Call for Papers and Participation
First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Intelligent
Software Engineering (APWISE'98)
held in conjunction with the Fifth Pacific
Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Contents :
Introduction
There is a growing realization that the design of effective software
engineering tools must be smarter. Real world software specs can be
very intricate. Manual browsing by a software engineer cannot reveal
its subtleties. Automatic tools are required to reflect over business
knowledge to identify what is missing or could be effectively changed.
At the same time, many AI researchers now realise that software
engineering provides the best testbed for AI tools and techniques. For
example:
- During analysis:
- Knowledge acquisition methods for requirements elicitation
- Knowledge representation methods for expressing the business
knowledge.
- Formal reasoning with non-classical logics for requirements
engineering and evolution.
- During design and coding:
- Knowledge base verification techniques can critique the
structure of a knowledge base/specification.
- Knowledge-based validation techniques can detect bad semantics in a
knowledge base/specification
- Classical theorem proving and related formal reasoning techniques
are
being widely applied in the context of formal specification languages,
as
well as in managing changing specifications for reuse-oriented software
maintenance.
- Formal languages for planning in the AI context are being
reincarnated
as languages for software process modelling.
- During maintenance:
- Tools from AI can assist in maintaining declarative and procedural
knowledge.
- AI techniques for program comprehension and reverse engineering of
legacy systems. This has been reinforced by recent successes in
applying methods such as constraint satisfaction and plan recognition to
reverse engineering legacy systems.
Topics
of Interest
Submissions should address software engineering applications of AI
technologies. Of interest to the workshop are:
- papers that present fundamental/theoretical advances.
- papers that describe fielded applications.
- papers that study the effectiveness of deployed solutions.
Participation
and Submission of Papers
Submitted papers should not exceed 5000 words in length. To submit a
paper, authors must go through BOTH of the following steps:
- Email an electronic version (preferably in the form of a postscript
file)
to Aditya Ghose at the following address:
aditya@uow.edu.au
- Mail 4 copies of the paper to Aditya Ghose at the address
provided below.
If you wish to participate without presenting a paper, send a brief
email message outlining your areas of interest to Aditya Ghose at:
aditya@uow.edu.au
.
Important
Dates
-
Papers due by: September
7, 1998
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Notification of Acceptance:
September 25, 1998
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Camera-ready version of Final
Paper due: October 25, 1998
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Date of Workshop:
November 22-27, 1998 (Final workshop date TBA)
Program
Committee
- Robert Colomb, University of Queensland, Australia.
- Alex Quilici, University of Hawaii, USA.
- Alessandra Russo, Imperial College, UK.
- Paul Sorenson, University of Alberta, Canada.
- Steven Woods, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.
- Qiang Yang, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
- Didar Zowghi, Macquarie University, Australia.
Workshop
Co-Chairs
- Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia. (Email:
aditya@uow.edu.au)
- Tim Menzies, University of New South Wales, Australia.
(Email: timm@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Please address all queries to:
Dr. Aditya K. Ghose
Department of Business Systems
University of Wollongong
NSW 2522 Australia
Email: aditya@uow.edu.au
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