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No. 43.
Contents
43.1 Message from the Moderator
43.2 Subject: CFP: CAiSE*98 Doctoral Consortium
43.3 Subject: BOOKS: Integrated Product Develop.-Volume 2
43.4 Subject: CFP: OOIS98
43.5 Subject: CFP: SEKE'98
43.6 Subject: CFP: Int'l Journal of SE/KE - Special Issue
43.7 Subject: CFP: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special
Issue
43.8 Subject: CFP: 6th Europ. W/shop on Software Process Tech. (EWSPT-6)
43.9 Subject: EVENT: REFSQ'97 Workshop Summary
43.10 Subject: EVENT: Requirements Engineering Courses
43.11 Subject: EVENT: 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated
Software Engineering - ASE'98 (formerly, KBSE)
43.12 Subject: WEB: Getting REFSQ'97 materials
43.13 Subject: WEB: Online bibliography on planning and scheduling
43.14 Subject: WEB: Software Engineering Mailing list announcement:
SE/WORLD
43.15 Subject: JOBS: Opening in Requirements Engineering at FHG/IESE
43.1 Message from the Moderators
Welcome to the 43rd edition of the Requirements Engineering Newsletter. We are sorry that the Newsletter has not been issued for sometime; the delay was due to its move to a new hosting site at University College London. We hope that all readers will continue to find the contents of the newsletter relevant to their needs, and to promote it further amongst the Requirements Engineering research community.
Prof Anthony Finkelstein
Dr Galal Hassan Galal
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43.2 Subject: CFP: CAiSE*98 Doctoral Consortium
From: Veronika Thurner
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:50:35 +0200 (MET DST)
CAiSE*98
Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
5th Doctoral Consortium
Pisa, Italy, 8-9 June 1998
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Overview
The Doctoral Consortia on Advanced Information Systems Engineering are
intended to bring together PhD students within the information systems
engineering field and give them the opportunity to present and to
discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere.
The CAiSE*98 Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent
professors in the field of information systems which will actively
participate and contribute to the discussions.
The workshop in Pisa will be the 5th Doctoral Consortium of a series
held in conjunction with the CAiSE conferences in Utrecht (1994), in
Jyvaskyla (1995), in Heraklion (1996), and in Barcelona (1997). It will
be held during the first two days (8-9 June 1998) of the CAiSE*98
conference.
Workshop language is english.
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Aims & Objectives
Aim of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortia is to support the reserach done by
doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback from prominent
scientists in the information systems field.
The Doctoral Consortium will be rounded off by a discussion of general
questions related to Ph.D. research. They include, but are not limited
to, the following aspects:
* problem formulation,
* analysis and evaluation of the state of the art,
* research methodology, including
+ underlying principles of the approach,
+ utility of the approach, as well as
+ validation of the results.
* critical evaluation of one's own work, including
+ identification of the target audience and beneficiaries of a thesis,
+ validation techniques (such as prototyping, field experiment, or
argumentation),
+ definition of the innovative contribution of a thesis to the
existing
state of the art.
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Conference Topics
The CAiSE Doctoral Consortia deal with the topics of the main
Conference. In 1998 these topics include but are not restricted to:
* Requirements engineering
* Methodologies and models for IS
* Interrelating methods and formalisms
* Reuse at conceptual and design levels
* IS implementation techniques: reuse-based development, database
programming
* Languages, application generators, object-oriented design
* Geographic IS
* Interoperability of applications
* Spatial and temporal information management
* IS strategy and planning
* Systems procurement processes
* Maintenance and evolution of IS
* Information repositories
* Data and process re-engineering
* Metrics and indicators
* IS security
* Re-engineering legacy IS
* Managing organizational knowledge assets
* Workflow management and co-operative work
* Case studies and experience reports
* Web applications
* Network-centric computing
* Information services on the net
* Novel IS architectures: distributed, co-operative, intelligent
* Interoperable, multimedia, open, client-server
* Data warehouses and data mining
* Information and cultural heritage
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Accompanying Professors
The 5th Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by:
* Janis Bubenko, janis@dsv.su.se,
Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University,
Department of Computer and Systems Science.
* Jan Dietz, dietz@is.twi.tudelft.nl,
Delft University of Technology,
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.
* Hans-Dieter Ehrich, ehrich@ips.cs.tu-bs.de,
Technical University of Braunschweig,
Institute for Programming Languages and Information Systems.
* Moira C. Norrie, norrie@inf.ethz.ch,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich,
Institute for Information Systems.
It is planned to invite further senior scientists who are interested in
contributing their knowledge and experience to the Doctoral Consortium:
* Stefan Conrad, conrad@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de,
University of Magdeburg,
Institute for Technical Information Systems.
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Submissions
To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please provide an
abstract of your doctoral work to the workshop organizers. The abstract
is restricted to 4000 words (approximately 8 pages). Submissions may be
handed in either electronically in postscript format, or as 5 paper
copies.
The abstract should
* clearly formulate the research question,
* identify the significant problems in the field of research,
* outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the
state of
the art of existing solutions,
* present clearly any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the
results
achieved so far,
* sketch the research methodology that is applied,
* point out the contributions of the applicant to the problem solution,
and
* state in what aspects the suggested solution is different, new or
better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.
Submissions will be judged on orginality, significance, correctness, and
clarity. Admission is limited to 20 students.
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Announcement of Proceedings
Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings, printed as
technical
report of the Institute of Information Systems, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology Zurich. The proceedings will also be availabe in the world
wide web.
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Important Dates
Deadline for submission: January 30th, 1998
Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 1998
Camera-ready paper due: April 15th, 1998
Doctoral Consortium: June 8th-9th, 1998
CAiSE*98: June 8th-12th, 1998
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Contact Address
Electronic mail concerning the Doctoral Consortium should be sent to:
caise98dc@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
For more information, see:
http://www4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~thurner/CAiSE98DC/index.html
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Workshop Organizers
Antonia Erni Veronika Thurner
Institute for Information Systems Department of Computer Science
Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology Zurich Technical University of Munich
ETH Zentrum Arcisstrasse 21
CH-8092 Zurich D-80290 Munich
Switzerland Germany
phone: +41 1 632 7379 phone: +49 89 289 25153
fax: +41 1 632 1172 fax: +49 89 289 28183
email: erni@inf.ethz.ch email: thurner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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editor: Veronika Thurner
see also:
http://www4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~thurner/CAiSE98DC/index.html
last update: 31 July 1997
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43.3 Subject: BOOKS: Integrated Product Develop.-Volume 2
From: BPRASAD@CMSA.gmr.com
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 97 16:52:52 ED
Book Title: Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals
Volume II: Integrated Product Development
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Author: Biren Prasad, Ph.D., EDS/General Motors Account
Date Published: 1997, 512 PP., Hardcover,
ISBN # 0-13-396496-0
Publisher: Prentice Hall, NJ, USA
WEB PAGE: http://WWW.secs.oakland.edu/SECS_prof_orgs/ISPE/
BACK-COVER OUTLINE:
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Moving beyond "quality."
