Forum for Advancing Software engineering EducationForum for Advancing Software engineering Education
Volume 6 Number 16 August 5 1996
Contents:
Global Information Systems Education Site
Ada Resources for Educators and Students
Workshop: Centre for Software Reliability
Advance program: ICSM'96
CFP: STEP'97
CFP: International Journal Of Computer Simulation
CFP: Empirical Assessment & Evaluation in Software Engineering
CFP: ZUM'97, 10th International Conference of Z Users
Subject: Global Information Systems Education Site
>From Educom Update:
*Global Information Systems Education Site
http://www.acm.org/~eli_cohen/globalis.htm. This site explores the global
aspects of technology education and, more specifically, the need for the
following: a resource for faculty in techology areas to find out what others
are doing, a platform to begin quality research on technology educational
projects, a framework for building IS education research, and legitimization
of IS education research within the university reward system. The site is
constantly being updated. Consider also subscribing to the listserver
mentioned on the page.
Subject: Ada Resources for Educators and Students
http://www.acm.org/sigada/education
A World Wide Web site dedicated to the needs of educators
and students interested in the Ada programming language and
its associated tools, libraries, books, suppliers, and so on.
Subject: Workshop: Centre for Software Reliability
Centre for Software Reliability
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL WORKSHOP
DESIGN FOR PROTECTING THE USER
The Grand Hotel, Burgenstock, Switzerland
11th-13th September, 1996.
A complete announcement, including preliminary program, can be found at
http://www.csr.ncl.ac.uk/clubs/burgenstock.html
Workshop theme
In the talk about making the roads of information safe and secure, many
wider social issues are ignored in the focus on technical solutions to
technical problems (secure protocols, trustworthy authentication, encryption
of confidential data and so on). Examples include people who have had their
creditworthiness destroyed or been made bankrupt or rendered homeless by
misuse or misinterpretation of data, and many computer systems cannot adapt
to human failings and/or have no mechanisms for allowing human attempts to
correct inappropriate actions or inaccurate data. In order to deal with such
problems, recent European legislation has decreed that data can only be used
for the purposes for which it was collected. This is clearly in the data
subject's interests, but how can the subject be reassured that it is being
enforced?
These examples can all be seen as design issues. Can we anticipate bad
consequences in the human system which arise from the computer performing
according to its specification rather than according to what is intended?
And if we could, how would this affect the design process?
Who should attend?
The workshop is intended for researchers, requirements owners and system
designers who are concerned with issues of protecting people from the
consequences of faulty and unsuitable computer and information systems.
Objectives
The workshop will have achieved its objectives if participants are better
capable of treating the design and protection issues associated with the
creation of a technical system to be situated in a social context.
About the workshop
There are no easy answers to the problem of technical design for protection
in the social domain. To some extent it is a matter of the design process in
the technical system and to some extent it is a matter of appropriate
procedures and protections in the social system. It is only through debate
and informed discussion that these issues can be brought out and the
implications for design can be appreciated.
There are three components to the workshop. Firstly, a couple of invited
papers will set the scene for discussing how social and ethical issues can
be translated into design. Secondly, submitted papers have been chosen to
reflect how some of the process and design problems can be addressed by
system designers. Plenty of time has been allowed for discussion of the
papers. Finally, a couple of debates will be arranged to give participants a
chance to express their views on the extent to which social concerns demand
trade-offs against efficiency (both process and product efficiency) and on
how the designer strikes a balance between ethical considerations and the
achievement of organisational objectives.
For registration and other information contact c.barrett@csr.city.ac.uk, or
see the above web site.
CSR home pages can be found at http://www.csr.city.ac.uk:8080/
and http://www.csr.ncl.ac.uk/
Subject: Advance program: ICSM'96
ICSM'96 Advance Program
International Conference on Software Maintenance
Monterey, CA November 4-8, 1996
To view the complete advanced program, and obtain registration information,
see the Web site: http://www.iese.fhg.de/Announcements/icsm96.html
ICSM'96 Sponsors:
IEEE Computer Society--Technical Council on Software Engineering
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
In Cooperation With:
Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal (CRIM)
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE)
Lockheed-Martin Space Information Systems
Mitretek Systems
Naval Postgraduate School
ICSM'96 is held in conjunction with the 1996 Working Conference on Reverse
Engineering (WCRE).
KEYNOTE SPEAKER ADDRESSES
Ted Keller, Manager of Shuttle Software, Lockheed-Martin Space
Information Systems, USA
"What does it cost to make that change?"
Lloyd K. Mosemann, II,
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, USA
"Software Maintenance: Myth or Magic"
1996 International Conference on Software Maintenance
Monterey, CA November 4-8, 1996
ICSM'96 provides an effective forum for discussing software maintenance and
modernization through refereed papers, experience reports, panel sessions,
exhibits, and informal meetings. ICSM'96 presents the most important
practical, experimental, and theoretical work currently conducted to
support software maintenance. Participants include practitioners and
researchers from industry, academia, and government.
