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We will make "real time" changes to the agenda during the meeting, if interesting topics come out during the discussions.

Agenda:

Saturday
Time	Title	Notes
08:30	Bus CERN - Brunswick monument - ARCHAMPS Hotel Ibis
09:00,15m	Welcome coffee
09:20,15m	Introduction to the Workshop (G.Chiozzi)	ACSWorkshop-Welcome.ppt
09:35,15m	Around the table: who is who!	ACSWorkshop-WhoIsWho.ppt
09:50,10m	Introduction to ACS. What is ACS? (G.Chiozzi)	We will try not to repeat the status paper in the conference, but some overlap is anavoidable, in particular considering that there are many participants new to ACS ACSWorkshop-ACSIntro.ppt
10:00,15m	Introduction to ACS. ACS technical highlights (H.Sommer)	ACSOverviewICALEPCS2005.ppt
Status of projects using ACS .
10:15,20m	Coffee Break	Coffee breaks and lunches are ment also as an opportunity for people to know each other and the ACS team members and to talk of potential collaborations
10:45,20m	ALMA (A.Farris)	ACSinALMA.ppt There are also a number of presentations about ALMA at the conference
11:05,15m	HPT (R.Lemke)	HPT-2005.ppt
11:20,25m	OAN (P. De Vicente) (there is a paper/poster at the conference)	oan-ACS2005.ppt
11:45,10m	SRT (SRT team)	SRT_notes.doc ACSintheSRTproject.ppt
11:55,15m	Canadian 1.8 meters (D.Fugate)	RAO-ACS
12:05,90m	Lunch
13:35,15m	VLT ACS-based proof of concept instrument (R.Cirami)	ACSVLT.ppt
13:50,15m	Cosylab Projects and the LEGO Demonstration (K.Zagar)	PRE-Cosylab_ACS.ppt
14:05,15m	Other groups using ACS: APEX, UTFMS (G.Chiozzi)	Some other groups using ACS could not come to the workshop. Here a short summary of their activities is given. ACS_at_APEX_2005.ppt UTFSM.ppt
14:20,15m	microIOC (M.Plesko)	The micro Input Output Controller is a fanless and diskless PC104 based embedded computer, with pre-installed ACS or EPICS control system software. It is meant for heavy distributed systems or where the number of signals is too low to justify a costly VME system. microIOCforACS.ppt
Discussions, Round tables .
14:35,30m	Comparison of ACS and EPICS. Can they work together? How? (M.Plesko)	Having worked with both EPICS and ACS and knowing both communities very well, I will try to give an objective comparison from my personal perspective, which is still very subjective. No benchmarks will be given, I will rather try to stress the good sides of both systems and optimal uses for each. Also, an example of how both systems can work together will be sketched. compareEPICSandACS.ppt
15:00,30m	Coffe Break
15:40,40m Image Modified +20m	Beyond middleware: trends in software platforms (S.Wampler, K.Gillies)	A presentation will introduce the status of software platforms and middleware technogies, making a comparison of the available alternatives. A round table, open discussion, will follow OSGiIOCSlides.ppt beyondMiddleware.pdf
16:20,40m Image Modified +20m	An Embedded Component Approach for Complex Control Systems.	Ricardo Sanz (Universitad Politecnica de Madrid) ACS_Sanz.pdf
17:00,25m	Generic Telescope Interface (RolandLemke GianlucaChiozzi)	Short presentation of the status of the discussions and activities started withing the ACS user's community to develop a generic telescope architecture to be used by different projects. Try to work on a real example. Round table to discuss how to proceed. Wiki discussion: GenericInterfacesForRoboticTelescopes
17:25,15m	LabView interface to ACS (EGO, Bernhard Lopes)	ACSandLabVIEW_v1r2.ppt
17:45	Bus ARCHAMPS - Brunswick monument - CERN
Image Modified The following presentations/discussions could not take place because we run out of time
--:--,20m	Libraries of Components/Devices/GUIs that we can share. (GianlucaChiozzi)	Round table to analyse the status of the shared CVS server and identify what other elements can be shared and reused by the various groups. Wiki discussion: ACSContributedCode
--:--,20m	Simulators and simulation with ACS (proposed by Pablo)	Discussion concerning strategies for simulation. Simulation is very important to test the code. ACS provides different levels of support for simulation and we want to discuss here what is available, how it can be used and what is missing. (the IDL simulator will be also presented at the conference). A generic telescope simulator would be extremely useful for the development of applications.
--:--,15m	ACS Error System (ACS, B.Jeram)	Error and exception handling strategies using the ACS error system.
--:--,15m	ACS Configuration Database (G.Chiozzi)	Structure and usage of the ACS Configuration Database ACSWorkshop-CDB.ppt
--:--,15m	End of day: summary and open discussion
Sunday
Time	Title	Notes
Tutorials .
08:30	Bus CERN - Brunswick monument - ARCHAMPS Hotel Ibis
09:00,15m	Summary of first day, questions and answers. Coffee
09:15,15m	ACS Thread classes (ACS, B.Jeram)	ACSWorkShop-ThreadsCPP.ppt
09:30,30m	CERN Laser Alarm System: concepts, ACS adaptation and status (CERN, Katarina Sigerud) (ACS, A.Caproni)	LASER-ACS-WORKSHOP.ppt ICALEPCS2005-ZLegacy/ACS.AlarmSystem.ppt
10:00,30m	Coffee Break
10:30,20m	BSD component Generation (HPT, Martin Paegert)	acsGenerator.ppt
10:50,15m	ACS GUI building with Eclipse (Cosylab)	It would be nice to have here also a discussion about alternatives to Java. Various groups are using Qt and Python. We have seen also that LabView can be used.
11:05,20m	Are we using ACS in the right way?	The various teams describe design issues in their systems. The ACS team tries to analyse how they think they should be implemented using at best ACS features. We discuss all together the best approach to the specific problems.
11:25, 30m	End of day: summary and open discussion	How should we proceed with ACS? What collaborations can we set up? ACS future plans
12:00	Bus ARCHAMPS - CICG for the tutorial	Lunch will be in Geneve

Each presentation includes time for discussion and questions. 10 minutes for a 30m presentation, 5 min for a 15m/20m presentation.

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There will be the following papers/postersrelated to ACS in the conference program :

(sorted by date)

-- GianlucaChiozzi - 22 Feb 2005

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