Fernando Boavida (FCTUC – University of Coimbra, Portugal):
Content Networks – Research Vision and Roadmap
University of Bern, Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,
Neubrückstrasse 10, 3012 Bern, Room 302
November 14, 2008, 11.15 am
Abstract:
Due to the technological development, production of multimedia content is
no longer restricted to first tier producers. Furthermore, many citizens
are nowadays connected to some kind of communication networks and want to
use them for sharing content they produce. It is the goal of the CONTENT
Network of Excellence to enable end-user communities to efficiently share,
distribute, manage, and use audio-visual content via these networks. At the
network level, CONTENT addresses issues in the delivery path and develops
on top of P2P-based overlay solutions for content services. While these
concerns are reflected in a three layer architecture comprising community
networks, overlay networks, and content service networks, it is of
importance to integrate those different concerns and consider at the same
time cross-cutting issues, like monitoring, adaptation, and routing. It is
the aim of this talk to present the CONTENT research vision by identifying
and discussing the research challenges that are being addressed in the
project. Furthermore, this talk presents the project road map for these
future research challenges. The presentation ends with a brief description
of the research work currently being carried out by the University of
Coimbra in this project.
Bio:
Fernando Boavida received his PhD in Informatics Engineering in 1990, and
he currently is Full Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering
(DEI) of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of
Coimbra. He is the leader of the Laboratory of Communications and
Telematics (LCT) of DEI and the Strategic Director for Communications and
Information Technology of the University of Coimbra.
His main research interests are Mobile and Ambient Networking, and Scalable
Networking (quality of service issues, mobility and nomadicity, wireless
sensor networks). His publications include six books, five book chapters,
35 papers in national conferences and journals, and 104 papers in
international refereed journals and conference proceedings. He was the
chairman of the Program Committee of QofIS’2001, IDMS-PROMS’2002,
NETWORKING 2006, WWIC 2007 and FMN 2008 international
conferences/workshops. He has been involved in numerous program committees
of major international conferences, including INFOCOM 2006 and 2007. He
participated in European initiatives/projects such as RARE (Réseaux IP
Européenes), EWOS (European Workshop for Open Systems), COST263 (Quality of
Future Internet Services), E-NET (Emerging Networking Technologies,
IST-2001-37814), E-NEXT (FP6 Network of Excellence on Emerging Networking
Experiments and Technologies) EuQoS (End-to-end Quality of Service support
over heterogeneous networks, IST-FP6-2004-004503), WEIRD (WiMAX Extension
to Isolated Research Data networks, IST FP6 Integrated Project 034622),
OpenNet (Open Interconnect for the Internet Community, IST-FP6 Specific
Support Action 035185) and CONTENT (Content Networks and Services for Home
Users, IST-FP6-0384239).
He is a licensed Professional Engineer. He is a member of the Editorial
Advisory Board of the Computer Communications journal. His homepage is at
http://staff.uc.pt/boavida .
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The CHOOSE Executive Board is proud to invite you to the CHOOSE Forum
2008 to be held on December 8 at Allegro Grand Casino Kursaal Bern.
The full day event will consist of five talks and a panel on the topic
of Collaborative Software Engineering. The speakers are:
- Prof. Betrand Meyer, ETH Zurich
- Roger Boesch, Microsoft Switzerland Ltd
- Dr. Erich Gamma, IBM Research
- Joseph Pelrine
- Prof. Hausi Müller, University of Victoria
The day also includes the CHOOSE General Assembly, including reports
from the President and the Treasurer.
More details can be found on the official webpage:
http://choose.s-i.ch/events/forum2008
TOOLS EUROPE 2009
47th International Conference
Objects, Models, Components, Patterns
co-located with
*** International Conference on Model Transformation 2009 ***
*** International conference on Tests and Proofs 2009 ***
*** Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore
and Outsourced Development 2009 ***
ETH Zurich, Switzerland 29 June - 3 July 2009
http://tools.ethz.ch/
Call for Papers (deadline: 15 January 2009)
TOOLS EUROPE 2009 will be devoted to the combination of technologies
that have emerged as a result of object technology becoming
"mainstream".
Like its predecessors, TOOLS EUROPE 2009 combines an emphasis on quality
with a strong practical focus.
Started in 1989, TOOLS conferences, held in Europe, the USA, Australia,
China and Eastern Europe, have played a major role in the development of
object technology field; many of the seminal concepts were first
presented
at TOOLS. After an interruption of four years, the conference was
revived
in 2007 to reflect the maturing of the field and the new challenges
ahead
and has become a yearly event.
Contributions are solicited on all aspects of object technology and
neighboring fields, in particular model-based development, component-
based
development, and patterns (design, analysis and other applications);
more generally, any contribution addressing topics in advanced software
technology fall within the scope of TOOLS. Reflecting the practical
emphasis
of TOOLS, contributions showcasing applications along with a sound
conceptual
contribution are particularly welcome. For a non-exclusive list of
potential
topic areas see the conference Web page.