Quality is not the only element of a successful product.
For providing a total value to the customers beyond quality, product
manufacturers must also consider responsiveness, functionality,
development cost, and the tools and technology used in development and
production.
Volume I of Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals introduced, besides many
CE techniques, an integrated taxonomy of product realization process.
Volume II explains how to implement those techniques and process to
achieve a truly integrated product development environment. Using the
work-group concept, engineering teams can learn to balance the interests
of the customers and the company to achieve Total Value Management
(TVM). TVM principles are important to reach a world-class manufacturing
leadership.
Identifying and controlling the entire production process is the best
way to remain responsive to consumers' changing demands while remaining
competitive in all stages of product development. Utilizing the holistic
view of life-cycle management, Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals,
Volume II shows how to incorporate the voice of the customer into all
nine phases of the product development cycle, assuring the flexibility
and competitiveness edge needed to keep pace with evolving markets.
Building on the concurrent product realization structure introduced in
Volume I, Volume II of Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals covers:
¥ 25 metrics and measures for concurrent engineering
¥ Concurrent Functions Deployment (CFD), the concept of considering
a number of competing values during product development and
production -- not just basing decisions on "quality" as found in "QFD"
¥ Regenerative techniques of capturing life-cycle intent beyond "design
intent" so mechanization can happen over the entire life-cycle.
¥ Techniques of Total Value Management (TVM) -- not just managing
"quality" as found in "TQM."
¥ Developing and using intelligent information infrastructure and
decision support systems for managing all aspects of product integrity
and values.
Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals, Volume II includes test problems as
well as suggestions for additional reading. Professor and students will
find this book appropriate for courses in design education. Practicing
engineers, executives managing CE projects, and anyone interested in
understanding the process of CE will find this book indispensable.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
=================
Concurrent Engineering: Fundamentals
Volume 2-- Integrated Product Development
Dr. B. Prasad
1996, 500 pp., ISBN # 0-13-396496-0
Introduction: Concurrent Engineering (CE) Wheel
Chapter 1: Concurrent Function Deployment
Chapter 2: CE Metrics And Measures
Chapter 3: Total Value Management
Chapter 4: Product Development Methodology
Chapter 5: Frameworks And Architectures
Chapter 6: Capturing Life-Cycle Intent
Chapter 7: Decision Support Systems
Chapter 8: Intelligent Information System
Chapter 9: Life-Cycle Mechanization
Chapter 10: IPD Deployment Methodology
HOW DO YOU GET MORE INFORMATION:
================================
You can get additional information from the ISPE Web Page as follows:
WEB page http://WWW.secs.oakland.edu/SECS_prof_orgs/ISPE/
Information on Concurrent Engineering Wheel is available on the Web
WEB PAGE http://rassp.scra.org:80/newsletters/96q1/news_6.html
Book Orders are taken by
CERA Institute, P.O. Box 250254,
W. Bloomfield, MI 48325-0254, USA
Tel: (248) 265-7453
Fax Number: (248) 661-8333/
If you would like to get a copy of the Table of Contents or to discuss
technical details concerning Concurrent Engineering, please direct your
inquiries or Email your request to:
Dr. Biren Prasad, Managing Director
ACE Director, Electronic Data Systems (EDS)
Email:
THE 5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OBJECT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CALL FOR PAPERS - OOIS'98
Paris, France 9-11 September 1998
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Welcome to the OOIS'98 web site at :
http://panoramix.univ-paris1.fr/CRINFO/OOIS98
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SCOPE
OOIS'98 is the fifth International Conference on Object-Oriented
Information Systems. It will be held at the University of La
Sorbonne, Paris (France).
OOIS'98 invites both researchers and practitioners to submit papers
outlining recent research in object-oriented concepts and principles,
object-oriented methods and tools, as well as reports on industrial
projects.
Papers in the following areas are welcome, however topics are not
restricted to these fields :
- Object-Relational Data Technology
- Distributed Object Computing
- Patterns and Frameworks
- Concepts and Methodologies
- Active Object-Oriented Database
- Multimedia Systems
- Object-Oriented Metrics
- Object Reuse
- Object Ontologies
- Business Process Re-Design
- Knowledge Management
- Object Database Normalization
- Object Database Management Systems
- Interoperability Issues
- Cooperative Object Systems Design
- Standard and Norms for Object Oriented Development Processes
- Spatial and Temporal aspects in Object Oriented Information Systems.
In order to meet new challenges, OOIS'98 particularly welcomes papers
exploring the areas of significant interest to industry, especially in
providing innovative directions for the development of next generation
systems, for example:
- Coping with Legacy Systems
- Transition to Object Technology
- Lessons learned from Large Scale Projects using Objects
- Object Relational Design
VENUE LOCATION
The conference will take place in the University of La Sorbonne, the
oldest and most famous University in France. The Sorbonne was founded
by Robert de Sorbon, Saint-Louis's confessor in 1253. The Sorbonne
was greatly enlarged in the end of the XIX century and it is still the
main academic center in France.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Four copies of the paper should be sent by March 1st, 1998 to:
Professor C. Rolland
OOIS'98, C. R. I.
University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
90, rue de Tolbiac
75013 Paris, France.
Email : OOIS98@univ-paris1.fr
Phone : 33 (0) 1 44 24 93 65
Fax : 33 (0) 1 45 86 76 66
Submissions should include:
1. Name, affiliation and complete address for each author including
email contact.
