Reliable Software Technologies Ada-Europe 2000

The Fifth International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada- Europe 2000, took place in Potsdam, Germany, June 26 30, 2000. It was - ganized by Ada Deutschland and sponsored by Ada-Europe, the European f- eration of national Ada societies, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda and the Gesellschaft fu r Informatik (GI). We gratefully acknowledge additional spons- ship by the DFG, the German Research Foundation, and by the Forschungsz- trum Karlsruhe. This year s conference marked the 20th anniversary of consecutive annual Ada-Europe conferences and the ?fth year of a conference focusing on the g- eral area of software reliability, in which Ada excels as one of the supporting technologies. The Y2K problem has put the importance of software reliability into the limelight of media and political attention. Luckily, the dire predictions about potentially disastrous failures of critical systems did not prove true at the turn of the year, most likely because an incredible e?ort was made to update existing software, modernize systems, check-out backup mechanisms, and so on. One cannot but wonder how much more reliable the software could have been if only apercentageofthefundsspentontheY2Kproblemhadgoneintoenhancements of reliability during the development and maintenance of the software.

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Invited Presentations.- Support of Technology Development in the Information Society.- Kingcat MCAS Monitoring, Control and Alarm System for a Luxury Motor Yacht Implemented in Ada and Java.- Ada after 10 Years of Usage Is There a Commercial Future?.- An Open Ravenscar Real-Time Kernel for GNAT.- Real-Time and Safety-Critical Systems.- Object-Oriented Programming and Protected Objects in Ada 95.- Is an Ada Lint Necessary?.- Session: Tools.- Using JavaTM APIs with Native Ada Compilers.- Static Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis of Synchronous Programs.- A Supporting Tool for Development of Self-Measurement Ada Programs.- Session: APIs and Components.- On Persistent and Reliable Streaming in Ada.- Reengineering the Booch Component Library.- GtkAda: Design and Implementation of a High Level Binding in Ada.- Session: ASIS.- ASIS-for-GNAT: A Report of Practical Experiences.- Generation of Interface Design Description Documents Using ASIS.- An Ada95 Programming Style Checker Using the GNAT ASIS Implementation.- Session: Risk and Reliability Management.- Enhancements in Software Project Risk Management.- Constructing Reliable Embedded Systems Using the Results of System Safety Analysis.- An Application of the Chains-of-Rare-Events Model to Software Development Failure Prediction.- Session: UML.- Analysis, Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Framework in Ada95.- MTS Integrating UML, HOOD, Ada in a Full Ada Operational Software Project.- Session: Formal Analysis Methods.- Symbolic Data Flow Analysis for Detecting Deadlocks in Ada Tasking Programs.- Exceptions in OO Languages: Using Them and Reasoning about Them.- (True) Polymorphism in SPARK2000.- Session: Testing.- Improving the Reliability of Object-Oriented Software through Object-Level BehavioralSimulation.- Results of an Investigation into Software Integration Testing Automation.- On the Minimal Essential Subsets and Minimal Representative Sets.