All contributions will be subject to a rigorous selection process -
maximum
acceptance rate of 25% - by the international Program Committee, with
a stress
on originality, practicality and overall quality. The proceedings
should be
published in Springer LNBIP. For detailed submission information see the
conference page.
Important Dates
Deadline for technical papers: January 15, 2009
Author notification: March 1, 2009
Camera-ready copy due: May 31, 2009
Conference: June 29 - July 3, 2009
Tutorials/Workshop proposals: February-March 2009
Chairpersons
Conference chair : Bertrand Meyer, Zurich
Program chair: Manuel Oriol, York
Workshop Chair: Alexandre Bergel, Lille and Eric Tanter, Santiago
Publicity Chair: Philippe Lahire, Nice and Marcus Denker, Bern
Program committee
Patrick ALBERT, Balbir S. Barn, Mike Barnett, Claude R. Baudoi,
Bernhard Beckert,
Alexandre Bergel, Judith Bishop, Phil Brooke, Cristiano Calcagno, Ana
Cavalcanti,
Dave Clarke, Bernard Coulette, Jing Dong, Stephane Ducasse, Gregor
Engels,
Patrick Eugster, Manuel Fahndrich, Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Michael Franz,
Judit Nyekyne Gaizler, Benoit Garbinato, Carlo Ghezzi, Tudor Girba,
Martin Glinz,
Martin Gogolla, Jeff Gray, Pedro Guerreiro, Joseph Kiniry, Ralf
Laemmel, Philippe Lahire,
Mingshu Li, Dragos Manolescu, Erik Meijer, Peter Mueller, Jonathan
Ostroff, Richard Paige,
Marc Pantel, Alfonso Pierantonio, Alexander Pretschner, Bran Selic,
Anatoly Shalyto,
Perdita Stevens, Eric Tanter, Dave Thomas, Laurence Tratt, Antonio
Vallecillo, Roel Wuyts,
Amiram Yehudai, Andreas Zeller
Hello everyone,
On Tuesday, December 16, at 17:00 I will defend my PhD thesis.
The defense will take place in room 001, Engehaldenstrasse 8, Bern
(for directions please see http://www.iam.unibe.ch/institute/location ).
After the defense, there will be an apéro.
You are cordially invited to the defense and to the apéro.
Cheers,
Adrian Lienhard
Software Composition Group
University of Bern, Switzerland
http://www.adrian-lienhard.ch/
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TITLE: Dynamic Object Flow Analysis
ABSTRACT:
The behavior of an object-oriented software system is notoriously hard
to understand from the source code alone. The main reason is the large
gap between the program’s static structure and its actual runtime
behavior. Features inherent to object-orientation, like object
aliasing and late binding, – while providing a high degree of
expressiveness to model an application domain — make programs hard to
understand, maintain, and analyze.
Complementary to static analysis, dynamic analysis can help to close
this gap by investigating the properties of a running program. The
state of the art in dynamic analysis focuses on investigating runtime
control flow and structures of object graphs, but a thorough analysis
of how objects are passed through a system is missing. Tracking how
object references are transferred, however, is essential to analyze
the dependencies introduced by object aliasing.
In this dissertation we propose Object Flow Analysis, our approach to
track object flow by explicitly representing object references and
reference transfer. Object Flow Analysis provides an effective way of
analyzing and runtime monitoring dependencies introduced by object
aliasing. To validate Object Flow Analysis, we propose three different
reverse engineering applications that, based on Object Flow Analysis,
reason about aliasing dependencies in object-oriented programs. Yet
Object Flow Analysis extends beyond traditional reverse engineering
applications. A key contribution of our work is that we advance the
state of the art in back-in-time debugging by proposing and providing
an implementation of the concept of Object Flow Analysis in a high-
level language virtual machine.
Sehr geehrte CHOOSE-Mitglieder
Die /ch/open lädt Sie ein, am nächsten Open Business Lunch in Bern
teilzunehmen. Die Veranstaltung steht allen Interessierten offen.
An den OBLs hält jeweils ein Referent ein Kurzreferat, während des
gemeinsamen Essens können die Inhalte weiter besprochen werden. Das
Essen wird von den Teilnehmern/-innen selber bezahlt.
Insbesondere möchte die /ch/open Menschen einladen, die Open Source
Software in einem professionellen Umfeld nutzen oder Leute aus KMUs, die
den Gebrauch von OSS unter ihren Kunden fördern möchten!
