From: Jurgen Vinju
To:
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:16:12 +0200
Subject: PEM 30-06-2005 at 10:00u

   Dear colleagues,

   Next  Thursday  our new colleague, Diego Ordonez, will introduce us to
   his research topics. You are cordially invited.

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

   Date:    30.06.05
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   M279 (CWI)
   Speaker: Diego Ordonez
   Title:   An approach for developing generic spacecraft operation 
	    procedures

   The   APPAREIL   project   ("a   parametric   approach   to   software
   reengineering"),  will  attempt to provide significant improvements to
   our  industrial  partner's (RHEA Systems) software suite(MOIS), mainly
   focused  on  the  field of procedure design for spacecraft operations.
   These   procedures  are  typically  expressed  in  the  form  of  some
   operations  language,  so  that  they  can be executed by a particular
   mission  control system. Unfortunately, a multitude of such operations
   languages   exists,  which  are  not  all  supported  (yet)  by  MOIS.
   Therefore, this project will investigate how MOIS can be extended with
   a   more  generic  approach  for  developing  such  mission  operation
   procedures, that is more independent of the actual operations language
   considered.  More  specifically,  the  project  aims  at  developing a
   technique for language-independent translation of operations expressed
   in  any  operations  language to the internal MOIS representation, and
   back.
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   The  programming environment meetings are a forum for the presentation
   and  discussion  of  new  ideas,  ongoing and finished work. A typical
   meeting  addresses  a subject in the area of programming environments,
   program  generation, algebraic specification, term rewriting, parsing,
   etc.  A presentation ideally takes between 45 and 90 minutes. Meetings
   taking  longer  than 45 minutes are interrupted by a coffeebreak. Most
   Thursdays,  a  meeting is held which starts at 10:00 am. in one of the
   rooms at CWI/WINS. Exceptionally, dates or times may change.

   The    program    of    the    meetings    is    available   on   WWW:
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