Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 11:14:31 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 (3) ****************REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER******************* No. 3. Contents 1. CFP NGCT-93 (Rob Vandeweg) 2. Do Users Get What They Want? (Gary Reeman) 3. Journal Announcement: Automated Software Engineering (Lewis Johnson) 4. CFP Conference on Organizational Computing Systems (Simon Kaplan) Contributions to: re-list@doc.ic.ac.uk (will be moderated) Subscription or Removal to: re-request@doc.ic.ac.uk ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS FOURTH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON THE NEXT GENERATION OF CASE TOOLS (NGCT-93) Held in association with CAISE-93 On June 5 - 7, 1993, the fourth NGCT Workshop will take place in Paris at the Sorbonne University in association with the CAISE-93 conference. Programme: Dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper Local Organisation: Prof. Colette Rolland The workshop brings together leading European researchers on Computer Aided Software Engineering. The first three workshops held at Noordwijkerhout (the Netherlands), Trondheim (Norway), and Manchester (UK) were attended by 25 - 30 researchers, and have laid the groundwork for continuing exchange of research ideas in this area. The fourth workshop will consolidate and expand this exchange of ideas further into active development and update of the agenda for CASE research. Attendance at the workshop will be by invitation only and is limited to 25 delegates to promote effective discussion and exchange of ideas in a small group. The programme has been arranged to encourage informal exchange of ideas. Every effort will be made to keep costs to a minimum. THEMES Themes of the workshop will be focused on architectural specification of aspects of new generation CASE environments with special emphasis on issues as, but not limited to: * Development process support * Group software development tools * Repositories * MetaCASE (meta-modelling) Topics in the past have covered: * Reuse in CASE tools * Reverse engineering CASE tools * CASE architectures * Method support in CASE, including formal methods * Metamodelling for CASE environments and MetaCASE * Innovative and Knowledge based CASE tools * CASE tools for Object-Oriented analysis and design * Human factors and Organisation issues * User interfaces and CASE * CSCW for CASE * Repository techniques and standards * Natural language support Please note submissions must have tool based, i.e. CASE, subject matter. The format of the workshop will consist of short paper presentations and thematic discussions plenary as well in subgroups. CONTRIBUTIONS Two types of submissions are invited: * Full papers, length not more than 6,000 words * Position papers, length not more than 2,500 words. Papers will reviewed by the workshop committee, and attendance at the workshop is conditioned on acceptance of either a position or a full paper. Authors of full papers should try to review related work as well as presenting their own results. Keynote presentations will be selected from full papers. Position papers are intended to describe experience and overview of results. Membership of working groups will be determined from position papers. All accepted papers will be published in the informal workshop proceedings as a technical report (memorandum) of the Twente University, which will be supplied to delegates. It is intended that a formal published volume of edited proceedings will be proceeded after the workshop. The proceedings of the second workshop were published as 'Next generation CASE tools' by the IOS Press (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) last year in the series 'Studies in Computer and Communication Systems'. The procedure will be to select papers on the basis of review results and then discussion in working groups. A number of papers (no more than twelve) will be selected for development to a publication standard. Authors should note in their submissions that material which is submitted to the main CAISE-93 conference can not be published in the NGCT edited proceedings because of copyright restrictions. The deadline for paper submission will be February 28th, 1993. The call for participation for CAISE-93 can be obtained from the secretary of the workshop committee. WORKSHOP PLAN NGCT-93 will have as the previous year a panel format of discussion and small groups to stimulate development of ideas on focused themes. The programme will be as follows: Day 1. Saturday 5th June 12.00 am - 5.00 pm (a) Presentation of four - five keynote papers selected from the submitted full papers. Twenty minute presentations plus five minutes questions. Choice of these papers will depend on their academic merit and coverage of topics. We intend to have only one paper per theme area presented, even if we get several excellent papers on one theme. (b) Panel presentations. Participants will be invited to join panels on basis of their submitted (position or full) papers. Panellists may give five - ten minute short presentations. Each panel will be composed of four - five participants, 45 minutes per