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	Ada 95: An Effective Concurrent Programming Language by Alan Burns Email: burns@minster.york.ac.uk URL: http://Dcpu1.cs.york.ac.uk:6666/~burns/

Abstract:

The concurrency facilities within Ada 95 are more comprehensive than in any other language. Through a discussion of three case studies, this paper shows how the language abstractions supported by Ada can be combined to build effective higher-level abstractions. The three examples concern a concurrency problem, a fault tolerance requirement and a scheduling (real-time) issue. Together they illustrate that many of the criticisms that were rightly focused on Ada 83 have been addressed by the language revision.

Biography:

Alan Burns is the Professor of Real-Time Systems in the Department of Computer Science, University of York, U.K. His research interests cover a number of aspects of real-time systems including the assessment of languages for use in the real-time domain, communications distributed operating systems, the formal specification of scheduling algorithms and implementation strategies. Professor Burns has authored, or co-authored, over 200 papers and reports, and eight books. Many of these are in the real-time area. He has work and writen extensively on Ada.