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From: govindr@pike.ee.mcgill.ca (Govind Ramaswamy)
Subject: COMPSAC-92 - anybody attending ??
Organization: McGill University - VLSI Laboratory, Montreal, CANADA.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 22:16:33 GMT

Greetings!

I would like to know if some kind soul in this newsgroup will be 
attending the COMPSAC-92 (Computer Software and Applications 
Conference) to be held in Chicago, and would like to present my 
paper (details and abstract given below) in the conference. I have 
originally planned to attend the conference and paid the registration
fee.  However due to other commitments, I may not be able to 
attend the conference. If someone is willing to present the 
paper, I can send the following well-in-advance.

	- slides
	- notes for the slides
	- a copy of the full paper
	- a copy of the paper as is to appear in the proceedings

If anyone is interested, please contact me by e-mail (address given
below) as I do not read this newsgroup regularly.

Any help or pointers in this regard would also be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Govind

=-----------------------------------------------------------=
Govindarajan Ramaswamy		      Ph: (514) 398 8169 (O)
VLSI Design Laboratory		          (514) 287 8964 (H)
Electrical Engineering	             
McGill University                     Fax: (514) 398 4470
3480 University Street	              
MONTREAL, H3A 2A7, Canada	govindr@pike.ee.mcgill.ca
=-----------------------------------------------------------=


ps: DETAILS OF THE PAPER:



	Software Fault-Tolerance in Functional Programming 

			 R. Govindarajan
		Dept. of Electrical Engineering 
			McGill University 
		   Montreal, H3A 2A7, Canada


			   Abstract

Handling exceptions in functional languages has always been a problem, 
due to the inherent conflict between the control flow oriented approach 
of exception handlers and the functional style of evaluation. In this 
paper, we propose a new approach that discards the conventional view 
of treating exceptions as a means of effecting control transfer.  
Instead, exceptions are used to change the state of an object:  A
{\it Terminate} exception is viewed as `shielding' the input object.  
On the other hand, a {\it Resume} exception designates the input 
object as `curable' and requires the immediate application of a 
handler function.  This approach enables the description of the 
semantics of exception raising functions (i) without associating 
any implementation restriction and (ii) without the loss of referential 
transparency and commutativity of functions.



To appear in the session on Fault-Tolerance Concepts, Sept.24, 2.00 - 3.30pm
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
From: leongcm@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Chee Ming LEONG)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: CASE TOOLS
Date: 27 Aug 92 04:33:15 GMT
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server

Hi all,

I am currently assessing CASE tools; some of them are ISEE from 
Westmount Technology, EIFFEL from ISE, SILVERRUN from CSA, POSE from
CSA, TEAMWORK from Cadre, SOFTWARE THRU PICTURES from IDE, IEW from
Knowledgeware, SPEEDWARE, PARADIGM+ from Protosoft.

Anyone who has used them before, please give some feedback, views,
comments. Views on other CASE tools are also welcomed.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Chee Ming

Internet:  leongcm@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com
Phone:     (65)2798670
Fax:       (65)2792862
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
From: kjmiller@mitre.org (Kevin Miller)
Subject: Data Flow Decomposition Algebra
Organization: MITRE
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:14:17 GMT

I'm looking for information on the use of algebraic techniques for 
decomposing data flow diagrams.  This is based on a paper, An Algebra 
for Data Flow Diagram Process Decomposition", by Mike Adler, in the 
Feb 1988 IEEE Transactions On Software Engineering.  It describes 
a set of techniques for determining the optimal breakout of processes 
in a data flow model.

Is anyone out there aware of this technique (or similar ones)?  Is 
anyone using these kind of techniques for system/software definition? 
Any lessons learned?  Any pointers to other similar methods?  The 
paper mentioned a Prolog prototype that implemented their techniques.  
Does anyone know of such an animal and where I coould get ahold of it?  
Lastly, does anyone know how I can contact the author?  As of 1988 he 
was at CDC in Bloomington, MN.