2. The following signed statement: "All appropriate organizational
approvals for the publication of this paper have been obtained. If
accepted, the author(s) will prepare the final manuscript in time for
inclusion in the conference proceedings and will present the paper at
the conference." The complete text of the paper should be written in
English, including a 60 words abstract and a list of key-words. Papers
should be less than 16 pages and double-spaced. Papers should present
the results of original work to one or more of the listed areas of
interest, which will be given in the key-words list. Proceedings of the
conference series will be published by Springer-Verlag.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper Submissions: March 1st, 1998
- Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 1998
- Camera-Ready copy due: June 15th 1998
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Programme Chair: Professor Colette Rolland, CRI, University of Paris 1,
France
J. Bezivin, LRSG, University of Nantes, France
S. Brinkkemper, Baan Company R&D, The Netherlands
J. Brunet, IUT-University of Paris 12, France
X. Castellani, CEDRIC-IIE (CNAM), France
C. Cauvet, Universit Aix-Marseille III, France
C. Chrisment, IRIT, Toulouse, France
W. Emmerich, University College, United Kingdom
A. Flory, INSA Lyon, France
M. Franckson, SEMA France, France
C. Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
P. Gray, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
J. Grimson, Trinity College, Ireland
H. Habrias, IRIN, University of Nantes, France
B. Henderson-Sellers, Swinburne University, Australia
M. Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany
K. Jeffery, Rutherford Appleton Lab., United Kingdom
L. Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
R. King, University of Colorado, USA
S. Eric, Lautemann, University of Frankfurt, Germany
F. Lochovsky, Hong Kong University of Science, China
P. Loucopoulos, UMIST, United Kingdom
R. Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
M. Orlowska, The University of Queensland, Australia
D. Patel, South Bank University, United Kingdom
B. Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
N. Prakash, Delhi Institute of Technology, India
M. Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
F. Saltor, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
M. Schneider, LIMOS, Univ. Clermont Ferrand 2, France
C. Souveyet, CRI, Universit Paris 1, France
J. Stage, Aalborg University, Denmark
K. Subieta, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Y. Sun, Compuware Ltd, United Kingdom
Y. Vassiliou, Technical University of Athens, Greece
H. Zullighoven, Universitaet HH, Germany
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Organizing Chair: Professor Sylviane R. Schwer, LIPN, University of
Paris 13, France
Camille Ben Achour
Joel Brunet
Adolphe Benjamen
Rebecca Deneckere
Georges Grosz
Setthachai Jungjariyanonn
Vincent Motte
Farida Semmak
CONTACT ADDRESS
Professor Sylviane R. Schwer
OOIS'98, C. R. I.
University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
90, rue de Tolbiac
75013 Paris, France.
http://panoramix.univ-paris1.fr/CRINFO/OOIS98
Email : OOIS98@univ-paris1.fr
Phone : 33 1 44 24 93 65
Fax : 33 1 45 86 76 66
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43.5 Subject: CFP: SEKE'98
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 97 16:35:10 PDT
From: yingj@cs.nps.navy.mil (Ying Jing)
SEKE'98
Tenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering
June 18-20, 1998
Hotel Sofitel, San Francisco Bay, USA
Sponsored by:
Knowledge Systems Institute, University of Pittsburgh
SCOPE
The Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering has for
ni ne years been providing a unique, centralized, forum for academic and
indus trial researchers and practitioners to discuss the application of
either so ftware engineering methods in knowledge engineering or
knowledge-based tec hniques in software engineering. Preference will be
given to papers that em phasize on the transference of methods among
both engineerings; however, ou tstanding papers on software engineering
or knowledge engineering alone are also being solicited.
SEKE'98 will feature four half-day tutorials on June 17, followed by a
thre e-day technical program consisting of parallel tracks which will
include pa per sessions, panels, and workshops. An exhibition of
software engineering and knowledge engineering tools is planned. Paper
presentations will be ap proximately 20 minutes each with 5-10 minutes
for questions and discussion. Submissions of proposals to organize a
session, a panel or a tutorial are also being solicited.
Topics of Interest
Topics include but are not limited to:
Knowledge Acquisition
Requirements Elicitation
Software Domains Modeling
Software Process Modeling
Automated Software Design
Software Architecture
Automated Reasoning
Knowledge Representation
Program Understanding
Software Reuse
Reserve Software Engineering
Intelligent CASE Tools
Formal methods
Validation and Verification
Education
Session, Panel, Tutorial Proposals
Sessions, Panels and Tutorial proposals should include a two or
three-page summary containing the title, proponents, contact
information, abstract, de scription and the background of the proponent.
Four copies of the proposal are to reach before December 1, 1997 to:
SEKE'98
Knowledge Systems Institute
3420 Main Street, Skokie, IL 60076, USA
Email: seke@ksi.edu
Paper Submissions
Papers must be written in English. Please send four copies of the
complete manuscript with a 200-word abstract and no more than 25 pages
of double-spa ced text (including figures and references) before January
20, 1998 to:
Dr. Yi Deng
School of Computer Science
Florida International University
University Park
Miami, FL 33199 USA
Phone: (305)348-3748
Fax: (305)348-3549
E-mail: deng@cs.fiu.edu
All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. In addition, a
fe w selected best papers in knowledge engineering and AI areas will be
consid ered for publication in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data
Engineering (subject to peer review), and best papers in software
engineering areas wi ll be published in a special issue of The
International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge
Engineering.
Important Dates
Submissions Deadline: January 20,1998
Notification of Acceptance: March 1, 1998
Camera Ready Copies Due: March 21, 1998
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43.6 Subject: CFP: Int'l Journal of SE/KE - Special Issue
From: dfe@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de (Dieter Fensel)
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 20:34:12 +0200
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue for the International Journal of Software Engineering
and Knowledge Engineering
SOFTWARE/KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND REUSE VIA NETWORKS
The knowledge engineering, software engineering and requirements
engineering communities are active in the field of software/knowledge
sharing and reuse. The omni-presence of Intranets and the Internet
provides an excellent opportunity to see how reuse approaches scale up
to the real world. This special issue will present representative
research in sharing and reuse in heterogeneous networks with the aim of
providing a platform for cross-fertilisation between the different
communities working in reuse.
Papers are solicited on the following topics, with an emphasis on their
relation to networks.
* Components for sharing and reuse, their nature and granularity
(e.g. software components, ontologies, problem-solving methods, user
requirements).
* How to store, index, maintain and access sharable and reusable
components in libraries.
* Approaches for selecting, configuring and adapting sharable and
reusable components for a specific application.
* Issues involved in scaling up sharing and reuse to heterogeneous
networks like the Internet and Intranets (interoperability, distributed
reasoning).
* Commonalities and differences between reuse and sharing
approaches.
Submission deadline: March 1, 1998
Notification due: July 1, 1998
Tentative publication date: November 1, 1998
Submissions should be made available as (gzipped, compressed) postscript
on the Web, and a notifying email should be sent to both guest editors
indicating its URL. Alternatively, submissions can be sent by email
(also as postscript) to both guest editors.
Paper preparation guidelines can be found in any issue of the journal,
and also at: http://www.ksi.edu/ijsk.html.
