The goal of the tool demo
sessions is to offer the conference participants the opportunity
to analyze tools related to the topics of the conference and
discuss these systems with their creators and distributors.
Tools may come from a research area or be of a commercial
nature. Each exhibitor may present more than one tool, if he
chooses so. A tool demo proposal must include:
· Exhibitors' organization
name;
· Exhibitors' organization
web site;
· Demonstrated tool(s) and/or
service(s) name(s);
· Name of contact person;
· Address of contact person:
(name, mailing address, e-mail, fax, and phone);
· One technical
description for each of the tools to be presented: these
technical descriptions should include, among other things, the
tool objectives and features (with screenshots to help
explanation), adopted/supported technology, fields of practical
application and demonstration examples to be presented; each
technical description should be 2 to 5 pages long, two columns,
10 pts in Adobe PDF format.
Tool demonstrators should
provide the computing equipment required for the presentations.
Marketing materials such as CD-ROMs or DVDs with demo-versions
of the tools and / or technical leaflets may be distributed to
all conference participants upon check-in at the registration
desk.
Since we expect more
exhibitor requests than the available time and space slots,
proposals will be reviewed according to relevance to the
conference topics, novelty, technical soundness and quality of
the tools technical description. The demonstration of real-case
scenarios, instead of "toy" examples, will also be a major
decision criterion.
The selected demos have a
base duration of 45 minutes, but can last for one or more of
those periods.
The selection of time
slots will be made according to the program. The first demos to
pay their entry fee will have priority while choosing the time
slots for their demos.
The technical descriptions of
accepted demonstrations will be inserted in the QUATIC 2007 Tool
Demonstration Session proceedings, to be published
electronically in the conference website.
Different approaches to tool
demo organization must be justified to the QUATIC 2007 Program
Committee Chair, who will select, together with the Tool Demo
Chair and amongst all the demo proposals, those that will run in
QUATIC 2007. Demos proposals should be sent to the Tool Demos
Chair (Luís Joaquim: ljoaquim@criticalsoftware.com).