Date: Fri, 7 Jan 94 18:31:44 GMT To: re-world@doc.ic.ac.uk From: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Anthony Finkelstein) X-Sender: acwf@gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk Subject: REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER (18) ****************REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER******************** No. 18. Contents 1. CFP - 3rd WET ICE 94 (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) 2. CFP First Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (Hisayuki Horai) 3. Workshop Formal Methods for Information System Dynamics (Gunter Saake) 4. VLDB 94 Call for Papers (Matthias Jarke) ---ANNOUNCEMENTS & ABSTRACTS OF TECHNICAL REPORTS ARE PARTICULARLY WELCOME!--- Contributions to: re-list@doc.ic.ac.uk (will be moderated) Subscription or Removal to: re-request@doc.ic.ac.uk Back issues can be obtained via anonymous ftp from ftp-host: dse.doc.ic.ac.uk (IP number: 146.169.2.20). Directory: requirements. Files are called renl1, renl2, etc. If you cannot use ftp then you can get any back issues using email. Send email containing the following to ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk open dse.doc.ic.ac.uk cd requirements get quit ********************************************************************** From: juggy@cerc.wvu.edu (V. "Juggy" Jagannathan) Subject: CFP - 3rd WET ICE 94 CALL FOR PAPERS WET ICE '94 Third IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises April 17-19, 1994 Morgantown, West Virginia The Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia University, with sponsorship from the IEEE Computer Society, with support from AAAI, and in cooperation with ACM SIGOIS, will conduct the Third Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises on April 17-19, 1994 in Morgantown, West Virginia. The workshop goal is to focus on infrastructural issues related to collaboration in diverse application domains, ranging from engineering to healthcare. Papers reporting survey, original research, design and development, and applications of enabling technologies for collaboration are sought in the following areas: Virtual team support environments Mediators to support collaborative activities Information sharing in distributed systems Enterprise modeling Process modelling and characterization Integration of heterogeneous and legacy databases Projects and team coordination Requirements, constraints Workflow tracking and management tools Networked collocation Tools for multimedia conferencing Capturing design intent & intelligent retrieval of corporate knowledge Enterprise integration frameworks Papers should be no more than 25 typewritten, double-spaced, single-sided pages including all text, figures, and references. Papers should not have been published or be under submission currently for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the title of the paper and the full name, affiliation, postal address, electronic address, and telephone number of all authors. Authors also are encouraged to write a 300-word abstract and a list of keywords that identify the central issues of the paper. Paper copies or postscript files submitted electronically are acceptable. Electronic submission is the preferred mode. Deadlines Four copies of the full manuscript January 10, 1994 Notification of decisions February 28, 1994 Final version of the paper April 4, 1994 Papers submitted to this workshop will be candidates for inclusion in a bound volume of the post-proceedings to be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. | NOTE: Students are especially encouraged to submit innovative work.| | Students will be eligible for financial support if their papers are| | accepted. This support is being provided through AAAI. | WET ICE '93 Synopsis Advances in database and networking technology, groupware, multimedia, graphical user-interfaces and a precipitous drop in the ``cost of computing,'' point the way to the possibility of creating a truly collaborative environment that transcends the barriers of distance, time, and heterogeneity of computer equipment. The ideal collaborative environment will enable any member of a team to spontaneously communicate (and thereby collaborate) with any other member (or a group) of a team. The 2nd Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises focussed precisely on these issues. Scientists and practitioners from around the world gathered to explore the possibilities of what technology holds for us. The proceedings was a compendium of 23 scientific papers and 3 working