Reliable software technologies - Ada-Europe '99 : 1999 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Santander, Spain, June 7-11, 1999 : proceedings / Michael González Harbour, Juan A. de la Puente (eds.).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 1999 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe '99, held in Santander, Spain in June 1999. The 36 revised full papers presented together with an invited contribution were carefully reviewed and selected from a large number of submissions. All current issues associated with the Ada programming language are addressed. The papers are organized in sections on Ravenscar profile and high-integrity systems, software architectures and design, testing, formal methods, education, distributed systems, real-time scheduling and kernels, tools, hardware/software codesign, fault-tolerance, and case studies.

Invited Paper -- An Architectural Perspective of Real-Time Ada Applications -- Ravenscar Profile and High Integrity Systems -- A Formal Model of the Ada Ravenscar Tasking Profile; Protected Objects -- An Ada Runtime System Implementation of the Ravenscar Profile for High Speed Application-Layer Data Switch -- Re-engineering a Safety-Critical Application Using SPARK 95 and GNORT -- An Ada95 Solution for Certification of Embedded Safety Critical Applications -- Software Architectures and Design -- Architectural Frameworks: Defining the Contents of Architectural Descriptions -- Mapping Object-Oriented Designs to Ada -- Efficient and Extensible Multithreaded Remote Servers? -- Testing -- Report on the VERA Experiment -- Acceptance Testing of Object Oriented Systems -- Formal Methods -- Environment for the Development and Specification of Real-Time Ada Programs -- Interprocedural Symbolic Evaluation of Ada Programs with Aliases -- Automatic Veri.cation of Concurrent Ada Programs -- Translating Time Petri Net Structures in Ada 95 Statements -- Education -- Railway Scale Model Simulator -- Ada 95 as a Foundation Language in Computer Engineering Education in Ukraine -- Distributed Systems -- yaRTI, a Ada 95 HLA Run-Time Infrastructure -- An Ada95 Implementation of a Network Coordination Language with Code Mobility -- CORBA & DSA: Divorce or Marriage? -- How to Modify the GNAT Frontend to Experiment with Ada Extensions? -- On the Use of Controlled Types for Fossil Collection in a Distributed Simulation System -- An Application (Layer 7) Routing Switch with Ada95 Software -- Ada Binding to a Shared Object Layer -- Real-Time Scheduling and Kernels -- The Ceiling Protocol in Multi-moded Real-Time Systems1 -- A "Bare-Machine" Implementation of Ada Multi-tasking Beneath the Linux Kernel -- Implementing a New Low-Level Tasking Support for the GNAT Runtime System? -- Tools -- MetaScribe, an Ada-Based Tool for the Construction of Tranformation Engines -- An Adaptation of Our Ada95/O2 Binding to Provide Persistence to the Java Language: Sharing and Handling of Data between Heterogeneous Applications Using Persistence -- Browsing a Component Library Using Non-functional Information -- The Role of Ada in Hardware/Software Codesign -- Hw/Sw Codesign of Embedded Systems -- Hardware/Software Embedded System Specification and Design Using Ada and VHDL1 -- System on Chip Specification and Design Languages Standardization -- Fault Tolerance -- An Incremental Recovery Cache Supporting Software Fault Tolerance -- Shared Recoverable Objects -- Fault Tolerance by Transparent Replication for Distributed Ada 95 -- Case Studies -- A Case Study in the Reuse of On-Board Embedded Real-Time Software -- Development of Flight Control Software in Ada: Architecture and Design Issues and Approaches.