For more information, please contact the guest editors:
Richard Benjamins
AI Research Institute (IIIA)
Spanish Council for Scientific Research
Barcelona, Spain
email: richard@iiia.csic.es
fax: +34 3 5809661
URL: http://www.iiia.csic.es/~richard
Dieter Fensel
Institute AIFB
University of Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany
email: dfe@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
fax: +49-721-693717
URL: http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/dfe/dieter.html
________________________________________________________
Dieter Fensel
Institut AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe
tel: +49-721-6084751, fax: +49-721-693717
e-mail: dfe@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/dfe/dieter.html
C a l l f o r P a p e r s
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"T E L E C O O P E R A T I O N"
WITHIN THE XV. WORLD COMPUTER CONGRESS 1998
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Telecooperation will be a main subject at the XV. World Computer
Congress in Budapest and Vienna, 31 Aug - 4 Sept 98. The conference
Telecooperation will reflect the paramount importance and the enabling
potential of IT for changing work in the next decade. The scope of the
conference encompasses a wide range of topics such as:
- Telework and Innovative Services
- Electronic Business and Workflow
- Collaborative Interaction
- Group Decision Making
- New Organisational Forms
- Requirements, Analysis and Design
- Products and Prototypes for Cooperation
- Technological Infrastructure and Legal Framework
Dead line for submision is 16 January 1998. General information about
the World Computer Congress may be obtained under
http://www.ocg.or.at/ifip98.html. Further request for information can
bemade to one of the organising Computer Societies: Austrian Computer
Society (ifip98@ocg.or.at) or John von Neumann Society
(ifip@neumann.hu).
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43.7 Subject: CFP: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special
Issue
From: Matthias Jarke
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 23:00:42 +0200
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on
SCENARIO MANAGEMENT
Guest Editors:
Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen (Germany)
Reino Kurki-Suonio, Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
Aims and Scope
A scenario can be defined as a description of a possible set of events
that might reasonably take place. The purpose of scenarios is to
stimulate thinking about possible occurences, assumptions relating these
occurences, possible opportunities and risks, and courses of action.
Recent surveys of scenario research and practice undertaken by the
European CREWS project show the enormous variety, but also the
fragmentation of the field.
The special issue will draw together contributions to the use and
management of scenarios in software and systems engineering. For
example, HCI researchers use scenarios to enhance user-designer
communications and managers to explore alternative futures and the
impact of systems. Software engineers see scenarios as a promising means
to discover user needs that are not obvious in analysis situations, to
better describe the use of systems in work processes, and to
systematically explore normal-case and exceptional behavior of a system
and its environment.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- system-internal scenarios/animations, system interaction scenarios and
use cases, organizational context scenarios
- mock-ups, storyboards, and animations that have moved beyond their
origins in HCI into general systems practice
- "thick" multimedia descriptions as a shared grounding of an existing,
planned, or even virtual reality
- systematically planned experiments with normal and exceptional
behavior of a system and its environment
- management of scenarios as reusable artifacts in large long-term
projects
- case studies and surveys concerning the usage patterns and
applicability of scenarios in different application domains
- technical support for scenario usage and management
- integration of scenario techniques with other SE methods
- embedding of scenario usage in the software lifecycle, relationships
with design prototypes.
Submissions
To discuss potential submissions, please contact either of the guest
editors.
Contributions to the special issue must follow the IEEE-TSE guidelines
for authors. They should be sent directly to Matthias Jarke, to reach
him no later than January 8, 1998.
An email abstract should be sent to Matthias Jarke by December 20, 1997.
Submitted papers must not have been published before and must not be
under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Important dates
email submission of abstracts: December 20, 1997
full paper submissions (6 copies): January 8, 1998
notification of acceptance/revision: April 1, 1998
final revised version of papers: June 1, 1998
expected publication: fall 1998
Guest Editors
Matthias Jarke
Informatik V, RWTH Aachen
Ahornstr. 55
52072 Aachen, Germany
phone: +49 241 80 21 501
fax: +49 241 8888 321
email: jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Reino Kurki-Suonio
Tampere University of Technology
P.O. Box 553
FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
phone: +358 3 365 2699
fax: +358 3 365 2913
email: rks@cs.tut.fi
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43.8 Subject: CFP: 6th Europ. W/shop on Software Process Tech. (EWSPT-6)
From: Bashar Nuseibeh
Date: Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 17:59:25 GMT
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sixth European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT-6)
September 16-18, near London, UK
For updated information:
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ban/misc/ewspt98.html
General Chair: Bashar Nuseibeh, Imperial College, London, UK
Programme Chair: Volker Gruhn, University of Dortmund, Germany
Programme Committee:
Nacer Boudjlida, CRIN, Nancy, France
Jean-Claude Derniame, CRIN, Nancy, France
Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
Alfonso Fuggetta, CEFRIEL and Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Bertil Haack, WBRZ, Berlin, Germany
Carlo Montangero, University of Pisa, Italy
Bashar Nuseibeh, Imperial College, London, UK
Lee Osterweil, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Brian Warboys, University of Manchester, UK
Vincent Wiegel, COSA Solutions, The Netherlands
Alexander Wolf, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Sponsored by:
ESPRIT BRWG PROMOTER (Process Modelling Techniques: Basic
Research)
The software process community has developed a wide range of process
modelling languages, process modelling tools, and mechanisms for
supporting
the enactment of software processes. The focus of this workshop is on
extending the focus of this research to the application of software
process
technology in practice.
To achieve this, EWSPT-6 is soliciting three kinds of papers:
- Position papers: which present concise arguments about an area of
software process resaerch or practice (in less than 2000 words).
Position
papers should not be incomplete versions of full papers.
- Full papers: which describe authors' novel research work (motivated,
presented and evaluated in less than 6000 words). Full papers must be
orginal contributions, not published, accepted or submitted for
publication
elsewhere.
- Industrial reports: which describe real-world experiences in managing
software processes (less than 6000; short papers are also welcome).
To emphasise the broadened focus of the workshop, its organisation will
incorporate a variety of new kinds of sessions. These include:
- Academics on trial: In sessions of this type, academics will attempt
to "sell" their research to practitioners, who, in turn, will demand
economically usable technology.
- Industrial presentations: In sessions of this type, practitioners will
explain their requirements and experiences of process technology.
The programme committee will select a subset of accepted papers for
different kinds of presentations at different workshop sessions.
Proposals for panel sessions are also solicited.
Attendance will be limited to 40 people. Invitation is based on paper
submissions. The workshop language is English. The proceedings will be
published by Springer-Verlag as part or their Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series.
Please send 4 copies of your submission to:
Volker Gruhn
Informatik 10
University of Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund
Germany
Phone: +49 231 7552782, Fax: +49 231 7552061
Email: gruhn@ls10.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Submission Deadline: 1 March 1998
Acceptance Notification: 5 May 1998
Camera ready paper due: 2 June 1998
Workshop: 16-18 September 1998
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43.9 Subject: EVENT: REFSQ'97 Workshop Summary
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 16:57:39 +0100
From: "Andreas L. Opdahl"
R E F S Q ' 9 7
W O R K S H O P S U M M A R Y
by
Eric Dubois, Andreas L. Opdahl, Klaus Pohl
The REFSQ (Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality)
1997 workshop was held in conjunction with CAiSE'97 in Barcelona, Spain
on June 16th and 17th, 1997. It was organised by Eric Dubois, Andreas L.
