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ATX

ATX is a Portuguese SME that incorporates a research profile still uncommon in Portugal and the EU in general. This profile has been inherited from a sister company - Oblog Software SA - that, during 10 years, developed innovative solutions for object-oriented development that reached specialised markets worldwide.

ATX specialises its activity in the area of architectural solutions for systems required to operate in very volatile business environments. These solutions are based on innovative "coordination technologies" developed as a result of a significant R&D effort that has lead to a number of international publications in books and conference proceedings, as well as tutorials given at major international conferences like ECOOP, OOPSLA, and TOOLS. Although it now employs a number of people with a clear research record, ATX supplements its needs in R&D through collaborations with research units like FFCUL and by subcontracting specific activities from individual scientists or other research units.

The expertise developed in this area will be used by AGILE for conceiving the intended architectural approach to mobile systems. Although ATX considers this to be an effort that will provide results that can be put into the market only in the long-term, it wants to participate in it from the very beginning in order to ensure that choices and decisions are made according to the overall approach that it has been devising for component-based system development. Its participation in AGILE is, therefore, as a full contributor to both the research and development efforts, but with a clear interest in the exploitation of the results for consolidating its competitiveness in the global market of the New Economy.

ATX also has a long experience in information system development for the financial area, which will be used by AGILE in identifying and developing case studies that are "realistic" in the sense that they reflect concrete problems faced by industry today. Its current plans are to expand its offer to telecommunication and wireless applications, which are areas in which the "mobility" aspects are intrinsic features.

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On to FFCUL Part of Partners
Hubert Baumeister (baumeist@informatik.uni-muenchen.de)
April 29, 2005