MSC-News: SDL Forum '99


Subject: MSC-News: SDL Forum '99
Yair.Lahav#ecitele.com
Date: Thu May 06 1999 - 06:11:39 GMT


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                     Call for Participation

                        9th SDL FORUM

                     21-25 June, 1999
                Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Organized by: Universite de Montreal, SDL Forum Society and Nortel
Networks

SPONSORS: Verilog, Telelogic, France-Telecom, Motorola, IVT, Cinderella,
CRM, CRIM, ETS, Universite de Montreal

All activities will be held at the Universite de Montreal:
Departement d'Informatique et de Recherche Operationnelle
2920 Chemin de la Tour (Pavillion Andre Aisenstadt)
Montr�al (Quebec), CANADA - H3T 1Y4
FAX: (514) 343-5834
Tel: (514) 343-7599
Email: sdl99#iro.umontreal.ca

TUTORIALS (Monday, June 21)

Track 1 : The Unique SDL and MSC Features for Complex System Development
Speakers: � Jan Docekal, Telelogic
                  � Philippe Leblanc, VERILOG
 9:00 - 18:00 (with breaks for coffee and lunch)

Track 2: Selected subjects on using MSC and SDL in the Development Cycle

 9:00 How to use UML with MSC/SDL models (When /Where / How)
            Michael Andersson
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Pattern-based reuse with SDL
            Birgit Geppert
12:30 Lunch: Restaurant RAGA
14:00 Performance Engineering of SDL/MSC Systems
            Andreas Mitschele-Thiel and Bruno Mueller-Clostermann
15:30 Improving TIME TO MARKET Using SDL Tools and Techniques
             Robert L. Probert, Nikolai N. Mansurov
17:00 Coffee Break
17:30 Testing based on SDL specifications: towards software testing
             techniques
             C. Bourhfir, A. Cavalli and R. Dssouli
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SDL FORUM Program

TUESDAY, June 22 - Day 1

Welcome Session
Session chair: Rachida Dssouli

 9:15 Welcome

Opening Session
Session chair: Gregor v. Bochmann

10:00 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ahmed Jerraya, CNRS Research Director,
                                          TIMA Laboratory, INPG, Grenoble,
France

11:00 Coffee Break and Demo

Applications I
Session chair: Anders Olsen
11:30 IN Service prototyping using SDL models and animation
            Miguel Alabau, Pierre Combes, Beatrice Renard
12:00 SDL framework for prototyping and validation of IN services
            Kristofer Kimbler, Carl-Henrik Hagenfeldt, Niklas Widell, Jan
            Ellsberger, Gustav Bergman
12:30 Evaluating an SDL framework for AXE development
            Stein Erik Ellevseth, Birger Moller-Pedersen

13:00 Lunch: Restaurant LE COMMENSAL

Deriving SDL
Session chair: Bob Probert
14:30 New results on deriving SDL specifications from MSCs
            M. Abdalla, F. Khendek, G. Butler
15:00 From timed scenarios to SDL: specification, implementation and
            testing of real-time systems
            Abdeslam En-Nouaary, Rachida Dssouli, Ferhat Khendek

15:30 Coffee Break

SDL Forum Society
Session chair: Yair Lahav
16:00 All about the SDL Forum Society
             Yair Lahav
16:30 SDL Forum Society - Annual meeting (open to all conference
participants)
            Amardeo Sarma, Oystein Haugen, Yair Lahav

17:30 Welcome Cocktail in the Hall d'Honneur de l'Universit� de Montreal

WEDNESDAY, June 23 - Day 2

Language Extensions
Session chair: Rolv Braek
 9:00 SDL enhancements and application for the design of distributed
            services
            Nils Fischbeck, Marc Born, Andreas Hoffmann, Mario Winkler,
            Gregor Baudis, Harold B�hme, Joachim Fischer
 9:30 Modelling interfaces in SDL with gate types
            Eckhardt Holz
10:00 MSC and data: dynamic variables
            A.G. Engels, L.M.G. Feijs, Sjouke Mauw

10:30 Coffee Break

Testing I
Session chair: Ana Cavalli
11:00 SDL-based specification and testing strategy for communication
            network protocols
            Ostap Monkewich
11:30 Automated test generation from SDL specifications
            Alain Kerbrat, Thierry J�ron, Roland Groz
12:00 Methods and methodology for an incremental test generation from
SDL
            specifications
            Athmane Touag, Anne Rouger