group reports on various technologies that enable collaboration. Copies of the proceedings from WET ICE '93 can be ordered from the IEEE Computer Society Press by calling 1-800-CS-BOOKS (1-800-272-6657) within the United States or 714-821-8380 if you're calling internationally. Copies are $35 for IEEE members and $70 for nonmembers. Specify the title "Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises" when ordering. Selected papers from WET ICE '93 will be published in the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. WET ICE '94 Steering Committee Chair: Prof. Ramana Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Jack Callahan, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Raghu Karinthi, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. K. Srinivas , CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Ralph Wood, CERC/West Virginia University WET ICE '94 Program and Review Committee Chair: Dr. Joe Cleetus, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj, Purdue University Dr. Earl Craighill, SRI, International Prof. Prasun Dewan, UNC Chapel Hill, NC Dr. Milena Didic, Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, & ESPRIT Prof. Mark Fox, University of Toronto Mr. Ted Goranson, SAIC Dr. Michael Huhns, MCC Prof. Felix Londono, Universidad EAFIT, Colombia Prof. Tom Malone, MIT Prof. Jintae Lee, Univeristy of Hawaii Prof. Sumitra Reddy, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Alex Schill, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Mr. Dennis Sng, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Dr. Mike Sobolewski, CERC/West Virginia University Prof. Duvvuru Sriram, MIT Dr. Marty Tenenbaum, Enterprise Integration Technologies Prof. George Trapp, CERC/West Virginia University Dr. Robert Winner, The Center for High Performance Computing, MA WET ICE '94 Coordination General Chair: Prof. V. Jagannathan, CERC Finance: Anagha Karandikar, CERC Local Arrangements/Publicity: Mary Carriger, CERC Registration: Cathy O'Neal, CERC Audio-Visual: Bill Duff, CERC Submissions and questions regarding the workshop should be directed to: Dr. K. Joseph Cleetus Program Chair Concurrent Engineering Research Center West Virginia University P.O. Box 6506 Morgantown, WV 26506 Phone: 304-293-7226 Email: et-wkshp@cerc.wvu.edu ********************************************************************** From: horai@syslab.iias.flab.fujitsu.co.jp Subject: [CFP] 1st APSEC Preliminary Call For Papers The First Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) December 7 - 9, 1994, Tokyo, Japan SPONSOR The Special Interest Group on Software Engineering of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ/SIGSE) The first Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC) is organized to bring together researchers and practitioners in software engineering from the international community, mainly from Asia-Pacific countries. In the software engineering arena, the North American countries and the European countries have their own well-established international conferences which have been providing good occasions for researchers and practitioners to exchange their ideas. However, these conferenc *es have been usually held far away from the Asia-Pacific countries. This geographic condition is one of the major reasons to limit the number of papers accepted and the number of people attending these conferences. This inevitably led to an accumulation of cries such as "Why we don't have our own conference in the Asia-Pacific region!" which has finally encouraged us to establish a new conference. APSEC has originally grown out of the joint activities of the two SIGSE's, namely the Special Interest Group of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ/SIGSE) and the Special Interest Group of the Korea Information and Science Society (KISS/SIGSE), in organizing the Joint Conference on Software Engineering (JCSE) twice. The first one was successfully held in Seoul, Korea in March 1992 and the second one was successfully held in Fukuoka, Japan in November 1993, which have received twice as many papers as the first conference from several Asian countries. By seeing this, we understood that there are growing demands in the Asia-Pacific countries to have our own conference on software engineering. This led us to decide to terminate the JCSE after the Fukuoka conference and then to start a new conference, i.e., APSEC. We believe that APSEC will give the researchers and practitioners in that area a greater opportunity to express and exchange their ideas among people in neighboring