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WORKSHOPS

1- The NEPTUNE Project:
Nice Environment with a Process and Tools Using Norms and Examples

Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2002, 9:00-12:30 am

Summary: The European Community now plays a very active role in giving concrete expression to the new developments taking place in modeling languages and in UML (Unified Modeling Language) in particular. These developments are carried out mainly by the OMG (Object Management Group).

The main objective of the NEPTUNE project (Nice Environment with a Process and Tools Using Norms and Example), a project carried out in the context of the European Commission 5th Framework, is to develop both a method and tools (complementary to the existing software engineering environments) based on the use of the UML notation.
- This method, gained from considerable experience in the industrial environment, will apply to a variety of different fields: software development, business processes and knowledge management.

- The newly developed tools will enable UML models to be statically checked for their coherence and consistency, according to the context in which the UML notation is used. They will also enable professional documentation resulting from the transformation of models to be automatically generated. This will be compliant with the context of the UML notation and will take account of user's requirements.

The method and tools developed in this way will facilitate the application of the UML standard as well as promoting its use in a large number of varied fields. Finally, this work will enable solutions to be found so that the UML standard might be further improved with a view to participating effectively in the work carried out by the OMG.

Workshop Agenda:
9:00-10:00: Overview of the NEPTUNE Project
10:00-10:30: Coffee break
10:30-11:30: Demonstration of the tool
11:30-12:30: Discussion

NEPTUNE Consortium:
Novasys (Canada)
CS Communication & Systèmes (France)
IRIT (France)
GTD (Spain)
UPC (Spain)
Universitarea Babes-Bolyai (Rumania)

Further detail on NEPTUNE.

Synthèse des Assises :
Guy Lapassat - Compagnie Générale des Eaux

2- ISTEC: Information Society Technologies Europe-Canada
Canada-Europe Collaboration in Research & Technology Development

A Canada-Europe partnering seminar will be held during the ICSSEA 2002 Conference dedicated to Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications

Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2:00-5:00 pm

With strong cultural and trade ties world wide, Canada is a nation of exciting opportunity, providing leadership in new technologies.

Canadians are among the greatest players in the domains of information & communications technologies. They live and work in an environment with the largest number of telephone users in the world paying the most affordable rates for services. They have the greatest access to cable television networks and the lowest Internet access costs. Canada has established leading positions in specialised markets such as graphics and multimedia, business intelligence, learnware, Internet tools, telecommunications, electronic commerce, and software for the wireless world.

Over the last several years, Canada has created one of the most open and attractive business climates for new inward investment of anywhere in the world. In an advanced R&D and business-friendly environment, Canada boasts a number of impressive and proven business advantages such as: access to a market of more than 380 millions consumers in North America, access to dynamic technology clusters and the most generous R&D tax write-offs in the G7.

IST-EC is your chance to connect with Canada. If you wish to know more about Canada and R&D co-operation possibilities, or if you are looking for partners from Canada for joint research projects, IST-EC will help you. IST-EC is a new project supported by the IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme of the European Union's 5th RTD Framework Programme (FP5) and by a number of key Federal and Provincial Canadian organisations. This project connects the European & Canadian research and business community in key areas of IST (Information Society Technology), with a focus on the domains of e-Learning, Culture and e-Content, e-Work and e-Commerce. If you want to have more information on IST-EC, please visit our web site: ist-ec.ca and ist-ec.org.