12.11.08, 11.45 Uhr: *Restaurant Frohsinn*, Münstergasse 54, Bern/BE,
Tel.: 031 311 37 68
11.45 - 11.55 Begrüssung
11:55 - ca. 12.10 Kurzvortrag
12.10 - ca. 14.00 Essen
Thomas Müller, H2 Database Engine, hält zu Beginn einen Kurzvortrag zum
Thema *H2, The Open Source Java Database Engine*
*Abstract*
Die H2 Database Engine ist die neueste Open Source Java Datenbank. Die
Hauptmerkmale sind Performanz und Kompatibilität mit anderen
Datenbanken, speziell mit HSQLDB, PostgreSQL und MySQL. Der Name H2
steht für Hypersonic 2, H2 ist jedoch eine komplette Neuentwicklung. H2
bietet sehr viele Features, z.B. Multi-Version Concurrency, In-Memory
Operationen, Verschlüsselung, verknüpfte Tabellen, Fulltext-Search,
Cluster-Modus, sowie eine Browser-basiertes Datenbank-Tool. H2 ist
optimal geeignet für Unit-Tests, Demo-Applikationen, Embedded
(Standalone) Betrieb, sowie (bisher noch mit Einschränkungen) für den
Server Betrieb.
*Bio*
Thomas Müller ist der Gründer und ursprüngliche Entwicker von Hypersonic
SQL. Im Jahr 2001 bis 2003 arbeitete er in Kalifornien an der
kommerziellen Java Datenbank PointBase Micro, und seit 2004 an der H2
Database Engine. Hauptberuflich arbeitet er bei der Day Software AG in
Basel an CRX (Content Repository Extreme) und Apache Jackrabbit.
Gerne erwarten wir Ihre Anmeldung unter
<http://www.ch-open.ch/events/lunchbe.html> bis zum *11.11.08*.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Ursula Burri
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/ch/open Fax: +41 44 350 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/>
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Open Systems for open minded people!
Dear Choose members,
We invite you to an exciting Choose SigBeer talk by Prof David Notkin
and hope that many of you will attend.
After the talk there will be an apéro for informal Q&A.
best wishes,
Harald Gall
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Date: September 5, 2008, 14.00, University of Zurich,
Binzmuehlestrasse 14, OG 2, Room 2.A.01
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ifi/how_to_reach_us/
Title: Software engineering research: just imagine if we didn't
ignore reality
Abstract:
Software is, of course, crucial to society, and thus we must continue
to improve our ability to effectively engineer software and software-
intensive systems. Software is also heavily criticized -- both
internally and externally -- for high costs, for high project failure
rates, for not improving at the rate of hardware, etc. But are these
and related criticisms indeed accurate -- even when backed by data --
and, even if they are, in what ways will they lead us towards our goal
of more effectively engineering software? Reframing questions like
these is the primary objective of the talk.
Bio:
David Notkin has been on the faculty at the University of Washington
since 1984, now serving as Bradley Chair and Professor. He received
an Sc.B. from Brown University in 1977 and a Ph.D. from Carnegie-
Mellon University in 1984. He has advised nearly 20 Ph.D. students
and in 2000 received the University of Washington's Distinguished
Graduate Mentor award. He has served as chair of ACM SIGSOFT, program
chair/co-chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering
and of the 1st ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software
Engineering, and is currently editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on
Software Engineering and Methodology. He has spent sabbaticals at
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Osaka University, IBM Haifa Research
Lab, and Lund University. Until now, he has only been in Zurich's
airport and train stations.
His homepage: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/notkin/
!!!!! Nicht verpassen !!!!!
SoftwareTrends.ch 2008 - Agile Software Entwicklung in der Praxis
3.-5.9., Gersau
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Informieren Sie sich durch hochkarätige Experten/innen aus der Industrie und den Hochschulen
über Konzepte und Anwendung der Agilen Softwareentwicklung und wie
sie in die Praxis umgesetzt werden kann und diskutieren Sie mit ihnen diese und weitere
brennende Themen und Fragestellungen zum Software Engineering aus Ihrer Praxis.
Die internationalen Experten Ralph Johnson (Patterns), Kevlin Henney (Pattern-oriented Software
Architecture), Nicolai Josuttis (SOA), Jutta Eckstein (Agile Software Entwicklung im Grossen)
und Software Engineering Professoren der Schweizer Fachhochschulen informieren in Vorträgen
und Workshops über neueste Trends und Best Practices.
Geniessen Sie einen gemeinsamen Abend mit den Experten am "Talk-And-Dine"-Abend, an dem sich
alle Teilnehmer in ungezwungener Atmosphäre mit den anwesenden Keynote-Speakers und Professoren
untereinander austauschen können.
