[ecoop-info] call for participation -- summer school on generation/transformation in SE, 2-7 July, Braga

[Ralf Lammel]

I would hope this program to be pretty interesting for subscribers of ECOOP-INFO.
http://www.di.uminho.pt/GTTSE2007
For instance, see the coverage of AOP, DSLs, MDE, IDEs, OO queries etc.
So please have a look, participate or encourage your students to apply.
Hoping to see some of you in Braga in July.

Here is the packed and splendid program.

Tutorials at GTTSE 2007
- Model-Based Evolution.
  Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo.
- Software Linguistics and Language Engineering.
  Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble.
- Software Reuse Beyond Components with XVCL.
  Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore.
- OO queries over OO programs with .QL.
  Oege de Moor, Oxford University.
- Data Transformation by Calculation.
  José Nuno Oliveira, University of Minho, Portugal.
- How to Write Fast Numerical Code.
  Markus Pueschel, Carnegie Mellon University.
- A Practical Guide to Building Staged Interpreters.
  Walid Taha, Rice University.
- Domain-Specific Language Engineering.
  Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Technology presentations at GTTSE 2007
- Optimizing Monolithic Compilation in the Google Web Toolkit.
  Scott Blum, Google, USA.
- SAFARI: Meta-Tooling for Language-Specific IDE's in Eclipse.
  Robert M Fuhrer, IBM Watson Research Center, USA.
- Model-Driven Engineering of Rules for Web Services.
  Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada.
- A transformational approach to programming environments.
  Cristina Videira Lopes, University of California, USA.
- Implementing Tutorials Transformations with Tom and Java.
  Pierre-Etienne Moreau, INRIA/LORIA Nancy, France.
- Building composable domain-specific language extensions.
  Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA.
- Bidirectional model transformations.
  Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Techniques for lightweight DSL development in Converge.
  Laurence Tratt, King's College, London, UK

Links:
http://www.di.uminho.pt/GTTSE2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/ralflammel/archive/2007/04/11/another-8-transformation-and-generation-experts-to-meet-this-summer.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/ralflammel/archive/2007/03/07/language-engineering-summer-school-in-july-in-portugal.aspx

Best,
Ralf Laemmel