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This conference is a major international forum for practitioners, researchers, managers, and policy makers interested in computer software and applications as well as the software industry. In addition to three keynote addresses from industry leaders, there are 32 technical sessions, including 11 panel sessions, covering original research and development results on software development, knowledge and database systems, distributed systems, formal methods, multi-media systems, telecommunications software and applications, software industry practices and standards. Four one-day pre-conference professional development seminars on timely important topics have been organized.

FOUR ONE-DAY PRE-CONFERENCE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS

MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1996

9:00am - 5:00pm

S-1. Develop Internet Software Applications Using JAVA, Robert C. Lai,

International Software Process Constellation, USA

S-2. Computer Networks and Information Infrastructures, Dick B. Simmons, Texas

A & M University, USA

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1996

9:00am - 5:00pm

S-3. Management Approaches to Building Quality Complex Systems

Kenneth D. Shere, The Aerospace Corporation, USA

S-4. Distributed Multimedia Information Systems, Arif Ghafoor, Purdue

University, USA

CONFERENCE-AT-A-GLANCE

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1996

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Opening Session: Gil Chang Kim, Conference Chair

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Korea

Keynote Address: "Information Technology and GII Visions"

Jung Uck Seo, President

Korea Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Korea

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Session 1. Processes Supporting Software Development, R. Lai, USA

Session 2. Parallelism in Petri Net, T.H. Tse, Hong Kong

Session 3. Multimedia Environment & Applications, P. Shah, USA

Session 4. Object-oriented Technology (1), S. Honiden, Japan

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Session 5. Metrics in Software Development, D. H. Bae, Korea

Session 6. Security & Compilation, Guylaine Pollock, USA

Session 7. Multimedia on the Internet, Y. Al-Salqan, USA

Session 8. Panel: Is OO working as promised?, A. Combelles, France

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Session 9. Panel: Software Industry in Asia, H.S. Ihm, Korea

Session 10. Potpouri, A. Hawkes, USA

Session 11. Distributed DB Application Tools, K.C. Kang, Korea

Session 12. Panel: Would Internet meet global expectation?, S. Goto,

Japan

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1996

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Plenary Session: Chair - Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Keynote Address: "Autonomous Decentralization of Society Structures and

Information Systems"

Yasutsugu Takeda, Senior Executive Managing Director

Hitachi, Ltd., Japan

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Session 13. Formal Approaches in Software Development, Y.C. Shim,

Korea

Session 14. Formal Networks, Y.C. Chen, ROC

Session 15. Multimedia Database, F. Quek, USA

Session 16. Object-oriented Technology (2), F.J. Wang, Taiwan

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Session 17. Software Integration, S.D. Kim, Korea

Session 18. Panel: The Role of Architecture in the Development of

Software Systems, M. Bosson, Netherlands

Session 19. Object-oriented Database, R. Thomys, Germany

Session 20. Panel: Which Network Will Win?, D. Simmons, USA

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Session 21. Software Development and Education Models, H. Yang, UK

Session 22. Panel: High Assurance Systems Engineering, R. Paul, USA

Session 23. Database Theory, T.M. Jiang, USA

Session 24. Panel: Emerging Technology for Network Software Development,

T.L. Wang, USA

FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1996

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Plenary Session: Chair - Carl K. Chang, University of Illinois at

Chicago, USA

Keynote Address: "Revolutionalizing Software Development"

Robert L. Martin, Technology Officer

Lucent Technologies, USA

10:30 am - 12:00 noon

Session 25. Panel: Software Process Re-engineering & Improvement,

M. Aoyama, Japan

Session 26. Testing & Debugging, Y.S. Kuo, Taiwan

Session 27. Network-Software Engineering, S.M. Yang, Korea

Session 28. Object-oriented Applications, J.S. Ke, Taiwan

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Session 29. SE: Software Design and Analysis Methods, K. Malaivongs,

Thailand

Session 30. Panel: Software Education in the Asia-Pacific Region in the

21st Century, J. Urban, USA

Session 31. MD: Client/Server & Video Processing, J. Smith, USA

Session 32. Panel: Lessons Learned and Future Direction of Information

Superhighway, J.S. Patterson, USA

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Closing Session. "The Trends of Software Technology and Applications"

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

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COMPSAC 96 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS

MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1996

9:00am - 5:00pm

Two One-Day Professional Development Seminars

S-1 Develop Internet Software Applications Using JAVA

Robert C. Lai, International Software Process Constellation, USA

Audience:

Intended for software professionals who want to use JAVA as a language

for building Internet software applications. This seminar will especially

benefit software professionals on the technical as well as market aspects of

JAVA system development.

