the new features of C#3.0 and Java 7 will be presented by two international and renowned speakers. We are proud to receive two prestigious invitees Gilad Bracha from Sun Microsystems and Mads Torgersen from Microsoft Research. Tuesday, february the 7 th at 17h30 Espace Rencontre du Parc des Glaisins Annecy le Vieux. More Information at: http://www.listic.univ-savoie.fr/~ducasse/ Events.html ------------- L'équipe Logiciels et Systèmes du laboratoire LISTIC, l'IMUS (Institut de Management) de l'Université de Savoie et Thesame sont heureux de vous inviter à une conférence unique en France : Comparing C# 3.0 and Java 7 New Features. Cette conference qui se fera en anglais est destinee en particulier aux professionnels curieux d'en savoir plus sur les langages de développement que sont C# et Java. Durant cette conférence les futures fonctionalités de C#3.0 et de Java 7 seront présentées par deux experts mondialement reconnus: Dr. Gilad Bracha de Sun Microsystems et Mads Torgersen de Microsoft Research. Cette conférence, ouverte à tous, aura lieu: le Mardi 7 Fevrier a 17h30 à l'Espace Rencontre du Parc des Glaisins à Annecy le Vieux. Plus d'information a: http://www.listic.univ-savoie.fr/~ducasse/Events.html -------------

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Thu Feb 9 - Uni BE - Gilad Bracha - CHOOSE talk - Objects as Software Services: Toward a World without Releases

by Oscar Nierstrasz

The CHOOSE executive board is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Gilad Bracha (Sun Microsystems) on 'Objects as Software Services: Toward a World without Releases'. This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members, even the drinks after the talk! Non-CHOOSE members are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/si-appl.html) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit http://www.choose.s-i.ch/. NOTE: registration for this event is required. Please fill out the registration form at the end of this e-mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Objects as Software Services: Toward a World without Releases ============================================================= Feb 9, 2006 Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 001. Travel instructions: http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Resources/Maps/ Speaker ------- Gilad Bracha, Computational Theologist & Distinguished Engineer - Java SE Sun Microsystems Agenda ------ 17h15 Talk and Q/A Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment. Abstract ======== Software services seek to combine the advantages of traditional client applications and web services. Software services go beyond web services in supporting rich interaction when networks are slow, unreliable or nonexistent. At the same time, software services retain the advantages associated with web services: they are always available and always up to date. Software services have the potential to radically transform software development, as they enable a world without versions and releases. We discuss the advantages of dynamic object oriented language principles in facilitating the design of an object based platform for software services. Bio === Gilad Bracha is a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He is co-author and maintainer of the Java Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of object- oriented programming languages. Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION ------------ Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail! Fill in the form below and sent it to <mailto:choose@glue.ch>. Thanks. I want to register to the following event: ___ Name: ______________________________________ Email: ______________________________________ Company: ______________________________________ Address: ______________________________________ ZIP/City:______________________________________ Please check: [ ] CHOOSE member [ ] JUGS member [ ] SI member [ ] Non-Member

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[choose] Service-oriented Computing - Fundamentals of Modern Internet Technologies

by Igor Metz

The CHOOSE executive board and the Institut für Informatik der Universität Zürich are pleased to invite you to a presentation. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Service-oriented Computing - Fundamentals of Modern Internet Technologies. ========================================================================== When: Thursday January 12, 2006, @17h15 Where: Institut für Informatik (IfI), Universität Zürich, IfI H-25 Travel instructions: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ifiadmin/wayToInst.html Speaker ======= Schahram Dustdar, Prof. Dr, Technical University of Vienna, Austria http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/staff/sd/ Agenda ====== 17h15 - 18h00 Talk Abstract ======== Today we are experiencing a major paradigm shift in the way that software applications are designed, architected, delivered, and consumed. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) is a new emerging paradigm for distributed computing that has evolved from object-oriented and component computing to enable building agile networks of collaborating applications distributed within and across organizational boundaries. Services are autonomous platform-independent computational elements that can be described, published, discovered, orchestrated and programmed using XML artifacts for the purpose of developing massively distributed interoperable applications. In this talk we will discuss the current state of Service-oriented Computing and outline future research challenges. Bio: ====== Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor for Internet Technologies at the Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) where he is director of the Vita Lab and Honorary Professor of Information Systems at the University of Groningen (RuG), The Netherlands. He received his M.Sc. (1990) and PhD. degrees (1992) in Business Informatics (Wirtschaftsinformatik) from the University of Linz, Austria. In April 2003 he received his Habilitation degree (Venia Docendi in Angewandte Informatik) for his work on Process-aware Collaboration Systems - Architectures and Coordination Models for Virtual Teams. His work experience includes several years as the founding head of the Center for Informatics (ZID) at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz (1991-1999), Austrian project manager of the MICE EU-project (1993 - 97), and director of Coordination Technologies at the Design Transfer Center in Linz (1999 - 2000). While on sabbatical leave he was a post-doctoral research scholar (Erwin-Schrödinger scholarship) at the London School of Economics (Information Systems Department) (1993 and 1994), and a visiting research scientist at NTT Multimedia Communications Labs in Palo Alto, USA during 1998. Since 1999 he works as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG (CarambaLabs.com) in Vienna, a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. Caramba Labs was nominated for several (international and national) awards: World Technology Award in the category of Software (2001); Top-Startup companies in Austria (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) (2002); MERCUR Innovationspreis der Wirtschaftskammer (2002). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This event is being run as part of the ifi Colloquium and is sponsored by CHOOSE. The participation is free for all interested parties. No registration is required, as there will be no drinks after the talk :-( choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch is a *moderated* mailing list for announcing non-commercial events related to Object Technology in Switzerland. Please send announcements to be posted to: choose-news(a)iam.unibe.ch To unsubscribe, please send the message "unsubscribe choose-news" to: Majordomo(a)iam.unibe.ch To learn more about SI and CHOOSE, see: http://www.choose.s-i.ch/

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