Please reply by e-mail if possible.  I'll post a summary if there 
sufficient interest.  Thanks in advance for the info.

Kevin Miller
kjmiller@mitre.org
Kevin_Miller.D79_CENTRAL@qmgate.mitre.org
From: littlec1@jaguar.uofs.edu (Chris Little)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Software Generation & Maintenance
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:42:56 GMT
Organization: University of Scranton


I am taking a graduate class called "Software Generation & Maintenance"
and am looking for pointers on topics to research.  Suggestions put
forward by the professor are:

        History of software generation/maintenance
        Traditional methods of software generation
        Applications generators
        Reuse
        Reverse Engineering
        Regression Analysis
        Software Evolution
        Can O-O make a difference?
        CASE tools

If you have any other suggestions and can point me to some references,
I'd be grateful.  Thank you in advance.

Also, I plan to do an indepth research paper on VAXSet for this class.
Pointers on this topic would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks again.

--
Chris Little, Programmer/DBA                    University Computing Systems
                                                University of Scranton
  LITTLEC1@JAGUAR.UOFS.EDU                      Scranton, PA 18510
From: rds@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Rowan D. Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Uni. of Michigan -- phd thesis?
Date: 27 Aug 92 12:31:36 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

G'day netlanders,
In the eternal quest for information there are two doctoral dissertations
that were completed in 1981/82 at:

	University of Michigan
	Industrial Engineering Department
	Ann Arbor, Mich.
	USA

one by: Y. Yamamoto, the other by K.C. Kang.

1.	Does anyone know the whereabouts of these people?

2.	Does anyone have an address for this University/phone number for
	this particular department?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

--
Rowan D. Stevens; e-mail: rds@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au; Phone: +61 3 660-3216.
RMIT, Dept. Computer Science. GPO BOX 2476V Melbourne VIC 3001. Australia.


Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
Subject: Software engineering patents
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:54:57 GMT

 
 
                           SOFTWARE CATEGORIES FOR WHICH
                             PATENTS ARE BEING AWARDED
 
 
                           (Statistics from 1700 patents)
 
 
                     Image Analysis & Vision             100
                     Operating Systems                    95
                     Graphics                             73
                     Networks & Communication             69
                     Data Bases                           52
                     Process and Numerical Control        51
                     Word Processing                      40
                     Artificial Intelligence              31
                     Financial & Management               30
                     Multiprocessing                      30
                     Software Engineering                 28
                     Signal Processing                    28
                     Computer Aided Design                25
                     Numerical Analysis                   24
                     User Interfaces                      22
                     Neural Network                       22
                     Medicince & Genetics                 22
                     Pattern Recognition                  21
                     Natural Language                     20
                     Security & Encryption                18
                     Compression                          15
                     Character Recognition                15
                     Geophysical                          15
                     Speech Recognition                   14
                     Computer Aided Engineering           13
                     Parallel Processing                  10
                     Simulation                           10
                     Object Oriented                       9
                     Automobile                            8
                     Algorithms & Data Structures          7
                     Engineering                           6
                     Robotics                              5
                     Fuzzy                                 5
                     Chemistry                             3
                     Office Automation                     2
                     Spreadsheet                           2
                     Physics                               2
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
From: mcp@sei.cmu.edu (Mark Paulk)
Subject: Review of revisions of CMM v1.0
Keywords: CMM, software process, review, revision
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:00:59 GMT


The SEI has drafted a revised version of the Capability Maturity Model (v1.01)
based on change requests and CMM Workshop feedback.  The CMM drafts are
available by anonymous ftp if you would like to review these drafts and
tell us whether we have adequately addressed your concerns.  (Most of them
anyway, there are a couple that will probably be put out on Monday.)

This comment period will last until 11 September 1992.  We would like to have
the comments in before the SEI Software Engineering Symposium.  Send your
comments by e-mail to mcp@sei.cmu.edu or fax them to 412-268-5758.

