 | After a general introduction to why Java seems a reasonable choice for writing large and robust free software packages, the talk discusses the security features of the Java platform. It is shown how the various actors play together to ensure type safety, encapsulation and declarative access control. Four concrete denial-of-service attacks illustrate the importance of enhancing the platform by techniques for managing resource consumption. |
 | Presents the motivation and current state of the GNU Classpath project, which is providing the core class library for a very diverse set of free Java Virtual Machines. |
 | Gibt es in der Schweiz eine «F/OSS»-Szene? Der Vortrag zeigt, wer sich aus welchen Gründen im Bereich der Freien und Open-Source-Software engagiert. |
 | Describes the Swiss activities for building a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The talk reports on experience with concrete applications in cadastral surveying, metadata and address management. Despite some minor issues, a fully model-driven architecture is shown to be a realistic vision. |
 | Presents the architecture of a modular, federated client/server system for integrating the findings of heterogenous knowledge sources. Example sources may include patent databases, or the output of natural-language processing components that extract information from semi-structured documents. The synergy server uses a simple and efficient spreading activation algorithm along “association paths” to infer related items for any object in its database. |
 | Presents the core ideas of Sascha Brawer’s diploma thesis, a novel compilation method that allows to perform information extraction tasks in a very efficient way. |