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Official language of the conference and the professional development seminars is English. The national language of Austria is German. Many Austrians, especially those in the travel and service industries, also speak English. Conference Site: The conference and professional development seminars will take place at the Technical Univ. of Vienna, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, 1st floor, A-1040 Vienna. It is within walking distance or with a short train ride from the hotels listed at the end of this announcement. Social Events:
Visa Requirements: Austria is a member of the European Union. Hence, most participants will not need visa to enter Austria. Consult the nearest Austrian Embassy or Consulate regarding the visa arrangements as early as possible. Local Transportation: Vienna has an excellent public transportation system of underground, tram, express train and bus. From the airport: Taxi from the Vienna International Airport to the hotel will cost about ATS 350 (ask for the special airport rate). There is a regular bus service from Vienna Airport to Vienna Hilton Hotel (City Air Terminal) and the train stations in the city. From any of these, you can take a taxi to the hotel for approx. ATS 100. The airport bus fare is ATS 70. To get to the hotel, you may also use the underground from the train stations or the air terminal. Using the underground (U-Bahn): Those who stay at Astron Suite Hotel take U3 to stop "Neubaugasse", and take the Stiftgasse exit. For those at other hotels, which are close to the conference site as well, take U1 to stop "Karlsplatz", and take the Resselpark exit. For more detailed information, check the web site. Note that when you use the local public transportation, you have to purchase a ticket in advance at a machine located at underground stations (ATS 17 / Zone1) or in trams and buses (ATS 20). Trips of any length can be undertaken in any one direction, including transfers, with the same ticket. If you travel without a valid ticket you risk a fine of ATS 500. In newspaper and tobacco-shops as well as at the underground vending machines, you can also buy tickets for unlimited use of public transportation valid for 24 hours (ATS 50,-), 3 consecutive days or for 8 arbitrary days at reduced rates. Climate: Austria has continental climate. In August an average temperature of about 25o C is usual. However, a shower might cool off the scene, and a light sweater might protect you from 15o C or less in the morning. Shopping: In general, shops are open Monday - Friday from 9:00am to 6:30pm, Saturday from 9am to 12:00am. Shopping centers and most of the shops in the center are open till 5pm. Shops are closed on Sunday and on public holidays. Please note that Saturday, August 15, is a public holiday. Sightseeing: The City of Vienna, located in the heart of Europe, offers the visitor many attractive sites reflecting its 2000-year history and provides a wide range of cultural activities. A description of the sightseeing tour is given at the end of this announcement. Make reservation along with your hotel reservation. Tipping: Some tipping is always appreciated, but there is no fixed rule on how much it should be. If your tip comes close to 10%, your waitress, taxi driver, etc. should be as happy as you were with the service. Conference and Seminar Registration: All participants outside Austria should send the completed registration form at the end of this announcement with payment to Registration Chair Michael Wagner in the U.S. Those in Austria should send the completed registration form with payment to Operations Chair Roland Mittermeir in Austria (see instructions in the registration form). Completed registrations with full payment received before July 20, 1998 will have substantial savings. The registration desk is open:
Hotel and Sightseeing Tour Reservation: The headquarters hotel of COMPSAC 98 is the Astron Suite Hotel. Recommended hotels and sightseeing tours are provided at the end of this announcement. All hotel and tour reservations must be made with Austropa Interconvention (see instruction at the end of this announcement). The cut-off date is July 15, 1998.
For further information, see COMPSAC 98 home pages at one of two sites: http://compsac98.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/compsac98/ or http://enws178.eas.asu.edu/compsac98/
Austrian Airlines is the official carrier for COMPSAC 98 and offers the most connections to and from Vienna. Participants of COMPSAC 98 will receive discount on all airfares, except certain promotional fares, on Austrian Airlines flights. Contact the nearest Austrian Airlines office or travel agent, and refer to CODE - CSAC98/ VIECONG. In case of ticket issued at a travel agency, the agent is asked to contact the nearest Austrian Airlines office. |
| STANDING COMMITTEE
CONFERENCE CHAIR
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
MEMBERS
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 Michel Lemoine, Onera
Cert/DPRS, France
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Feng-Jian Wang, National
Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan
PROCEEDINGS EDITOR
REGISTRATION CHAIR
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Tuesday August 18, 1998
6.00 pm - 7:30 pm Welcome Reception
"Festsaal", Technical University of Vienna
(main building)
Wednesday August 19, 1998
9:00 am - 10:30 am Opening Session
Welcome: Mehdi Jazayeri, Technical Univ. of Vienna, Austria, Conference Chair
Additional Greetings: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State Univ., USA, Standing Committee Chair
Program Overview: Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE Corp., USA; Akira K. Onoma, Hitachi Software Engr. Co. Ltd., Japan; Maarten Boasson, H. Signaal., The Netherlands, Program Co-Chairs
Operational Info: Roland Mittermeir, Klagenfurt Univ., Austria, Operations Chair
Keynote Address I: Distributed Object Management and CORBA, David Curtis, Object Management Group, USA
10.30 am - 11.00 am Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Four Parallel Sessions
Session 1. Design Patterns and Frameworks I
Chair: M. Corbin, DERA, UK
A Unified Framework for Multimedia Applications
Development: C. Yerrapragada, P. Fisher, K. Murthy, Univ. of North Texas,
USA
The Essence of the Visitor Pattern: J. Palsberg,
Purdue Univ., USA and C. B. Jay, Univ. of Tech., Australia
Concurrent Development on a Framework and its
Application: H. Suganuma, T. Syomura, F. Tsunoda, Hitachi Software Engr.