The Workshop on Software Maintenance held in Monterey, California in 1983
marked the first in a series of software maintenance conferences that have
evolved into the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM).
ICSM is recognized as the world's premier forum for state-of-the-art
developments in the field of software maintenance. In returning to Monterey
in 1996, it is only appropriate to examine developments in software
maintenance over the past thirteen years and to assess the extent to which
these developments have added value to software products and processes.
ICSM'96 THEME: SOFTWARE MODERNIZATION
Software modernization is a key area where software maintenance technology
is making an impact today. Whether it involves moving from an old platform
to a new, migrating stovepipe systems into an integrated architecture, or
renovating an aging software system to be more responsive to change,
software modernization involves modifying existing systems to suite their
ever-changing environments. Software modernization is increasingly
becoming a key activity as software organizations attempt to contain
maintenance costs and maximize investments in their software assets.
This conference examines how software maintenance as a discipline has
evolved to handle more effectively software modernization since 1983.
Software maintenance in 1983 focused on programming-in-the-small (changes
to modules) while in the 1990's it has turned toward
programming-in-the-large (changes to architecture). The conference will
include: tutorials, paper and panel sessions, an industry track, tools
fair, and a workshop on empirical studies in software maintenance.
Subject: Call for Participation: STEP'97
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING PRACTICE - STEP'97
8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP (incorporating CASE'97)
Holiday Inn, King's Cross, London, UK
14-18 July 1997
Sponsored by
International Workshop on CASE
British Telecommunications plc
IEEE Computer Society's Technical Council on Software Engineering (pending)
In co-operation with
Australian Computer Society
British Computer Society
UMIST
Software and systems development, evolution and management are undergoing
dramatic change as we move into the 21st century. Economic pressures require
systems to be built better, cheaper and faster. Increased IT awareness and
the use of technologies such as object orientation are creating a new
generation of system builders who do not necessarily have a traditional
software development background. New communication technologies and
co-operative working are forcing changes to working practices leading to
distributed, 24-hour and global software development. The result is that the
processes, skills and tools which support all aspects of software development
will undergo dramatic change during the next few years.
STEP (Software Technology and Engineering Practice) is a broad based workshop
for practitioners, applied researchers and the software industry. It is the
eighth international workshop concerned with software engineering processes,
products, and personnel- the logical successor to the series of International
Workshops on CASE (CASE'xx), subsuming CASE'97. It inherits the approach and
style that has made that series unique and successful as a means for
development of the software engineering discipline.
This workshop aims at highlighting the lessons from practical software
engineering, whilst seeking to develop a vision for software engineering over
the next few years. This vision will need to identify the skills, techniques
and support processes and tools which future developers will be using and what
cost-effective transition path should be adopted.
The workshop is the premier world event for drawing together practitioners and
researchers concerned with supporting the software and systems development,
evolution and management process. It provides a unique opportunity to report
on the most important practical, applied, experimental and underpinning
theoretical work being conducted.
Experience reports, research papers, evaluations and surveys are invited on,
but not limited to, the topics listed below. Experience papers which seek to
draw out valuable lessons from practical software engineering are particularly
welcome, as are research papers which take an innovative view of future
software development processes and support tools.
a. Process, method and tool support: requirements specification, system
development methods, rapid application development, prototyping, complex
databases, business process re-engineering, systems re-engineering, reverse
engineering, design recovery, program understanding and analysis.
b. Organisational issues: support for team working, distributed working,
end-user computing, stakeholder and developer co-operative working, multi-site
multi-team development and 24-hour global product development.
c. Enabling technologies: architectures, networking, client/server,
multimedia, repositories, OO database, tool integration mechanisms, groupware.
d. Management processes: software process modelling, process assessment and
improvement, software quality, software metrics, configuration management,
product evaluation.
e. Cultural and organisational issues: human resource management in
software
engineering, enabling creativity, ensuring business integrity,
client-developer organisational structures.
f. Software engineering education: form and content of software engineering
laboratories, the role of support tools, needs of the software industry,
teaching software development and evolution, experiences in group working and
group working models.
g. Time-to-market technology: processes for projecting products very
quickly
in to prospective markets, maintaining traditional quality under such
conditions.
h. Methods: improving practices for software development activities.
i. Needs for the year 2000 onwards: tools, methods, processes, timing,
difficulties with the transition to new systems, legacy code implications,
program comprehension aspects.
