Forum for Academic Software Engineering Volume 5, Number 16, Tue Jul 11 11:18:08 CDT 1995 Topics: Invitation to Join TCSE Process Education Tech Report 9th Conference on Software Engineering Education Preliminary Program: ESEC'95 New Journal - Empirical Software Engineering CALL FOR PAPERS - Software Engineering:Education and Practice Call for Papers for METRICS 96 A------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Invitation to Join TCSE From: Keith Pierce Through 1995, the annual Conference on Software Engineering Education (CSEE) has been sponsored solely by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Starting with CSEE96, the Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) --- part of the Computer Society of the IEEE --- joins the SEI in co-sponsoring this annual event. Members of the TCSE's Technical Committee on Software Engineering Education are on the program committee for CSEE. For example, John and Laurie Werth are the Tutorials Co-chairs for CSEE. This post is an invitation to become a member of the TCSE and TCSEE, and become active in the software engineering education activities of the IEEE-CS. To join, simply fill out the attached form, check off the committees you're interested in (education, certainly) and mail (electronically or by post). You do not have to be a member of IEEE-CS to join, but you must be a member in order to receive without charge the thrice-yearly newsletter (containing an excellent column on education issues, as well as columns by the other committees). ___________________________ Subject: Request for membership in TCSE To: tcse@computer.org Please enroll me in the Technical Council on Software Engineering. Name: Title: Company: Mail Address: City: State/Province: Postal Code: Country: email: office phone: home phone: fax: IEEE Member number, or Affiliate Number, or IEEE-CS Membership number: ___ Check here if you do not want your name included on shared mailing lists Please include me as a member of these TCSE Committees: X__ Software Engineering Education ___ Standards ___ Reverse Engineering ___ Software Reliability Engineering ___ Technology Transfer ___ Reusability (ReNews). Requires email. ___ Quantitative Methods ___ Software Process I am interested in helping on: ___ Membership ___ Newsletters ___ Conferences ___ Check here to join the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (CBSE) Return the completed form to tcse@computer.org or TCSE Member Services P.O. Box 400 Burlington, MA 01803 USA A------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Process Education Tech Report From: Linda Ibrahim A new Technical Report has just been released from the SEI which may be useful to anyone involved in process improvement education and training. Below is a description of this 146 page report. If you are interested in the report, please contact customer relations at the SEI: customer-relations@sei.cmu.edu Title: The Subject Matter of Process Improvement: A Topic and Reference Source for Software Engineering Educators and Trainers, CMU/SEI-95-TR-003, by Rosalind L. Ibrahim and Iraj Hirmanpour Abstract: This report provides a high-level topical overview of what can be taught or learned about process improvement. The subject matter is presented within a general framework of six major topic areas, which are described and divided into annotated subtopics. The relationships and application of the subject areas are explained in the context of process improvement activities. Topic areas range from process and process improvement concepts to tools, techniques, teamwork, and interpersonal skills. The purpose of this report is to assist software engineering educators and trainers in selecting topics for curricula or training programs. It may also be used to guide self-study in this area. Pointers to detailed sources of information are given, but no in-depth information is otherwise provided for the topic areas. Consequently, this report is not suitable for use by itself as a means of learning the details of how to do process improvement. ............. A------------------------------------------------------- Subject: 9th Conference on Software Engineering Education From: Nancy Mead Call for Participation 9th Conference on Software Engineering Education You are invited to participate in the 9th Conference on Software Engineering Education (CSEE) April 22-24, 1996, in Daytona Beach, Florida; tutorials are April 21, 1996. Educators, trainers, managers, and administrators gather to exchange ideas about how to enhance software engineering training and education. The CSEE attracts international participation from industry, academia, and government. The purpose of the CSEE is to influence educational directions, stimulate new approaches, promote collaboration, and generate interactive exchanges among all educational stakeholders. Conference topics include but are not limited to: * software engineering as a profession * software engineering curricula * innovative approaches for software engineering courses * industry-academia collaboration * alternative delivery methods * training and education management Submission Guidelines and Procedures We request papers that present new ideas or approaches or that describe