Co., Ltd., Japan
Session 2. Panel: Testing Complex Multi-Process of Software Systems
Chair: D. Simmons, Texas A&M Univ., USA
Panelists:
Chair: M. Van Steen, Vrije Univ., The Netherlands
Binding Object Models to Source Code: An Approach
to Object-Oriented Re-Architecturing: H. Gall, J. Weidl, Technical Univ.
of Vienna, Austria
Object-Oriented Model Refinement Technique in
Software Reengineering: W. Park, S. Min, D. Bae, Korea KAIST and P. Mah,
System Engr. Research Inst., Korea
Reengineering the Class - An Object Oriented Software
Maintenance Activity: G. Subramaniam, NORTEL-Northern Telecom, and E. Byrne,
Global Consultant, Inc., USA
Session 4. Industry Presentation - I
Migrating Legacy Systems - I
Chair: A. Kwong, Alliance/BGSU, USA
Experience with Migration Legacy Systems at Baan:
T. van Donge, Baan Company, The Netherlands
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Four Parallel Sessions
Session 5: Data Management
Chair: L. F. Bic, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
On Analyzing the Errors in a Selectivity Estimation
Method Using a Multidimensional File Structure: S. Kim, W. Whang, Kangwon
National Univ., Korea
A Modular Java API for Object-Oriented Databases:
R. Ege, Y. Battikhi, P. Pardo, J. Uppal, Florida International Univ., USA
Range-Based Bitmap Indexing for High Cardinality
Attributes with Skew: K. Wu, P. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Session 6: Panel: Directions and Challenges for Middleware Technology
Chair: M. Boasson, H. Signaal., The Netherlands
Panelists:
Migrating Legacy Systems - II
Chair: R. Mittermeir, Klagenfurt Univ., Austria
Interfacing to Legacy Systems Using Object-Oriented
Technology: B. Healton, Elegant Tech. Solutions, Inc., USA
CORBA Objects in Advanced Intelligent Networks
and Service:
Creation Environments, M. McKee, Alliance/BGSU, USA
Session 8. High Assurance and Fault Tolerant Systems
Chair: K. Nakamura, Alpha Systems Inc., Japan
Revisit Consensus Problem on Dual Link Failure
Mode: S.C. Wang, K.Q. Yan, Chao Yang Univ. of Tech., Taiwan
Architecture of ROAFTS/Solaris: A Solaris-Based
Middleware for Real-time Object oriented Adaptive Fault Tolerance Support:
E. Shokri, P. Crane, SoHaR Inc.; J. Dussault, Rome Laboratory; K. Kim,
C. Subbaraman, Univ. of California at Irvine, USA
A Recipe for Certifying High Assurance Software:
J. Voas, Reliable Software Technologies Corp., USA
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm Break
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Four Parallel Sessions
Session 9. Software Architecture and Components
Chair: W. Chu, Feng Chia Univ., Taiwan
Describing Software Architectures:System Structure
and Properties: W. Eixelberger, Information Tech. and Control Systems,
Norway, H. Gall, Technical Univ. of Vienna, Austria
M-base: End-user Initiative Application Development
based on Message Flow and Componentware: T. Chusho, M. Matsumoto, and Y.