Additional Information
Latest information see Web page: http://www.co.umist.ac.uk/STEP97
Email queries to: STEP97@umist.ac.uk
Subject: CFP: International Journal Of Computer Simulation
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SIMULATION
is announcing a
SPECIAL ISSUE
scheduled for 1998
on
Parallel and Distributed Simulation Systems
The purpose of this special issue is to present advances in systems for
parallel and distributed simulation. In particular, the focus of this
issue is on state-of-the-art, general purpose parallel and distributed
simulation systems that have been implemented. By general purpose, we
mean simulation systems that are applicable to a wide range of
application domains. The scope of this special issue includes, but is
not restricted to:
o conservative systems
o optimistic systems
o time parallel systems
o real time systems
o hybrid synchronization systems
o heterogeneous systems
o hardware based systems
o World Wide Web based systems
Submission details: The submission deadline is May 1, 1997. Submissions
should be sent via e-mail to ijcs@cc.gatech.edu. The e-mail message should
contain your name, address, e-mail, fax number, ASCII text abstract and a
Postscript version of your paper. Alternatively, send 5 copies of your
paper to the address below. Please consult the IJCS World Wide Web Page
at http://www.cs.umr.edu/ijcs for detailed submission instructions. The
final decision will be made by September 1, 1997 and the papers will
appear in a mid-1998 issue.
Christopher D. Carothers, Guest Editor
801 Atlantic Drive
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
Phone: (404) 894-3982
E-mail: ijcs@cc.gatech.edu
Subject: CFP: Empirical Assessment & Evaluation in Software Engineering
EASE: Empirical Assessment & Evaluation in Software Engineering
24-26 March 1997
Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K.
It is widely accepted that the empirical component of Software Engineering
practice is still in a formative phase. The effect of this is that we
generally lack any widely-accepted procedures for systematically assessing
the effectiveness of both the technical and organisational practices that
are used for software development and procurement, or for assessing the
quality of the resulting products. This conference is intended to address
issues concerned with both assessment and evaluation needs and practices,
as well as the analysis element within these. EASE will also have an
interdisciplinary element, as we believe that Software Engineers can benefit
significantly from studying the practices adopted in other relevant
disciplines for purposes of assessment and evalution.
Some of the issues that we would like to examine include those related to:
Certification practices and their effectiveness
Measurement
Procurement needs
Product assessment and evaluation
Process assessment and evaluation
Quality assessment
Testing strategies
However, we do not intend to limit the scope of the event to these alone,
and any relevant papers will be welcomed. We are particularly seeking
papers that describe experiences with empirical assessment and evaluation,
and ask that papers of a more theoretical nature should identify the
potential application areas for their ideas.
This is a conference that should be relevant to researchers in all branches
of Software Engineering. One of the components will be an informal 'poster'
session, where those with particular evaluation needs and problems can
present these and ask for comments from those who are studying evaluation
techniques and practices. (Research Students are particularly welcome to
provide posters for this event.)
Conference Details
Venue: Keele University, Staffordshire, UK
Dates: Monday 24 March - Wednesday 26 March 1997 (week preceding Easter)
Format: The basic format will be conference-like (paper presentations), but
for at least one (poster-style) session we would like to encourage
interaction between attendees who have specific needs and those with
experience of evaluation and assessment practices. Fuller details will
be provided on the URL:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cs/Announcements/conferences.html
Invited speakers: Include:
Dieter Rombach, University of Kaiserlautern, Germany
Martyn Ould, Praxis, UK
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Center for Research in Evaluating Software
Technology, Howard University, USA
Publication of papers: Conference proceedings or journal special issue.
Steering Committee:
Dr Pearl Brereton, Professor David Budgen, Dr Barbara Kitchenham, Mr Steven
Linkman, Dr Shari Lawrence Pfleeger.
Schedule:
Submission date 10 November 1996
Acceptance notification 10 January 1997
Camera-ready papers 20 February 1997
Subject: Final CFP: ZUM'97, 10th International Conference of Z Users
Notice of Meeting and Second Call for Papers
10th International Conference of Z Users
3-4th April 1997
University of Reading, England
An educational issues session is planned to follow the conference, and
tutorials may be possible on the days directly preceding and following
the main sessions.
**** NOTE: THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS 16 AUGUST 1996 ****
On-line and up-to-date conference information may be found under the
following World Wide Web URL:
http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/archive/z/zum97/
General enquiries about the meeting and the Z User Group may be found at
the above web site, or directed to:
Jonathan Bowen (Conference Chair)
University of Reading, Department of Computer Science
Whiteknights, BO Box 225, Reading RG6 6AY, UK.
Email: J.P.Bowen@reading.ac.uk
Tel: +44-1734-316544 Fax: +44-1734-751994
URL: http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/people/jpb/
Educational Issues
- ------------------
Papers for the educational issues session should be submitted as above,
but clearly marked for consideration for the education session, which is
planned to follow the meeting. Full papers accepted for the session
will be considered for publication in the main proceedings. Short
papers, posters, etc., should be sent by 18 October 1996 and addressed to:
Neville Dean (Education Session Chair)
Anglia Polytechnic University
East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK
Email: cdean@bridge.anglia.ac.uk
Tel: +44-1223-363271 ext. 2329 Fax: +44-1223-352979
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