To: International.Conference.on.Software.Engineering.@ics.uci.edu ; Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1993 02:32:48 -0700 From: Debra Brodbeck Subject: CFP: ICSE16 Workshop on Software Engineering and AI CALL FOR PARTICIPATION RESEARCH ISSUES IN THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE A two-day workshop held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering Sorrento, Italy, May 16-17, 1994 ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE Computer Society - Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE) Sponsorship Pending The purpose of this workshop is to make a realistic assessment of the availability and applicability of AI techniques to address critical Software Engineering problems in understanding, developing and maintaining complex software systems. The assessment will be done through a set of industry-submitted problems drawn from real world contexts. One or more of these problems will become workshop case studies that will be matched to potential AI technologies. The goal of the workshop is to use this matching process to (1) make an honest assessment of the state of the art of AI&SE, and (2) identify areas for improvement. In general, we wish to find collaborative projects in which AI types and practicing software engineers work together on a problem, perhaps analyzing some old dusty code, or perhaps working through some real requirements, or perhaps doing a domain analysis. We anticipate that the outcome of the workshop will be an increased awareness of SE problems on the part of AI researchers, an increased awareness of the current potential for AI technology, the identification of new avenues for research, and suggestions for how AI research can be fruitfully coupled to real-world SE problems. The workshop will be two days long, immediately preceding ICSE-16, at the ICSE hotel in Sorrento, Italy. Results from the workshop will be presented during a special session of ICSE-16. BACKGROUND Awareness of SE problems has grown within the research community, along with the perception that they are both interesting and applicable to AI technology. At the same time, work in AI has become more applications-oriented and a number of research groups have made progress in prototype systems relevant to SE. This trend is reflected in a number of recent workshops in the areas of AI and SE. However, these workshops have tended to emphasize the AI component of this joint area, have usually been held in conjunction with AI Conferences, and have often under-represented the SE community. This workshop is an attempt to better balance the field by engaging both Software Engineers and Artificial Intelligence researchers in an in-depth look at the intersection of these two vibrant areas of research and practical problems. In particular, we hope to draw attendees from two general groups. The first group might be called "Potential AI users" - industry groups with SE problems that they believe could benefit from AI technology. Attendees from this group will be invited to submit SE problems grounded, as much as possible, in the real-world situation in which they arose. The second group might be called "AI providers" - research groups working in the area of AI and SE or traditional AI researchers whom can make a strong case that their technology is applicable to SE. This group will be asked to present and discuss their technology and research results in the context of the real-world problems provided by the first group. SUBMISSIONS - From "Potential AI users": submit (1) an SE problem your organization is concerned with (e.g., version management, requirements engineering, verification, validation and testing), and (2) the real-world context that this problem arose in. We are looking for a wide range of application areas and problems; particular submitters may be invited to expand their problem into a case study description for detailed examination at the Workshop. - From "AI providers": submit (1) a description of your research, and (2) its potential to address a practical SE problem. While keeping the description relatively short, please give sufficient detail so that your work can be matched to an appropriate case study. For more theoretical AI work, you must make a strong and specific case that your technology is potentially applicable to a specific SE problem area. - From "pre-matched pairs": if an AI user group and an AI provider group have previously collaborated and have results to report (either positive or negative), we encourage them to jointly submit a (1) description of the problem, (2) the AI approach, and (3) the results. We expect each party in the collaboration to contribute to the submission. All types of submission are due by December 15, 1993. Electronic submissions are acceptable. Send your submissions to the first co-chair listed below. WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION Once submissions from groups are received, two things will happen. First, a set of problems will be selected for inclusion as case studies at the workshop. We will solicit more detail about these problems from their submitters and a packet of case studies will be distributed to the attendees. Second, a set of AI providers will be assigned to each problem. Both industry and AI representatives will be asked to make a workshop presentation that relates their interest in the corresponding case study. It is anticipated that this presentation will be worked on jointly through electronic mail prior to the Workshop. At the workshop itself, each case study will be briefly described and then followed by selected presentations from representatives of the linked software engineering and AI groups, with ample time for open discussion. We also anticipate possible panel discussions on common themes and a summary open session for discussion of future research directions and collaboration opportunities. IMPORTANT DATES Submisssion deadline: December 15, 1993 Notification of Acceptance: January 31, 1994 Organizing Committee Chairs: Steve Fickas Peter G. Selfridge Department of Computer Science AT&T Bell Laboratories University of Oregon Room 2B-425 Eugene, Oregon 97403 600 Mountain Avenue Tel: +1+503-346-3964 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 fickas@cs.uoregon.edu Tel: +1+908-582-6801 pgs@research.att.