Konishi,. Meiji Univ., Japan
A Model for Designing Adaptable Software Components:
G. Heineman, Worcester Polytechnic Inst., USA
Component-based Integrated Systems Development:
A Model for the Emerging Procurement-centric Approach to Software Development:
V. Tran, ArcQuest Corp., USA
Session 10. Transformational Formal Methods
Chair: T. H. Tse, Univ. of Hong Kong, HK
The Transition of Context-free Textual Languages
into a Visual Programming Notation via Graph Techniques and a Metal Tool:
F. Buhler, De Montfort Univ., UK
Formal Specification and Simulation of Software
through Graph Grammars: A General but Minimal Approach: R. Freund, H. Potzl,
T. Svizensky, Tech. Univ. of Vienna, and C. Stary, Univ. of Linz, Austria
Automatic Refinement of Distributed Systems Specifications
Using Program Transformations: A. de Santana, A. do Prado, W. de Souza,
Federal Univ. of Sao Carlos, and M. Sant'Anna, Rio de Janeiro Catholic Univ.,
Brazil
Transformations on Hierarchical Predicate Transition
Nets - Part I: Abstractions and Refinements: X. He, North Dakota State
Univ., USA
Session 11. Software Quality
Chair: P. Grabow, Baylor Univ., USA
Software Products Quality Improvement with a Programming
Style Guide and a Measurement Process: A. Ayerbe, I. Vazquez, Robotiker,
Zamudio, Spain
Developing Situationally Specific Methods Through
Stakeholder Collaboration to Improve Software Quality: H. Edwards, B. Thompson,
C. Hardy, Univ. of Sunderland, UK
Siemens Process Assessment and Improvement Approaches:
Experiences and Benefits: T. Mehner, T. Messer, P. Paul, F. Paulisch, P.
Schless, A. Volker, Siemens Corp., Germany
A Technique for Early Measurement and Improvement
of Software Quality: J. Tian, Southern Methodist Univ., USA
Session 12. Software Maintenance
Chair: A. Hawkes, Software Engr. Assoc., USA
Service Channels - Purpose and Tradeoffs: H. Pirker,
R. Mittermeir, D. Rauner-Reithmayer, Klagenfurt Univ., Austria
Reengineering Support for Software Evolution:
an evaluation through case study: E. Burd, M. Munro, Univ. of Durham, UK
Applying a Formal Assessment of Modifiability
to an Integrated Prototyping Environment: C. Roast, M. Ozcan, Sheffield
Hallam Univ., UK
Measuring the Maintainability of a Communication
Protocol Based on its Formal Specification: R. Lai, S. Huang, La Trobe
Univ., Australia
6.15 pm - 7.15 pm Classical Music Recital:
M. Boasson: Cello, P. Cramer: Piano
"Festsaal", Technical University of Vienna
Thursday August 20, 1998
9:00 am - 10:00 am Plenary Session
Chair: Akira K. Onoma, Hitachi Software Engr. Co. Ltd., Japan
Keynote Address II: Directions and Challenges in Information Security, Elisa Bertino, Univ. of Milan, Italy
10.00 am - 10.30 am Break
10:30 am - 12:30 pm Four Parallel Sessions
Session 13. Distributed Object Management/Common Object Request Broker Architecture
Chair: H. Gall, Technical Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Software Architectural Modeling of the CORBA Object
Transaction Service: S. Busse, Fraunhofer ISST, and S. Tai, Tech. Univ.
of Berlin, Germany
Connecting CORBA Islands through Broadband Signalling
Protocols: O. Kath, E. Holz, Humboldt Univ., and M. Geipl, Deutsche Telekom
AG, Germany
Object-Oriented Distributed Component Software
Development Based on CORBA: S. Yau, Bing Xia, Arizona State Univ., USA
Building CORBA Objects with DOS Application Software:
J. Lin, W. Chu, W. Lo, Feng Chia Univ., Taiwan, and H. Yang, De Montford
Univ., UK
Session 14. Panel: Security and the World Wide Web
Chair: B. Thuraisingham, MITRE Corp., USA
Panelists:
Chair: A. Combelles, Objectif Technologie, France
A Multi-User, Visual Object-Oriented Programming
Environment: C. Hu, W. Chiang, F. Wang, National Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan
A Framework for Software Engineering Inconsistencies
Analysis and Reduction: C. Toffolon, S. Dakhli, Paris-Dauphine Univ., France
A Case Study on a Generative Approach for Building
Data-Oriented Information Systems: W. Goebl, CFC Information Systems, Austria
Software Engineering for Scalable Distributed
Applications: M. van Steen, Vrije Univ., S. van der Zijden, Cap Gemini,
H. Sips, Delft Univ. of Tech., The Netherlands
Session 16. Distributed Systems
Chair: K. Kim, Univ. of California, Irvine, USA
A Multiview Visualisation Architecture for Open
Distributed Systems: P. Oldengarm, A. van Halteren, KPN Research, The Netherlands
A Solution to the Distributed Mutual Exclusion
Problem in K-Groups: A. Khiat, M. Naimi, Polytechnic Inst. of Sevenans,
France
Multiple Network Management Centers for Managing
Client Mobility: H. Jang, Y. Lien, J. Huang, National Cheng-Chi Univ.,
Taiwan
A Structured Design Technique for Distributed
Programs: M. Polman, Erasmus Univ., and M. van Steen, Vrije Univ., The
Netherlands
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Four Parallel Sessions
Session 17. Design Patterns & Frameworks II
Chair: C. Chang, Univ. of Illinois, USA
Naming: Design Pattern and Framework: A. Silva,
P. Sousa, M. Antunes, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
Framework-Oriented Analysis: F. Zhu, W. Tsai,
Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Application of Design Patterns for Java Preprocessor
and Self-Development M. Komuro, A. Kumeta, R&D, Hitachi Software Engr.