Please note that this is not an opportunity for offering new change requests.
This is an opportunity for informal discussion; we do not plan to track the 
comments formally or even acknowledge their receipt.  We would just like to 
solicit your opinion on whether we have adequately addressed the issues raised
during the commenting period.

To use anonymous ftp:

	ftp ftp.sei.cmu.edu
	login: anonymous
	password: <your user id or any string>
	cd pub/cmm/v1.1
	get <files>
	quit

The instructions for obtaining the CMM V1.1 files are contained in READ.ME in 
pub/cmm/v1.1.  

After CMM V1.01 is complete, we plan to do some pilot testing to check for any 
continuing clarity issues.  The CMM Advisory Board will review CMM V1.01, 
using comments from the CMM Correspondence Group reviewers and pilot test 
feedback.  With their assistance, we will address any refinement and 
integration issues and create CMM V1.02, which will go through our formal 
approval process (internally, by our CMM Configuration Control Board and 
Information Management group; externally, by the SEI Joint Program Office).  
The approved version, with any necessary changes to CMM V1.02, will be 
released as CMM V1.1 at the end of the year.

Please note that the last items going into the review process will be the 
glossary and the TR-25 Overview.  They will be reviewed later since they are 
critically dependent on how issues are resolved in the key process areas.  
They will probably be distributed near the end of September.

Comments thus far have ranged from "don't change it" to "I actually prefer 
the old version" (both in regard to the CMM v1.01 draft goals).  We will 
continue to refine our revision effort based on the needs of the software 
community; your comments can have a significant impact on how we proceed.

Mark C. Paulk
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
From: gunawan@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (Margaretha W. Gunawan)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: a NEW, IMPROVED Ada Repository!
Keywords: Ada repository
Date: 3 Sep 92 13:47:52 GMT

AdaNET is a FREE to public Ada repository.  It contains a comprehensive
collection of information about all aspects of software engineering,
as well as an extensive collection of public domain software development
efforts.

AdaNET Service Version 3 (ASV3) uses the NASA Electronic Library System
(NELS 1.2) for the library mechanism.  Two user interfaces are available:

     - ASCII Interface: only requires a terminal/PC with a 1200 baud
                        (or higher) modem.  The most similar to the
                        current ASV2.
     - X Interface    : requires a high level PC (X windows capable),
                        a Mac or X terminal with high speed 
                        telecommunication capabilities.

ASV3 will be available September 21st!

If you are interested in obtaining a free ASV3 account, please either:
     - call AdaNET Client Service (800) 444-1458
 or  - send me an email (gunawan@ece.wvu.wvnet.edu) and include 
       your address, so we can send you an application.
From: sss@netcom.com (Small Systems Solutions)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: IPSE, what does it stand for?
Date: 3 Sep 92 17:50:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.7wln9ff.sss
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Sep3.123958.29118@news.uni-stuttgart.de> 
  ucaa2385@ruscvx.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann) writes:
>
>IPSE= Integrated Development Environment

Perhaps you're to be forgiven for not being a native English speaker, but
acronyms usually have a correspondence between letters and the words they
represent.

Integrated Project Support Environment,

as opposed to CASE.

-- 
Small Systems Solutions                   1563 Solano Avenue, Suite 123
sss@netcom.com                                  Berkeley, CA 94707-2116

The above-expressed opinions aren't necessarily
From: bauer@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (CWBAUER)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Intersolve PVC info wanted
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:58:14 GMT
Reply-To: bauer@engcon.UUCP (CWBAUER)
Distribution: usa
Organization: LTV MEG, Dallas, TX

In article <1992Aug21.143238.3178@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> cobarruvias@asd2.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>Anyone have any information on a Vax based product called Intersolve PVC which
>is a configuration management tool?
>
>John R. Cobarruvias
>NASA/JSC 
>713-483-9357 

Try contacting Jason Spence at 503 645 1150 or mail at

Intersolv, Inc.
1700 NW 167th Place
Beaverton OR 97006

If I remember correctly, PVCS is only for DOS and/or Unix, although 

DISC, Inc.
11070 White Rock Road 
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
916 635 7300

does a port of the PVCS code to VMS.  I have not used either.  Hope that helps.