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To: International.Conference.on.Software.Engineering.@ics.uci.edu ; Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1993 02:36:37 -0700 From: Debra Brodbeck Subject: CFP: ICSE16 Workshop: Software Engineering & Human-Computer Interaction C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N Research Issues in the intersection between Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction SE/HCI 94 A two-day workshop held in conjunction with the Sixteenth International Conference on Software Engineering Sorrento, Italy, May 16 and 17, 1994 ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE Computer Society - Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE) Sponsorship Pending Organizing Committee Chairs Joelle Coutaz (France), Program Co-Chair joelle@imag.fr Tel: +33-76-51.48.54 Fax: +33-76-44.66.75 Richard N. Taylor (USA), Program Co-Chair taylor@ics.uci.edu Tel: +1-714-856-6429 Fax: +1-714-856-4056 Members of the Organizing Committee Len Bass, SEI Nathaniel Borenstein, Bellcore Rick Chimera, U. of Maryland Bill Curtis Jonathan Grudin, UCI Michael Harrison, York University Pedro Szekely, USC-ISI Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction have much to do with each other, but their respective research communities typically have little interaction. The purpose of this workshop is to explore the intersections of these areas, determining what each community has to offer the other as well as to identify and address open problems of mutual interest. We hope to not only assess the state of the art in relevant sub-areas, but to also develop the nucleus of a research agenda that spans both communities. The workshop will be two days long, immediately preceding ICSE 16, at the ICSE hotel in Sorrento, Italy. Results from the workshop will be presented during a special session of ICSE-16. Position papers, between 1 and 3 camera-ready pages in length, addressing relevant topics, such as those listed below, are invited. Accepted papers will be distributed to the workshop participants at the meeting. Some of the position papers may be selected for expansion and later publication, along with several invited papers, in the actual workshop proceedings, which will appear after the meeting. The goal of the workshop is to have discussions, however, and not paper presentations. Position paper submission deadline: December 15, 1993 Date of notification of acceptance: January 31, 1994 Final version of position papers due: April 1, 1994 Topics of Interest (not limited to): Cost drivers What fraction of software engineering costs are attributable to user interface concerns? (E.g. determining the user's requirements on the interface, designing the interface, coding the interface.) What factors have the greatest effect on cost? Current products Hundreds of commercial products are directed at solving user interface problems. What kinds of tools have recognized value? What problems are unaddressed by current commercial offerings? Prototyping Prototyping is a major risk-reduction technique. To what extent can user interface issues be addressed through prototyping? What techniques are most effective, or needed, for supporting the prototyping of user interface software? Requirements How can user's requirements for user interfaces be most effectively ascertained or developed? How can changes to requirements specifications, or modifications to requirements be most effectively handled? Formal methods and specifications What role does the formal specification of user interfaces have in their development processes? Are formal specifications more or less useful in this domain than in other software engineering domains? Testing and Evaluation How can user interfaces, especially those involving substantial graphics, multi-media, and multi-modal techniques, be effectively tested? What are the requirements for the testing of user interface software? What techniques for UI software testing are appropriate? Design and development processes and tools What processes are most effective for the development of user interface software? What metrics are most appropriate for assessing UI design processes? Would formalization and software environment support help the development of user interfaces? Architectures What capabilities should a user interface development system provide? How should a UIDS be constructed so that it can be integrated with a development process? What tools should be provided for supporting task modeling and user modeling? User interface technologies and software environments What roles do user interface components play in software development environments? How does hypertext fit into an SDE? CHI and CSCW concerns What are key insights from the CHI and CSCW communities that software engineers should know about? What software engineering processes are in conflict with these insights? Toolkits How could toolkits, such as Motif implementations, Xtk, and the Macintosh toolbox, be improved from a software engineering perspective? What new challenges are presented by the need to support multi-media and multi-modal interfaces? How can applications be engineered to avoid the design traps presented by the toolkit marketplace? Six copies of position papers should be delivered by December 15th, 1993 to: Richard N. Taylor, SE/HCI Workshop Co-Chair Computer Science Department, Room CS 444 University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92717-3425 U.S.A. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To: International.Conference.on.Software.Engineering.