Reliable Software Technology – Ada-Europe 2005

1. Front Matter

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2. Applications

   1. ILTIS – The Legacy of a Successful Product

      • Neville Rowden

      Pages 1-12

   2. A Reference Control Architecture for Service Robots Implemented on a Climbing Vehicle

      • Francisco Ortiz, Diego Alonso, Bárbara Álvarez, Juan A. Pastor

      Pages 13-24

   3. An Ada Framework for QoS-Aware Applications

      • Luís Miguel Pinho, Luis Nogueira, Ricardo Barbosa

      Pages 25-38

3. Design and Scheduling Issues

   1. Efficient Alternatives for Implementing Fixed-Priority Schedulers

      • Sergio Sáez, Vicent Lorente, Silvia Terrasa, Alfons Crespo

      Pages 39-50

   2. A New Strategy for the HRT-HOOD to Ada Mapping

      • Matteo Bordin, Tullio Vardanega

      Pages 51-66

   3. Using the AADL to Describe Distributed Applications from Middleware to Software Components

      • Thomas Vergnaud, Laurent Pautet, Fabrice Kordon

      Pages 67-78

4. Formal Methods

   1. Extending Ravenscar with CSP Channels

      • Diyaa-Addein Atiya, Steve King

      Pages 79-90

   2. Dynamic Tasks Verification with Quasar

      • Sami Evangelista, Claude Kaiser, Christophe Pajault, Jean Francois Pradat-Peyre, Pierre Rousseau

      Pages 91-104

   3. Proving Functional Equivalence for Program Slicing in SPARKTM

      • Ricky E. Sward, Leemon C. Baird III

      Pages 105-114

5. Ada and Education

   1. Teaching Software Engineering with Ada 95

      • Daniel Simon, Gunther Vogel, Erhard Plödereder

      Pages 115-128

   2. A Comparison of the Mutual Exclusion Features in Ada and the Real-Time Specification for JavaTM

      • Benjamin M. Brosgol

      Pages 129-143

6. Certification and Verification

   1. Smart Certification of Mixed Criticality Systems

      • Peter Amey, Rod Chapman, Neil White

      Pages 144-155

   2. Non-intrusive System Level Fault-Tolerance

      • Kristina Lundqvist, Jayakanth Srinivasan, Sébastien Gorelov

      Pages 156-166

7. Distributed Systems

   1. Observing the Development of a Reliable Embedded System

      • Devaraj Ayavoo, Michael J. Pont, Stephen Parker

      Pages 167-179

   2. RT-EP: A Fixed-Priority Real Time Communication Protocol over Standard Ethernet

      • José María Martínez, Michael González Harbour

      Pages 180-195

   3. Distributing Criticality Across Ada Partitions

      • Miguel Masmano, Jorge Real, Alfons Crespo, Ismael Ripoll

      Pages 196-207

8. Language Issues

   1. The Implementation of Ada 2005 Interface Types in the GNAT Compiler

      • Javier Miranda, Edmond Schonberg, Gary Dismukes

      Pages 208-219

   2. Integrating Application-Defined Scheduling with the New Dispatching Policies for Ada Tasks

      • Mario Aldea Rivas, Javier Miranda, Michael González Harbour

      Pages 220-235

   3. The Application of Compile-Time Reflection to Software Fault Tolerance Using Ada 95

      • P. Rogers, A. J. Wellings

      Pages 236-247

Started on the inspired initiative of Prof. Alfred Strohmeier back in 1996, and spawned from the annual Ada-Europe conference that had previously run for 16 consecutive years, the International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies celebrated this year its tenth anniversary by going to York, UK, where the ?rst series of technical meetings on Ada were held in the 1970s. Besides being a beautiful and historical place in itself, York also hosts the Depa- ment of Computer Science of the local university, whose Real-Time Group has been tremendously in?uential in shaping the Ada language and in the progress on real-time computing worldwide. This year’s conference was therefore put together under exc- lent auspices, in a very important year for the Ada community in view of the forthc- ing completion of the revision process that is upgrading the language standard to face the challenges of the new millennium. The conference took place on June 20–24, 2005. It was as usual sponsored by Ada-Europe, the European federation of national Ada societies, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda. The conference was organized by selected staff of the University of York teamed up with collaborators from various places in Europe, in what turned out to be a very effective instance of distributed collaborative processing. The conference also enjoyed the generous support of 11 industrial sponsors.

• Ada 95
• Ada programming
• Ada programming language
• Middleware
• QoS
• Ravenscar
• architecture
• dependable computing
• distributed computing
• distributed systems
• formal method
• formal methods
• high-integrity systems
• real-time
• real-time systems

• Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  Tullio Vardanega

• Real-Time Systems Research Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK

  Andy Wellings

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