The ACM Special Interest Group on Ada (SIGAda) and its annual conference are concerned with technical, business, and educational issues related to the Ada programming language.
Ada is a language with unmatched source-code portability, a proven record in large-scale system development and--with the adoption of the Ada 95 standard--offering full object orientation. Yet wild, highly-visible popularity has thus far eluded Ada. But perhaps this misses the point. Less visibly but nonetheless effectively, the Ada option is being chosen not only in Ada's original defense context, but also in a much wider industry context and in computing education. Ada is as real in the context of finance, the Internet, and the Java Virtual Machine as it is in the context of hard real-time, embedded systems in defense, space, industrial process control, commercial aviation, and ground transportation.
We are soliciting conference contributions on the theme Ada in Context, pertinent to Ada or of general interest to the Ada community, from authors inside and outside this community, in industry, government, research, and education. Topics may include--but are not limited to--Ada in the context of
Ada in Context is interested in receiving papers in three major categories: technical articles, extended abstracts, and experience reports.
Technical articles present significant results in research, practice, or education. These papers will be double-blind refereed and published in a refereed section of the Proceedings. Papers should not exceed 5000 words (equivalent to approximately 10 pages, typeset 10-point on 16-point spacing).
Extended abstracts discuss current work for which early submission of a full paper may be premature. If your abstract is accepted, you will be expected to produce a full paper, which will appear in the Proceedings. Extended abstracts will be competitively reviewed. Clearly state the contribution of the work being described, its relationship with previous work by you and others (with bibliographic references), results to date, and future directions. Please do not exceed 2500 words (equivalent to approximately 5 pages typeset 10-point on 16-point spacing).
Experience reports present timely results on the success or failure of the application of Ada in real-world projects. Such reports will be selected on the basis of the interest of the experience presented to the community of Ada practitioners. You are invited to submit a 1-2 page description of the project and the key points of interest of project experiences. Descriptions may be published in the final program or proceedings, but a paper will not be required.
To facilitate electronic distribution to referees, kindly follow these rules for submission. Please e-mail your technical article, extended abstract, or experience report, as either a plain ASCII or PostScript file (NOT a word processor file or encoded MIME attachment), to the Program Chairman,
Prof. Michael B. Feldman, The George Washington University
mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu
Please be sure to write "SIGAda 98 submission" on the subject line of the message. Please indicate the title of the submission and the names and affiliations of authors. Identify one author as a point of contact and provide an e-mail address, postal address, phone number and fax number for this author. Please indicate whether a similar report on this work has been submitted elsewhere.
If you are submitting a full paper for blind refereeing, include the paper title, but no other identifying information, in the paper itself, and then send the title and author information, in a separate e-mail message, to the above address.