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The Second IEEE International Conference on Engineering of
Complex Computer Systems will be held October 21-25 of this
year in Montreal, Canada. This year there will be a track,
chaired by Prem Devanbu and Rich Scherl, on AI and Intelligent 
Systems. 

Papers are welcome that either apply AI techniques to the engineering of 
complex computer systems or that explore issues such as real-time behavior, 
fault tolerance, security, development time and cost in the context of 
A.I. programs. Examples of the former are (1) the use of logics of action or 
nonmonotonic logics to model the evolution/functioning of a complex system (2)
the use of intelligent database techniques to facilitate software reuse.
Examples  of the latter are (1) an application for intelligent agents within 
a complex system; (2) an expert system satisfying real-time or fault-tolerant 
requirements. 

A full CFP for the conference is appended below. For more information
on the AI and Intelligent Systems track contact Rich Scherl
(scherl@cis.njit.edu). Papers are welcome that either apply AI
techniques to the engineering of complex computer systems or that explore
issues such as those mentioned below within AI systems.
The deadline for submissions is April 15th, 1996.

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                              Call for Papers

                                ICECCS' 96

                    Second IEEE International Conference on
                    Engineering of Complex Computer Systems

                  Held jointly with 6th CSESAW, 4th IEEE RTAW

                 Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 21-25, 1996

Sponsored by:

IEEE Computer Society,
(IEEE Technical Segment Committee on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems)
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ICECCS'96 General Chair
Alexander Stoyenko
New Jersey Institute of Technology
alex@vulcan.njit.edu

CSESAW'96 Chair
N.D. Hoang
Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

IEEE RTAW'96 Chair
Ling Guan, University of Sydney
Jose Salinas, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
Jacques Skubich, INSA Lyons

PC Co-Chairs (The Americas)
Rick Honendorf, Ontario Hydro
Kelvin Nilsen, Iowa State University

PC Co-Chairs (Europe & Africa)
Bernd Kramer, Fern Universitat, Hagen
Kevin Ryon, University of Limerick

PC Co-Chair (Asia/Oceania)
Yoshiaki Kakuda, Osaka University

Industrial/Exhibits Chair
Thomas Bihari
AMT Systems Engineering, Inc.
teb@amt.columbus.oh.us

Tutorials Chair
Neville Dean, Anglia Polytechnic University

Local Arrangements Chair
John Harauz, Ontario Hydro

Publicity Chair
Michael Hinchey
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Mike.Hinchey@cl.cam.ac.uk

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Program Committee:

T. Ae 		V. Alagar 	 S. Andler	 	R. Bettati 
T. Bihari 	J. Bowen  	 S. Chakravarthy	S. Chodrow 
M. Colnaric	L. da F. Costa 	 K. Davis 		H. Dean 
P. Devanbu 	M. Eshaghian 	 B. Furht	 	J. Gaffney 
D. Gillies 	H. Gommaa	 P. Gopinath	 	L. Guan 
J. Harauz 	W. Halang 	 H.-L. Hausen 		M. Hinchey 
N. D. Hoang 	R. Hohendorf 	 S. Howell	 	J. Jehuda
Y. Kakuda 	A. Kavensky 	 B. Kramer	 	P. Laplante 
K. Man 		T. Marlowe 	 J. McDermid 		R. Milovanovic 
P. Moretto 	L. Motus 	 P. Nesi	 	K. Nilsen 
R. Nord 	D. Parnas 	 M. Pezze 		P. Poon 
V. Prasanna 	J. de La Puente  T. Risch 		K. Ryon 
J. Salinas 	R. Scherl 	 N. Schneidewind 	J. J. Schwarz 
J. Skubich 	A. Stoyenko 	 N. Suri 		H. Toetenel 
G. Tsai 	J. Vasell 	 J. Voas	 	P. Voldner 
S. White  	J. Zalewski
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Description:

IEEE Computer Society's Second International Conference on the Engineering of
Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'96) is to be held in Montreal, Quebec, 
Canada,
in October 1996, jointly with the 6th Complex Systems Engineering Synthesis 
and Assessment Technology Workshop (CSESAW'96) and the 4th IEEE Workshop on 
Real-Time Applications (RTAW`96).

Scope:

Complex computer systems are becoming common in many sectors, such as
manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous
environments, energy, and health care.

These systems frequently include distributed, heterogeneous networks, and are
driven by requirements on performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance,
security, adaptability, development time and cost, long life concerns, and
other areas. Such requirements frequently conflict, and satisfaction of these
requirements requires managing the tradeoffs among them during system
development and throughout the entire system life.

The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and
government experts from these various disciplines, to determine how the
disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole 
system.

Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology
transition experts are all welcome. Long-term research, near-term complex
system requirements and promising tools, and existing complex systems and
commercially available tools will be examined on a level playing field.

Tracks/Mini-Tracks/Sessions:

A number of tracks/mini-tracks are anticipated, chaired by PC members, as
follows:

   *  AI and Intelligent Systems (P. Devanbu, R. Scherl)
   *  Architectures, Tools, Environments and Languages
      (S. Chodrow,T. J. Marlowe, J. Vasell)
   *  Complex Database Systems and Data Management (S. Andler, S. Chakravarthy)
   *  Dependable Real-Time Systems (J. J. Schwarz, N. Suri)
   *  Formal Methods (P. Nasi, H. Toetenel, G. Tsai)
   *  Heterogeneous Computing (M. Eshaghian)
   *  Software Engineering, Re-engineering, Re-use (M. Hinchey, J. McDermid)
   *  Standards (W. Halang, P. Voldner)
   *  Systems Engineering (T. Bihari, R. Milovanovic, P. Poon)
   *  Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Real-Time Imaging 
      (L. da F. Costa, B. Furht, P. Laplante)

Submissions:

Both long (under 5000 words) and short (under 2500 words) submissions are
welcome, including presentations of complete work, summaries of work in
progress, position statements, exhibit proposals, tutorial proposals. A
submission may address any combination of research, technology or 
applications within the ECCS area. Prospective participants are encouraged 
to contact and discuss their possible submissions with appropriate Chairs.

All submissions should be made, in eight copies, by April 15th, 1996 to:

Alexander Stoyenko
Real-Time Computing Laboratory
Department of Computer and Information Science
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights
Newark, New Jersey 07102 USA
alex@vulcan.njit.edu
+1-201-596-3366 (office)
+1-201-596-5777 (fax)

Suggestions and questions concerning exhibits of research prototypes and
commercially available tools and technology should be directed to:

Thomas Bihari
AMT Systems Engineering
1218 Kinnear Road
Columbus, Ohio 43212 USA
teb@amt.columbus.oh.us
+1-614-486-7741 (office)
+1-614-486-9459 (fax)

Authors will be notified by July 15, 1996.

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ICECCS'96 is generously supported by:

ONR, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Honeywell, and Real-Time Computing 
Laboratory at NJIT.
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