Clint Bauer 
Loral Vought Missile Systems
214-504-0682
From: sammy@smds.com (Samuel Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: >>>>>>> Most Widely Used Language?
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:50:59 GMT
Reply-To: sammy@ishmael.UUCP (Samuel Murphy)
Organization: CHackers, Inc.

In article <seZHlOz0BwwZ9f8wIy@transarc.com> Erik_Brown@transarc.com writes:
>ssimmons@convex.com (Steve Simmons) writes:

>> Only a few years ago, there were these Data Processing Institutes that would
>> churn out COBOL programmers.  These programmers did not necessarily have
>> either college, engineering, or mathematic backgrounds.  As a summer job
>> 8 years ago, I worked for a company that did product development on
>> mainframes.  Most of my fellow employees were trained at these places.
>> They were good at what they did.
>
>I think many institutes still do this.  Whole companies exist to train
>people to program on IBM's CICS system, still one of the most widely
>used pieces of software available.  In CICS, most (if not all)
>development is solely in COBOL.
>

With the awsome bogosity of CICS I bet you'll find a significant amount
of assembly code being written to get these (super fast) monsters to run.

-Sam
From: garyh@slc.com (Gary Hade)
Subject: "smart" diff tools (repost)
>from: garyh@servio.slc.com (Gary Hade)
Organization: Servio Corp, Beaverton Oregon, US
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:14:56 GMT

I am reposting this message to let everyone know that I will post a 
summary to this group.  Based on the mail messages that were waiting 
for me this morning it appears that many of you are interested.
I am also giving it wider distribution.  Thanks to those of you that
have sent me mail so far!

The original message follows:

If this is a frequently asked question please forgive me for not
keeping up with everything posted to this group.

I am interested in opinions and recommendations concerning commercial
or public domain "smart" diff tools that would make it easier
to evaluate ASCII test output and reduce test maintenance.  Please
include names, addresses, and phone numbers if you have them.
Some of the features I would be interested in are:
   - Comparison that disregards portions of the test output that match
     specified patterns (prefer something similar to UNIX regular
     expression syntax).  It should be possible to define patterns that
     span multiple lines and are easier to maintain than complex awk
     scripts.  Should be able to define patterns that cause only a
     portion of a line to be disregarded.
   - Comparison that disregards portions of the output marked in a file
     containing test output that is known to be correct ("standard"
     comparison file).
   - Tools that will take the output from two or more test runs (known to
     be correct but different) and generate a pattern list and/or a marked
     "standard" comparison file.
   - Display differences in a parallel (side-by-side) format.
   - Ignore white space differences.
   - Source code available.
   - For UNIX systems.

I am aware of `exdiff' by Software Research, Inc.  Opinions on this
system would be appreciated?

Gary Hade
garyh@SLC.com
From: mark@bart.hac.com (Mark Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Online 2167A Material
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:45:55 GMT
Organization: Hughes Training, Inc.
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1

I am interested in an electronic copy of DOD-STD-2167A.  Is such a beast
available, and if so, how can I get a copy of it.  I already have a copy
of the DID material from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL, so please don't tell me
about that stuff.  Thanks.
  --Mark Johnson <MARK@BART.DNET.HAC.COM>
From: garyh@slc.com (Gary Hade)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: "smart" diff tools (repost)
Date: 31 Aug 92 19:36:45 GMT

>from: garyh@servio.slc.com (Gary Hade)
Organization: Servio Corp, Beaverton Oregon, US
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:14:56 GMT

I am reposting this message to let everyone know that I will post a 
summary to this group.  Based on the mail messages that were waiting 
for me this morning it appears that many of you are interested.
I am also giving it wider distribution.  Thanks to those of you that
have sent me mail so far!