12:30 Lunch: Restaurant LE COMMENSAL

SDL and MSC for the Next Millennium
Session chair: Amardeo Sarma
14:30 MSC-2000
            Oystein Haugen
15:10 SDL-2000
            Rick Reed
15:50 Towards a new formal SDL semantics - outline of an abstract state
            machines
            Uwe Gl�sser, Reinhard Gotzhein, A. Prinz
16:20 Discussion

17:00 Coffee Break and Demo

Tool presentations and Demonstrations
Session chair: Qiang Gao
17:30 Too presentations and Demonstrations

19:00 Banquet in Hall d'Honneur
        Invited speaker: Claudine Simson, VP of External Research and
                                                            University
Interaction, Nortel Networks

THURSDAY, June 24 - Day 3

UML in Collaboration with MSC and SDL
Session chair: Pierre Combes
 9:00 Towards a harmonization of UML-sequence diagrams and MSC
             Ekkart Rudolph, Jens Grabowski, Peter Graubmann
 9:30 Three scenarios for combining UML and SDL'96
             Kurt Verschaeve, Anders Ek
10:00 Automatic synthesis of SDL models in use case methodology
             Nikolai Mansurov, D. Zhukov
10:30 Integrating schedulability analysis and SDL in an object-oriented
            methodology for embedded real-time systems
            J. M. Alvarez, Manuel Diaz, L.M. Llopis, E. Pimentel, J.M.
Troya

11:00 Coffee Break and Demo

Code Generation
Session chair: Rick Reed
11:30 COCOS - A configurable SDL compiler for generating efficient
            protocol implementations
            Peter Langendoerfer, Hartmut Koenig
12:00 Using declarative mappings for automatic code generation from SDL
            and ASN.1
            Nikolai Mansurov, Alexei Ragozin

12:30 Lunch: Restaurant LE COMMENSAL

Metric
Session chair: Philippe Leblanc
14:30 Using design metrics to identify error-prone components of SDL
designs
            Wayne M. Zage, Dolores M. Zage, J. Michael McGrew, Nitin Sood
15:00 Application of SDL metric suite through development phases
            Yury Chernov

15:30 Coffee Break and Demo

16:00 Tools Demonstration

Free evening (Note: this is the Quebec national holiday, St. Jean-Batiste)

FRIDAY, June 25 - Day 4

Applications II
Session chair: Ekkart Rudolph
 9:00 Dynamic scenario-based approach to re-engineering of legacy
            telecommunication software
            Nikolai Mansurov, Robert L. Probert
 9:30 Specification, validation and implementation of ATM UNI signaling
            protocols in SDL
            Yuping Dong, Yinghua Lu , Qiang Gao
10:00 Using metapatterns with SDL
            Torben Worm
10:30 External communication with SDL systems
            Gerd Kurzbach, Martin v. L�wis of Menar, Ralf Schr�der

11:00 Coffee Break

Testing II
Session chair: Daniel Vincent
11:30 SDL and MSC based test generation for distributed test
             architectures
            Jens Grabowski, Beat Koch, Michael Schmitt, Dieter Hogrefe
12:00 A test case generation tool for conformance testing of SDL systems
            Chourouk Bourhfir, Rachida Dssouli, El Mostapha Aboulhamid,
            Nathalie Rico

12:30 Lunch: Restaurant RAGA

Time, Performance and Simulation
Session chair: Claude Jard
14:30 IF: An intermediate representation for SDL and its applications
            Marius Bozga, Jean-Claude Fernandez, Lucian Ghirvu, Susanne
Graf,
             Jean-Pierre Krimm, Laurent Mounier, Joseph Sifakis
15:00 PerfSDL: Interface to protocol performance analysis by means of
            simulation
            Mazen Malek
15:30 Early performance prediction of SDL/MSC specified systems by
            automated synthetic code generation
            W. Dulz, S. Gruhl, L. Kerber, M. S�llner
16:00 A simulation model for message sequence charts
            Lo�c H�lou�t

16:30 Closing session

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Please mail (or fax) the completed Registration Form below to:

Rachida Dssouli/Lucie Levesque
Universite de Montreal,
Dept. IRO. C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-Ville
Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3J7, CANADA
Tel. 1(514) 343-7599
FAX.1 (514) 343-5834
dssouli#iro.umontreal.ca

                         9th SDL Forum Registration Form

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(late)
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