KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Bran Selic, IBM Canada From Model-Driven Development to Model-Driven Engineering Abstract and Bio Presentation |
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Francisco Gómez-Molinero, Visual Tools, Spain Real-time Requirement of Media Control Applications Abstract and Bio Presentation |
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Mercè Griera I Fisa, European Commission Research Opportunities in the IST Thematic Priority of the 7FP Abstract and Bio Presentation |
Presenter
Bran Selic, IBM Canada
Title
From Model-Driven Development to Model-Driven Engineering
Abstract
The adoption of model-driven methods for software development is rapidly
gaining momentum, stimulated greatly by the emergence of new modeling
language standards and corresponding tools. The ability of models to
highlight the important aspects of a system while abstracting away the
irrelevant bits provides a very effective means of coping with the often
overwhelming complexity of modern software systems. However,
model-driven development (MDD) is still deemed inappropriate for
real-time and embedded software by many practitioners even though the
complexity of their systems often exceeds that encountered in other
domains. One of the reasons for this is that many early software
modeling languages disregarded issues that were critical to this domain,
such as the need to accurately represent concurrency and time. In this
talk we describe state-of-the-art developments in modeling languages and
technologies that overcome such shortcomings, enabling thereby an
engineering-oriented style of MDD. This has proven effective not just
for the development of real-time software but also for designing complex
systems of systems.
Short Biography
Bran Selic is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and an adjunct professor of
computer science at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He has over
30 years of experience in designing and implementing large-scale
industrial systems in telecom, aerospace and robotics. Bran pioneered
the application of MDD and object-oriented methods in real-time software
and is the author of a reference text on this topic. At IBM he is
responsible for defining the strategy for systems development tools
being developed by the IBM Rational brand. Bran is also the chair of the
OMG task force responsible for maintaining the UML 2 standard.
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Presenter
Francisco Gómez-Molinero, Visual Tools, Spain
Title
Real-time Requirement of Media Control Applications
Abstract
This presentation will start describing the main functions of
multimedia control applications with special emphasis on video
surveillance systems. Based on this description the resource
requirements of multimedia control applications will be presented in
particular regarding the use of the processor, the memory, and the
network bandwidth. Some real-world sequences will be used to illustrate
the presentation.
Short Biography
Francisco Gómez-Molinero is co-founder and Technical Director of
Visual-Tools a Spanish SME who develops and sells smart video
surveillance systems in Europe. He is responsible for the R&D department
of the company where he is heavily involved in creating the innovations
in the product line.
Prior to that, Francisco worked at ESTEC, the European Space Agency R&D
Centre in The Netherlands. He was also responsible for defining the
ESTEC real-time on-board software R&D strategy for the European Space
32-bit microprocessor developed by leading European companies.
Presenter
Mercè Griera I Fisa, European Commission
Title
Research Opportunities in the IST Thematic Priority of the 7FP
Abstract
This presentation will focus on the second call for Objective 3.7
on "Network Embedded and Control Systems", opening on June 2007,
with a closing date on October 2007.
Please find details
here.
Short Biography
Mercè Griera is project officer at the European Commission's
Information Society and Media Directorate General. She works in the
Seven Framework Programme for Research and Development, concretelly
in the area of Embedded Systems. She entered the Commission in 1993
in the area of Research Networking, she moved to High Performance
Computing and Networking and to Communications Technologies.
Before joining the European Commission, she was technical director
of CAETI (Generalitat de Catalunya) and lecturer and researcher at
the Autonomous University of Barcelona.