Co., Ltd, Japan
Session 18. Panel: Real-time Systems
Chair: W. Halang, Hagen Univ., Germany
Panelists:
Session 19. Information and Systems Security
Chair: W. T. Tsai, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Capability-Based Protection for Integral Object-Oriented
Systems: M. Fondon, D. Gutierrez, L. Martinez, F. Garcia, J. Lovelle, Univ.
of Oviedo, Spain
A Workbench for Privacy Policies: L. Dreyer, M. S. Olivier, Eskom
Corp., South Africa
A Generic Discretionary Access Control System
for Reuse Frameworks: L. Wei, S. Jarzabek, National Univ. of Singapore,
Singapore
Session 20. Industry Presentation III
Building and Evolving Large Systems
Chair: S. Bhattacharya, Arizona State Univ., USA
FAA User Requirement Evaluation Tool: R. Katkin,
MITRE, USA
Evolving AirBorne Warning and Control System:
E. Hughes, T. Wheeler, MITRE, USA
Statistics for Conformance Testing for Large Systems:
C. Hagwood, National Inst. of Standards and Tech., USA
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm Break
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Four Parallel Sessions
Session 21. Formal Specifications
Chair: W. Li, Beijing Univ. of Aeronautics and Astronomy, China
E-Dart: A Specification Environment to the E-Lotos
Formal Technique: L. Z. Granville, M. Almeida, Federal Univ. of Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil
Requirements Validation based on the Visualization
of Executable Formal Specifications: M. Ozcan, P. Parry, I. Morrey, J.
Siddiqi, Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK
Object-Oriented Software Specification in Programming
Language Design and Implementation: B. Bryant, V. Vaidyanathan, Univ. of
Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Code Synthesis Based on Object-Oriented Design
Models and Formal Specifications: X. Jia, S. Skevoulis, DePaul Univ., USA
Session 22. Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Chair: M. Aoyama, Niigata Inst. of Tech., Japan
An Optimistic Method for Updating Information
in Distributed Collaborative Work: T. Okubo, T. Matsutsuka, Y. Tanaka,
H. Hara, S. Uehara, Fujitsu Labs Ltd., Japan
Allocating Data Objects to Multiple Sites for
Fast Browsing of Hypermedia Documents: S. So, I. Ahmad, K. Karlapalem,
Hong Kong Univ. of Sc. and Tech., Hong Kong
Design and Implementation of Action History View
Mechanisms for Hypermedia Systems: H. Iwamoto, Kansai Electric Power Co. Inc., Japan, C. Ito, NEC Corporation, Japan and Y. Kambayashi, Kyoto Univ., Japan
A General Framework for Interconnecting Annotations
within Software Systems: M. Stein, M. Heimdahl, J. Riedl, Univ. of Minnesota,
USA
Session 23. Web Information Management
Chair: D. Bae, KAIST, Korea
Software Commerce Broker over the Internet: M.
Aoyama, Niigata Inst. of Tech., and T. Yamashita, S. Kobori, Japan Research
Inst., Japan
The Impact of the Coordination Model in the Design
of Mobile Agent Applications: G. Cabri, L. Leonardi, F. Zambonelli, Univ.
