IEEE IEEE Computer Society
25th Anniversary Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 8-12, 2001
 FINAL  TECHNICAL  PROGRAM

 MONDAY  OCTOBER  8,  2001

 OPENING  SESSION    9:00-10:30
o Welcome and Remarks: General Chair: Terry Heng, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Motorola Global Software Group, USA
o Additional Greetings and Remarks: Standing Committee Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA
o Program Overview: Program Chair: T.H. Tse, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
o Keynote Address 1:
Always On, Anywhere Computing:
Lori Craven, Vice President, Mobility Solutions, Lucent Technologies, USA
 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  1    11:00-12:30
Paper Session 1A:
Requirements Engineering

Chair: Hewijin C. Jiau, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

o Business Rules Specification, Enforcement and Distribution for Heterogeneous Environments:
Daniela Rosca, Monmouth University, USA, and John D'Attilio, Oracle Corporation, USA
o Visualization Issues for Software Requirements Negotiation:
Hoh In and Siddhartha Roy, Texas A&M University, USA

Paper Session 1B:
Component-Based Development

Chair: Carl K. Chang, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

o Component-Based Design of Large-Scale Distributed Systems:
Franck Barbier, University of Pau, France
o A Configuration Management System Supporting Component-Based Software Development:
Lu Zhang, Oxford Brookes University, UK, Hong Mei, Peking University, China, and Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK
o Converting Web Applications to Data Components: Design Methodology:
Jan Pazdziora, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Paper Session 1C:
Protocols and Harmonization

Chair: Albert K. Hawkes, Software Engineer Associates, USA

o A Long and Winding Road (Progress on the Road to a Software Engineering Profession):
J. Barrie Thompson, University of Sunderland, UK
o Harmonized Conformance Testing for Product Data Managers:
David Flater and K.C. Morris, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
o Exploiting Automatic Analysis of E-Commerce Protocols:
Jun Wei, Shing-Chi Cheung, and Xu Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Panel 1D:
Large Scale Software Development:
What Have We Learned?

Chair: Bruce Healton, Elegant Technology Solutions, Inc., USA

Panelists:
o Paul R. Cole, Wavetech.net, USA
o Birket Foster, MB Foster Associates Ltd., USA
o Frank Hill, M2Direct, USA
o Teresa Jenisch, Northern Telecom Global, USA
o Chi Lin, Jet Propulsion Labs, USA

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  2    14:00-15:30
Paper Session 2A:
Reverse Engineering and Re-Engineering

Chair: Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

o ELKAR: A Component Based Re-Engineering Methodology to Provide Cooperation:
Philippe Roose, University of Pau, France
o JBOORET: An Automated Tool to Recover OO Design and Source Models:
Hong Mei, Tao Xie, and Fuqing Yang, Peking University, China
o MOOSE: A Task-Driven Program Comprehension Environment:
Juergen Rilling and Ahmed Seffah, Concordia University, Canada

Paper Session 2B:
Quality Management

Chair: J. Barrie Thompson, University of Sunderland, UK

o Investigating Reinspection Decision Accuracy Regarding Product-Quality and Cost-Benefit Estimates:
Stefan Biffl and Michael Halling, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
o A Memory-Based Reasoning Approach for Assessing Software Quality:
Raymond A. Paul, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, USA, Venkata U.B. Challagulla, Farokh B. Bastani, and I-Ling Yen, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
o Quality Planning for Software Development:
Tom Walton, Acatel Canada, Canada

Panel 2C:
Software Architecture: Impact on Software Development

Chair: Dennis Mulcare, Telcordia Technologies, Inc., USA

Panelists:
o Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
o Christine Hofmeister, Lehigh University/Siemens, USA
o Rick Kazman, Software Engineering Institute, USA
o Rick Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  3    16:00-17:30
Paper Session 3A:
Workflow Systems

