Spring SERC Showcase Agenda

Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
May 11 and 12, 1999


Tuesday, May 11, 1999

7:30 - 9:00 a.m. Policy Board Breakfast Meeting
Room 131 Purdue Memorial Union
Participants:
Stuart Faulk, Michael Forman, Bob Horgan, Charles Hotz, Aditya Mathur, Ali Mili,
Jayne Miller, Vida Scarpello, Alex Schwarzkopf, Steve Thebaut, George Trapp

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
Room 202 Stewart Center
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Registration
Room 202 Stewart Center

8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Poster Sessions
Room 202 Stewart Center
Joao Cangussu, Purdue University:
Feedback Control of Software Process

Marcos Lordello Chaim, Purdue University:
Using Dynamic Data Flow Associations to Support Software Debugging

Ahmed Elmagarmid and Vassilis Verykios, Purdue University:
Record Linking for Improving Data Quality

Senta Fowler Chmiel, Lisa Zhang, Ali Mili, West Virginia University:
Reuse Cost Analyzer

Priya Govindarajan, Purdue University:
Extraction of Architecture for CORBA-compliant Systems

Warren Harrison, Portland State University:
Testing First Person Entertainment Simulations &
Evaluating Process Improvement Decisions

Aditya Mathur and Sudipto Ghosh, Purdue University:
Testing Distributed Systems

Jens Palsberg, Purdue University:
Fast Genetic Programming

David Raffo, Portland State University:

Generalizing SERC Process Models

Baskar Sridharan, Purdue University:
Monitoring and Controlling CORBA Based Distributed Systems

Xia Tang, West Virginia University:

Combining Fault Avoidance, Removal and Tolerance


Goran Trajkovski, West Virginia University:
Fuzzy Oracles for Software Testing

Michael Winikoff, West Virginia University:
Certification Study of Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Systems

Wayne Zage and Dolores Zage, Ball State University:
Metrics Directed Verification of Motorola SDL Designs


10:30 - 12 noon Software Demonstrations
Room 202 Stewart Center

10:30 - 11:00 Senta Fowler Chmiel, Lisa Zhang, Ali Mili, Shaoyan Zhang, West Virginia
Reuse Cost and Return Analyzer


11:00 - 11:30 Aditya Mathur and Sudipto Ghosh, Purdue
Testing Distributed Systems 1.1

11:30 - 12:00 Bob Martin and David Raffo, Portland Sate
Applications of Process Simulation Models to a SERC Affiliate

12:00 - 12:50 Served Lunch
Room 250 Purdue Memorial Union

1:00 - 1:15 p.m. Welcome: Michael Forman, Associate Dean, School of Science,
Ahmed Sameh, CS Dept. Head, and Aditya Mathur, SERC Director
Room 202 Stewart Center

1:15 - 1:30 p.m. Aditya Mathur, SERC Director
State of SERC

1:30 - 2:50  p.m. Company Presentations
Room 202 Stewart Center

1:30 - 1:50  Dave Dorenbos, Motorola
IRFP:
Data Navigation & Visualization Projects

1:50 - 2:10 David Griffiths, BT Labs
IRFP: Technology Watch
IRFP: Customised Software Systems 

2:10 -  2:30  Siamak Yassini, NASA
IRFP:
Risk Analysis Method and Tool

2:30 - 2:50 Don Reynolds, ManTech Advanced Systems International, Inc. 
IRFP: Voting Systems and Software Testing

2:50 - 5:00 p.m. Research Presentations
Room 202 Stewart Center

2:50 - 3:20  Hany Ammar, West Virginia:
New Proposal, IRFP Response:
Scenario-Based Reliability Analysis of Distributed Component-Based Software: Metrics and Methods

3:20 - 3:30 BREAK

3:30 - 4:00  Warren Harrison, Portland State:
New Proposal, IRFP Response:
An Exploratory Study to Characterize and Evaluate IV&V ROI

4:00 - 4:30 Warren Harrison, Portland State, and Stuart Faulk, U. of Oregon:
Status Report: Testing First Person Entertainment Simulations

4:30 - 5:00 Ahmed Elmagarmid and Vassilis Verykios, Purdue:
Status Report: Record Linking for Improving Data Quality

5:00 - 6:15 p.m. IAB Closed Meeting
Room 202 Stewart Center
Participants: Ravi Appan, Richard Dennis, Dave Dorenbos, Bryan Everly,
Stuart Faulk, Michael Forman, David Griffiths, Bob Horgan, Charles Hotz,
Ron Kohl, Dean Knudson, Aditya Mathur, Ali Mili, Jayne Miller, Glenn Racine,
Don Reynolds, Vida Scarpello, Alex Schwarzkopf, Steve Thebaut, George Trapp,
Frances Van Scoy, Siamak Yassini

7:00 p.m. Evening Banquet
The Trails. Bus loads across from Purdue Memorial Union at 6:30.

Wednesday, May 12, 1999

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast Buffet
Room 202 Stewart Center

9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Vida Scarpello, NSF Evaluator
Annual SERC Survey

9:15 - 11:30 a.m. Research Presentations
Room 202 Stewart Center
09:15 - 09:45 Aditya Mathur, Purdue:
Status Report: Testing Distributed Systems

09:45 - 10:15 Jens Palsberg and Brad Lucier, Purdue:
Status Report: Fast Genetic Programming

10:15  - 10:30 BREAK

10:30 - 11:00 David Raffo, Portland State:
Status Report and  New Proposal:
Generalizing SERC Process Models

11:00 - 11:30 Wayne Zage & Dolores Zage, Ball State:
Status Report and Renewal Proposal:
Metrics Directed Process Guidance for SDL Model Development

11:30 - 1:00 p.m. Served Lunch
Room 250 Purdue Memorial Union
11:30 - 1:00 p.m. IAB Meeting Continue as a Working Lunch
Room 202 Stewart Center

1:15 - 2:55 p.m. Invited Speakers:
Room 202 Stewart Center
1:15 - 1:35  Nancy Solderitsch, ProLogic
Invited Company:
An Integrated Tool Environment for Software Product Lines

1:35 - 1:55  Stephen Mc Kearney, Bournemouth University/BT Labs
Invited Researcher/Company:

An Overview of Collaborative Research Between Bournemouth University and BT Labs

1:55 - 2:15 Tim Menzies, West Virginia
Invited Researcher:
New Results in Program Observability; or A Lazy Hero's Guide to Bug Slaying


2:15 - 2:35 Norman Wilde, U. of West Florida
Invited Researcher:
Effective Instrumentation Patterns for Real-Time Embedded Systems

2:35 - 2:55 Hoh In, Texas A&M University
Invited Researcher: New Opportunities for SERC and TAMU

2:55  p.m. Closing Remarks and General Meeting Adjourn

3:00 p.m. Potential Company Reps and SERC Admin Meeting
Room 202 Stewart Center

SERC Admin Meeting: Faulk, Mathur, Mili, Miller, Thebaut, Trapp
Room 202 Stewart Center

Comments, questions to jayne@cs.uoregon.edu

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