DEGAS

1st PROJECT YEAR NEWS:

Event
Degas is organising the Global Computing event which will be held in Rovereto, Trento (Italy) on 9-14 Feb. 2003.

December 2002
The following deliverables have been delivered to the EC and are ready for being downloaded:
:: D2-1 (month 12)
:: D6
:: D7
:: D8
:: D9
:: D24

21.10.2002
A project meeting is held in Edinburgh (UK).

1-2.10.2002
A technical project meeting was held in Trento (Italy) among partners involved in the development of the case studies and UML specification / extension.

11.07.2002
DEGAS participates to the Global Computing Event scheduled within the 29th ICALP taking place from 8/7/2002 to 13/7/2002 in Málaga (Spain).

10.07.2002
A project meeting is held in Malaga (Spain).

June 2002
:: The dissemination and use plan (D3) of project results has been delivered to the EC (no public document).

:: The first semestral organisation of project meetings report has been delivered to the EC and is ready for being downloaded (D23-6).

:: The prototype for "Integrating UML tool with PEPA workbench" reached its final release and is ready for being downloaded (D27).

:: The self-evaluation criteria deliverable (D28) has been delivered to the EC (no public document).

March 2002
The Guidelines for project participants have been defined and available for participants only in the deliverable D1 (no public document).

01.02.2002
The DEGAS web site goes on-line.

31.01.2002
The kick-off meeting is held in Turin (Italy) at Motorola.

01.01.2002
The 1st of January 2002 is the starting date of the Project.

DEGAS Design Environments for Global ApplicationS IST Programme - FET pro-active initiative VI.2.2 "Global computing, cooperation of autonomous and mobile entities in dynamic environments"
The emerging wireless technologies make possible to tightly integrate computer resources into everyday objects to enhance their standard functionalities through inter-objects interactions.
The interaction between objects (such as mobile terminals) implies that future applications, designed and developed to be processed by these "smart" objects, must be compliant to work in a distributed environment. Hence, developers will need specific development tools for this kind of applications: i.e. *global applications. The objective of the DEGAS project is therefore to define and design a development environment for global applications based on a modelling language such as UML (Unified Modelling Language). Such a development environment should allow a developer of global applications to evaluate his applications from a qualitative* and quantitative point of view.
The Global Computing is a key action of the IST Programme, under the FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) initiative.	The roots of innovation