Weitere Details und die Anmeldung finden Sie auf der SWEN Homepage unter:
http://www.swen-network.ch/softwaretrends
_________________________________________________________
Prof. Martin Kropp
Präsident SWEN
http://www.swen-network.ch
Organisationsteam
Prof. Peter Sommerlad, Vizepräsident SWEN, Silvia Mazzoli, Sekretariat IFS Institut für Software,
HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, Oberseestrasse 10, 8640 Rapperswil, Telefon 055 222 4630,
email: peter.sommerlad(a)hsr.ch
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
Das Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Zuerich organisiert in
der Reihe "Fortbildungsseminare in Informatik" wiederum folgenden Event:
Zuerich SOFT Summer 2008
Fortgeschrittene Aspekte der Software Entwicklung
1. bis 5. September 2008
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/softsummer/
Seminar-Themen:
* Requirements Engineering
* Geschäftsmodellierung
* Application Intelligence
* Semantic Web in Software Engineering
* SOA Architectural Decision Making
* Building Service-Oriented Architectures with Web Services
Referenten:
* Harald Gall, Professor und Leiter des Forschungsbereichs Software
Evolution
* Martin Glinz, Professor und Leiter des Forschungsbereichs
Requirements Engineering
* Gerald Reif, Senior Research Associate in der Forschungsgruppe
Software Evolution
* Olaf Zimmermann, IT-Architekt und Research Staff Member im IBM
Zurich Research Lab
Ziel:
Ziel ist es, neben der Vermittlung der Software-Technologien auch
ausreichend Gelegenheit für Diskussionen und Fallbeispiele zu geben,
um so die Themen aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln zu betrachten.
Soweit möglich, werden die einzelnen Seminare auch von Tool-Demos
(i.e. meist Forschungsprototypen) aufbereitet.
Der Zürich SOFT Summer richtet sich an Entwickler, Designer,
Architekten und Projektleiter von Software und bietet die Möglichkeit,
kompakt in einigen wenigen Tagen Software-Schlüsseltechnologien
kennenzulernen, deren Potenzial abzuschätzen und die
Einsatzmöglichkeiten im eigenen Unternehmen oder Arbeitsbereich
auszuloten.
Anmeldung:
Detaillierte Informationen sowie die online Anmeldung finden Sie unter:
http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/softsummer/
Wir wuerden uns freuen, Sie am Zuerich SOFT Summer begruessen zu
duerfen, und
stehen fuer weitere Auskuenfte gerne zur Verfuegung!
Freundliche Gruesse,
Harald Gall
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Harald Gall, Prof. Dr.
Universität Zürich, Institut für Informatik
Binzmuehlestrasse 14, 8050 Zurich, Schweiz
tel. +41 44 635 43 35 / fax +41 44 635 68 09
http://seal.ifi.uzh.ch/gall/
Dear CHOOSE member
The Java User Group Switzerland ist glad to invite you to the next talk
given by James Ward, Adobe:
7.7. Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java
For more information see below or
<http://www.jugs.ch/html/events/2008/ria_flex.html?by=mailing%20of%20another…>
(with online registration form).
Best Regards,
The JUGS Board
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Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java
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7.7.08
Technopark Zurich, Room Fortran
Travel instructions: <http://www.technopark.ch/start.cfm?p=90&s=0>
SPEAKER
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James Ward, Adobe
AGENDA
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17:00 - 18:15h: Talk incl. Q/A
Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment.
ABSTRACT
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This session will provide numerous live coding examples which will teach
you how to build RIAs with Flex and Java. Flex is an Open Source RIA
development toolkit which can easily be connected to a Java back-end via
Web Services or the Open Source BlazeDS product. Come and learn how to
build RIAs with Flex and Java.
BIOGRAPHY
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James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe's JCP
representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing
mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new
discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in
climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought
him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early
90's; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90's; then Java and many of
it's frameworks beginning in the late 90ss. Today he primarily uses Flex
to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe,
James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data
Systems.
CATEGORIES
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Product, Tools
Please register online:
<http://www.jugs.ch/html/events/2008/ria_flex.html?by=mailing%20of%20another…>.
Thanks.
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The CHOOSE and SWEN executive boards are pleased to invite you
to the following presentation:
Ulrich Brawand (Zuehlke Engineering)
"openArchitectureWare: Ein Framework, das Schule macht"
When: Wednesday, June 10, 2008 @ 17:00.
Where: Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern,
Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 001.
More details can be found at:
http://choose.s-i.ch/events/2008-06-10-brawand
This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members and SWEN members,
including the drinks after the talk!
Non-CHOOSE and non-SWEN members are also welcome, and are
encouraged to fill out the membership application form.
CHOOSE membership form:
http://www.s-i.ch/index.php?id=be_a_member
SWEN membership form:
http://www.swen-network.ch/ueber-swen/resolveuid/a378c03e91c3aa779e731f2eb1…
NOTE: Registration for this event is required. Please fill out the
online registration form at:
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