practice and experience. We also encourage proposals for panels examining controversial topics and designed to facilitate audience participation. We welcome proposals for half- and full-day tutorials. We invite innovative suggestions for informal meetings such as workshops, poster sessions, or birds-of-a-feather sessions. Submit five copies of a paper or proposal. Put only the title and beginning text of the submission on the first page of a paper. Provide a separate cover sheet with title, all authors' names, affiliations, complete addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. Accepted contributions will appear in the conference proceedings, published by IEEE. Important Dates All submissions (papers, panels, tutorials) are due by September 1, 1995. Notification of acceptance will be made by November 1, 1995. Final presentation materials must be received by January 1, 1996. Send submissions to: Charlene Rauber Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Phone 412 / 268-3007 FAX 412 / 268-5758 education@sei.cmu.edu Program Committee . . . . . . . . . . General Chair Nancy Mead | Software Engineering Institute nrm@sei.cmu.edu . . . . . . . . . . Program Chair Neal Coulter | Florida Atlantic University neal@cse.fau.edu . . . . . . . . . . Committee Members Clark Archer | Winthrop College, Department of Computer Science and Quantitative Methods Maribeth Carpenter | SEI Doris Carver | Louisiana State University JoAnn Devory | AT&T, Business Communications Services Christopher Fox | James Madison University David Garlan | Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science Helen Gill | National Science Foundation Soheil Khajenoori | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Computer Science Rick Linger | SEI/Loral Federal Systems Michael Lutz | Rochester Institute of Technology, Computer Science and Information Technology Michael McCracken | Georgia Institute of Technology John Miklos | Loral Federal Systems Linda Northrop | SEI Rebecca L. Smith | RebL Systems Mike Stinson | Central Michigan University, Department of Computer Science Stephen Thebaut | University of Florida, Software Engineering Research Center Dolores R. Wallace | NIST Computer Systems Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . Tutorial Co-Chairs John Werth | Laurie Werth | University of Texas, Austin, Department of Computer Science Sponsors Sponsored by the SEI. Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society In cooperation with the ACM The Software Engineering Institute is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University. A------------------------------------------------------- From: Pere Botella Subject: Preliminary Program: ESEC'95 ESEC'95 (Fifth European Software Engineering Conference) PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (Abstract) September, 25-28 SITGES (Barcelona, Spain) Note: The complete Preliminary Program, including registration and accomodation forms can be obtained in the following WWW page: http://www-fib.upc.es/Congressos/ESEC95/fulltext.txt Further information about the conference can be obtained in: http://www-fib.upc.es/Congressos/ESEC95.html (Note that you can obtain WWW files via mail to listserv@info.cern.ch using a SEND command. The SEND command returns the document with the given WWW address). ********************************************************************** The Conference includes: - Five Tutorials (on Monday 25) DOMAIN ANALYSIS FOR REUSE: A PRACTICAL APPROACH, by Ruben Prieto Diaz SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE AND ITERATIVE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, by Philippe Kruchten SOFTWARE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION WITH C++ COMPONENTS, by Mehdi Jazayeri and Georg Trausmuth AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SECURITY, by Richard Kemmerer THE ROLE OF FORMAL SPECIFICATIONS IN SOFTWARE TEST, by Hans-Martin Hoercher - Four Invited Speakers Tuesday 26 Heinz G. Schwaertzel; FAST, Germany Demands and Perspectives for Future Software Engineers: An Industrial Viewpoint Wednesday 27 Francois Bancilhon; O2 Technology, France: Why Object-oriented Databases are needed Bertrand Meyer; ISE, USA Why Object-oriented Databases are not needed Thursday 28 Watts Humphrey; SEI, USA A Personal Commitment to Software Quality - One Panel Tuesday 26 Trends in Open Distributed Platforms. Chair: Gonzalo Leon - 29 papers, organized in the following sections: Business Process (Re-)Engineering Real-Time Metrics Concurrency Version and Configuration Management Formal Methods Support of the Design Process Program Analysis Quality Object-Oriented Software Development - Social Activities Including a Welcome Reception in the Maricel Palace, a Catalan Evening in the cellars of the XIX century Palau Novella as well as pre and post conference optional tours (Santa Tecla in Sitges, Barcelona Tour and Port Aventura Park) - Parallel Events Tools Fair and Industrial Track (if your company or academic institution is interested in these activities, please contact the ESEC Secretariat) IEEE Computer Society European Members Meeting ************************************************************************ Executive Chair: Pere Botella, Facultat