The original message follows:

If this is a frequently asked question please forgive me for not
keeping up with everything posted to this group.

I am interested in opinions and recommendations concerning commercial
or public domain "smart" diff tools that would make it easier
to evaluate ASCII test output and reduce test maintenance.  Please
include names, addresses, and phone numbers if you have them.
Some of the features I would be interested in are:
   - Comparison that disregards portions of the test output that match
     specified patterns (prefer something similar to UNIX regular
     expression syntax).  It should be possible to define patterns that
     span multiple lines and are easier to maintain than complex awk
     scripts.  Should be able to define patterns that cause only a
     portion of a line to be disregarded.
   - Comparison that disregards portions of the output marked in a file
     containing test output that is known to be correct ("standard"
     comparison file).
   - Tools that will take the output from two or more test runs (known to
     be correct but different) and generate a pattern list and/or a marked
     "standard" comparison file.
   - Display differences in a parallel (side-by-side) format.
   - Ignore white space differences.
   - Source code available.
   - For UNIX systems.

I am aware of `exdiff' by Software Research, Inc.  Opinions on this
system would be appreciated?

Gary Hade
garyh@SLC.com
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
From: ucaa2385@ruscvx.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)
Subject: Re: IPSE, what does it stand for?
Organization: User ruscvx Comp.Center (RUS) University of Stuttgart, Germany
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:44:50 GMT

>In article <1992Sep3.104633.6083@nntp.hut.fi> ttv@vipunen.hut.fi (Timo Vuorenmaa) writes:

beg your pardon, correction:
IPSE= Integrated Project Support Environment
      (possibly from Atherton-Backplane)
From: kambic@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Bonus, Iniquus, Celer - Delegitus Duo)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Testing Complex Systems
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:23:26 EST

In article <1992Aug31.135414.5265@linus.mitre.org>, troyer@mitre.org (Tom Royer) writes:
> Given a real-time, embedded, distributed, asynchronous (and all those other
> adjectives that imply complex and difficult) system, how does one go about
> testing the resulting software product to make sure that it really works?
> 
> Functional requirements testing is, of course, necessary, but probing the
> system for the presence (or absence) of race conditions, deadlocks and other
> timing related problems is much, much more.
> 
> Is it possible to establish a general approach (algorithm?) to testing
> such a system?
> 
> If you had to teach novice software engineers how to test such a system,
> what would you tell them?

Gee, such a nice theoretical problem with no practical implications.

Seriously though, I don't think that you can treat this subject in a vacuum. 
In order to begin the discussion, do you have some assumptions about the level
of documentation?  What are the "generalized" risk levels of each of the
strange adjectives that you noted above?  What do we "know" about the process
of development? 

Here goes a long thread.

George Kambic
sd
From: block@ief.itg.ti.com
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: CM paper
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:35:00 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: IEF Development, Texas Instruments Inc., Plano Texas
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at Texas Instruments Inc.
              The opinions expressed within are those of the user and not
              necessarily those of Texas Instruments.


Does anybody have a copy of the following paper??

%A Ed Arnold
%A Craig Ruff
%T Configuration Control and Management
%P 195-198
%I USENIX
%B LISA V Conference Proceedings
%D September 30 - October 3, 1991
%C San Diego, CA
%W National Center for Atmospheric Research


Thanks,
--

Bucky Block                         |     block@ief.itg.ti.com
IEF Development                     |     TIMSG: BLOC
Texas Instruments, Plano Texas      |     (214) 575-4732

-- 

Bucky Block                         |     block@ief.itg.ti.com
IEF Development                     |     TIMSG: BLOC
Texas Instruments, Plano Texas      |     (214) 575-4732