Opdahl and Klaus Pohl. In this workshop summary we, the organisers, will
provide an overview of the workshop and of the presentations given, and
present our subjective view of the various and fruitful discussions that
took place.
INTRODUCTION AND WORKSHOP STRUCTURE
Achieving high quality means to realise customers needs, and
requirements engineering (RE) is therefore the most crucial phase of
software development. During RE not only the functional requirements
but also the so-called "non- functional" requirements of the planned
software system have to be elicited from the customers and represented
in a requirements document in order to provide the software designer
with a complete and correct specification. Conventional RE methods
normally support only parts of this process or help stating only
specific kinds of requirements.
These methodological problems are the prime motivation for the REFSQ
workshop series held in conjunction with the CAiSE conferences on
Advanced information Systems Engineering since 1994. In order to find
solutions which handle the described deficiencies it is the goal of this
workshop series to improve the understanding of the relations between RE
and software quality.
In response to the Call for Papers for REFSQ'97 which addressed the
above problems we received 24 submissions. After the reviewing process
we accepted 16 papers which had high quality and covered the research
areas related to the workshop. Eventually, 15 full and position papers
were presented at REFSQ'97 and discussed among the 25 participants,
including the organisers.
With respect to the described research problems and the contents of the
accepted papers, we divided the workshop into four sessions dealing with
the following topics:
* The RE context (chair: Klaus Pohl)
* From the informal to the formal (chair: Eric Dubois)
* Goals and agents (chair Eric Dubois)
* Scenarios and use cases (chair: Andreas L. Opdahl)
To ensure the effectiveness of the workshop we defined a strict scheme
for the presentations: Each talk was restricted to 15 minutes and
followed by 15 minutes of discussion. The discussion was initiated by
two to three discussants, corresponding to the other authors of papers
in the same session.
The speakers, as well as the discussants, had to make the context of
each talk explicit by drawing one or more labelled arrows between the
following concepts:
User/ Requirements Software Architect/
Customer Engineer Developer
Environ-
ment
Needs
Specification Design/
Architecture
This set of concepts comprised both a level of stakeholders which
participate in the software development process and a level of documents
that must be produced during that process. The arrows should describe
which relations between these concepts that were addressed by the paper:
While arrows between people indicate some kind of social interaction, an
arrow between documents describes technical and logical relationships.
Arrows between the two levels usually indicate production/usage
relationships.
In addition, the talks were summarised by the presenter and the
discussants by answering the following questions:
* Which quality features are addressed by the paper?
* What is the main underlying idea of the paper?
* What are the main (expected) benefits of the idea?
* What are the (known) problems with the idea/paper?
Each session was concluded by a session discussion in which the major
topics raised by the talks or during the talk discussions were
elaborated. The results of the discussions are summarised in the session
summaries (see below).
The workshop was closed by a general discussion which aimed at
integrating the session summaries and identifying important research
topics. This led to a final workshop summary and a research agenda of
topics worth elaborating further to make RE processes more efficient and
effective, and thereby improve software quality in the future.
SESSION SUMMARIES
Session Summary: The RE Context
Overview of talks
The presentations in this session all argued that considering the
context of a system is important for being able to build software
systems of high quality, i.e., systems which meet the customers' needs.
In the first presentation, Colin Potts argued that fitness for use
should be the main concern of any system development process.
Considering the context of a system is thus essential for achieving high
system quality. He proposed the Inquiry Cycle which gives equal weight
to three intertwined and incremental activities: expression, criticism
and refinement. He further distinguished between three kinds of
description: the ideal, the hypothetical and the actual. Expressing,
criticising and refining those descriptions requires continuous
stakeholder involvement, and therefore fitness for use is a pervasive
topic in requirements engineering. An operationalisation of the proposed
approach into practical strategies is required to improve the
development of "delightful and commodious" systems in practice.
The presentation by Danny Brash and Benkt Wangler focused on the
improvement of the requirements engineering process within an
organisation. They proposed to establish a so called Requirements
Identification and Formulation Team (RIFT) within the enterprise. The
RIFT is a permanent team which, among other responsibilities, should
facilitate organisational learning about requirements engineering
processes and thereby prevent failures and reduce costs. After
consolidating their ideas, Brash and Wangler plan to apply the proposed
approach to case studies.
The third presentation, by Andreas L. Opdahl, dealt with evaluation of
support for multiple perspectives in problem analysis methods. Based on
the information systems ontology proposed by Wand and Weber, he argued
that the four meta constructs things, properties, conceptions, and
perspectives are all essential for multi-perspective problem analysis.
The paper therefore proposed and applied a framework to evaluate
existing problem analysis methods. The evaluation emphasised the
strengths and weaknesses of existing methods. Since the framework is
very general, the evaluation could only be performed on a coarse grained
level. Future work will focus on the refinement of the framework to add,
e.g., quantification criteria.
In the last talk of this session, Wing Lam (co-author Sara Jones)
presented a reuse-centred approach for requirements engineering. To
facilitate reuse of requirements, they must be better aligned with the
business environment (the context of the system in general). In
addition, systematic management of the requirements and the reuse
process is required. After a brief survey of requirements reuse
approaches, the authors introduced their tentative model for reusing
requirements. Future work will focus on elaboration of the model and its
application to real projects.
Discussion summary
There was general agreement that the consideration of the context of a
system is essential to building high quality systems. In addition, the
context information, e.g., business process models, have to be related
to the produced requirements artefacts to enable the "propagation" of
changes. The question is how to establish such interrelations and how to
structure the context information itself. It was further agreed that
contextual information has to be considered when reusing requirements,
i.e., that requirements are only meaningful in some context.
For understanding and considering the context during systems
development, the continuous involvement of the user/customer and other
stakeholders is required. Open questions are how to structure contextual
information and, even more importantly, how to measure a system's
fitness for use, i.e., how to establish if the system has the right
"relations", "interactions", etc., with the context.
In the discussion, several participants pointed to the importance of
domain specific approaches to RE. One reason is that the context of a
system varies significantly depending on the application domain it is
going to operate in. For instance, it was commented that practitioners
like to have domain-specific and/or application-specific templates and
checklists when they elicit and specify requirements.
Another important issue that was discussed was to broaden the scope of
requirements engineering through better consideration of the social
aspects. Two activities were seen as equally important: (1) broader
education of the students, so at least to make them aware of the
problems; (2) cooperation with social science for applying social
research methods to requirements engineering.
Session Summary: From the Informal to the Formal
Overview of talks
This session comprised four presentations. Two were focused on the
improvement of documents where requirements are expressed in natural
language, while the two other presentations suggested how the use of
formal languages can improve the quality of requirements.
