From dominic@british-national-corpus.oxford.ac.uk Thu Nov 14 15:37:20 1991 Received: from sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA14228; Thu, 14 Nov 91 15:37:20 +0100 Received: from convex.oxford.ac.uk by sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk via JANET with NIFTP id <6360-0@sun2.nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>; Wed, 13 Nov 1991 10:07:46 +0000 Received: from onions.natcorp by convex.oxford.ac.uk; Wed, 13 Nov 91 09:33:54 GMT Received: by onions.natcorp.ox.ac.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06011; Wed, 13 Nov 91 09:33:23 GMT Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 09:33:23 GMT From: dominic@british-national-corpus.oxford.ac.uk (Dominic Dunlop) Message-Id: <9111130933.AA06011@onions.natcorp.ox.ac.uk> To: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk Subject: PCTE Tutorial announcement: 11-12 December, Palo Alto, CA Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences In-Reply-To: <1991Nov7.010033.4019@tss.com> Organization: Oxford University, GB Cc: X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 POSIX people, The announcement which follows appeared in article <1991Nov7.010033.4019@tss.com> on comp.announce.conferences. Although I rather doubt that any subscriber to this mail list has such a burning desire to know the details of PCTE that they're going to shell out $375 per day to get the information, here's the announcement, just in case... --- Dominic Dunlop An Introduction to PCTE A Tutorial on Strategies and Tactics for Exploiting PCTE Presented by INSTEP Inc. and SDA Inc. 11-12 December 1991 Holiday Inn, Palo Alto, California The costs of building industrial strength software development environments and tools can be prohibitive. A set of common services is needed to facilitate the rapid construction and integration of software tools and environments. The PCTE (Portable Common Tool Environment) interface defines such a set of common services. The services have been defined to be scaleable, language independent, evolvable, and implementable on local area networks. The European Computer Manufacturers Association accepted a version of the PCTE interface definition in December, 1990 as ECMA Standard 149. GIE Emeraude and other organizations have produced commercial implementations of the PCTE interface on most of the popular platforms. The PCTE interface is gaining widespread acceptance within the platform, CASE tool and software development environment communities. INTENDED AUDIENCE This two-day program is designed to provide software project managers, software engineers, software tool and environment builders, and software technology decision makers insight into the applicability of PCTE for creating supportive software environments. REGISTRATION is limited to provide a high-quality educational experience. OUTLINE I. The History and Strategic Nature of the PCTE Initiative Discussion of the major European technology research projects and companies that have influenced the PCTE initiative from 1983 to present. Discussion of the significance of PCTE from both the technology and industry market perspectives. II. Mechanisms of PCTE Discussion of the basic mechanisms that underlie PCTE, including: * Object Management System: data repository services * Execution: operating system process management services * Inter-Process Communication: process- process communication, data exchange services * Activities: concurrency control and integrity services * Communication: object content read and write services * Distribution: data and operating system process distribution services III. Exploiting PCTE Discussion of issues important to exploiting PCTE, including tool architectures, schema development, tool migration strategies, and performance related matters. IV. Pitfalls and Benefits of PCTE Discussion of the potential pitfalls and practical benefits realized through the use of a PCTE realization. V. Question and Answer Period Open question and answer period between lecturers and attendees. SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE ... Brian Nejmeh is an independent software consultant, specializing in software development environments and process improvement. He has been involved in environment and tool integration projects for the past seven years at organizations including AT&T and Software Productivity Consortium. He is currently leading a number of PCTE-based projects exploring the appropriate use of PCTE as an envi- ronment construction and integration technology. Bill Riddle is President of Software Design & Analysis, Inc. His technical work emphasizes software design processes and tools and the delivery of this technology to practitioners through automated software environments. Previously, Bill was Chief Technical Officer at the Software Productivity Consortium, a director of software design and engineering work at Cray Laboratories and a professor of computer science at the Universities of Michigan and Colorado. He is a former ACM National Lecturer, former Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, and chaired the 9th International Conference on Software Engineering. Ian Thomas directs environment framework and integration projects at Software Design & Analysis Inc. Previously, he worked on architecture coordination in Hewlett-Packard's Software Engineering Systems Division. While at Group Bull's Corporate Research Center, he was the technical coordinator and manager for many PCTE activities, including the final phase of PCTE and the Pact project. His current technical activities emphasize environment frameworks, environment in- tegration technology, software process support, and software engineering database issues. TRAVEL and LODGING The tutorial will be held at: Holiday Inn 625 El Camino Real Palo Alto, California Special room rates are available for participants. To make reservations at these rates, or to make other travel and lodging reservations, please contact Travel King, Boulder, CO tel: (800) 458-6398 fax: (303) 442-8638] and reference "PCTE 12/91 Tutorial." REGISTRATION FORM Name ________________________ Affiliation ________________________ ________________________ Mail Code ________________________ Street ________________________ ________________________ City ________________________ State, ZIP ________________________ Country ________________________ Telephone (_____) _________________ FEES: Advance Registration $750.00 On-site Registration $850.00 Per person fee for two or more people from the same organization $700.00 AMOUNT ENCLOSED: __________ Registrations not accompanied by payment will hold space in the program for two weeks. Payment must be received by the end of this two-week period to guarantee space at the tutorial. Sorry, but credit card charges, foreign-currency checks and PO's cannot be accepted. Checks should be made to SDA Inc. CANCELLATION POLICY: Cancellations received prior to 1 December will receive a full refund minus a $50.00 administrative fee. Cancellations will not be accepted after 1 December 1991. Personnel from the same company may, however, be substituted. SEND COMPLETED FORM AND PAYMENT TO: PCTE Tutorial Software Design & Analysis Inc. 1113 Spruce Street, Suite 500 Boulder, Colorado 80302 USA FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Mark Kissman, SDA Inc. +1 (303) 444-9100 email: kissman@sda.com