Chair: Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

o Designing Role Hierarchies for Access Control in Workflow Systems:
Reinhardt A. Botha and Jan H.P. Eloff, Port Elizabeth Technikon, South Africa
o Retrofitting Workflows for B2B Assembly:
Alistair P. Barros and Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede, The University of Queensland, Australia, and Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research, USA
o A Stage-Activity Process Model Facilitating Workflow Management for Web Publishing:
Jiannong Cao, Catherine Chan, and Keith Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Paper Session 3B:
Software Architecture

Chair: Yinong Chen, Arizona State University, USA

o An Architectural Model for Service-Based Flexible Software:
Keith Bennett, Jie Xu, Malcolm Munro, and Zhuang Hong, University of Durham, UK, Paul Layzell, UMIST, UK, Nicolas Gold, University of Durham, UK, and David Budgen and Pearl Brereton, Keele University, UK
o Formal Design of Real-Time Components on a Shared Data Space Architecture:
Ulrich Hannemann and Jozef Hooman, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
o Information Theoretic Metrics for Software Architectures:
Mark Shereshevsky, Habib Ammari, Nicholay Gradetsky, Ali Mili, and Hany H. Ammar, West Virginia University, USA

Panel 3C:
Does SEI Level 5 Lead to High Quality Software?

Chair: Bob Yacobellis, Motorola Global Software Group, USA

Panelists:
o Barbara Hirsh, Motorola, USA
o Jim Connor, Motorola, USA
o Girish Seshagiri, Advanced Information Services, Inc., USA
o Mark Paulk, Software Engineering Institute, USA

Panel 3D:
Telecommunications Software:
Age before Beauty?

Chair: Arnold Kwong, Independent Consultant, USA

Panelists:
o Teresa Jenisch, Northern Telecom Global, USA
o David Mastbaum, Aventail, USA
o John McGuthry, Telcordia, USA
o Ed Powell, Community Fiber, USA

 TUESDAY  OCTOBER  9,  2001

 PLENARY SESSION  1    9:00-10:30
Chair: J. Barrie Thompson, University of Sunderland, UK

o Keynote Address 2:
Design and Anti-Design in the Birth of the World-Wide Web: Stories of Software Engineering for the Web before Standards:
Tim Krauskopf, Vice President and General Manager, Core Solutions, Internet Software and Content Group, Motorola, USA

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  4    11:00-12:30
Paper Session 4A:
Software Testing 1

Chair: Akira K. Onoma, Hosei University, Japan

o Automatic Generation of Database Instances for White-Box Testing:
Jian Zhang and Chen Xu, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, and Shing-Chi Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
o End-To-End Integration Testing Design:
Wei-Tek Tsai and Xiaoying Bai, Arizona State University, USA, Raymond A. Paul, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, USA, Weiguang Shao and Vishal Agarwal, University of Minnesota, USA, and Techeng Sheng, Bing Li, and Jyothishree Honnavalli, Arizona State University, USA
o Fault-Based Testing in the Absence of an Oracle:
T.Y. Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, and T.H. Tse and Zhiquan Zhou, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Paper Session 4B:
Distributed Systems 1

Chair: Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

o A Windows CE Implementation of a Middleware Architecture Supporting Time-Triggered Message Triggered Objects:
Galo Gimenez, Hewlett-Packard, USA, and Kane H. Kim, University of California at Irvine, USA
o Certificate Based Authorization Simulation System:
Jie Dai and Jim Alves-Foss, University of Idaho, USA
o An Election Based Approach to Fault-Tolerant Group Membership in Collaborative Environments:
James S. Pascoe and Roger J. Loader, The University of Reading, UK, and Vaidy S. Sunderam, Emory University, USA

Paper Session 4C:
Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Chair: Shing-Chi Cheung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

o Automated Generation of Statistical Test Cases from UML State Diagrams:
Philippe Chevalley and Pascale Thevenod-Fosse, LAAS-CNRS, France
o Formal and Use-Case Driven Requirement Analysis in UML:
Xiaoshan Li, The University of Macau, Macau, and Zhiming Liu and Jifeng He, The United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology, Macau
o Model Driven Process Engineering:
Erwan Breton, University of Nantes, France, and Jean Bezivin, Societe Soft-Maint, France