In the first talk, Bidjan Tschaitschian (co-authors: Claudia Wenzel and
Isabel John) introduced the KARAT system, a tool that can be used for
improving requirements documents written in natural language. Starting
from incomplete, ill- structured descriptions, KARAT proposed to improve
them through the use of an appropriate method supported by a
knowledge-based assistant relying on text analysis and hypertext
techniques. This system has been applied in real projects. However,
these projects have to be large because the acquisition of the required
domain knowledge needed by the knowledge-based assistant introduces a
non- negligible overhead.
The talk of Camille Ben Achour was also related to natural language
requirements descriptions. Here, the proposal was to improve their
quality by using interpretation and dialogue chunks. The interpretation
chunk, based on Fillmore's case grammar, is used for interpreting
textual descriptions to some target design model. The purpose of the
dialogue chunk is then to validate and enrich the proposed design model
by handling a dialogue with the various stakeholders. The reported work
is still preliminary and future support tools are under development. An
important issue is to achieve a better integration of the two proposed
chunks.
In his talk, Jaelson Castro (co-author: Marco Toranzo) reported on the
role of the Multiview environment, a tool which supports the process of
requirements elicitation and formalization. The goal is to produce fully
formal descriptions, but this can not be achieved from scratch. This is
why the idea is first to produce multiple semi-formal models (e.g.,
state-charts and object models) and, then, to derive formal requirements
specifications from them. Future work is concerned with the improvement
of the guidance required by this incremental elaboration process.
Another key issue is related to the management of possible conflicts
among the multiple views.
The final talk was by Atsushi Ohnishi about the use of a formal
requirements language called VRDL. The important property of this
language is that it is a graphical language in terms of which
requirements are expressed in terms of icons and arrows linking them
together. A clear benefit of this language comes from the improvement of
communications and collaborations among the different stakeholders.
However, this improvement is only possible if the stakeholders reach a
consensus on the semantics definitions of the shared icons dictionary.
Appropriate dictionaries still have to be identified and defined for
various application domains.
Discussion summary
In this session, all the papers were related to the notation used for
expressing the requirements specification as well as on the possible
envisaged support for improving descriptions provided in this notation.
The discussion mainly focuses on the merits provided by different kinds
of notation, viz. natural language, semi- formal ("boxes and arrows")
notations and formal languages. Besides the usual well-known advantages
and problems related to the different kinds of notations, some specific
issues were pointed out:
* the introduction of a new notation is heavily dependent
upon the RE maturity of the organisation
* whether or not an organisation will invest in a new
notation is dependent upon factors like typical
application domains, the available budget, etc.
An important final point was the use of multiple notations. In such
situations, it is very fundamental to maintain traceability links among
the different descriptions fragments so that change management and
impact analysis activities are possible.
Session Summary: Goals and Agents
Overview of talks
Three of the four papers presented in this session were directly
concerned with the session title, i.e., the use of concepts like goal
and agent to achieve a better understanding of the various stakeholders'
needs. The fourth paper focused on a specific kind of goal, i.e.,
quality requirements.
Trying to propose a classification of these quality requirements was the
topic of the first talk by Elke Hochmller. Avoiding the use of the
overloaded term "non-functional requirements", the speaker preferred to
refer to "extra-functional requirements". A preliminary core
classification framework was proposed for these requirements and the
possible impact and relevance of this classification was outlined. Open
issues were the integration of this classification framework with
existing software engineering processes as well as its possible
tailoring for specific organisations and projects.
The second presentation by Nicolas Prat addressed the problem of goal
representation and classification. The proposed approach relied upon the
use of a case grammar approach for goal formalisation. Based on the
semantics of the goal constituents and having as an input a hierarchy of
goal verbs, case-based reasoning techniques can then be used for
achieving goal reduction. With respect to the hierarchy, the feeling was
that the nature of the different possible kinds of links has to be
refined. Another question was that formalization of goals by
classification is probably not enough.
In the next presentation, Remigijus Gustas introduced an integrated
agent- oriented framework where agents and their associated actions are
modelled together with the desired goals to be achieved. Within this
framework, specific attention is paid to the nature of dependencies
existing among agents, in particular, positive as well as negative
influences can be represented through different links. At the end of
the presentation, the author reported the difficulty of integrating this
framework with more traditional models of system analysis and design.
Another question was related to the applicability of the approach within
the context of realistically sized applications.
The last presentation by Eric Yu addressed the general question of the
"why" of an agent-oriented approach at the RE level. Starting from the
survey of some existing approaches, the author showed that they referred
to concepts of "agent" which most often were ontologically different
from one another. Besides the need for defining this concept, the author
also introduced other issues related to the further development of agent
concepts for RE. In particular, he stressed the importance of the
scalability and the ability to deal with change. This paper was the
right paper for introducing the discussion which followed.
Discussion summary
It is clear that the concepts of agents, dependencies, goals, etc., are
still emerging concepts in the RE community. In particular, from the
case studies that were referred to, it seems that the applicability of
these concepts has still to be proved within the context of large
real-life applications. Related to this applicability criterion, there
is also a scalability concern. Similarly to the concept of "module" as
it exists in software engineering, structuring mechanisms are also
required for managing and organising large agent-oriented descriptions.
In particular, the concept of "viewpoint" seems central here.
Another part of the discussion dealt with the necessity of fully
formalising these concepts or not. A precondition to this formalisation
activity is to reach a deeper understanding of the semantics underlying
key concepts. The danger of this formalisation is also the possible
restrictions put on the concepts. These restrictions could hamper the
role played by the agents during the elicitation stage of RE.
Session Summary: Scenarios and Use Cases
Overview of talks
The three papers presented in this session all discussed the application
of scenarios or use cases for requirements elicitation and/or
specification.
In the first talk, Peter Haumer (co-author: Klaus Pohl) argued that
systematic capture of context information can lead to richer scenarios.
However, context information is currently only modelled for scenarios as
a whole, although some of the context information may be more precisely
associated with individual interactions within the scenario. Their paper
therefore proposed a framework which supports representation of
contextual information both for individual interactions and for
scenarios as a whole. Another benefit of this idea is that the
scenarios themselves become better structured. It was pointed out that
it might also be useful to extend the framework to hierarchies (or DAGs)
of scenarios, and that it creates a need for systematic guidance for
collecting context information.
In their talk, Bj¿rn Regnell and ke Davidson addressed the problem of
distributing new system requirements on an existing systems
architecture. Their paper reported experiences from industrial pilot
projects, where one important problem was that too much of the systems
knowledge resided in the minds of local software "heroes". Their FRED
(From REquirements to Design) method has been used to gradually
re-specify existing systems in terms of multi-level models of actors and
use cases. FRED includes a procedure for recursively assigning new
requirements to the appropriate actors (existing or new). A benefit of
the approach is that it supports work parallelisation. It also supports
traceability.
