DICES researchers return from Sweden

The first three month stay in Sweden has come to a successful end for Luka and Juraj. Ana has been working from Croatia, but has joined them on two occasions. A lot has been achieved in these three months:

• Ana, Luka and Juraj have been registered for their postgraduate studies, both at MdH and FER.
• They started working on an Integrated Development Environment for the ProCom component model (ProgressIDE), as part of the DICES and PROGRESS cooperation. They are developing the architectural editors for designing systems using ProCom. This will be used later in their PhDs.
• They attended the COMPARCH'08 conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. This was a great opportunity to meet the leading scientists in the CBSE area. 
• They attended the PROGRESS Workshop in Alicante, Spain. There they presented their work to other researchers involved in PROGRESS.
• They presented their papers at the SERPS'08 conference in Karlskrona, Sweden. This was the first conference they had participated in with their own scientific papers. The paper titles are as follows:

1.  Ana - Models Transformation between UML and a Domain Specific Language,
2.  Luka - Uniform treatment of hardware- and software components,
3.  Juraj - Realizing a domain specific component model with JavaBeans.

After returning to Croatia, a DICES meeting was held at FER on 2008-11-17. It was attended by all parties involved in DICES – from FER, MdH, FESB and Ericsson. Initial plans for cooperation with a future PhD student from FESB Josip Maras were made. Also, concrete plans for the next period were defined: Ana, Luka and Juraj will write the state of the art/state of the parctice technical reports, while the FESB team will work on providing UML models of iForestFire. Additionally, Ana, Luka and Juraj's PhD theses subjects have been further refined.