countries, and thus to expedite leveling up of their research and development. THEMES The conference will address the following principal themes: Requirements Engineering, Specification & Design, Testing, Maintenance, CASE tools, Software Metrics, Software Process, Reuse, Reverse Engineering, Object Orientation, CSCW, Distributed Development, Information System Development, Project Management, Quality Assurance, Education, and the other topics relevant to Software Engineering Field INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS APSEC Program Committee solicits original technical papers and proposals for panel discussions. All contributions will be reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical quality, and relevance to Software Engineering. TECHNICAL PAPERS should be no longer than 6000 words. All papers should include a separate cover sheet which provides the following information : the title, authors' names, postal and electronic mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers, a 200 words abstract, a list of keywords. Experience papers or practical papers are also welcome to be submitted. Submitted papers should be written in English and clarify what is new and significant about the presented work. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. PANEL PROPOSALS should describe the title and a brief description (including an aim and a goal). The panel chair and panelists can be included in the proposal if the author has a plan. They should be no longer than two pages. Six (6) copies of TECHNICAL PAPERS and PANEL PROPOSALS should be sent by April 30, 1994 to either of program co-chairs, not both. : >From Asia, Africa, and Europe From Australia, Oceania and America Motoshi Saeki Roger Duke Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Eng. Dept. of Computer Science Tokyo Institute of Technology University of Queensland Ookayama 2-12-1, Meguro-ku Brisbane, 4072, Australia_ Tokyo 152, Japan_ TEL. +61 (7) 365 2097 TEL. +81 (3) 3726 1111 (Ext.2192) FAX +61 (7) 365 1999 FAX +81 (3) 3729 1399 E-mail rduke@cs.uq.oz.au E-mail saeki@cs.titech.ac.jp IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline : 30 April 1994 Acceptance Notification :15 August 1994 Camera-ready Copy Due : 30 September 1994 GENERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Conference Chair Sadahiro Isoda (NTT) Program Co-Chairs Motoshi Saeki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Roger Duke (University of Queensland) Local Arrangements Yoshiaki Fukazawa (Waseda University) Treasurer Mikio Aoyama (Fujitsu) Publicity Kazuhito Ohmaki (Electrotechnical Laboratory) STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ken-ichi Harada (Keio University, Japan) Sadahiro Isoda (NTT, Japan) Yong Rae Kwon (KAIST, Korea) Lin-shan Lee (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Danny Poo (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Karl Reed (La Trobe University, Australia) Vincent Shen (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong) Chi Su Wu (Seoul National University, Korea) PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS (Tentative) Tsuneo Ajisaka (Kyoto Univ., Japan) Kazushi Kuse (IBM Japan) Paul Bailes (Univ. of Queensland, Australia) Don Lawrynuik (National Univ. of Singapore) Donghae Chi (ETRI, Korea) Hing-Yan Lee (Info. Tech. Inst., Singapore) Chyan-Goei Chung (National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan) Keung Hae Lee (Hankuk Aviation Univ., Korea) John Leaney (Univ. of Tech. in Sydney, Australia) Masato Hirakawa (Hiroshima Univ., Japan) Chris Marlin (Flinders Univ., Australia) Shin-ichi Hon-iden (Toshiba, Japan) Morio Nagata (Keio Univ., Japan) Hisayuki Horai (Fujitsu, Japan) Kazuhito Ohmaki (ETL, Japan) Stan Jarzabek (National Univ. of Singapore) Young Chul Sim (Hongik Univ., Korea) K.C. Kang (Pohang Inst. of Sci. & Tech., Korea) Katsuyasu Toyama (NTT, Japan) T. H. Tse (Univ. of Hong Kong) Jyh-Sheng Ke (Inst. for Information Industry, Taiwan) Seung-Min Yang (Soongsil Univ., Korea) K.T. Yung (Hong Kong Productivity Council) Moon Hae Kim (Kon-Kuk Univ., Korea) Yue-Sun Kuo (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) ********************************************************************** From: saake@ips.cs.tu-bs.de Subject: Workshop 'Formal Methods for Information System Dynamics' Workshop preceeding CAiSE`94, Utrecht (NL) 6-7 June 1994 Formal Methods for Information System Dynamics ============================================== Organizers: Eric Dubois, FUNDP Namur Peter Hartel, TU Braunschweig & OBLOG