In the final talk of the workshop, Shailey Minocha (co-authors: Neil
Maiden, Keith Manning and Michele Ryan) presented a software tool and a
method for generating and exploring scenarios. Their approach is based
on a library of normative problem domain models as well as a taxonomy of
possible exceptions to the normative behaviour. A tool is provided for
semi-automatic generation of both normal and exceptional scenarios. The
tool systematically guides the requirements engineer in generating and
using the scenarios for acquisition, elaboration and validation of
requirements, and several types of heuristics are provided. In the
discussion it was mentioned that heuristics are needed for choosing the
right scenarios - out of a large number generated - for verification.
In addition, Minocha pointed out that industry does not like to show all
possible failures to their customers.
Discussion summary
The papers in this session spread themselves out over the workshop
framework in a broad manner. Interestingly, the papers differed in that
Regnell and Davidson aimed at specifying their systems with Use Cases,
whereas the two other papers in the session applied scenarios mainly as
a requirements elicitation and verification technique which was
subordinate to other means of specification. In Regnell and Davidson's
case it was therefore pointed out that it is difficult to know whether
the resulting specification is complete. The authors responded that the
requirements issuer is not always so concerned with completeness. In
relation to the two other papers in the session it was commented that it
is important to clarify the relation between scenarios and other means
of requirements elicitation, modelling and specification.
A host of other issues were also raised in the general discussion and in
the discussions of the individual papers. Some of the most important
ones were:
* fragmentation of scenarios and use cases is a problem
* how to manage redundancy between fragmented scenarios and use cases?
* how to reuse scenarios?
* how to include scenarios into the requirements specification
document?
* how to select the right scenarios and use cases?
* how should scenarios be delineated, i.e., what should b inside the
scenario and what should be its context?
* are we considering the interactions taking place among the system
and its environment (system external view) or the interactions taking
place among the different agents composing the system (system internal
view)?
* an enterprise will not adopt a new specification technique as
standard if there is no migration path from the existing systems
documentation
* how do you relate scenarios and use cases to other systems
requirements, for instance to "non-functional" ones?
* what is the appropriate research method for validating industrial
trials?
A more comprehensive list of topics mentioned is available
at
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 17:28:45 +0000
43.10.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Requirements Methodology
A 3-day course covering structured requirements *
The Requirements Methodology course takes a tool-independent approach to
understanding requirements and the principles behind traceability.
This three-day course uses an interactive format, encouraging attendees
to examine their existing methods of doing business and in small groups
investigate more effective approaches. Individuals can benefit from the
experiences of other corporations and industries.
Requirements are examined across the entire systems lifecycle, from
techniques for their initial gathering through the separation of
requirements from non-requirements to the relationship between
requirements and other project data. The distinction is made between
"user requirements", "system requirements" and "functional requirements"
and methods are discussed for organizing each logically. The course
considers the importance of requirements in the entire development
process and attendees learn how to fully understand and manage iteration
and the impact of change.
The Requirements Methodology seminar gives attendees the opportunity to
learn from one another and from the instructors. This course is taught
by experienced instructors who have many years of practical experience
managing projects. As an attendee you will not be exposed to just
theory, but also tried and trusted methods for putting that theory into
practice. Previous customers for the course include AT&T, Motorola,
DERA, Ford, Racal, Ericsson, and Lucent Technologies.
* This course was formerly titled "Structured Requirements"
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43.11 Subject: EVENT: 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated
Software Engineering - ASE'98 (formerly, KBSE)
From: Bashar Nuseibeh
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 22:44:38 GMT
13th IEEE International Conference on
Automated Software Engineering - ASE'98
(formerly, KBSE)
October 13-16, 1998,
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Paper Submission: May 8, 1998 (email abstracts by May 1, 1998)
Latest information: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ase98
Call for Papers
The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the
foundations, techniques, tools and applications of automated software
engineering technology. Both automatic systems and systems that support
and cooperate with people are within the scope of the conference, as are
computational models of human software engineering activities. ASE-98
encourages contributions describing basic research, novel applications,
and experience reports. The solicited topics include, but are not
limited to:
* Architecture
* Automating software design and synthesis
* Automated software specification and analysis
* Computer-supported cooperative work, groupware
* Domain modeling
* Education
* Knowledge acquisition
* Maintenance and evolution
* Process and workflow management
* Program understanding
* Re-engineering
* Requirements engineering
* Reuse
* Testing
* User interfaces and human-computer interaction
* Verification and validation
The ASE Conference, formerly called the Knowledge-Based Software
Engineering Conference, has for the past decade provided a forum for
researchers and practitioners to discuss the application of automated
reasoning and knowledge representation to software engineering problems.
In conjunction with the name change a year ago, the scope of the
conference expanded to encourage international participation and to
reach other scientific communities concerned with formal methods,
partial evaluation, process support, human-computer interface support,
requirements engineering, reverse engineering, testing, or verification
& validation.
All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. In addition,
several of the highest quality papers will be selected for a special
issue of The Journal of Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer). ASE-98
will also include invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions, and
project demonstrations. Separate calls will appear for participation in
some of these activities.
Submission Information
-----------------------------
Papers should not exceed 6000 words in length, with full page figures
counting as 300 words. Papers will be reviewed by at least three members
of the program committee according to: technical quality, originality,
clarity, appropriateness to the conference focus, and adequacy of
references to related work. Papers that exceed the length restriction
will not be reviewed. Application papers and experience reports should
clearly identify their novel contributions and lessons learned.
Six copies of each submitted paper should be sent to Dr. David Redmiles
at the address below. No fax or electronic submissions will be accepted.
The submission deadline is May 8, 1998. A paper's title, authors, and
abstract should be submitted by May 1 through electronic mail to
ase98@ics.uci.edu.
