indexAdaUK conference UK 2009

 

Programme

March 24, 2009

08:00 to 9:15 - Registration

 

09:15 to 10:00 - Plenary opening

Jim Sutton, Lockheed Martin (USA)

Selecting a Programming Language, The Modern Way

 

10:00 to 11:00

Damian Curtis & David Berry, AWE (UK)

Experiences with SPARK Ada on an 8-bit Embedded Microcontroller

Michael Friess, AdaCore

An Open Source for Innovation

Derek Russell, Objektum Solutions Ltd

Migrating Legacy Ada projects to UML

Ian Wilkie, Kennedy Carter

Executable UML and SPARK Ada: A Hybrid Approach

 

11:00 to 11:30 - Coffee break

 

11:30 to 12:30

Tucker Taft, SofCheck (USA)

Using Static Analysis as part of Code Review

Stefan Helfert, MPI-K Heidelberg (Germany)

Issues from the Cassini Project (TBC)

Niroshan Rajadurai, Vector Software

Overcoming the challenges of Testing Ada Applications in a Safety Critical Environment

Rod Chapman, Praxis High Integrity Systems

SPARK Pro – Libre tools for High-Assurance Software

 

 

12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch

 

A buffet lunch will be served in the Exhibition Area, giving delegates a further opportunity to meet with technical providers.

 

 

14:00 to 15:00

Janet Barnes Praxis, High Integrity Systems (UK)

Tokeneer: An Open-Source Demonstration of High-Assurance Software Engineering

Fraser Chadburn, IBM Rational Software

Leveraging the power of UML2 Ports - a strategy for their implementation in Ada

Ian Gilchrist IPL, Information Processing Ltd

Testing Private Types

Jon Williams, Green Hills Software Inc.

Designing and Fielding High Reliability, High Security Systems

Peter Ladkin, Causalis Limited

Incident Reporting and Causal Analysis with the SERAS Toolset

 

 

15:00 to 15:30 - Coffee break

 

15:30 to 16:15

Franco Gasperoni, AdaCore (France)

Project Coverage and the Open-DO Initiative

Adrian Larkham, Aonix

A Ravenscar Implementation for an ARINC 653 Partition

Andrew Coombes, Rapita Systems Ltd

Optimising execution time of Ada Applications with RapiTime

 

16:15 to 17:00 - Plenary closing

Judith Klein, Lockheed Martin (USA)

Ada Programming Language Use in Lockheed Martin - An Update