Description:

JAVA brings in the execution, interaction and animation power to

the Web. JAVA is a new language developed by Sun Microsystems that can be used

stand alone or as an extension from the HTML markup language.

JAVA will change the way we develop and use software because JAVA includes

strong software engineering elements, e.g. Object Orientation. The design of

JAVA has built-in constructs for distributed systems, portabilities,

robustness, security, and performance. In this tutorial we will explain the

concepts for building Web applications using JAVA as well as practical step by

step examples for building a simple application using JAVA.

Outline:

* Introduction

* An Introduction to JAVA

. Characteristics: Portable, Robust, Secure, Object-Oriented

. Development Environment, Compiler, Interpreter and Browser

. Existing Application Examples

* Using JAVA Environment

. JAVA Developer's Kit (JDK)

. HotJava Browser

. Java Application Interface Packages

* JAVA Fundamentals

. Types, Variables, Operators, Control Flow, Thread

. Classes, Applications, Applets, Interfaces, Packages

. Exception Handlers, Protocol Handlers, Content Handlers

* Building A Sample JAVA Application

. Create Programs

. Execute, Analyze and Refine Programs

Lecturer:

Robert Chi Tau Lai is president and founder of International Software

Process Constellation (ISPC), Inc. Reston, VA, which is specialized in software

process definition, software development methods, and retaliated areas. ISPC is

helping companies for advanced software technologies for automating enterprise

business process over Internet. From 1988-1992, he was on the technical staff of

the Software Productivity Consortium, where he was the senior process scientist

of the Process Improvement Division. His assignment was to develop the

methodology and explore supporting technologies for the Consortium's process

improvement approach to software development. He received M.S. in Computer Aided

Design in 1985 from the Design Information Processing Laboratory,

Carnegie-Mellon University. He was a visiting research scientist in the School

of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University. He was also an industry

liaison for IEEE Software magazine.

S-2 Computer Networks and Information Infrastructures

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

Audience:

Intended for system designers, computer engineers, computer

scientists, software engineers, and managers who plan to build products or

interface to the planned information highway. No prior experience in

computer networks is required.

Description:

This seminar provides an in-depth survey of current computer

networks and underlying technologies, including architectural requirements

for supporting information surperhighways and national information

infrastructures, network standards supporting the new networking

technologies, such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode, wireless LANs, distributed

knowledge based problem location, and optical networks. These efforts in

the U.S., Mexico and Latin America, Western Europe, and Pacific Rim

countries are also discussed. Current and future internet applications will

be described and internet applications will be demonstrated by connecting a

portable computer directly to the internet.

Outline:

* Network design criteria and protocols

* International Telecommunications Union technical

standards framework

* Broadband integrated services digital network

* Synchronous digital hierarchy

* US national information infrastructure

* National information infrastructures of Mexico and Latin

America, Western Europe, Pacific and Atlantic Rims

* Internet -- past, present, & future

* On-line internet demonstration

* Knowledge based network managers and trouble advisors

* Advanced communication services and multimedia

applications

* Future directions

Lecturer:

Dick Simmons is a Professor of Computer Science and co-director

of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at Texas A&M University. His current

research interests are software engineering, diagnosing and managing

computer networks, software models and metrics, cognitive systems, and

knowledge based systems. He was a president of the IEEE Computer Society,

the Amdahl Users Group, and the Data General Users Group. He was a

technical supervisor for Bell Telephone Laboratories. He directed the Texas

A&M University statewide computer network and responsible for a number of

R&D projects, including a project supported by the State of Texas and

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to build a distributed network advisor

to diagnose network problems within a private network that spans five

southwestern states. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer and

information sciences from the University of Pennsylvania.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1996

9:00am - 5:00pm

Two One-Day Professional Development Seminars

S-3 Management Approaches to Building Quality Complex Systems

Kenneth D. Shere, The Aerospace Corporation, USA

Audience:

Intended for practitioners, technical managers and general managers who are

building (large or real-time) complex systems and are interested in proactive

approaches to quality.

