Basit Ali and Nasir Ibrahim, FiveRivers Technologies, Lahore.

Google is a popular company and Android is their mobile device OS. Like other Google products and tools, Android OS itself is also open-source. In this short session we will tell you a brief introduction to the Operating system, a bit of its history and a bit about its bright future. Most of the part will concentrate on a hands-on tutorial on "How to develop a simple app on android platform". This includes getting appropriate tools and software, setting up the development environment, writing code and testing it on the emulator.

M. Bilal Ashraf, Acertia, Lahore.

Spring is an open source framework created to address the complexity of enterprise application development. One of the chief advantages of the Spring framework is its layered architecture, which allows you to be selective about which of its components you use while also providing a cohesive framework for J2EE application development. Start to build lightweight, robust J2EE applications using Spring technology with this workshop presentation. Workshop will discuss application development in Spring framework, including Spring aspect-oriented programming (AOP), Inversion of Control (IOC) container, Spring data access, Spring transactions, Spring Object Relational Mapping (ORM), Spring JMX, Spring Scheduling, Spring Unit Testing, Spring JEE and Spring Security.

Sajid Mehmood, Abdur Rehman, KICS, Lahore.

Open source software is becoming increasingly accepted in public and private sector organizations in many countries. There is a variety of open source Machine Learning tools available to both researchers and practitioners, some being simple research prototypes while others are fully developed software tools in daily use in industry. This workshop aims to create awareness about the open source machine learning tools available to the machine learning researchers. These tools liberate the researchers from writing long code segments for their experiments. The open source machine learning tools are also available in the form of libraries that can be adapted/included in the code. The tools to be demonstrated in this workshop are WEKA and KNIME.