of Modena, Italy
State Management in WWW Database Applications:
S. Hadjiefthymiades, D. Martakos, C. Petrou, Univ. of Athens, Greece
Efficient State Estimators for Load Control Policies
in Scalable Web Server Clusters: V. Cardellini, M. Colajanni, Univ. of
Rome, Italy, and P. Yu, IBM, USA
Session 24. Software Testing and Verification
Chair: R. Paul, Dept. of Defense, USA
Validating requirements: the evolutionary approach:
M. Lemoine, D. Mare, Onera CERT, France, P. Thillier, J. Wippler, Altran
Tech., Germany
Regression Slicing and Its Use in Regression Testing:
I. Forgacs, A. Hajnal, E. Takacs, Computer and Automation Inst., Hungary
IDATG: An Open Tool for Automated Testing of Interactive
Software: A. Beer, S. Mohacsi, Siemens Corp., and C. Stary, Univ. of Linz,
Austria
Rule Base Verification Using Petri Nets: S. Yang,
A. Lee, National Central Univ., and W. Chu, H. Yang, Feng Chia Univ., Taiwan
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm Banquet in the City Hall
Friday August 21, 1998
9:00 am - 10:00 am Plenary Session
Chair: Maarten Boasson, H. Signaal., The Netherlands
Keynote Address III: New Information Services for an Integrated Visionary System, Mark Maybury, MITRE Corp., USA
10:00 am - 10.30 am Break
10:30 am - 12:30 pm Four Parallel Sessions
Session 25: Reuse and Reengineering for Software Evolution
Chair: H. Yang, De Montfort Univ., UK
Implementation Reuse and Inheritance in Distributed
Component Systems: H. Hofmann, Cork Inst. of Tech., Ireland
A Fresh Look at Programming-in-the-Large: W. Cazzola,
A. Savigni, A. Sosio, F. Tisato, Univ. of degli Studi, Italy
Re-engineering for Reuse: A Paradigm for Evolving
Complex Reuse Artifacts: W. Lam, Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK
A Case Study in Supporting Evolution of Complex
Engineering Information Systems: J. Jahnke, U. Nickel, D. Wagenblasst,
Paderborn Univ., Germany
Session 26: Panel: Euro-Conversion and Year 2000 problem
Chair: R. Mittermeir, Klagenfurt Univ., Austria
Panelists:
Chair: J. Cho, KAIST, Korea
A Legality Checking Methodology for a Distributed
Enterprise Environment: C. Goumopoulos, P. Alefragis, E. Housos, Univ.
of Patras, Greece
Maintaining Execution Histories for Understanding
the Execution of Business Processes: G. Chen, C. Liu, B. Liu, National
Central Univ., Taiwan
Software Project Management Net: A New Methodology
on Software Management: C. Chang, C. Chao, T. Nguyen, Univ. of Illinois
at Chicago, M. Christensen, Northrop Grumman, USA
A Federated Virtual Enterprise (VE) of Stakeholders
Creating A Federated VE of Systems: J. Putman, MITRE Corp., USA
Session 28: Application Systems
Chair: M. Lemoine, Onera Cert, France
Operation Record based Work Events Grouping Method
for Personal Information Management Systems: A. Abeta, K. Kakizaki, Kyushu
Inst. of Tech., Japan
An Autonomous Decentralized System Architecture
for Distributed and Control Systems: S. Kawano, K. Kawano, H. Wataya, Hitachi
Ltd., Japan
Computer Simulation of the Inverse Problem of
Electrocardiography D. Belov, Inst. of Engr. Cybernetics, and A. R. Sadykhov,
State Univ. of Radio Electronics and Informatics, Belarus
Reducing the effort of building Object-Oriented
Visualizations: R. Orosco, R. Moriyon, Ciudad Univ., Spain
12.30 - 2.00 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Four Parallel Sessions
Session 29: Web Data Access for Hypermedia Systems
Chair: K. Mori, Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan
Indexing Multilingual Information on the Web:
C. Yip, B. Kao, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Recommending Anchor Points in Structure-Preserving
Hypertext Document Retrieval: B. Kao, J. Lee, D. Cheung, C.Y. Ng, Univ.
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Database Access with HTML and Java - A Comparison
Based on Practical Experiences: K. Goeschka, J. Falb, W. Radinger, Vienna
Univ. of Tech., Austria
Session 30: Panel: Component Architectures
Chair: M. Christensen, Northrop Grumman, USA
Panelists:
Chair: T. Yamaura, Hitachi Software Engr. Co. Ltd., Japan
Provably Efficient Non-Preemptive Task Scheduling
with Cilk: V. Vee, W. Hsu, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
A Scheduling Service for a Dynamic Real-Time CORBA
System: L. C. DiPippo, V. F. Wolfe, R. Ginis, M. Squadrito, Univ. of Rhode
Island, and T. Wheeler, MITRE Corp., USA
A Dynamic Scheduling mechanism for an Effective
Admission Control for Variable-Bit-Rate Video Streams: K. Lee, H. Yeom,
Seoul National Univ., Korea
Session 32: Industry Presentation IV
Challenges in Data Management and Mining for Command and Control Applications
Chair: B. Thuraisingham, MITRE Corp., USA
Interoperability of Heterogeneous Database Systems:
M. Ceruti, Navy-SPAWAR, USA
Data Mining on Text and Images: R. Steinheiser,
Dept. of Defense, USA
3.30 pm - 4.00 pm Break
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Closing Session
Panel: Directions for Software Technology
Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State Univ., USA
Panelists:
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS
MONDAY, AUGUST 17
| S-1 | Metric Based Software Project Management |
| Dick B. Simmons, Texas A&M Univ., USA |
Audience: Intended for practicing software developers, team leaders, project managers, top administrators and others interested in software measurement, project control, and process improvement.