General Chair
-----------------
Alex Quilici
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Hawaii at Manoa
2504 Dole Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Tel: +1 808 956-9735
Fax: +1 808-956-3427
Email: alex@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu
Program Chairs
-------------------
Bashar Nuseibeh
Department of Computing
Imperial College
180 Queen's Gate
London SW7 2BZ, UK
Tel :+44 171 594-8286
Fax: +44 171 581-8024
Email: ban@doc.ic.ac.uk
David Redmiles
Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
USA
Tel: +1 714 824-3823
Fax: +1 714 824-1715
Email: ase98@ics.uci.edu
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43.12 Subject: WEB: Getting REFSQ'97 materials
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 10:47:56 +0200
From: Eric DUBOIS
R E F S Q ' 9 7 -
Requirements Engineering: Foundations of Software Quality
Proceedings and workshop summary
REFSQ`97, was held in conjunction with CAiSE`97 in Barcelona (Catalonia,
Spain) - June 1997
The proceedings of the workshop are published by the University of Namur
Press and can be ordered by sending an email to Eric Dubois
edu@info.fundp.ac.be
(they cost 25 Ecus - 30 USD - 1000 BF (Belgium Francs)
The table of content is the following:
Introduction and Workshop Structure
Session Summaries
Fitness for Use : The System Quality that Matters Most
Colin Potts
Bridging the RIFT Between Users and Developers
Dany Brash and Benkt Wangler
Applying Semantic Quality Criteria to Multi-Perspective Problem Analysis
Methods Andreas L. Opdahl
The Case for Reuse-Centred Approaches to Requirements Engineering
Wing Lam and Sara Jones
Tuning the Quality of Informal Software Requirements with KARAT
Bidjan Tschaitschian, Claudia Wenzel and Isabel John
Linguistic Instruments for the Integration of Scenarios in Requirements
Engineering
Camille Ben Achour
Towards Software Quality : The Multiview Case
Jaelson F.B. Castro and Marco A. Toranzo
Visual Software Requirements Language Based on Communication Model
Atsushi Ohnishi
Requirements Classification as a First Step to Grasp Quality
Requirements
Elke Hochmüller
Goal Formalisation and Classification for Requirements Engineering
Nicolas Prat
Viability Criterion to Analyse the Pragmatic Quality of
Requirements
Remigijus Gustas
Why Agent-Oriented Requirements Engineering
Eric Yu
Modelling Contextual Information about Scenarios
Klaus Pohl and Peter Haumer
>From Requirements to Design with Use Cases - Experiences from Industrial
Pilot Projects
Bjrn Regnell and ke Davidson
A Software Tool for Scenario Generation and Use
Neil Maiden, Shailey Minocha, Keith Manning, Michele Ryan
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43.13 Subject: WEB: Online bibliography on planning and scheduling
From: David Dodson
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 02:20:31 +0100 (BST)
ANNONCEMENT: Online bibliography on planning and scheduling
http://strips.lboro.ac.uk/bib
The UK planning and scheduling SIG has great pleasure in announcing its
online bibliography service. The bibliography lists papers that are
relevant to the planning and scheduling community as a whole, including
selected papers on robotics, formal logics and natural language
processing.
The development strategy for the bibliography is based on the "bazaar"
model of software development. The bazaar model was used to good effect
in the development of the Linux operating system. Anybody can add new
references to the database. In fact, all planning and scheduling
researchers are asked to submit references for the papers that they use
in their work. Given sufficient support, the bibliography database will
be kept up to date by the community for the community. This can be
achieved without requiring a huge amount of work from any one person.
Currently the database holds 2,993 references. The bibliography is the
fourth largest in the AI section of the "Collection of online
bibliographies" (http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/) maintained by
Alf-Christian Achilles
In the last month the database has received 364 search queries from 219
sites. We expect to receive more hits in the next month because of
wider publicity and because of the many new PhD students that start at
this time of year.
If you wish to publicise your own work on planning or scheduling then
please add your publications to the bibliography using the online
submission form (http://strips/lboro.ac.uk/bib/add.phtml).
If you write using Latex and so maintain a bibliography in Bibtex format
then we would be grateful if you would contribute your bibliography to
the online database project. No bibliography is too big or too small.
Our software automatically removes duplicate entries so there is no need
to prune a database before submitting it. However, when submitting
references to your own work, you might consider using the URL field to
link each reference to an online copy of the paper. Email your
bibliography to J.K.Soutter@lboro.ac.uk.
Bibliography databases in the formats listed below are also accepted.
Most bibliography database packages can produce output in at least one
of these formats.
bibtex refer tib
rfc1807 rfc1357 procite
inspec medline
The online planning and scheduling bibliography is just one of the
services available from the UK Planning and Scheduling SIG's home page
at "http://www.salford.ac.uk/planning".
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43.14 Subject: WEB: Software Engineering Mailing list announcement:
SE/WORLD
From: alw@wien.cs.colorado.edu
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 15:03:17 -0600
We invite you to subscribe to a new, non-commercial mailing list for the
Software Engineering community: SEWORLD@cs.colorado.edu.
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registered privately to the list, and are not published nor will they be
given out to anybody requesting them. Simple instructions on how to
subscribe and/or contribute to SEWORLD are appended below. Visit the
SEWORLD web site at:
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Please pass this invitation on to your colleagues and other interested
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 97 17:15:14 -0100
POSITION AVAILABLE:
The department of Innovative Software Engineering (ISE) at the
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (FhG-IESE) in
Kaiserslautern, Germany has the following position available:
* Group leader: Requirements Engineering
The department is looking for energetic and highly motivated researchers
and/or experienced software engineering project managers. Applicants
must hold a Ph.D. in computer science or demonstrate high expertise in
the subject area (e.g., years of applied research or development and an
excellent command of the subject area).
The ability and enthousiasm of getting one's hand 'dirty' (in real
projects) is the byword of this advertisement. The successful applicant
will lead a small group of researchers and define the direction of
applied research activities in this field.
A fluent level of English is required. German is a definite plus.
- WE OFFER:
* A great working environment where we foster an American like research
atmosphere. The official language of the Institute is English.
* We highly rate and reward the spirit of INITIAVE, i.e., if you can
sell the practicality of your research ideas (and if it fits at least
somewhat with the agenda of the Institute,) we'll back you up fully.
* Lots of ressources, great network access to the world, SUN Ultras 1
and 2 among others and plenty of other computer hardware/software to
enable the realization of your project ideas.
* Nice, young, driven and friendly atmosphere.
* According to the status of our institute, salaries vary widely
depending on age, marital status, and number of children. The German
social system offers numerous high-quality services and is particularly
advantageous for families.
- MANDATE OF THE FhG IESE IN KAISERLAUTERN
The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (FhG
IESE) focuses on research and development in the areas of innovative
software development approaches and quality/process engineering.
Our web server offers up-to-date information about the institute. We
invite you to visit our web site at: http://www.iese.fhg.de
- PLEASE FORWARD YOUR APPLICATION TO:
Ms. Katrin Schmitt
Fraunhofer Einrichtung fur Experimentelles Software Engineering
(FhG IESE)
Sauerwiesen 6
D-67661 Kaiserslautern
Germany
Fax: +49/6301/707-202
Phone: +49/6301/707-251
email: schmitt@iese.fhg.de
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| Dr. Jean-Marc DeBaud
| Head, Department for Innovative Software Engineering (ISE)
| * Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (FhE.
IESE)*
|Sauerwiesen 6
| D-67661 Kaiserslautern (Germany)
|
| debaud@iese.fhg.de
| http://www.iese.fhg.de
| Tel.: +49 6301 707 216 Fax.: +49 6301 707 202
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