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Joint RSS/ASC meeting on
Systems Architecture for Statistical Applications
25 January 2006
Royal Statistical Society, London
This one-day conference will be organised by the RSS Statistical Computing
Section in cooperation with ASC.
Usability is a primary concern when designing any piece of software. But there
are deeper issues in the design and architecture of systems which affect their
long-term usefulness. Most casual users will not notice these issues, but they
affect those who use systems in more advanced ways, and they affect the
long-term viability of systems.
Recent decades have seen a number of important ideas developing in the
disciplines around computer science, ranging from the Object Paradigm, through
portable languages such as Java, to component designs and Web Services over the
internet. Alongside have been proposals for design methodologies, leading to the
Unified Modelling Language (UML).
The session will present some of these ideas and developers of statistical and
survey processing systems will discuss the current and future architecture of
their systems.
Bookings are being handled by the RSS, and full details, including the
programme, are available from THE RSS web site at
http://www.gla.ac.uk/External/RSS/RSScomp/packmtg.html
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