Description:

Many systems being built today are very complex. Either they are very large

or contain real-time components. The large number of middleware products

available is evidence of this complexity. In addition to being very

expensive to build, these systems frequently affect the financial health or

safety of their users.

Various management approaches to assuring quality products will be presented.

These approaches are based on case studies in which the instructor has

personally participated.

The application areas of the case studies include design of space systems,

multi-channel data modems, and air traffic control systems. The specific cases

involve systems that are either currently operational or will be operational

within one year.

Because the course focuses on complex systems, a wide variety of approaches are

needed to build in quality. This seminar presents an introduction to approaches

ranging from management attitudes to defining (in the CMM sense) the

verification and validation process, to integrating modeling, simulation and

testing with design.

Outline:

* Class perspective, defining complexity and an overview of the course

* Management Approaches

. Fostering Quality: Management attitudes; stimulating innovation; building a

quality, quality assurance group; an integrated quality engineering program

. The CMM Process: How tailoring the CMM to your organization helps building

quality software and systems

* Real Time Components: An integrated approach to modeling, simulation, design

and testing

* Proactive Versus Reactive approaches to quality

* Defining the verification and validation (V&V) process: defining a work

breakdown structure, identifying products and roles, specifying V&V processes

Lecturer:

Kenneth D. Shere is a senior project engineer in the Engineering Technology

Group of The Aerospace Corporation. Dr. Shere provides support to various

program offices responsible for procuring systems costing in excess of $100M.

Previously he has been an independent consultant, principal of a small systems

engineering business, department manager and technical director (of groups

ranging from 5 to 180 people). His areas of expertise include systems

engineering, software engineering, re-engineering, independent validation and

verification, testing, quality assurance, training and technology transfer.

Dr. Shere has published 16 papers and two books (with two more books in

preparation). He has received a variety of honors and awards including a Navy

Meritorious Civilian Service award, and was a NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellow. He has

a B.S. degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, an M.S. degree in

Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, each from the University of

Illinois.

S-4 Distributed Multimedia Information Systems

Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA

Audience:

Researchers, developers, practitioners and software engineers in

the area of multimedia systems. A brief exposure to general concepts about

database development and networking systems would be helpful.

Description:

Advances in database and broadband networking technologies

have made distributed multimedia applications a reality today. Number of

advanced applications require high speed networking and distributed access

to information sources. These applications include telemedicine, digital

libraries, entertainment, distant-learning and consultation, distributed

collaboration, multimedia mail, video-conferencing, distributed collaboration,

distant-learning, etc. The objective of this tutorial is to present the

current state-of-the-art and leading R&D issues for a distributed multimedia

information system (DMIS). We focus on a set specification requirements for

such a system and discuss design methodologies for the software architecture

of a general purpose multimedia database management system which serves

as a kernel for a DMIS. These requirements dictate efficient indexing and

content-based retrieval mechanisms for distributed multimedia data, enforcing

synchronization of multimedia information in a distributed environment, and

the delivery of high quality multimedia information. The suitability of the

emerging object-oriented technology for providing building blocks for the

software development of a DMIS, the design issues for various multimedia

synchronization protocols and network architecture for resource management are

discussed. Trade-offs between quality and network resources requirements are

presented. Several approaches to meet these challenges and case studies from

various existing systems are presented.

Outline:

* Distributed Multimedia Applications

* Requirement Specifications for a General Purpose Multimedia DBMS

. Data Modeling of Multimedia Information

. Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Data

. Media Synchronization

. Multimedia Query Languages

. User Interface

* Object-Oriented Based Software Design of Multimedia Databases

* Distributed Software Architecture for Multimedia Databases

* Quality of Service Specification

* Broadband Networking Technology

* Network Resource Management and Architecture

* Multimedia Synchronization Protocols

Lecturer:

Arif Ghafoor received the MS, MPhil and PhD from Columbia University, in 1980,

and 1985, respectively. He joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1985

and is now associate professor of electrical engineering.

His research interests include parallel and distributed systems and multimedia

information systems. His research in these areas has been funded by the DoD,

the NSF, NYNEX, AT&T, Intel Corp., Fuji Electric Corp., and General Electric.

