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The purpose of writing this Three Year Vision paper is threefold. Firstly, it briefly recaps the progress Semat has made thus far; secondly, it lays out the future directions for people working actively within the Semat community; thirdly, it provides the background for seeking funding support from agencies, such as the European Community and the like. Funding support is necessary to sustain the ongoing activities of Semat and its growth into a broader community effort, as most people working within Semat are volunteers. As such, the paper may be both too much and too little for the wider supporter base. However, we intend to make our work fully transparent, hence, we publish it widely. We seek feedback and comments from supporters and signatories in order to improve the vision. In this context, other companion papers are being written to better address the specific needs for the practitioners, the industry and the academia.
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Advisors of the paper: Semat Advisory Board (Bertrand Meyer, Richard Soley), Arne Berre, Donald Firesmith, Capers Jones, and Harold “Bud” Lawson
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Jacobson, I., Huang, S., Kajko-Mattsson, M. et al. Semat—Three Year Vision. Program Comput Soft 38, 1–12 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768812010021
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