Panel 4D:
Designing Process: Taming the Web Development Cycle

Chair: Adam Steele, DePaul University, USA

Panelists:
o Roymieco A. Carter, DePaul University, USA
o Abbey Kuster, Graphic and Web Designer, NYC, USA
o Jamie Prokell, Multimedia Designer, NYC, USA

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  5    14:00-15:30
Paper Session 5A:
Safety and Security

Chair: Bruce McMillin, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

o Back-End Software for Highly Dependable Real-Time Control Systems:
Yaroslav Domaratsky, Motorola Global Software Group, USA, and Maxim Perevozchikov, Alexander Ingulets, and Alexander Alkhovik, Motorola Global Software Group, Russia
o EC-SignGate: Electronic Contract Signing Gateway:
Man-Chi Pong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
[Presented by Zhiquan Zhou, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong]
o A Novel Intrusion Detection System Model for Securing Web-Based Database Systems:
Wenhui Shu and Daniel T.H. Tan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Paper Session 5B:
Distributed Systems 2

Chair: Yong (John) Liu, Lucent Technologies, USA

o A Quantitative Comparison of Load Balancing Approaches in Distributed Object Computing Systems:
Lap-Sun Cheung and Yu-Kwong Kwok, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
o Context-Sensitive Distributed Software Development for Ubiquitous Computing Environments:
Stephen S. Yau and Fariaz Karim, Arizona State University, USA
o QAME: QoS-Aware Management Environment:
Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville and Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Panel 5C:
Formalizing UML Semantics

Chair: Xudong He, Florida International University, USA

Panelists:
o Betty H.C. Cheng, Michigan State University, USA
o Robert France, Colorado State University, USA
o Sol Shatz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Panel 5D:
End-to-End Integration Testing

Chair: Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA

Panelists:
o Amrit Goel, Syracuse University, USA
o Hong Mei, Peking University, China
o Raymond A. Paul, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, USA

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  6    16:00-18:15
Paper Session 6A:
Commercial Off-The-Shelf Components

Chair: Xudong He, Florida International University, USA

o DSIAS: A Software Architectural Style for Distributed Software Integration Systems:
Zen-Wei Hong and Jim-Min Lin, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, Hewijin C. Jiau, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, and De-Sheng Chen, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
o Empirical Software Simulation for COTS Glue Code Development and Integration:
Jongmoon Baik and Nancy Eickelmann, Motorola Labs, USA, and Chris Abts, University of Southern California, USA
o Metrics-Guided Quality Management for Component-Based Software Systems:
Sahra Sedigh-Ali and Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA, and Raymond A. Paul, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, USA

Paper Session 6B:
Process Case Studies

Chair: Stephen Chen, Motorola Global Software Group, USA

o E-ADOME: Enacting Composite E-Services in an Advanced Workflow Environment:
Dickson K.W. Chiu, Dickson Computer Systems, Hong Kong, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India, and Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
o An Empirical Study of Software Productivity:
Sandro Morasca, Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy, and Giuliano Russo, DPS - SINIT, Italy
o Test Operation-Driven Approach on Building Regression Testing Environment:
Hiroshi Suganuma, Kinya Nakamura, and Tsutomu Syomura, Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd., Japan
o Automation of Design and Development of Embedded Software on the Basis of a Strictly Defined Software Architecture:
Sergey Baranov and Vsevolod Kotlyarov, Motorola Global Software Group, Russia
o An Editing System for Working Processes:
Yin-Shinn Chen and Feng-Jian Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

Panel 6C:
The Position of E-Learning Application Software

Chair: Elsabe Cloete, University of South Africa, South Africa

Panelists:
o Ugo Buy, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
o T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
o Pradip Srimani, Clemson University, USA
o Peter K. Wiesner, IEEE Educational Activities, USA