Description: Software is difficult to visualize. Many companies still use document driven development to produce software that is over budget, behind schedule and then deliver it to a dissatisfied customer. This seminar not only shows that software attributes can be visualized, but that they can be unobtrusively measured and the measurements can be used to drive volume, complexity, rework, efficiency, effort, productivity, schedule, reliability, reuse, speedup, and usability prediction models.
Lecturer: Dick Simmons is a professor of computer science at
Texas A&M Univ. and has been an industry consultant. In the past, he
was an employee of RCA and Bell Telephone Labs. He currently is Co-Director
of a Software Process Improvement Laboratory and Executive Vice President
of a non-profit Software Commercialization and Innovation Center. He received
his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He is a former President of the
IEEE Computer Society, Amdahl Users Group, Data General Users Group and
a Fellow of the IEEE.
| S-2 | Distributed Systems Construction |
| Edwin de Jong, H. Signaal., The Netherlands |
Audience: This seminar is intended for managers, researchers and designers and developers of large scale distributed embedded systems. In particular, those working in real-time distributed systems, distributed object systems, and networked systems will find the concepts useful to their work. Software architects of distributed systems will also benefit from this seminar.
Description: Embedded systems are characterized by a tight integration with the environment in which they operate. The tutorial discusses the problems that are typically encountered in the design of large-scale distributed embedded systems. To address the problems, a software architecture is introduced, that incorporates an explicit coordination model. Conceptually the coordination model consists of application processes that interact through a logically shared data space where direct interaction between processes is possible. Based on this relatively simple model successive refinements are derived in order to support distributed processing, fault-tolerance, graceful degradation, dynamic reconfiguration, and real-time performance.
Lecturer: Edwin de Jong is a Research Manager at the Applied Systems Research Department of H. Signaal., The Netherlands. He is responsible for various research projects in the areas of distributed embedded systems, software architecture, coordination and computation models, and applications of formal methods in requirements specification, design, and implementation.
| S-3 | High Level Issues in Internet Security |
| Eduardo B. Fernandez, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA |
Audience: This seminar is intended for Internet specialists as well as security specialists who are interested in learning the concepts on security issues associated with the Internet. The information will also be useful to those developing security policies.
Description: Most of the work on security for the Internet is based on cryptographic approaches. While valuable, these methods suffer from a basic flaw: they can only be applied at the lower levels of the system, where semantic aspects of the data are not explicit. This seminar defines security policies and mechanisms at a higher level so that access can be decided on the basis of semantic restrictions. It will also describe a unified model of the complete system to provide authorization, assurances and administration policies for the Internet.
Lecturer: Eduardo B. Fernandez is a professor of computer science
and engineering at Florida Atlantic Univ. in Boca Raton. He has worked
at the NASA Satellite Tracking Station in Santiago, Chile, taught at the
Univ. of Chile and the Univ. of Miami, and researched the security and
performance aspects of database systems at the Los Angeles Scientific Center
of IBM. He has published a book and numerous papers on this subject. He
holds a MS degree in electrical engineering from Purdue Univ. and a Ph.D.in
computer science from UCLA. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
| S-4 | Decision Support Systems |
| Andrew Hunter, Sunderland Univ., UK |
Audience: This seminar is intended for system developers, software engineers and managers who plan to build products that include adaptive capabilities.
Description: This seminar includes an in-depth description of modern adaptive computational techniques, including neural networks, genetic algorithms and related techniques. It describes how the techniques can be used to build systems with adaptive and learning capabilities. A key concept for system designers is that many of techniques operate in a "black-box" mode - to use the techniques successfully in real-world systems does not require the level of expertise one would need to employ, for example, advanced statistical techniques. There will be examples of real-world applications.