@ics.uci.edu ; Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1993 02:33:52 -0700 From: Debra Brodbeck Subject: CFP: ICSE16 Workshop on Software Engineering and Databases CALL FOR PARTICIPATION RESEARCH ISSUES IN THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND DATABASES A two-day workshop held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering Sorrento, Italy, May 16-17, 1994 ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE Computer Society - Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE) Sponsorship Pending In 1989, a workshop was held in Napa, California. The meeting brought together database and software engineering researchers, and resulted in lively discussions concerning research issues of interest to both software engineering and database researchers. This workshop is, in a sense, meant to be a sequel to the Napa Workshop. We hope to not only assess the state of the art in this research specialty, but to also develop the nucleus of a research agenda that spans both communities. The workshop will be two days long, immediately preceding ICSE-16, at the ICSE hotel in Sorrento, Italy. Results from the workshop will be presented during a special session of ICSE-16. Attendance at the workshop will be by invitation only; interested researchers must submit a 1000 to 3000 word position paper to the Organizing Committee Chairs. (Please, no papers longer than 3000 words, including figures and references.) Attendance will be limited; the goal is to have discussions, and not paper presentations. There will be a proceedings published. It will include the position papers, as well as brief reports written by the committee and selected workshop participants. The goal of the reports will be to isolate specific areas of common interest between software engineering and database researchers, and to suggest critical and promising topics of research. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to): - Databases for supporting the implementation of software environments. - Actual, running applications of database technology to software engineering. - Descriptions of on-going collaborations among database researchers, software engineering researchers, and practitioners. - Software environment and database interoperability. - The application of rule databases and object bases to software environments. - Requirements for software environment databases. - Analysis by software engineers of the usefulness of the current object- oriented prototypes and products. - Extended transaction models for environments. - Mediating between databases and file-oriented tools. IMPORTANT DATES Position paper submission deadline: December 1, 1993 Notification of acceptance: January 31, 1994 Organizing Committee Chair: Roger King Campus Box 430 Dept. of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309. Email: roger@cs.colorado.edu Organizing Committee: Claude Delobel, University of Paris-Sud, Inria David Dewitt, University of Wisconsin Gail Kaiser, Columbia University Nabil Kamel, Univ. of Florida at Gainesville (also in charge of publicity) David Maier, Oregon Graduate Institute Leon J. Osterweil, University of California at Irvine Wilhelm Schaefer, University of Dortmund ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To: International.Conference.on.Software.Engineering.@ics.uci.edu ; Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1993 02:37:31 -0700 From: Debra Brodbeck Subject: CFP: ICSE16 Workshop on Software Enginering Education CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EDUCATION A one-day workshop held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering Sorrento, Italy, May 21, 1994 ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE Computer Society - Technical Committee on Software Engineering (TCSE) Sponsorship Pending As part of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-16) a major international workshop on software engineering education is being held. This workshop reflects the importance of software engineering education and the challenges of effective teaching and training. The workshop will bring together educators, researchers and industrial organisations with an interest in the broad area of software engineering education for informed discussion, debate, exchange of experience and up-dating. The workshop will be one day long, immediately following ICSE-16, at the ICSE hotel in Sorrento, Italy. SCOPE The workshop will be of particular interest to software engineers in higher education who coordinate, give, or are likely to give software engineering courses at introductory, intermediate or advanced level. The workshop will also be of interest to software engineering practitioners who are seeking to establish training programmes or who recruit from higher education. Areas of interest in the workshop include, but are not restricted to: - software engineering programmes of study at graduate and undergraduate level; - software engineering training and continuing education; - supporting individual projects, group projects and project courses; - model curricula; - software engineering mathematics and formal methods; - tools and environments supporting software engineering education; - professional accreditation - quality management; - software engineering research training; - teaching techniques; - empirical studies; - resources, books, videos and other materials; - industrial placements and experience programmes; - examinations and assessment; - links with other engineering disciplines. Particular attention will be paid to establishing international comparisons. The workshop will not just look at current practice but will look forward at opportunities, ideas and plans. It will also concern itself with the principles underlying software engineering education. FORMAT The workshop will be based round discussions, debates, "swap shops", briefings, panel sessions and demonstrations. There will be no formal paper presentations. SUBMISSIONS Attendance at the workshop will be based on submission of an "item" of use to other software engineering educators. Examples of such items are a course plan; a sample lecture; a curriculum; a coursework assignment; a case study; a project assignment; an examination paper; a proven teaching technique; a description of a tool; an account of innovative software support; laboratory exercises; and so on. Submissions will be reviewed and published. Submissions should be of an appropriate length and should include a cover sheet with: abstract; name, affiliation and address of authors (including Email address if available); and key words identifying the nature of the submission. 