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IBM Programming Languages and Development Environments Seminar 2009
on Innovations in Software Development
April 22, 2009
Organized by IBM Haifa Research Lab

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Program

9:00    Registration

9:30    Opening Remarks
Amiram Yehudai, Yael Dubinsky, Yishai Feldman, Dolev Dotan
Seminar organizers

9:35    Keynote: Software As a Strategic Weapon
Grady Booch, IBM Fellow, Chief Scientist for Software Engineering IBM Research (via Second Life)

10:35   Break

10:50   Session I:
Model-Driven Product-Lines for Embedded Software and for Supply-Chain Companies
Tal Haham, Julia Rubin, IBM HRL
(Presentation)

Visual Dynamic Model Inspecting with OPM Model-Based Simulation Environment
Valeriya Perelman, Yevgeny Yaroker, Dov Dori, Technion and MIT
(Presentation)

11:40   Break

11:55   Session II:
Verification of Embedded System Specifications Using Collaborative Simulation of SysML and Simulink Models
Ryo Kawahara, Hiroaki Nakamura, Dolev Dotan, Andrei Kirshin, Takashi Sakairi, Shinichi Hirose, Kohichi Ono, Hiroshi Ishikawa, IBM Research (Tokyo, Haifa)
(Presentation)

Refactoring of Statecharts
Moria Abadi, Yishai A. Feldman, Tel Aviv University, IBM HRL

SimWiz – Demonstration of an Expert System-like User Interface for Simulation
Moshe Pollatschek, Technion
(Presentation)

13:00   Lunch

14:00   Keynote: 2010 Architecture Odyssey: The future of BPM, SOA, Business Architecture and Enterprise Architecture in our Industry
Sridhar Iyengar, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Strategist – Services Software Engineering, IBM Research

15:00   Break

15:10   Panel: Software Development in an Economic Crisis - Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Amiram Yehudai
Panelists:
Ronen Bar-Nahor, Director of Development Process Engineering, Amdocs Product Group
Boaz Carmeli, Manager, IT for Healthcare & Life Science, IBM Haifa Research Lab
Miri Curiel, VP R&D, Orca Interactive
Amir Shatil, Senior Development Leader, Rafael
Barak Yagour, VP Engineering, Metis Technologies

16:05   Break

16:15   Session III:
System Grokking – A Novel Technology for Software Understanding, Validation and Evolution
Dany Moshkovich, Maayan Goldstein, Avital Gutman, Vadim Vasilov, IBM HRL

IDE Support For Example Embedding
Ohad Barzilay, Orit Hazzan, Amiram Yehudai, Tel Aviv University, Technion

Freedom – End User Programming for the Web
Asaf Adi, Maya Barnea, Nili Guy, Samuel Kallner, Yoav Rubin, Gal Shachor, IBM HRL
(Presentation)

17:30   Concluding Remarks
Oded Cohn, IBM HRL

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