Panel 6D:
3G and Wireless Infrastructure: Impacts on Developers and Users

Chair: Arnold Kwong, Independent Consultant, USA

Panelists:
o Michael McKee, University of Minnesota, USA
o Ed Powell, Community Fiber, USA
o Barry Storm, Storm Technologies, USA

 WEDNESDAY  OCTOBER  10,  2001

 PLENARY  SESSION  2    9:00-10:30
Chair: Terry Heng, Motorola Global Software Group, USA

o Keynote Address 3:
Information Technology Research Agenda: New Developments and Ambitions:
Ruzena Bajcsy, Assistant Director, Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation, USA

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  7    11:00-12:30
Paper Session 7A:
Software Testing 2

Chair: T.H. Tse, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

o Formalization of Software Testing Criteria Using the Z Notation:
Sergiy A. Vilkomir and Jonathan P. Bowen, South Bank University, UK
o Integrating White- and Black-Box Techniques for Class-Level Regression Testing:
Sami Beydeda and Volker Gruhn, University of Dortmund, Germany
o An Observational Theory of Integration Testing for Component-Based Software Development:
Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK, and Xudong He, Florida International University, USA

Paper Session 7B:
Web-Based Systems

Chair: K. Vairavan, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, USA

o A Runtime Composite Service Creation and Deployment Infrastructure and its Applications in Internet Security, E-Commerce, and Software Provisioning:
David Mennie, The Bulldog Group, Inc., Canada, and Bernard Pagurek, Carleton University, Canada
o A Rough Set Based Self-Adaptive Web Search Engine:
Baowen Xu and Weifeng Zhang, Southeast University, China, Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK, and William C. Chu, TungHai University, Taiwan
o Supporting Web Development in the OPEN Process: Additional Tasks:
Brendan Haire, Brian Henderson-Sellers and David Lowe, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Panel 7C:
What are the Missing Elements in SE Research and What Next?

Chair: Franck Xia, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

Panelists:
o David Budgen, Keele University, UK
o Jeffrey Voas, Cigital, Inc., USA
o Lawrence Votta, Motorola, USA
o Marvin Zelkowitz, University of Maryland, USA

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  8    14:00-15:30
Paper Session 8A:
Object-Oriented Development

Chair: Jeffrey Voas, Cigital, Inc., USA

o The Exu Approach to Safe, Transparent and Lightweight Interoperability:
John F. Bubba and Alan Kaplan, Clemson University, USA, and Jack C. Wileden, University of Massachusetts, USA
o Task and Team Management in the Distributed Software Project Management Tool:
Hai Eric Lam and Piyush Maheshwari, The University of New South Wales, Australia
o Utilizing Object-Oriented Databases for Concurrency Control in Virtual Environments:
Damla Turgut, Nevin Aydin, Ramez Elmasri, and Begumhan Turgut, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Paper Session 8B:
Embedded Systems

Chair: Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA

o Algebraic Transformations in Regular Array Design:
Toomas P. Plaks, South Bank University, UK
o A Case Study on Formal Design of Hybrid Control Systems:
Hong Ki Thae and Dang Van Hung, The United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology, Macau
o Reducing Matching Time for OPS5 Production Systems:
Jeong A. Kang and Albert M.K. Cheng, University of Houston, USA

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  9    16:00-17:30
Paper Session 9A:
Agent Technology and Frameworks

Chair: Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

o Accomplishing Adaptability in Simulation Frameworks: The Bubble Approach:
J. Andres Diaz Pace, Federico U. Trilnik and Marcelo R. Campo, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aidres, Argentina, and Mohamed E. Fayad, University of Nebraska, USA
o Dealing with Denial-of-Service Attacks in Agent-Enabled Active and Programmable Infrastructures:
Stamatis Karnouskos, German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany
o Implementing an Agent System Using N-Tier Pattern-Based Framework:
William C. Chu, Juei-Nan Chen, and Chun-Yuan Lee, TungHai University, Taiwan, and Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, UK

