Software engineering and the language Ada are playing a
major role in the development of software and software
technology for the new century.
The11th Ada Europe conference shows that Ada has matured
from a language, mainly of researchers and academics in the
early 1980s, into a full-grown tool in software engineering
practice. This volume contains a selection of contributions
to the conference. They demonstrate that Ada is very
beneficially used in many software development projects and
is gradually becoming accepted on the scale it deserves.
Papers have been selected that show that Ada is indeed
ripened in all aspects of software engineering. A variety of
topics is addressed: management, economics, practical
experiences, numerics, and the use of Ada for real-time and
distributed systems.