Software S.A., Gunter Saake, TU Braunschweig Workshop Description Design of information system dynamics requires besides the design of information structures the modeling of functional services and long-term system behaviour to cover all relevant aspects of the system. Most classical formal approaches focus on these aspects in isolation and do not allow an integrated modeling of structural and behavioral aspects. The topic of this workshop is the discussion of formal approaches allowing such an integrated modeling with special respect to the applicability of such approaches in practice. Currently, several frameworks for integrated modeling of information system structure and dynamics are around, among them newly developed specification languages (for example based on the object-oriented paradigm like Albert, Clyder, Gist, Rml, Mal/Dal, Mondel, OBLOG, Tempora, Telos, Troll, ...) as well as approaches combining existing formal techniques (for example algebraic specification, Z, VDM/RAISE, process specification languages, Petri nets) with data modelling techniques (eg, ER modelling, NIAM, ...). On the basis of presentations, discussions and comparisons of existing used current formal description techniques, one aim of the workshop is to identify criteria making it possible to classify existing methods according to, e.g., their scope of applicability, their underlying paradigms, their degree of use in the industrial practice, etc. Participants should present formal techniques they developed or have used to model practical problems in this area. Comparisons of different approaches and experience reports about the use of these techniques are of special interest. The participation to the workshop is restricted to maximal 25 persons. The selection of participants is made based on a two pages position paper reporting on the presentation of a specific formal method and of its evaluation through its use in some application domain. We expect to have half of the participants from research groups working in the mentioned area, half of them from industrial projects enabling the feedback necessary for the applicability. Workshop participants are expected to attend the CAiSE conference (Utrecht, 8-10 June). Deadlines: Position papers (two pages): March 15, 1994. Notification of acceptance and official invitation: April 15, 1994. Submit position papers (e-mail submission prefered) to Gunter Saake Abt. Datenbanken, Informatik Techn. Univ., Postfach 3329 D-38023 Braunschweig email: saake@idb.cs.tu-bs.de Fax: (49) 531 391 3298 ********************************************************************** From: Matthias Jarke Subject: VLDB 94 Call for Papers CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VERY LARGE DATA BASES SANTIAGO - CHILE SEPTEMBER 12-15, 1994 * Hard deadline for arrival of submissions: Feb. 23, 1994 ! SCOPE A distinguished history of 20 years has established VLDB at the center of the international data base community. It is one of the oldest established forums of discussion in the international database community and, without doubt, one of the most eminent. VLDB'94 is to take place in Santiago, Chile, a hospitable modern capital city landmarked by the Mapocho river and the impressive heights of the Andes mountains. We invite you to submit papers reporting recent research results in the general field of databases. In addition, to mark the 20th anniversary of VLDB special efforts are being made to further the goal of leading in reporting and stimulating new research directions. To this purpose, we solicit papers and panel proposals on speculative and futuristic topics. We also encourage papers on novel and challenging applications of database technology in designing and building complex information systems. A new aspect of the conference is the industrial cases program. We encourage submission of papers describing work of significant interest to industry, particularly in areas providing interesting directions for the development of databases. We seek to provide a forum to discuss experiences in applying databases to real life situations. In the evaluation of papers submitted to this program, the committee will consider novelty, technical quality and the value of reported results to developers of information systems. A high-quality tutorial program will be offered in both English and Spanish. TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics of interest include but are not limited to: Extended Relational Databases Database Languages Object Oriented Databases Data Models and Database Design Knowledge