5 copies are required. Submissions should be sent to the workshop chair at the address below. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: November 1st 1993 Notification of acceptance: December 15th 1993 Submission of camera-ready papers: January 15th 1994 Workshop Chair: Anthony Finkelstein Imperial College, Department of Computing, 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK. Email: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk Phone: +44 71 589-5111 x7535 Fax: +44 71 581 8024 Workshop Committee Vic Basili, University of Maryland (USA) Dan Berry, Software Engineering Institute (USA) Bruce Blum, Johns Hopkins University (USA) Barry Boehm, University of Southern California (USA) Jean-Pierre Finance, CRIN-INRIA (France) David Garlan, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Carlo Ghezzi, Politecnico di Milano (I) Gerhard Goos, Universitat Karlsruhe (D) Sol Greenspan, GTE Labs (USA) Pat Hall, Open University (GB) Takuya Katayama, Tokyo Institute of Technology (J) Bernd Kraemer, Fernuniversitat Hagen (D) Jeff Kramer, Imperial College (GB) Carlos Lucena, PUC- Rio de Janeiro (BR) David Parnas, McMaster University (Canada) Colin Potts, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Roger Pressman, R.S. Pressman & Associates (USA) Dieter Rombach, Universitat Kaiserslautern (D) Mary Shaw, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Ian Sommerville, University of Lancaster (GB) Laurie Werth, University of Texas (USA) Article 1294 of comp.ai.fuzzy: Xref: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai.fuzzy:1294 Newsgroups: comp.ai.fuzzy Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!warwick!coventry!mtx062 From: mtx062@cck.coventry.ac.uk (P.King) Subject: ICSE 94 Message-ID: Sender: news@cck.coventry.ac.uk (news user) Nntp-Posting-Host: cc_sysk Organization: Coventry University Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 13:44:20 GMT Lines: 87 ICSE 94 Tenth International Conference on Systems Engineering First Announcement Call for papers 6-8 September 1994 C O V E N T R Y U N I V E R S I T Y Held at Coventry University UK Organised by the Control Theory and Applications Centre International Conference on Systems Engineering The 10th International Conference on Systems Engineering, ICSE'94, will take place at Coventry University and organised through the Control Theory and Applications Centre, an interdisciplinary research centre established by drawing together staff from the School of Engineering and the School of Mathematical and Information Sciences. Scope of Conference The Conference will cover the general area of Systems Engineering, with particular emphasis being placed on applications. It is expected to include sessions on the following themes: - Adaptive Control and System Identification - Algorithms and Architectures - Control Theory and Industrial Applications - Educational Developments in Systems Engineering - Energy Efficiency and Environmental Systems - Image and Signal Processing - Manufacturing Systems - Modelling and Simulation - Rule Based Control and Fuzzy Decision Making - Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms in Control and Identification Call for Papers Authors wishing to contribute to the Conference should submit an abstract (three copies) of their proposed contribution before 15 February 1994. The abstract should be typed and written in English. Refereeing of abstacts submitted before the deadline date will take place on a regular basis. This will allow early decisions to be taken and should assist authors in their planning arrangements. The Organising Committee would also welcome proposals for arranged specialist sessions on a focused theme relevant to the Conference, each session consisting of up to six papers. All papers presented will be considered for publication in the Journal 'Systems Science', published in Poland (in English). Deadlines - Submission of abstracts 15 February 1994 - Acceptance of papers 7 March 1994 - Submission of full papers 1 June 1994 It is intended to have the Conference Proceedings available for participants. Consequently, deadlines for submission of papers should be strictly respected. Preliminary Arrangements - Conference fees, provisionally estimated at 325 Pounds Sterling, inclues a copy of the Conference Proceedings, lunches on the 6th, 7th and 8th, the Conference Banquet on the 6th, and a Civic Reception followed by the Conference Dinner on the 7th. - Participants will have the option of being accommodated in the University Halls of Residence overlooking Coventry Cathedral or in local hotels or guest houses. The Conference fee is exclusive of accommodation charges. - The working language of the Conference is English, which will be used for all presentations, discussions and printed material. - The Conference Banquet is to be of the 'Olde English Mediaeval' style and will be held at the historical Coombe Abbey just outside Coventry. Abstracts, papers and requests for further details should be sent to: Dr Keith Burnham Conference Secretary ICSE94 Control Theory and Applications Centre Coventry University Priory Street Coventry CV1 5FB United Kingdom Telephone 0203 838972 International Code +44 203 838972 Telex 9312102228 (CPG) Fax 0203 838585 E.Mail mtx062@uk.ac.cov