d'Informatica UPC Programme Chair: Wilhelm Schaefer, FB Mathematik/Informatik Tutorial Chair: Gregor Engels, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Leiden Local Arrangements Chair: Victor Obach, DIFINSA For further information contact: ESEC'95 SECRETARIAT DIFINSA, S.L. Pl. Lesseps, 31, Ent.2a. E-08023 BARCELONA Tel. +34 -3 -415.41.41 Fax +34 -3 -415.55.56 e-mail: difinsa@ibm.net ESEC'95 is organized by the ESEC Steering Committee, hosted by ATI with the support of CEPIS, in co-operation with Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya and Ajuntament de Sitges A------------------------------------------------------- From: lbriand@crim.ca (Lionel Briand) Subject: New Journal - Empirical Software Engineering Empirical Software Engineering An International Journal Editors-in-Chief: Victor Basili (basili@cs.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA and Warren Harrison (warren@cs.pdx.edu), Portland State University, USA Associate Editors: Dieter H. Rombach (rombach@informatik.uni-kl.de), University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (Regional Editor for Europe); Ross Jeffrey (r.jeffrey@unsw.edu.au), University of New South Wales, Australia (Regional Editor for Australia); Koji Torii (torii@is.aist-nara.ac.jp), Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (Regional Editor for Asia) Editorial Board William Agresti, MITRE Corporation, USA Motoei Azuma, Waseda University, Japan Lionel C. Briand, CRIM, CANADA Bill Curtis, TeraQuest Metrics, Inc., USA Michael S. Deutsch, Hughes Applied Info. Systems, USA Michale K. Daskalantonakis, Motorola, Inc. USA Norman Fenton, City University, London, UK Robert Grady, Hewlett-Packard, USA Watts S. Humphrey, Software Engr. Institute, USA Chris Kemerer, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., USA Frank McGarry, Computer Sciences Corp., USA Stan Rifkin, Master Systems, Inc., USA Norman F. Schneidewind, Naval Postgraduate School, USA Walter Tichy, University of Karlsruhe, GERMANY June Verner, City University, HONG KONG Anneliese von Mayrhauser, Colorado State Univ., USA Larry G. Votta, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA Elaine Weyuker, AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA Marvin Zelkowitz, University of Maryland, USA Stuart H. Zweben, Ohio State University, USA Empirical Software Engineering, An Internationa Journal provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to report both original and replicated studies. These studies can vary from controlled experiments to field studies, from data intensive to qualitative. Preference will be given to studies that can be replicated or expanded upon. The aim of the studies should be to expose, in an experimental setting, the primitives of software engineering. Papers on the supporting infrastructure for experimentation would also be appropriate. The focus of the journal is on the collection and analysis of data and experience that can be used to characterize, evaluate and show relationships among software engineering artifacts. As such, a repository will be made available for access and dissemination of the data and artifacts used in studies. Upon acceptance of a paper for publication, authors will be asked to provide, when appropriate, an electronic appendix (containing data sets, experimental materials, etc.), which will be made available on the Internet on a Kluwer-owned server. Detailed instructions for submitting the electronic appendix will be made available to authors of accepted papers. Given an appropriate emphasis on the collection and analysis of supporting data, the following topics would all be within the journal's purview: A comparison of cost estimation techniques An analysis of the effects of design methods on product characteristics An evaluation of the readability of coding styles The development, derivation and/or comparison of organizational models of software development Evaluation of testing methodologies Reports on the benefits derived from using graphical windowing - based software development environments The development of preductive models of defect rates and reliability from real data Infrastructure issues such as measurement theory, experimental design, qualitative modeling and analysis approaches Visit the Empirical Software Engineering Home Page at http://www.cs.pdx.edu/emp-se/ A------------------------------------------------------- Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - Software Engineering:Education and Practice From: Martin Purvis, University of Otago 6th Working Conference Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:E&P'96) 24-27 January 1996 University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand The Conference will be a forum for discussion of new and emerging approaches to software engineering and how best to impart software engineering knowledge to others. It provides an opportunity for exchanges of ideas and reports on achievements by experts active in the field. The proceedings from the conference will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Themes --Formal and informal software engineering methodologies and tools --CASE tool usage and its place in the education environment --New modelling