Lecturer: Andrew Hunter is a Director of the Center of Adaptive
Systems at the Univ. of Sunderland, UK. His current research interests
include neural networks, genetic algorithms, and industrial applications
of these and related technologies. He is the author of the STATISTICA Neural
Networks simulation package, and the public domain SUGAL Genetic Algorithms
package. He has worked in industry as a software engineer, in areas including
computer-aided machining and user-interface design. He received his Ph.D.
in computer graphics from the Univ. of Bath, UK.
| S-5 | Data Mining |
| Bhavani Thuraisingham, MITRE Corp., USA |
Audience: This seminar is intended for those interested in learning the concepts, developments and challenges in data mining and data warehousing. It is intended for data management professionals who are beginning work in data mining and warehousing. It will also benefit software engineers who want to know about data mining. This seminar will also be helpful for managers of decision support systems.
Description: Data mining is the process of posing queries to large databases and extracting useful information and patterns often previously unknown. This seminar will provide an introduction today mining. In particular, preparation to data mining such as building a data warehouse, various types of data mining, data mining techniques, products and tools, as well as directions and challenges will be discussed.
Lecturer: Bhavani Thuraisingham is a Senior Principal Engineer and Department Manager at MITRE Corp. where she is working in data management and mining, real-time objects, multimedia systems, ad security. She has published over 300 technical papers and reports and holds two US patents for MITRE. She is the recipient of IEEE Computer Society's 1997 Technical achievement award for her work in secure databases.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18
| S-6 | Web Infections and Protections |
| Arnold W. Kwong, Alliance/BGSU, USA |
Audience: This session will be inclusive and accessible to experienced end-users, developers, system administrators/managers, application architects, security managers, and network managers.
Description: This seminar will discuss why web infections are inevitable in any large population of systems and what technologists, system administrators, security personnel, software developers, and
computer end-users can do to protect their systems, programs, and data.
At the conclusion of the seminar attendees should be able to evaluate their risks of getting an infection across a network, be an informed
reviewer of security measures they are currently using, and be able to plan steps to reduce infections and resulting damage.
Lecturer: Arnold Kwong is a consultant with Alliance/BGSU. He
specializes in all aspects of software technology, in particular web information
management and protection issues. He works with clients around the world
and gives presentations on web infections and protections.
| S-7 | Network Engineering: A Process and Quality |
| Sourav Bhattacharya, Arizona State Univ., USA |
Audience: University faculty and students who research in the area of network systems, and systems engineering as well as government and industry scientists and engineers who research and practice network system engineering, and specifically those who are either developers, or users, of large scale networks.
Description: This seminar presents the concept of a process model for network engineering and operation, which addresses quality, process, and maturity of the network engineering process. Requirement specification, analysis, and testing are addressed, in the context of the network domain. The quality of the network engineering process is introduced through the use of a Network Maturity Model (NMM), from which an organization's maturity in the design, development and deployment of networks can be evaluated and quantified.
Lecturer: Sourav Bhattacharya received his Ph.D. in computer
science from Univ. of Minnesota. His research interest includes the intersection
areas of high-assurance and high-performance computing and communication
systems. He is currently an associate professor at the Computer Science
and Engr. Dept., Arizona State Univ., with an affiliate appointment with
the Honeywell Technology Center. He is a member of IEEE, and ACM.
| S-8 | CORBA: Concepts, Applications, and Directions |
| David Curtis, Object Management Group, USA |
Audience: This seminar is intended for those who are interested in distributed object management technology. It will benefit managers, systems designers and integrators as well as researchers.
Description: This seminar will provide an overview of concepts in Common Object Broker Architecture. Discuss the services being proposed for object request brokers as well as describe both platform and domain technologies that the Object Management Group is involved in. It will then compare object request broker technology (ORB) with other distributed object management systems and discuss the directions for ORB technology and OMG.
Lecturer: Dave Curtis is a Director at OMG, a consortium of over
800 corporations promoting object technology and distributed object management
systems. He is an internationally recognized speaker on ORB technologies
and is one of the leaders on distributed object management.
| S-9 | From Frameworks to Plug-and-Play Components |
| Eric Hughes, MITRE Corp., USA |
Audience: Architects of information systems, plus researchers concerned with distributed objects, open software, and the implications of emerging component technologies. A basic understanding of object-oriented programming is recommended.
Description: Components are gradually changing the way information systems are developed, deployed, and used. Unfortunately, the novel contributions of this technology are often overshadowed by discussion of the complex supporting technologies. This seminar gives the essence of component frameworks and emphasizes the important implications of the technology. Topics include: What are components and frameworks? How do component frameworks improve modularization and reuse? What are the key commercial component technologies? How is this related to distributed object management? What approaches exist for building scalable component-based systems?
Lecturer: Eric Hughes leads MITRE's FACELIFT project, which researches
the role of component frameworks in modernizing existing government systems.