Paper Session 9B:
Industry Application Case Studies

Chair: Albert K. Hawkes, Software Engineer Associates, USA

o An Application of Data Warehouse Technology to the Measurement System for UML-Based Artifacts:
Taku Fujii, OGIS-RI Co., Ltd., Japan, and Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan
o Availability Requirement for Fault Management Server:
James J. Han, Hairong Sun, and Haim Levendel, Motorola, USA
o InfoSleuth: Agent-Based System for Data Integration and Analysis:
Tomasz Ksiezyk, Gale Martin, and Qing Jia, Motorola Global Software Group, USA
o Java in Industrial Automation: A Virtual PLC:
Mario Grabner, Gerhard Leonhartsberger, Alexander Leutgeb, and Josef Altmann, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria
[Presented by Stefan Probst, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria]

 HALF-DAY  WORKSHOP
 14:00-17:30
Data Mining and E-Organizations

Co-Chairs:
o T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
o Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane Medical University, Japan

Position Papers:
o Index Miner: A Data Mining System:
I-Jen Chiang, Index Software, San Jose, California, USA, and T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
o Melanoma Prediction Using Data Mining System LERS:
Jan P. Grzymala-Busse, Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse, and Zdzislaw S. Hippe, University of Kansas, USA
o A Knowledge-Oriented Clustering Technique Based on Rough Sets:
Shoji Hirano, Shimane Medical University, Japan
o Category-Based Web Personalization System:
Ching-Cheng Lee, California State University at Hayward, USA, and Wei Xu, San Jose State University, USA
o Decision Logics for Knowledge Representation in Data Mining:
Tuan-Fang Fan and Wu-Chih Hu, National Penghu Institute of Technology, Taiwan, and Chuan-Jung Liau, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
o The Lattice Structure of Database and Mining Rules of All Levels:
T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
o Intelligent Agents: Coordination of Action Rules to Increase Global Profit:
Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, USA
o Security and Privacy in Virtual Organization:
Bhavani Thuraisingham, The MITRE Corporation, USA
o Internet-Based Medical Decision Support System:
Shoji Hirano and Shusaku Tsumoto, Shimane Medical University, Japan
o On Modeling Data Mining with Granular Computing:
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

 THURSDAY  OCTOBER  11,  2001

 PLENARY  SESSION  3    9:00-10:30
Plenary Panel: Trends of Software Technology to Meet the Changing World

Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Panelists:
o Dick B. Simmons, Texas A&M University, USA
o Henry Lee, Motorola Global Software Group, USA
o Hans-Ludwig Hausen, German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), Germany

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  10    11:00-12:30
Paper Session 10A:
Software Testing 3

Chair: Dick B. Simmons, Texas A&M University, USA

o PePPeR: A New Model to Bridge the Gap between User and Designer Perceptions:
B.M. Subraya, S.V. Subrahmanya, J.K. Suresh, and C. Ravi, Infosys Technologies Limited, India
[Presented by John P. Mayer, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA]
o Requirement-Based Automated Black-Box Test Generation:
Luay H. Tahat, Lucent Technologies, USA, Boris Vaysburg, Motorola, USA, Bogdan Korel, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, and Atef J. Bader, Lucent Technologies, USA
o Scenario-Based Functional Regression Testing:
Wei-Tek Tsai and Xiaoying Bai, Arizona State University, USA, Raymond A. Paul, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, USA, and Lian Yu, Arizona State University, USA

Paper Session 10B:
Data Mining

Chair: Carl K. Chang, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

o An Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Market Basket Data Based on Small Large Ratios:
Ching-Huang Yun, Kun-Ta Chuang, and Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
o An Efficient Hash-Based Method for Discovering the Maximal Frequent Set:
Don-Lin Yang, Ching-Ting Pan, and Yeh-Ching Chung, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
o Mining Market Value Functions for Targeted Marketing:
Y.Y. Yao and Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  11    14:00-15:30
Paper Session 11A:
Metrics and Measurement

