Eighth Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference

Thursday, April 16, 2009, Berkeley, California

(Photo by Ustun Yildiz) - Different version of the photo, stitched by Thomas Huining Feng

1		2	Manish Kumar Anand	3	Jack Wenstrand
4	Warren Geiler	5	Faraaz Sareshwala	6	Thomas Mandl
7	Man-Kit (Jackie) Leung	8	Adam Cataldo	9	Mike Manno
10	Brian Hudson	11	Aaron Schultz	12	Mathias Weske
13	Mee Young Sung	14	Sean Riddle	15	Derik Barseghian
16	Daniel Zinn	17	Jie Liu	18	Stephen Neuendorffer
19	Jose Pino	20	Jun Zeng	21	James Chiahau Yeh
22	Ben Leinfelder	23	Thomas Huining Feng	24	Alan Kamas
25	Edward A. Lee	26	Christopher Brooks	27	Elizabeth Latronico
28	Darryl Koivisto	29	Eleftherios Matsikoudis	30	Jörn Janneck
31	Stavros Tripakis	32	Ricardo Gonzalez	33	Ustun Yildiz
34	Charles Shelton	35		36	Slobodan Matic
37	Ben Lickly	38	Hugo Andrade	39	Isaac Liu
40	Nimish Sane	41	Mary Stewart	42	Qi Zhu
43		44		45
46		47		48	Duarte Vieira
49	Bert Rodiers	50	Patricia Derler	51	Bertram Ludaescher
52		53	Stefan Resmerita	54	Tim McPhilipps
55	Hauke Fuhrmann	56	Hiren Patel	57	Jia Zou
58	Kimmo Kuusilinna

The Eighth Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference was held on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the University of California, Berkeley in the Wozniak Lounge, 4th Floor Soda Hall. We had 76 attendees from 37 different organizations spanning at least 10 countries.

(Note that Cyber-Physical Systems Week was held in San Francisco earlier in the week.)

Note: We applied for and received an Opportunity Award from the UC Discovery Grant program to cover the costs of the tutorial and miniconference.

On Wednesday, April 15, 2009, we held a tutorial for Java programmers interested in hands-on learning about Ptolemy.

The Ptolemy project studies modeling, simulation, and design of concurrent, real-time, embedded systems. The focus is on assembly of concurrent components.

The Ptolemy Miniconference is an opportunity for research collaborators and Ptolemy users and extenders from industry, academia, and government to get together, present their work to the Ptolemy community, and hear about related research and results. It is typically held every two years.

We again asked the Kepler community to give presentations and posters. Kepler is a cross-project collaboration to develop open source tools for Scientific Workflows and is currently based on the Ptolemy II system for heterogeneous concurrent modeling and design.

In addition, the miniconference acted as an annual meeting for the Center for Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems.

The presentations from the miniconference are available.

At miniconferences in the past we have had presentations and posters from organizations worldwide, plus members of the Ptolemy project describing current research at Berkeley.

Topics of interest for this year included:

Applications of Ptolemy II or Kepler
Model-based design techniques
Concurrency models
Applications of concurrency to multicore and distributed computing
Code generation for embedded systems
Model engineering methods
Models of computation
Workflow infrastructure
Model transformation
Model verification
Semantics of models
Performance evaluations
Comparisons of model-based design tools
Integration of multiple design tools
Static analysis of models
Provenance tracking techniques
Data visualization and data management
Visual syntaxes for models

Please direct questions to ptconf09 at ptolemy eecs berkeley edu