Reliable Software Technologies -- Ada-Europe 2003 [electronic resource] : 8th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Toulouse, France, June 16-20, 2003, Proceedings /

Invited Papers -- An Invitation to Ada 2005 -- Modules for Crosscutting Models -- Software Fault Tolerance: An Overview -- Ravenscar -- High Integrity Ravenscar -- Adding Temporal Annotations and Associated Verification to the Ravenscar Profile -- Impact of a Restricted Tasking Profile: The Case of the GOCE Platform Application Software -- Language Issues -- Booch’s Ada vs. Liskov’s Java: Two Approaches to Teaching Software Design -- A Comparison of the Asynchronous Transfer of Control Features in Ada and the Real-Time Specification for Java™ -- Exposing Memory Corruption and Finding Leaks: Advanced Mechanisms in Ada -- Static Analysis -- Busy Wait Analysis -- Eliminating Redundant Range Checks in GNAT Using Symbolic Evaluation -- Quasar: A New Tool for Concurrent Ada Programs Analysis -- Distributed Information Systems -- A Graphical Environment for GLADE -- The Use of Ada, GNAT.Spitbol, and XML in the Sol-Eu-Net Project -- Transactions and Groups as Generic Building Blocks for Software Fault Tolerance -- Metrics -- Getting System Metrics Using POSIX Tracing Services -- Some Architectural Features of Ada Systems Affecting Defects -- Evidential Volume Approach for Certification -- Software Components -- A Survey of Physical Unit Handling Techniques in Ada -- Charles: A Data Structure Library for Ada95 -- A Quality Model for the Ada Standard Container Library -- Formal Specification -- Experiences on Developing and Using a Tool Support for Formal Specification -- A Behavioural Notion of Subtyping for Object-Oriented Programming in SPARK95 -- Real-Time Kernel -- Running Ada on Real-Time Linux -- A Round Robin Scheduling Policy for Ada -- A Proposal to Integrate the POSIX Execution-Time Clocks into Ada 95 -- Testing -- A Test Environment for High Integrity Software Development -- Normalized RestrictedRandom Testing -- Testing Safety Critical Ada Code Using Non Real Time Testing -- Real-time Systems Design -- The Standard UML-Ada Profile -- HRT-UML: Taking HRT-HOOD onto UML -- A Case Study in Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Teleoperation Software Architectures Using UML-MAST.

The8thInternationalConferenceonReliableSoftwareTechnologies,Ada-Europe 2003,tookplaceinToulouse,France,June18–20,2003.ItwassponsoredbyAda- Europe, the European federation of national Ada societies, and Ada-France, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda. It was organized by members of Adalog, CS, UPS/IRIT and ONERA. Toulouse was certainly a very appropriate place for this conference. As the heart of the European aeronautic and space industry, it is a place where so- ware development leaves no place for failure. In the end, reliability is a matter of human skills. But these skills build upon methods, tools, components and c- trolled practices. By exposing the latest advances in these areas, the conference contributed to ful?lling the needs of a very demanding industry. As in past years, the conference comprised a three-day technical program, during which the papers contained in these proceedings were presented, along with vendor presentations. The technical program was bracketed by two tutorial days, when attendees had the opportunity to catch up on a variety of topics related to the ?eld, at both introductory and advanced levels. On Friday, a workshopon“QualityofServiceinComponent-BasedSoftwareEngineering”was held. Further, the conference was accompanied by an exhibition where vendors presented their reliability-related products.