paradigms for systems and software --Distributed and multi-agent systems across the network --Curriculum design and reviews of delivery methods/approaches The conference invited speaker is Professor Larry Constantine (UTS, Australia) Workshop sessions will be held to discuss significant themes in software engineering. Applicants with appropriate expertise and interest are invited to suggest specific topics and may volunteer to lead appropriate discussion groups. Dates Deadline for submission of papers: 1 August 1995 Notification of acceptance: 1 October 1995 Early registration: 8 December 1995 Conference organization: Chair: Martin Purvis (NZ) Co-Chairs: Bernd Bruegge (USA) John Hughes (Australia) Philip Sallis (NZ) Conference Secretariat: SE:E&P'96 Information Science Dept University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand Phone: +64-3-479-8180 Fax: +64-3-479-8311 E-mail: seep96@otago.ac.nz Registration: Regular (before 8 December) NZ$ 425 After 8 December NZ$ 495 Students (full time) NZ$ 95 A------------------------------------------------------- From: jmunson@cs.uidaho.edu (John C. Munson) Subject: Call for Papers for METRICS 96 THIRD INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE METRICS SYMPOSIUM (METRICS96) Technical University Berlin, March 25-26, 1996 General Chair: Anneliese von Mayrhauser Dept. of Computer Science Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 USA avm@CS.ColoState.EDU Program Co-chairs: John Munson Department of Computer Science University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83843 USA jmunson@cs.uidaho.edu Walter F. Tichy Informatik University of Karlsruhe D-76139 Karlsruhe Germany tichy@info.uni-karlsruhe.de Local arrangements chair: Stefan Jaehnichen Technical University Berlin jaehn@cs.tu-berlin.de SYMPOSIUM THEME: >From Measurement to Empirical Results "When you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: but you have scarcely, in your thoughts advanced to the stage of a science" Lord Kelvin (Popular Lectures I 73) The symposium will bring together researchers and practicioners interested in the development and use of metrics to improve our empirical knowledge of methods, processes, tools, and environments in software engineering. Topics not only include the development of suitable metrics, but also empirical work that makes use of metrics. Empirical work may range from small scale studies, trials, case and field studies, to formal (repeatable and controlled) experiments, both original and replicated. Additional topics are measurement theory and infrastructure for experimentation. METRICS'96 will entertain papers, experience reports, and panels. The symposium is open to all who are involved with or have an interest in software metrics and empirical software engineering research; from industry, government, and academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the development of new measurement methods, metric validation, mathematical modeling of software processes, measurement of software methods, process, and tools, measurement in all phases of the software life cycle, and other empirical investigations in software engineering. We also solicit papers on the practical application of metrics, the use of measurement in software accreditation, and software measurement standandards. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Full papers are limited to 20 pages, including figures and text (typed with 1.5 spacing and 12 point font). Experience reports should be a 4-6 page description for a ten minute presentation. For both types of papers, a cover page must include: title, authors' names, and lead author's complete mailing address, e-mail and telephone numbers together with a maximum 250 word abstract and keyword list. The cover page should clearly indicate whether the submission is a full paper or an experience report. If the paper is accepted, one of the authors is expected to preregister for the symposium and present the paper at METRICS'96. Submissions must not have been published or simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Panel proposals should include the title, proposed chair, tentative panelists (including a short vita), a 2 or 3 paragraph description of the subject of the panel discussion together with a rationale for the panel. Panelists must have agreed to participate prior to the submission of the panel proposal. Submissions of papers, experience reports and panel proposals should include five (5) copies sent to one of the Program Co-Chairs. Important Dates: Submission Deadline for full papers, experience reports and panel proposals: October 1, 1995, Acceptance Notification: Dec. 15, 1995, Camera-ready copy: Jan. 15, 1996. Program committee: Vic Basili Jim Bieman Bill Curtis Albert Endres Norman Fenton Warren Harrison Ross Jeffery John Munson Adam Porter Walt Scacchi Norm Schneidewind Richard Selby Shari Lawrence Pfleeger Stephen Thebaut Walter Tichy Anneliese von Mayrhauser Horst Zuse ==================================================================== | John C. Munson | 208.885.7789 (office) ! | Professor | 208.885.6589 (department) | | Computer Science Department | 208.885.9052 (fax) | ! 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