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These are the seminars that have taken place, and that you missed !!!

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While originally scheduled for October the 1st, this seminar has been postponed to Wedneday, October the 8th, 7h30 PM Laurent Franck 
aka RÈcursif (laurent.franck@ulb.ac.be)		 This seminar will provide the attentive audience with an overview of SNMP and the area of Network Management. Network Management refers to the remote management of equipments. In this context, several protocols exist (suited to your individual taste: ISO, ITU and Internet), however SNMP (from the Internet side) is probably the winner. This is mainly due to its simplicity coupled with lightweight requirements in terms of underlying network stack. Unfortunately, SNMP suffers from some drawbacks when applied to the management of either huge netwokrs or complex equipments (or both ...). After a brief introduction to the SNMP architecture, we will focus on these weaknesses and possible solutions. One of the key point in this discussion is to keep the changes as minimal as possible.
Wednesday, October the 15th Jean-Christophe Real (jcreal@ulb.ac.be)

Corba - an introduction to Distributed Objects

In order to ease the development of complex distributed applications, the OMG (Object Management Group) has promoted CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture): which mixes distributed applications and object-orientation.
This seminar first explains CORBA's features. We will analyse it, in order to show how it helps the development of object-oriented distributed applications. The limitations of the architecture will then be demonstrated. Moreover, since the OMG's current trend is to add many standard services and facilities to CORBA, we will have a quick look at them, in order to see what the developer can expect.

Wednesday, February 25th Ben Rodriguez (ben.rodriguez@nimblesite.com)

Scheduling for Semiconductor Manufacturing

Semiconductor manufacturing is characterized by very complex logistics issues, in particular regarding planning and scheduling. An overview of semiconductor manufacturing modeling is provided. Then, we focus on different scheduling techniques and how they can be applied in this area. features of such scheduling issues

Keywords:
Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Scheduling, AI, NP-Completeness

 


The following table summarizes the last few seminars. Unless stated otherwise, the slide shows are available as Powerpoint slide shows.

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Wednesday, August the 20th, 7h30 PM Lionel Ferette Introduction to cryptography

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Wednesday, August the 27th, 7h30 PM Darius Blasband DURA: Producing parsers for highly irregular languages. This seminar presents the current state of a PhD thesis aimed at the generation of parsers for languages that do not match the framework of the commonly available compiler-compiler technology. Download  Download compressed
Wednesday, September the 10th, 7h30 PM Juan Pablo Diez Perez Source code management: a complete case study. Source code management is usually part of wish lists for modern software development environment. For various reasons, related to discipline enforcement and administrative burden, they are rarely implemented in practice beyond improved storage. This seminar will describe a real-world implementation of these technologies using all the bells and whistles, discuss pros and cons, what can be expected from such technologies, etc... Download Download compressed
Wednesday, September the 17th, 7h30 PM Pieter Hintjens 
(ph@imatix.com)

The FSM as a tool for software quality and abstraction.

Pieter Hintjens is an international specialist in gettings heads to nod. He will present the Libero tool (a freely-available multiplatform multilanguage multipurpose finite-state machine code generator) and its applications. He will discuss these topics: 

  • Briefly, what is Libero, how it works, and how to use it 
  • How Libero FSMs affect the structure of a program
  • Why this structure can improve the quality of programs
  • Other effects: code portability, developer portability
  • The Libero FSM as a transaction-processing model, with examples
  • The Libero FSM as a flow-control model, with examples
  • The Libero FSM as a multithreaded model, with examples
  • Some projects where Libero has been used

There will be a short break for questions and tea

 The slides of this presentation are not available. However, you can visit IMATIX's site for further information about Libero, Pieter Hintjens, etc...
Wednesday, May the 20th, 7h30 PM Darius Blasband (darius@phidani.be) What Dadou did in Jakarta
Wednesday, May the 19th, 7h30 PM Marc Lefevre The object mobility in the CORBA world
Wednesday, May the 26th, 7h30 PM Didier Barzin                     (dbarzin@yahoo.com) Translate AionDs to C++,
Wednesday, July the 7th, 7h30 PM Frédéric Geurts Transformer of probabilist predicate
 
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Wednesday, April the 5th, 7h30 PM Jean-Christophe Real (jcreal@ulb.ac.be)