Preliminary announcement of CFI & COMPASS meetings in March

[pdmosses@brics.dk]

To CFI and COMPASS WG Participants
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The following meetings are planned for the days preceding FME'96 in
Oxford: 

Saturday, 16th March: CFI tools and methodology meetings (in parallel)
Sunday,   17th March: CFI language design meeting (preparatory)
Monday,   18th March: CFI language design meeting (preparatory)
Tuesday,  19th March: COMPASS/CFI plenary meeting: language design 
                      and planning of further actions

The meetings on the Saturday will probably start at 2pm, and those on
the other days at 9am - all days finishing around 6 or 7pm.

The preparatory language design meetings are intended primarily for
those in the language design task group to review their study notes
and formulate their tentative proposals for CFI language constructs.
Participants of other task groups and observers are welcome to attend.
Note that the COMPASS/CFI plenary meeting is now scheduled for one day
only, rather than the two days previously indicated.

The proposals of the language design task group will be presented to
the COMPASS/CFI plenary meeting, and (subject to modification there)
form the basis for the work of the other task groups - and for
feedback from the other CFI participants and observers - over the
following 6 months.  Note that only *tentative* decisions about the
inclusion or exclusion of constructs in the CFI specification language
will be taken in Oxford.  Nevertheless, this meeting is a very
important one for the future of CFI.

The local arrangements for these meetings are currently being
finalized, and will be announced as soon as possible (next week).

Details of the FME'96 conference may be found on WWW:

  <URL: http://www.lri.fr/conferences/FME-96/>

Hoping to see you all in Oxford!

Bernd and Peter

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Prof. Dr. Bernd Krieg-Brueckner
FB3 Mathematik und Informatik
Universitaet Bremen
Postfach 330 440
D-28334 Bremen

address for courier mail only:
Prof. Dr. Bernd Krieg-Brueckner
MZH 8071
FB3 Mathematik und Informatik
Universitaet Bremen
Bibliothekstr. 1
D-28359 Bremen

Telefon: (+49) 421-218-3660
privat:  (+49) 421-25-1024
telefax: (+49) 421-218-3054
telex:   245 811 Uni D

bkb@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE

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