| Resume from GTTSE Summer School |
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| Wednesday, 13 July 2005 | |
Last week from Monday 4th of July till 9th of July I was attending the
GTTSE summer school in Braga, Portugal. The topics of the summer school
was in Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software
Engineering and several of the top scientists in this area where
participating in the summer school to give tutorials in their research
areas. View fron hotel room Resume The days started in 9 in the morning and continued until 18:45 in the evening, so it was quite long days, and you felt quite tired in the evening after getting a lot of new knowledge and been talking to a several new persons in the breaks and at the lunch. The first day of the conference was followed by a reception in Braga city center, where we got cold white wine and deep fried Portuguese snacks. A band of Portuguese students performed with original Portuguese music. After the reception we took a walk in the beautiful city with the many churches. The days consisted of four tutorials and two technology presentations. The tutorials where of 1,5 hours length, and the technology presentations where each of 30 min. length.  Tutorial by Jean Bezivin At Wednesday some of the participants presented their work at the participant’s workshop. After lunch there where arranged a trip to Porto where we had 3 hours on our own in the city. Porto is known for its port wines, and there was arranged a visit at one of the old port wine manufactures, Taylor’s Port Wine. Here we got a tour at the storage location, were they kept the wine, and afterwards, we ate dinner outside at the top of the building. The conference ended at Friday 19:00 with a discussion between the tutorial presenters about the current state and future directions of Model Driven Engineering and generative and transformational techniques. What did I get from it? Many of the topics where of relevance for my PhD project, so the summer school was a great opportunity to get an introduction to different topics in the area of generative and transformational techniques. It was also interesting to hear the different views on Model Driven Engineering that the tutorial presenters had. It was clear, that this subject is in an early state of development. Jean Bezivin compared the state of Model Driven Engineering with the state of Object Oriented Development 20 years ago. It is not well understood and is in rapid development in several different directions. I also got several interesting contacts to other students with related research interests. As Erik Meijer pointed out in his last presentation; the most important thing about a summer school or a conference is not the content, it is the contacts! I will conclude that the summer school was very good. Both the topics, the location, and the contacts that I made have been it all worth. |
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