Overview

The 25th Ada‐Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021), initially scheduled to take place in Santander, Spain, will be held online from the 7th to the 10th of June 2021, using the underline.io conference platform. The conference program includes parallel tutorials on Monday 7th, and a technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday. The conference also includes breaks and virtual social events that will allow networking among the participants.

Preliminary Program

You may download the Preliminary Program in PDF here: Ada-Europe 2021 Preliminary Program (0.6MB)

Final Program

You may download the Final Program in PDF here: Ada-Europe 2021 Final Program (2.2MB)

Conference Structure

In addition to the five tutorials, this year’s conference has three core days including:

• Keynotes: Three guest speakers will deliver their talks in the central hours of the conference.
• Technical sessions: They include papers submitted to the journal track that are heading towards final acceptance and open‐access publication, together with industrial, invited and vendor presentations.
• A Work‐in‐Progress session: It contains contributions of evolving and early‐stage ideas, or new research directions. They are presented in a special session consisting of a round of very short presentations of the highlights of each contribution, followed by a poster session in the same virtual space where the breaks are held.

The technical sessions are designed with the flipped‐conference concept, where the audience can access the pre‐recorded presentation materials in advance. The live sessions are devoted to short presentations of the highlights of each contribution, allowing ample time for questions and answers with the presenter. The recorded materials will also be available for some time after their sessions.

Overview of the Week

The program runs between 12:30 and 18:30 CEST, to allow participation from different time zones.

Keynote Talks

In each of the three main conference days, a keynote will be delivered to address hot topics of relevance in the conference scope, with ample time for questions and answers. The keynotes will be:

• Ángel Conde, Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence team leader at IKERLAN (Spain), who will present his work on Software reliability in the Big Data era with an industry‐minded focus.
• Alfons Crespo, who is with the Institute of Automation and Industrial Informatics of the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), will give an answer to the question Why a hypervisor‐based approach is the best alternative for mixed‐criticality systems.
• Tucker Taft, who is Director of Language Research at AdaCore (USA), will talk on A sampling of Ada 2022.

Detailed information regarding these keynotes can be found here.

Social Events

The virtual conference platform will offer a space under the gather.town environment to allow informal and lively gathering of the participants. This space will have different areas, such as rooms, tables, and corners where a participant can approach to talk though videoconferencing with participants in the same virtual area. This facility will be used for the breaks, poster session, exhibition and social events. For more details see the Social Events section.

Technical Sessions

Given the current sanitary situation and the need to resort to a virtual format for the conference, we will all experience the advantages and benefits of exploring new formats. The technical sessions are designed with the flipped‐conference concept, where the audience can access the pre‐recorded presentation materials in advance and the live sessions are devoted to short presentations of the highlights of each contribution, allowing ample time for questions and answers with the presenter. The recorded materials will also be available for some time after their sessions. The technical sessions include papers submitted to the journal track that are heading towards final acceptance and open‐access publication, together with industrial, invited and vendor presentations.

Work-In-Progress Session

The Work‐in‐Progress session contains contributions of evolving and early‐stage ideas, or new research directions. They are presented in a special session consisting of a round of very short presentations of the highlights of each contribution, followed by a poster session in the same virtual space where the breaks are held.

Exhibition

From Tuesday to Thursday the conference platform will provide access to virtual booths where participants will be able to find information on the conference exhibitors and chat with them or request meetings. The virtual break lounge where the breaks and social events will take place will also have a space for meeting with the exhibitors.

The exhibitors present at the conference are:

• AdaCore: https://www.adacore.com/
• PTC: http://www.ptc.com/developer‐tools
• Ada‐Europe: http://www.ada‐europe.org/

Tutorials

Five four‐hour parallel tutorials are offered on Monday 7th:

• TU‐1: Programming mobile robots with ROS2 and the RCLAda Ada client library, by Alejandro R. Mosteo
• TU‐2: Introduction to the development of safety critical software, by Jean‐Pierre Rosen
• TU‐3: Parallel programming with Ada and OpenMP, by Sara Royuela, S. Tucker Taft, Luis Miguel Pinho
• TU‐4: Timing verification from UML & MARTE design models: techniques & tools, by Laurent Rioux, Julio Medina and Shuai Li
• TU‐5: Programming shared memory computers, by Jan Verschelde

Detailed information regarding these tutorials can be found here.

Social Program

The virtual conference platform will offer a space under the gather.town environment to allow informal and lively gathering of the participants. This space may have different areas, such as rooms, tables, and corners where a participant can approach to talk though videoconferencing with participants in the same virtual area. This facility will be used for the breaks, poster session, exhibition and social events. Particular themes for some of the social events will be announced in the conference platform and in the web page.

Registration

Participation for the full event, including tutorials, is free for Ada‐Europe members and only 60€ for all others. Registration is required for all.

Conference Schedule