Dear transformationists,

please participate or encourage your students to apply. http://www.di.uminho.pt/GTTSE2007 Hoping to see some of you in Braga in July. Here is the packed and splendid program.

Tutorials at GTTSE 2007 - Model-Based Evolution. Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo. - Software Linguistics and Language Engineering. Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble. - Software Reuse Beyond Components with XVCL. Stan Jarzabek, National University of Singapore. - OO queries over OO programs with .QL. Oege de Moor, Oxford University. - Data Transformation by Calculation. José Nuno Oliveira, University of Minho, Portugal. - How to Write Fast Numerical Code. Markus Pueschel, Carnegie Mellon University. - A Practical Guide to Building Staged Interpreters. Walid Taha, Rice University. - Domain-Specific Language Engineering. Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Technology presentations at GTTSE 2007 - Optimizing Monolithic Compilation in the Google Web Toolkit. Scott Blum, Google, USA. - SAFARI: Meta-Tooling for Language-Specific IDE's in Eclipse. Robert M Fuhrer, IBM Watson Research Center, USA. - Model-Driven Engineering of Rules for Web Services. Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada. - A transformational approach to programming environments. Cristina Videira Lopes, University of California, USA. - Implementing Tutorials Transformations with Tom and Java. Pierre-Etienne Moreau, INRIA/LORIA Nancy, France. - Building composable domain-specific language extensions. Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA. - Bidirectional model transformations. Perdita Stevens, University of Edinburgh, UK. - Techniques for lightweight DSL development in Converge. Laurence Tratt, King's College, London, UK

Links: http://www.di.uminho.pt/GTTSE2007 http://blogs.msdn.com/ralflammel/archive/2007/04/11/another-8-transformation... http://blogs.msdn.com/ralflammel/archive/2007/03/07/language-engineering-sum...

Best, Ralf Laemmel