panel, 25 minutes presentation plus twenty minutes discussion with the other delegates acting as audience. Four - five panels overall, selected on coherence of themes. Day 2 Sunday 6th June 9.30 am - 5.30 pm Continuation of panel presentations. (c) Selection of working groups. Participants may elect to join a panel or to form a separate group for subjects which were not presented. The aims is to form six - seven groups on topic themes (assuming a workshop membership of about 25). (d) Discussion of topics in working groups. Review of submitted papers, ideas for development. Day 3 Monday 7th June 9.00 - 12.00 am (e) Plenary session. Presentation by each working group of its conclusions, discussion by whole workshop. Plans for published volume, and future meetings of workshop. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Papers (three copies) should be sent by Sunday 28th February 1993 to: Dr S. Brinkkemper, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Informatics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, e-mail: {ngct@cs.utwente.nl}, tel.nr: +31-53-893690 fax-nr: +31-53-339605 Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April 7th 1993. Camera ready copy should be supplied by 10th May 1993. WORKSHOP COMMITTEE Rudolf Andersen, University of Trondheim, Norway Sjaak Brinkkemper, University of Twente, NL (chair) Terry Halpin, University of Queensland, Australia Neil Maiden, City University, UK. Colette Rolland, University of Paris, France Alistair Sutcliffe, City University, UK Veli-Pekka Tahvanainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK Benkt Wangler, SISU, Sweden Rob van de Weg, University of Twente, NL (secretary) Richard Welke, Georgia State University, USA Gerard Wijers, SERC, NL Those interested in participation and wishing to obtain the final call for participation should contact the program committee: Rob L.W. van de Weg, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Informatics, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands, e-mail: {ngct@cs.utwente.nl}, tel.nr: +31-53-893690 fax-nr: +31-53-339605 ********************************************************************** From: Gary.Reeman@brunel.ac.uk (xxctgmr) To: re-list@doc.ic.ac.uk Subject: DO USERS GET WHAT THEY WANT? '93 DO USERS GET WHAT THEY WANT? '93 CRICT, Brunel University Friday 2nd April This is the second annual DO USERS GET WHAT THEY WANT? seminar to be held by CRICT, Brunel University's Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture & Technology. Following from the success of last year's seminar, and the conference SOFTWARE & SYSTEMS PRACTICE: SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES, this event considers if our perception of user requirements is out of touch with the true needs of organisations. The pseakers will present their findings based on observations of different information systems development projects. Some of the issues we shall address are: * Conventional attitudes towards user requirements ignore organisational change. This results in dead systems that are supposed to work in living organisations. Do we need to develop a new architecture that enables the system to live? * How do designers and software engineers use support tools? What tools do they want and how can these be provided? * Task analysis techniques focus on the way individuals work. The resultant design specifications overlook the interactional nature of many work environments. How can wwe capture the requirements of complex work environments? The event will include contributions from the following researchers: PROF. RAY J PAUL, Computer Science Department, Brunel University: "Why Users Cannot 'Get What They Want' GEOFF WALSHAM, Judge Institute, Cambridge University "IS Strategy & Implementation: A Case Study of A Building Society" DR. GRAHAM BUTTON, Rank Xerox Cambridge EuoPARC "Do Information Systems Designers and Developers Get What They Want?" MARINA JIROTKA, Programming Research Group, Oxford University "Requirements for Technology in Complex Environments: Tasks and Interaction in a City Dealing Room" Additional contributors are: MIKE NORMAN, former Rank Xero Professor of Information Technology, will present a paper entitled "Capturing User Requirements - What a Task!" along with some new software designed to bridge the gap between end users and designers. Mike will be presenting "practical solutions to real problems". DR. JOHN BOWERS, Psychology Dept., Manchester University PROF.STEVE WOOLGAR, CRICT Director RICHARD SHARPE, Software Consultant and former editor of "Computing" We are limiting the number of delegates to 40 in order to encourage an active exchange of ideas. Early registration is strongly advised to avoid disappointment. If you would like to attend the seminar please request a registration form and a full programme (we are unable to process email registrations) by contacting: CLARE FISHER SEMINAR ADMINISTRATOR CRICT BRUNEL UNIVERSITY UXBRIDGE MIDDX UB8 3PH Tel: 0895-203113 Fax: 0895-203155 Alternatively send an email to GARY.REEMAN@BRUNEL.AC.UK including your full postal address and we will send the documentation to you. ********************************************************************** From: