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Call for Participation

*** PROGRAM SUMMARY ***

26th Ada-Europe International Conference on
Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2022)

14-17 June 2022, Ghent, Belgium

www.ada-europe.org/conference2022

Organized by Ada-Europe
in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGPLAN, SIGBED,
the Ada Resource Association (ARA), and Ghent University

#AEiC2022 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming

*** Online registration open ***
*** Highly recommended to book your hotel ASAP ***
*** Early registration discount until May 20 ***

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*** General Information

The 26th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software
Technologies (AEiC 2022) returns to Belgium, after 2001 in Leuven,
to take place in Ghent, in the week of 14-17 June, in dual mode,
with a solid core of in-presence activities accompanied by digital
support for remote participation.

The conference program includes two core days with keynote
talks, peer-reviewed academic papers, industrial presentations,
work-in-progress presentations and posters, and vendor presentations.
The conference program is bracketed by one day of tutorials, and one
day with three satellite events. There will be time for networking
during breaks as well as various social events around historic,
cultural, scenic, culinary, and beer brewing highlights of Ghent.

AEiC 2022 is the latest in a series of annual international conferences
started in the early 80's, under the auspices of Ada-Europe, the
international organization that promotes knowledge and use of Ada and
Reliable Software in general, into academic education and research,
and industrial practice.

The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become
a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and
researchers in reliable software technologies. These events
highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety-
and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique
opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and
industrial practitioners.

The 2022 edition of the conference continues a number of important
innovations started at the last in-person conference in 2019:
- lower registration fee for conference, unified for all participants;
- further reduced fee for all authors;
- lower registration fee for all tutorials;
- journal-based open-access publication model for peer-reviewed papers;
- more compact program with two core days (Wednesday & Thursday);
- tutorials on Tuesday, followed by welcome event for all participants;
- several satellite events on Friday.

*** Overview of the Week

- Tue 14: four half-day tutorials, welcome reception
- Wed 15 & Thu 16: core program, social events on each day
- Fri 17: two full-day workshops and Birds-of-a-Feather meeting

Extensive information on AEiC 2022 is on the conference web site,
such as an overview of the program, the list of accepted papers and
presentations, and descriptions of workshops, tutorials, keynote
presentations, and social events. Also check the conference site
for registration, accommodation and travel information. The Advance
Program brochure is available there as well.

*** Venue

The conference will take place in the heart of the city of Ghent,
Belgium, capital of the East Flanders province, a half-hour train ride
north-west of Brussels and the international airport. Ghent is rich
in history, culture and higher-education, with a top-100 university
founded in 1817.

*** Invited Speakers

On each of the two main conference days, an invited talk will be
delivered to address topics of relevance in the conference scope,
with time for questions and answers.

- On Thu June 16, a keynote talk by Cristina (Crista) Lopes, School
of Computer Sciences, University of California at Irvine, USA,
who will present her study on "The Curious Case of Code Duplication
in Github".

- On Wed Jun 15, a spotlight talk (remote) by Anita Carleton,
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA,
about "Envisioning the Future of Software Engineering".

*** Conference Core Composition

The core conference program features five distinct types of
technical presentations, with different duration, all followed by
discussion time: keynote and spotlight talks, journal-track talks,
industrial-track talks, short work-in-progress-track talks, vendor
talks.

All papers presented in the journal track, the industrial track and
the work-in-progress track have undergone peer review. Presentations
are combined into by-theme and not by-track sessions, in order that
authors and participants alike enjoy all flavors of the program in
a mixed as opposed to segregated combination.

Papers and Presentations:
- 2 invited talks,
- 7 sessions on Uses of Ada, Real-Time Systems 1, Development
Challenges, Advanced Systems, Special-Purpose Systems, Verification
Challenges, Real-Time Systems 2
- 9 journal-track talks
- 9 industrial talks
- 12 work-in-progress presentations
- 2 vendor talks in core program
- submissions and accepted contributions from around the world

Networking Area:
- features project posters, reserved vendor tables, and general
networking options
- 2 companies already committed to be there: AdaCore, Vector Software

*** Tutorials

Four three-hour tutorials are offered on Tuesday 14th:

- "Moving up to Ada 2022",
by S. Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA

- "Numerics for the non-numerical analyst",
by Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France

- "The ALiRe Package Manager",
by Fabien Chouteau, France, and Alejandro Mosteo, Spain

- "The HAC Ada Compiler",
by Gautier de Montmollin, Switzerland

*** Satellite Events

Two full-day workshops and a half-day "Bird-of-a-Feather" meeting
are held on Friday 17th:

- 7th International Workshop on "Challenges and New Approaches for
Dependable and Cyber-Physical System Engineering" (DeCPS 2022)

- International Workshop "AADL Unveiled by its Practitioners (ADEPT)"

- Bird-of-a-feather Meeting: "Future of ASIS and Vendor Independent
Tools" (free of charge)

*** Social Program

To celebrate the return to an in-person event, the conference features
a rich social program.

- each day: coffee breaks and lunches offer ample time for interaction
and networking with participants and vendors

- Tuesday early evening: Welcome Aperitif with beer tasting in the
"Il Trovatore" lounge, a restored medieval cellar

- Wednesday evening: private visit to the Gothic-style St Bavo's
Cathedral and its artistic treasures including the world-famous
Lam Gods altarpiece; followed by Conference Banquet in the Abt,
the only brasserie from the famous Orval Trappist beer brewery

- Thursday evening: Boat Tour in canals that encircle the medieval
center of Ghent, followed by Conference Dinner at the Carlos Quinto
restaurant, a short walk across the heart of town from the boat pier

The Cathedral visit is limited to 70 persons, in registration order:
don't delay! The Thursday events are an elective part of the program.

*** Further Information

Registration:
- online registration is open at
https://registration.ada-europe.org/index.html
- early registration discount until Monday May 20, 2022
- payment possible by credit card or bank transfer
- special low fee for authors
- discount for Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, SIGBED and SIGPLAN members
- extra discount for students
- registration includes coffee breaks and lunches
- full conference registration includes Thu and Wed social events
- elective social events on Thursday
- tutorial fees substantially reduced
- low workshop fees, free Birds-of-a-Feather meeting
- see registration page for all details

Promotion:
- recommended Twitter hashtags: #AEiC2022 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming
- Advance Program brochure online at
http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2022/AP-AEiC-202
2.pdf

AEiC 2022 Sponsors:
- AdaCore: https://www.adacore.com/
- Vector: https://www.vector.com/at/en/

The conference is supported and sponsored by
- Ada-Europe: http://www.ada-europe.org/

and organized in cooperation with
- ACM SIGAda: http://www.sigada.org/
- ACM SIGBED: https://sigbed.org/
- ACM SIGPLAN: http://www.sigplan.org/
- ARA: https://www.adaic.org/community/
- Ghent University: https://www.ugent.be/en/

Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible.

For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at
http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2022.

We look forward to seeing you in Ghent in June 2022!

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Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.
Please circulate widely.

Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2022 Publicity Chair
D...@c...kuleuven.be

* 26th Ada-Europe Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2022)
* June 14-17, 2022, Ghent, Belgium * www.ada-europe.org/conference2022

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