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Working Meeting, Language Design Task Group - FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT



FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT - sorry for the delay!

The following, hopefully complete, information about the forthcoming
meeting has now been added to the CoFI WWW pages.  Please contact Radu
Grosu if you need further information about local arrangements, and
Bernd Krieg-Brueckner concerning participation and technical issues.

We shall TRY to provide some preliminary indication of the results of
the Munich meeting on this mailing-list by mid-July.  Due to the
Dagstuhl meeting directly after AMAST, and the forthcoming vacation,
this won't be easy, and the details will have to wait to August.

Peter

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\  /  | Peter D Mosses         <pdmosses@brics.dk> |
CoFI  | Common Framework Initiative  - Coordinator |
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Working Meeting, Language Design Task Group, 5-7 July 1996, Munich

Updated: 27 June

The next CoFI Language Design task group meeting will be held in Munich:

     Friday 5 July (2pm) to Sunday 7 July (12.30pm), 1996.

This is immediately after the AMAST'96 conference (for info, see URL:
http://www.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/amast96). Please note that the
meeting is intended only for ACTIVE participants of the Language Design task
group, and familiarity with ALL available study notes, check-lists, etc.,
will be presumed. This meeting is to resolve the remaining technical
questions concerning the tentative design proposal, and to clarify the
rationale for the various design choices. This should result in the adoption
(by the Language Design task group) of a Tentative Common Language
Description by mid-July, 1996 - although because of vacation time, it may be
mid-August before a detailed report is available.

The plan is then that the Semantics, Tools, Methodology, and Reactive
Systems task groups should assess the tentative language design from their
various perspectives, at the same time starting to prepare the relevant
associated documents that should eventually accompany the CoFI Common
Language Reference Manual. The Language Design task group should meanwhile
turn its attention to the design of a concrete syntax for the Common
Language (the tentative language design will focus on its abstract syntax)
and to preparing examples of specifications.

Provided that the changes to the tentative language design suggested by the
various task groups are not too dramatic, the plan is to converge on a
proposal for a CoFI Common Language Definition by the end of 1996. This
proposal should then be open to public debate for some months, before a CoFI
Common Language Definition based on it is submitted to IFIP WG 14.3 for
approval, probably in Spring 1997.

Note, however, that the Common Framework Initiative is a voluntary, unfunded
effort, and the plans outlined above may change, in response to fluctuations
in the available human resources.

Expected Participation

Please let both Bernd and myself know straight away if you are planning to
attend the meeting but are not listed below (or vice versa!):

Egidio       Astesiano
Didier       Bert
Michel       Bidoit
Manfred      Broy            (part of Friday only)
Victoria     Cengarle        (unconfirmed)
Maura        Cerioli
Christine    Choppy
Radu         Grosu
Anne         Haxthausen
Bernd        Krieg-Brückner
Peter D      Mosses
Olaf         Owe
Cornelia     Pusch
Don          Sannella
Andrzej      Tarlecki
Michal       Walicki
Martin       Wirsing         (not Friday)

Local Arrangements

Local organizer: Radu Grosu (URL: mailto:grosu@informatik.tu-muenchen.de)

Meetings:
     Location:
          Institut für Informatik, TUM.
     Room:
          The room is S2229. S means south building. The first 2 means the
          middle part of the building. The second 2 means 2nd floor.
          Finally, 9 is the room no. within this floor. This room will be
          available from 12:30 on the Friday afternoon.

          Entering either from Arcisstrasse or from Barrer Strasse, one has
          to go until it sees the "golden man" statue. Behind the golden man
          there are the stairs and the elevator. Look for CoFI signs inside
          the building.

          A map with the location of the TU can be found under:

          URL: http://www.tu-muenchen.de/lageplan_e.html

          How to get to TU is indicated under:

          URL: http://www.tu-muenchen.de/finding_tum.html

          On Saturday and on Sunday, the access is restricted to the Barrer
          Str. entrance. Since entry is only with permission, the list of
          participants has been given to the doorman.

          Also, the room S3224 has been reserved from 8:30 to 13:30 on the
          Friday morning, for the use of CoFI meeting participants not
          attending AMAST
     Times of sessions:
          Start: Friday 5 July at 2 pm. Finish: Sunday 7 July at 12.30 pm.

          Fri:                 14:00 - 18:30
          Sat:   9:00 - 12:30  14:00 - 18:30
          Sun:   9:00 - 12:30

Meals:
     Participants should pay for own meals. Refreshments are provided by TU.
     Friday lunch:
          Sandwiches at TU in Room S2229 (from 13:00).
     Friday dinner:
          Uncoordinated
     Saturday lunch:
          There are a lot of small, nice restaurants reachable at about 10
          min from the TU: Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Bavarian...
          Do you have any preference?
     Saturday dinner:
          We could reserve for Saturday a table at some particular
          resturant: e.g. Rathauskeller, etc.
     Sunday lunch:
          Those travelling to Dagstuhl are taking the train at 14:41, so we
          should preferably find a restaurant close to the station.
Hotel:
     Ariston
     Unsöldstr. 10
     Tel: +49 89/22 26 91
     Fax: +49 89/291 35 95
     Prices: Single: 145 DM Double: 200 DM
     Location: A hotel of the sixties, in Munich-Lehel, close to the center.
     20 min walk to the AMAST conference building. You can also take the
     tramway no. 17 (direction "Effnerplatz", stop "Tivolistrasse").
Travel:
     A group ticket and seat reservations have been arranged for travelling
     to Dagstuhl on the Sunday afternoon, by the train leaving Munich at
     14:41, for the following persons:

     Michel       Bidoit
     Maura        Cerioli
     Rolf         Hennicker
     Peter D      Mosses
     Don          Sannella
     Andrzej      Tarlecki

                                    | 24h format! |
      Station               (date)  |arrive depart| TrainType Comments
     =================================================================
      Muenchen Hbf         07.07.   |       14:41 | ICE  792 RE ZR
      Mannheim Hbf                  | 17:31 17:49 | IC   558 RE ZR
      Saarbruecken Hbf     07.07.   | 19:10       |
      Duration:  4:29, runs always
      2nd class fare: DM 148.00 (1st: 232.00); dist.: 506 km

     Legend:
      RE: Reservation strongly recommended
      ZR: Dining car
     =================================================================

     A minibus (taking up to 12 passengers, costing DM 130.- altogether) has
     been ordered, to meet the train at Saarbrücken at 19:10 and go to
     Dagstuhl. The journey time should be about 45 minutes, i.e., arrival at
     Dagstuhl at around 8 pm.

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CoFI: The Common Framework Initiative, June 27, 1996