Conference Tracks

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|MD:Multimedia and Database Software | 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 31 |

| Applications | |

|OO:Object-oriented Software Development | 4, 8, 16, 28 |

|SE:Software Engineering Process | 1, 5, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 |

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|TS:Telecommunication Software/Applications| 12, 20, 24, 27, 32 |

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Conference Technical Program

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| TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1996, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm |

| Welcome Reception |

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| WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1996, 9:00 am - 10:00 am |

| Opening Session |

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Welcome: Gil Chang Kim, Conference Chair

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Additional Greetings: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

COMPSAC Standing Committee Chair

Program Overview: Carl K. Chang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Sukho Lee, Seoul National University, Korea

Program Co-Chairs

Keynote Address: "Information Technology and GII Visions"

Jung Uck Seo, President

Korea Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Korea

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| WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1996, 10:30 am - 12:00 noon |

| Four Parallel Sessions |

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Session 1. Processes Supporting Software Development

Chair: Robert Lai, International Software Process Constellation, USA

"A Software Process Management System Considering Workers' Workload"

Atsuo Hazeyama and Seiichi Komiya, NEC, Japan

"Software Cost Option Strategy Tool (S-COST)"

Barry W. Boehm and Hoh In, University of Southern California, USA

"Process Model Reuse to Promote Organizational Learning in Software Development"

Ernst Ellmer, Dieter Merkl,Universitat Wien, Gerald Quirchmayr and Min Tjoa,

Technische Universitat Wien, Austria

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Session 2. Parallelism in Petri Net

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

"A Colored Petri Net-Based Formal Method for the Design of Control Systems"

Richard St-Denis, M. Makungu and M. Barbeau, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada

"Verifying Timing Properties for Distributed Real-Time Systems Using Timing

Constraint Petri Nets"

Jeffrey J. P. Tsai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, Steve J.H.Yang,

National Central University, Taiwan, Eric Y.T. Juan, University of Illinois

at Chicago, USA

"Extracting Parallelism in Nested Loops"

W.B. Song, Inchon Junior College, Y.H. Kong and D.S. Park, Soonchunhyang

University, B.S. Kim, Kyunyang University, Korea

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Session 3. Multimedia Environment & Applications

Chair: Pallavi Shah, Sun Microsystems, USA

"Coordination of Systems with Real-Time Properties in Manifold"

George A. Papadopoulos , University of Cyprus, Cyprus, Farhad Arbab, CWI,

Netherlands

"SESAME: A Scalable and Extensible Architecture for Multimedia Entertainment"

Yen-Jen Lee, David H.C. Du and Wei-hsiu Ma, University of Minnesota, USA

"A Popularity-based Data Allocation Scheme for a Cluster-based VOD Server"

Carl K. Chang, Chiao-Chuan Shih, Thinh T. Nguyen, University of Illinois at

Chicago, Pattanasak Mongkolwat, Illinois Istitute of Technology, USA

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Session 4. Object-oriented Technology (1)

Chair: Shinichi Honiden, Toshiba Corp., Japan

"Mapping Petri Nets To Parallel Programs in CC++"

Xudong He and Weili Yao, North Dakota State University, USA

"Integrating Parallel Functions into the Manipulation for Distributed Persistent

Objects"

Yan Jiang Kurashiki University of Science and Arts, Masayoshi Aritsugi and

Akifumi Makinouchi, Kyushu University, Japan

"A Semantics of the Separation of Interface and Implementation in C++"

Eun-Sun Cho ,Sang-Yong Han and Hyoung-Joo Kim, Seoul National University, Korea

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12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m. Lunch Break

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| WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1996, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm |

| Four Parallel Sessions |

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Session 5. Metrics in Software Development

Chair: Doo-Hwan Bae, Korea AdIP CLASS IEEE NONMEMBER STUDENT IEEE NONMEMBER STUDENT

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MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1996

9:00am - 5:00pm

[ ] S-1 Develop Internet Software Applications Using JAVA

Robert C. Lai, International Software Process Constellation

[ ] S-2 Computer Networks and Information Infrastructures

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

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1996

9:00am - 5:00pm

[ ] S-3 Management Approaches to Building Quality Complex Systems

Kenneth D. Shere, The Aerospace Corporation, USA

[ ] S-4 Distributed Multimedia Information Systems

Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA

WEDNESDAY - FRIDAY, August 21 - 23, 1996

[ ] COMPSAC 96 Conference

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