His activities include object databases, distributed object management,
and advising a government standardization and reuse effort on distributed
computing and object-oriented frameworks. He received a Ph.D. for work
on object database applications at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
To enhance your stay in Vienna, the following tour has been arranged. If you are interested in the tour, you need to register as part of your hotel reservation, as the tour might be overbooked or subject to cancellation. Refund policy for the tour: To allow planning, no refunds can be granted if participant withdraws from the tour within 7 days before it takes place. The tour requires a minimum of 15 people. In case of cancellations or unavailability due to overbooking, full refund will be made.
Walking Tour - "Old Vienna" (ATS 200 per person):
Time: Wednesday, August 19, 1998, 2:00 pm
The tour starts from the conference place. The duration is approx. 2 ½ hours. During the walk you will visit parts of "Old Vienna" that cannot be reached by bus. The guided tour at the Cathedral of Saint Stephen and its surroundings, with its numerous cultural and artistic sights, is of special interest. Close by is the "House of Figaro", where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived when he composed the opera "The Marriage of Figaro". Walking through medieval narrow streets and the Heiligen-kreuzerhof, built around 1200, one gets to the oldest church of Vienna, the Ruprechtskirche, said to founded in 740 and for the first time officially mentioned in 1161.
HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS (cut-off date: July 15, 1998)
The hotel and sight-seeing tour reservations of COMPSAC 98 will be exclusively handled by:
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| A-1 (Conference Headquarters Hotel) ****
Hotel Astron Suite Mariahilferstr. 32-34 A-1070 Wien |
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| A-2, ****
Hotel Kaiserhof Frankenberggasse 10 A-1040 Wien |
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| B-1, ****
Hotel Erzherzog Rainer Wiedner Hauptstr. 27-29 A-1040 Wien |
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| B-2, ***
Hotel Zu den 3 Kronen Schleifmuehlgasse 25 A-1040 Wien |
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| Hotel Clima City
Theresianumgasse 21a A-1040 Wien |
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| C-1, **
Haus Margareten Margaretenstr. 30 A-1040 Wien |
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| C-2, **
Haus Technik Schaeffergasse 2 A-1040 Wien |
ACCOMMODATION
All prices are quoted in ATS (Austrian Schilling) per room per night, incl. breakfast, service and taxes. All hotels are located within walking distance to the conference center.
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CATEGORY |
A**** |
B*** |
C** |
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Single room with bath or shower/WC |
1.100,-/ 1.450,- |
900,-/ 1.100,- |
480,-/ 550,- |
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Double room with bath or shower/WC |
1.500,-/ 1.890,- |
1.300,-/ 1.450,- |
780,-/ 850,- |
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Deposit per room |
1.500,- |
1.000,- |
500,- |
Complete and fax the form on the following page to Austropa Interconvention first, and then mail it with payment or use bank transfer for the full amount to Austropa Interconvention. You can use your major credit cards for guaranteeing the payment. Note: reservations are not guaranteed after July 15, 1998.
Here you find a printable form to make your HOTEL AND TOUR RESERVATION
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CONFERENCE & SEMINAR REGISTRATION
For participants and attendees outside Austria, complete the following registration form and send payment in US dollars from US bank or by credit card to:
The registration desk is open:
| Mo, We: | 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Tu, Th: | 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. |
| Fr: | 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
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For On-Site Registration-payments the following payment methods will be
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| REGISTRATION FEES: | ADVANCED | LATE |
| CONFERENCE | (by July 20, 1998) | (after July 20, 1998) |
| Membership Class | ||
| IEEE/CS Member |
o $425 or ATS 5,400 | o $500 or ATS 6,400 |
| Non-member |
o $540 or ATS 6,900 | o $625 or ATS 8,000 |
| IEEEStudent Member |
o $100 or ATS 1,300 | o $150 or ATS 1,900 |
| Each Full Day Seminar | ||
| IEEE/CS Member |
o $150 or ATS 1,900 | o $200 or ATS 2,600 |
| Non-member |
o $200 or ATS 2,600 | o $250 or ATS 3,200 |
| IEEEStudent Member |
o $ 75 or ATS 960 | o $100 or ATS 1,300 |
| Each Half Day Seminar | ||
| IEEE/CS Member |
o $ 90 or ATS 1,150 | o $120 or ATS 1,550 |
| Non-member |
o $115 or ATS 1,480 | o $150 or ATS 1,900 |
| IEEEStudent Member |
o $ 50 or ATS 640 | o $ 70 or ATS 900 |
Here you find a printable form for your SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
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