From: Lewis Johnson Subject: AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING The International Journal of Automated Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence in Software Engineering Editors-in-Chief: W. Lewis Johnson, University of Southern California, USA Anthony Finkelstein, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, UK Automated Software Engineering is an archival peer-reviewed journal publishing research, tutorial papers, surveys and accounts of significant industrial experience in the application of automated reasoning, knowledge representation and artificial intelligence techniques in software engineering. This includes the study of techniques for constructing, understanding, adapting, and modelling software artifacts and processes. Both automatic systems and collaborative systems are within the scope of the Journal, as are computational models of human software engineering activities. Representations and formal techniques that support or provide foundations for the automation of software engineering are covered. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the application of automated reasoning, knowledge representation and artificial intelligence techniques to: specification and design representation schemes, both formal and informal; descriptions and models of the development process; tools and environments to support software development; cognition in software development, including studies of specifiers, designers and implementors, and cognitive properties of representation schemes, programming and programming languages; software development methods; analysis and validation; requirements elicitation, acquisition and formalization; system rationale; software quality and metrics; software reuse and adaptation; animation and execution of specifications and designs; domain modelling and analysis; software visualization; software object management; development of user interfaces; group and team work in software engineering; development of distributed, real-time, embedded and composite systems; systems integration; software evolution and maintenance; system testing; reverse engineering and program understanding; documentation and program explanation. Automated Software Engineering is published quarterly by Kluwer Academic Publishers, with worldwide distribution to individuals, industry and institutions. It includes reviews of books, software, conferences, and workshops. Editorial Board: David Barstow, Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science, France Wolfgang Bibel, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Barry Boehm, University of Southern California, USA Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Martin S. Feather, University of Southern California, USA Stephen F. Fickas, University of Oregon, USA Jacques Hagelstein, Sema Group Belgium, Belgium Mehdi T. Harandi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Louis J. Hoebel, USAF Rome Laboratory, USA Karen Huff, GTE Laboratories, USA Elaine Kant, Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science, USA Takuya Katayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Michael R. Lowry, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Jim-Qun Ning, Andersen Consulting, USA Derek Partridge, University of Exeter, UK Colin Potts, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Charles Rich, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA Peter G. Selfridge, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA Dorothy Setliff, University of Pittsburgh, USA Douglas R. Smith, Kestrel Institute, USA Alistair Sutcliffe, The City University, UK Enn Tyugu, Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden Axel van Lamsweerde, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Richard C. Waters, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA Automated Software Engineering covers an area of active work and interest which is not well covered by other journals. The Journal seeks to establish a reputation of the highest quality and aims to provide rapid, informative and expert review of submissions. Automated Software Engineering supports electronic submissions of accepted papers. It does not set arbitrary restrictions on length or on style of presentation; rather, it seeks to match presentation with content. The Journal will guide and support authors during submission. Papers describing novel and experimental work are encouraged. Automated Software Engineering is also pleased to discuss with organizers of relevant conferences, symposia and workshops the publication of selected papers. The first issue is scheduled to appear in January 1994.Enquiries or submissions should be directed to Judith A. Kemp at Kluwer or one of the Editors-in-Chief. Instructions for Authors Potential authors should write to one of the following addresses for "Instructions for Authors": Judith A. Kemp Kluwer Academic Publishers Editorial Office 101 Philip Drive Norwell, MA 02061, USA TEL: (617) 871-6300 FAX: (617) 871-6528 E-Mail: jkkluwer@world.std.com W. Lewis Johnson University of So. 