To become a CHOOSE member you can use the online formular of the SI. Individual membership costs 80.- for the SI plus 20.- for CHOOSE (students pay 25.- and 10.-).
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CHOOSE is the Swiss Group for Object-Oriented Systems and Environments,
and is a special interest group of the
SI (Swiss Informaticians Society).
To become a CHOOSE member you can use the online formular of the SI. Individual membership costs 80.- for the SI plus 20.- for CHOOSE (students pay 25.- and 10.-). |
Prof. Dr. David Harel:
On Modeling and Analyzing System Behavior: Myths, Facts and Challenges.
High-level modeling of complex systems raises rather serious problems in specifying behavior. This is true both in the Structured Analysis paradigm (SA) and in the Object-Oriented one (OO). In the latter case, classes represent dynamically changing collections of concrete objects, and behavioral modeling must address issues related to their creation and destruction, the delegation of messages, the modification and maintenance of relationships, aggregation, inheritance, etc. All this has to be done so that the models remain intuitive and well-structured, but are also behaviorally expressive and rigorous, supporting full executability and dynamic analysis, as well as automatic synthesis of usable code in languages such as C or C++. The tutorial will center on statecharts as a possible "engine" for specifying behavior, and will describe in some detail the work done over the last 15 years on the language itself, on embedding statecharts within structural models in both the SA and OO frameworks, and on building support tools. We will discuss some of the misconceptions among practitioners and methodologists, as well as some central challenges for the future.
Extreme Programming: People Writing Programs.
His research interests are in computability and complexity theory, logics of programs, theory of databases, automata theory, visual languages and systems engineering, and he has published widely on these topics. In 1994 he gave a 13-lecture exposition of computer science on Israeli radio, and these days is presenting a 14-program series on Israeli television in which he hosts prominent computer scientists on a variety of topics. He received the Stevens Award in Software Development Methods in 1996, ACM's Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award in 1992, the best paper award in the International Conference on Software Engineering in 1988, and the 1997 Israeli Prime Minister's Award for Software. His book, Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (Addison-Wesley, 1987, 2nd. edn. 1992) was the Spring 1988 Main Selection of the Macmillan Library of Science. He is a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE.
CHOOSE General Assembly
Please note that the annual CHOOSE General Assembly will not be held during the conference. For technical reasons it has been postponed and will be held in June during an other event which we are planning. All CHOOSE members will receive an invitation. Date and Location
The ChooseForum `98 will be held Tuesday, March 24 at the University of Zürich, on the Irchel Campus. Instructions on how to get to the conference location can be found under
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/ifiadmin/wayToInst.html Registration
Please print and fill out the attached registration form,
and send it to:
Tel: 01 371 73 42, Fax: 01 371 23 00 Early registration prices
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SI member |
Non-member |
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Regular |
80
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200
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20
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Reduced |
40
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80
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20
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Registrations must be received by Friday March 13. After this date, late registrations will only be accepted at the tutorial site. Lunch and handouts will be guaranteed only for early registrations.
NB: Annual SI membership rates are 80.- and an additional 20.- for CHOOSE (students pay 25.- and 10.-). To join, you can use the online formular of the SI.