Base Management Systems Data Consistency, Integrity and Security Temporal and Spatial Databases Optimization and Performance Multimedia Databases Concurrency and Transaction Mgmt. Heterogeneous Databases Storage Management Engineering and Scientific Databases Persistent Object Systems Parallel and Distributed Databases Architectures Text Databases Implementation Issues Graphical Query Languages User Interfaces PAPER SUBMISSION Six copies of original papers not exceeding 5000 words (double spaced pages, including keywords) MUST BE RECEIVED by the 23th of February 1994, by the appropriate regional program chair: North-American Program Chair: European Program Chair: Carlo Zaniolo Matthias Jarke Computer Science Department Informatik V, RWTH-Aachen University of California, Los Angeles Ahornstr. 55 405 Hilgard Avenue, CA 90024 52074 Aachen, Germany e-mail: zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de tel: (+1 310) 825 8137 (+49 241) 80 21501 fax: (+1 310) 825 2273 (+49 241) 80 21529 Latin-America, Pacific Basin and Far-East Program Chair: Jorge Bocca (Latin-American region) (Other regions) Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion School of Computer Science Universidad de Chile University of Birmingham Blanco Encalada 2120 Edgbaston Santiago Birmingham B15 2TT Chile United Kingdom e-mail: jbocca@dcc.uchile.cl J.B.Bocca@cs.bham.ac.uk tel: (+56 2) 689 2736 (+44 21) 414 3711 fax: (+56 2) 689 5531 (+44 21) 414 4281 TUTORIALS Tutorial proposals should be sent by air-mail, fax or e-mail to one of: Alberto O. Mendelzon Ricardo Baeza-Yates CSRI Depto.de Ciencias de la Computacion University of Toronto Universidad de Chile Toronto Blanco Encalada 2120 Canada M5S 1A1 Santiago, Chile e-mail: mendel@db.toronto.edu rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl tel: (+1 416) 978-2952 (+56 2) 689 2736 fax: (+1 416) 978-4765 (+56 2) 689 5531 Some suggested, but not exclusive, tutorial topics are: multimedia data management, scientific databases, geographic information systems, user interfaces and visualization, object-oriented analysis and design, active databases, transaction processing, distributed object management, persistent object systems, database programming languages, standards and technology integration, etc. INDUSTRIAL CASES The VDLB Conference will set up for the first time a section devoted to the discussion of experiences of commercial use of Databases in industry, including the discussion of new leading products. Authors are requested to submit their papers within the dates and format established for the rest of the conference, except that papers should be submitted to one of the following members of the Industrial Cases program committee: Ivan Tabkha (Chair) Richard M. Soley Depto. de Ciencias de la Computacion Object Management Group Universidad de Chile Framingham Corporate Center Blanco Encalada 2120 492 Old Connecticut Path Santiago, Chile Framingham, MA 01701 e-mail: ivan@dcc.uchile.cl soley@omg.org tel: (+56 2) 689 2736 (+1 508) 820 4300 fax: (+56 2) 689 5531 (+1 508) 820 4303 Jose A. Blakeley Felipe Carino Jr. Texas Instruments NCR/Teradata Corporation 13510 N.Cent. Expressway, MS 238 100 N. Sepulveda Blvd Dallas, Texas 75243 El Segundo, CA 90245 e-mail: blakeley@csc.ti.com Felipe.Carino@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com tel: (+1 214) 995 0362 (+1 310) 524 7026 fax: (+1 214) 995 0304 (+1 310) 524 0015 Guillermo Lois IBM Nordic Lab BOX 962, 181 09 Lidingo, Sweden Lidingo, Sweden e-mail: gmolois@ldgvm1.vnet.ibm.com tel: (+46 8) 636 6342 fax: (+46 8) 767 4929 PANELS Proposals for panel sessions should be sent to: Ron Morrison Computer Science University of St. Andrews St. Andrews - Fife KY16 9SS United Kingdom e-mail: ron@dcs.st-and.ac.uk tel: (+44 33) 463 254 fax: (+44 33) 463 278 ******************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************** Paper, Panel, Tutorial and Industrial Cases Arrival: 23 February, 1994 Notification of Acceptance: 25 April, 1994 Conference: 12-15 September, 1994 For further information, please contact any member of the local organization committee by e-mail, fax, or mail. There is also a VLDB database server accessible through our local Internet Gopher service at gopher.dcc.uchile.cl. The local organization full address is: VLDB'94 Conference Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion Universidad de Chile Blanco Encalada 2120 Santiago, Chile e-mail: vldb94@dcc.uchile.cl tel: (+56 2) 689 2736 fax: (+56 2) 689 5531 **********************************************************************