Chair: Hans-Ludwig Hausen, German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), Germany

o An Assessment Approach to Analyzing Benefits and Risks of Product Lines:
Klaus Schmid, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany
o CLPKIDS: A Program Analysis System for Concurrent Logic Programs:
Jianjun Zhao, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan, and Jingde Cheng and Kazuo Ushijima, Kyushu University, Japan
o Measuring the Intensity of Object Coupling in C++ Programs:
Chia-Song Ma, Carl K. Chang, and Jane Cleland-Huang, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Paper Session 11B:
Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Chair: T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA

o Building and Managing XML/XSL-Powered Web Sites: An Experience Report:
Clemens Kerer, Engin Kirda, Mehdi Jazayeri, and Roman Kurmanowytsch, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
o Using SOAP to Clean up Configuration Management:
Paul O'Connell and Rachel McCrindle, The University of Reading, UK
o An XML-Message Based Architecture Description Language and Architectural Mismatch Checking:
Bo Zhang, Ke Ding, and Jing Li, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

 PARALLEL  SESSIONS  12    16:00-17:30
Paper Session 12A:
Design Patterns and Frameworks

Chair: Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA

o An Unsupervised Segmentation Framework for Texture Image Queries:
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA, Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA, and Chengcui Zhang, Florida International University, USA
o Coupling of Design Patterns: Common Practices and their Benefits:
William B. McNatt and James M. Bieman, Colorado State University, USA
o Exception Handling in Component-Based System Development:
Alexander Romanovsky, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Paper Session 12B:
E-Commerce

Chair: Michael McKee, University of Minnesota, USA

o Autonomous Decentralized Database System for Assurance in Heterogeneous e-Business:
Carlos Perez Leguizamo, Shohei Kato, Kenji Hirai, and Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
o Multi-Criteria Transaction for E-Commerce Applications:
Peng Li, Jayabharath R. Goluguri, and I-Ling Yen, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA, and Ann Tai, IA Tech, Inc., USA
o Tailoring E-Commerce Sites to Ease Recovery after Disruptions:
Karen Renaud and Tobias van Dyk, University of South Africa, South Africa

 FULL-DAY  WORKSHOP
 11:00-17:30
Integration of Component-Based Systems: Issues and Solutions

Chair: Stephen Chen, Motorola Global Software Group, USA

Workshop Objective: The computer industry has been focused on achieving highly reliable systems for many years. Most cases focus on achieving highly reliable system components. The real issue is the successful integration of reliable components into a reliable system. This workshop will present the experiences from a number of projects and will afford participants an opportunity to present their views on how to best solve this problem.

Workshop Plan:
o Problem Statement:
Stephen Chen, Motorola, USA
o System Dependability Problems with Integration of COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) Components:
Haim Levendel, Motorola, USA
o Architectural Support for Integration in Distributed Reactive Systems:
Maarten Boasson, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
o Case Study of Wireless Integration Project:
Anand Sampath, Motorola, USA
o Roundtable Discussion
o Summary of Day's Results

 FRIDAY  OCTOBER  12,  2001

 PARALLEL  PROFESSIONAL  DEVELOPMENT  SEMINARS     9:00-12:30
Professional Development Seminar 1:
Applied Data Mining
o Shirley Williams, The University of Reading, UK
Professional Development Seminar 2:
How to Successfully Leverage UML in Real-Time Applications: Using SDL and UML Together
o Birger Moller-Pedersen and Oystein Haugen, Ericsson NorARC, USA, and Thomas Weigert, Motorola Global Software Group, USA
Professional Development Seminar 3:
Essential Software Measurement and Assessment Methodology: Technical and Legal Issues of Software Evaluation for Acceptance Testing and Certification
o Hans-Ludwig Hausen, German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), Germany

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