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Box 358 Accord Station Hingham, MA 02018-0358 Credit Card Customers Call (617) 871-6600 ********************************************************************** From: Simon Kaplan Subject: CFP COOCS 93 Call for Papers COOCS 93 Conference on Organizational Computing Systems Sponsored by ACM SIGOIS and IEEECS TC-OA in cooperation with IFIP WG 8.4 Sheraton Silicon Valley --- Milpitas (near San Jose), California November 1-4, 1993 As we move toward globally distributed businesses, widespread mixed-media computing systems and highly mobile workers, the availability of information within an organization becomes increasingly critical. Advances in tools, technologies, and methodologies that facilitate the use of information systems in organizations will improve the way information is made available and used. This conference is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the use, management, and movement of information within organizations. The scope of the conference is intended to cover areas related to this goal, including but not limited to: Organizational computing systems Distributed AI, Expert Systems and Multi-Agent models Object and Database Models and Systems Parallel, Distributed and Open Information Systems Computer-Supported Collaboration Task Analysis, Modeling, Planning and Coordination Social Aspects of Integrating and Using Information Analysis of Organizational Structure and Dynamics to organizational utilization of computers Multimedia Information, Storage, Retrieval and Portability and the Mobile Office Organizational Impact of Large Distributed Applications Submissions to the conference can be in the form of papers, demonstration, panel, workshop or tutorial proposals. Papers can take two forms. Research Investigations present original work in any of the areas of interest to the conference. Case studies discuss projects which introduce innovative tools, technologies or methodologies into particular organizational settings, and critically analyze the results and impact of the project. Papers should not exceed 12 ACM camera-ready pages. It is possible that some papers will be presented at the conference in poster sessions. Demonstration proposals should be 3-5 pages long, and include enough information to allow the committee to judge the relevance and significance of the work. Please include machine requirements. Panel proposals should motivate the subject of the panel, and give brief biographical sketches of each of the proposed panel members. Workshop and Tutorial proposals should motivate the workshop/tutorial and its relevance to this conference. For tutorials, provide an outline and a brief biosketch of the proposers. For workshops, motivate the workshop, indicate how you would select participants, and outline the format of the workshop. Proposals for both half-day and full-day workshops and tutorials are welcome. Authors should submit five copies of their manuscript, in English, together with a cover sheet, to the Program Chair by March 31, 1993. The cover sheet should contain (i) submission type; (ii) title, (iii) names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses (if available) of all authors; (iii) contact author; (iv) keywords and abstract. Information on paper format can be obtained from the Program Chair. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions due: March 31, 1993 Author notification: June 7, 1993 Manuscripts due: August 13, 1993 General Chair: Peter de Jong (IBM, USA) Conference Committee: Robert Allen (Bellcore, USA) Fred Lochovsky (HKUST, Hong Kong) Doug Vogel (U. Arizona, USA) Carson Woo (U. British Columbia, Canada) Registration/Local Arrangements: Charles Grantham (U. San Francisco, USA) Treasurer: Jeanie Treichel (Sun Microsystems Labs, USA) Workshops: Michael Muller (Bellcore, USA) Demonstrations: Keith Swenson (Fujitsu/OSSI, USA) Program Chair: Simon Kaplan Department of Computer Science University of Illinois 1304 W. Springfield Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 USA phone: +1 217 244 0392 email: kaplan@cs.uiuc.edu fax: +1 217 333 3501 Program Committee: Graham Button (Xerox EuroPARC, UK) Prasun Dewan (Purdue U., USA) Bob Ensor (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) Anthony Finkelstein (Imperial College, UK) Dave Gedye (SunLabs, USA) Saul Greenberg (U. Calgary, Canada) Hiroshi Ishii (NTT, Japan) Gail Kaiser (Columbia U., USA) John King (U.C. Irvine, USA) Rob Kling (U.C. Irvine, USA) Dan Kogan (Intel Corp., USA) Jintae Lee (U. Hawaii, USA) Dave Marca (DEC, USA) Ken Pier (Xerox PARC, USA) Tom Rodden (Lancaster U., UK) Sunil Sarin (Xerox, USA) Thomas Schael (RSO, Italy) Allan Shepherd (HP Labs, USA) John Smith (U. North Carolina, USA) Terry Winograd (Stanford U., USA) Mike Wish (AT&T Bell Labs, USA) ********************************************************************** ______________________________________________________________________________ Anthony Finkelstein | Email: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk Imperial College, | Phone: +44 71 589-5111 x7535 Department of Computing, | Fax: +44 71 581 8024 180 Queens Gate, | London SW7 2BZ, UK | _____________________________________________________________________________