DEGAS

2nd PROJECT YEAR NEWS:

October 2003
On-line project meeting.

September 2003
Publication of the book: "Global Computing. Programming Environments, Languages, Security, and Analysis of Systems", Corrado Priami, Springer-Verlag (ISBN 3-540-20583-7).
Available on
www.springeronline.com

June 2003
The prototype for the customization of the UML tool has reached its final release and the report is ready for being downloaded (D15).

March 2003
1st Year Review Result: as a result of the review, the EU notes with satisfaction the progress in the project. The project DEGAS is allowed to proceed.
The collaborations between researchers in the project are outstanding. The information dissemination of the results is remarkable. The contributions of the first year show relevant progress in the state of the art. The project is very well managed and there is a close cooperation among the partners.

February 2003
Degas has organised a Global Computing event which was held in Rovereto, Trento (Italy) on 9-14 Feb. 2003.

10.02.2003
A project meeting is held in Rovereto, Trento (Italy).

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