From: jrh@platte.bellcore.com (Bob Horgan)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Bellcore/Purdue Software Reliability Workshop
Date: 28 Sep 92 13:40:30 GMT
Reply-To: jrh@platte.bellcore.com (Bob Horgan)
Organization: Morristown Research and Engineering

Second Bellcore/Purdue Workshop on ISSUES IN SOFTWARE RELIABILITY ESTIMATION
October 12-13, 1992, LCC Auditorium Bellcore, Livingston, N. J., USA

THEME: Software Reliability in the Telecommunications Industry

NOTICE: Attendance is limited.  Advanced registration is required. 
Registration
information follows.

PROGRAM:
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1992
Morning Session:
8:00 - 9:00    Registration
9:00 - 9:15    Welcome Remarks - Bob Horgan (Bellcore)
9:15 - 10:15   Keynote Address: Alfred V. Aho (Bellcore)
               - How Reliable Can We Make Software
10:15 - 10:30  Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00  Paper Presentations I
               - The Constant Per-Fault Hazard Rate Assumption
                 Y. K. Malaiya, A. von Maryhauser, and  P. K. Srimani
                 (Colorado State University)
               - Making Better Software Reliability Estimations by A
Practical
                 Tool
                 Michael R. Lyu (Bellcore),  Allen Nikora (JPL), and
William
                 H. Farr (Naval Surface Warfare Center)
               - An Efficient Predictive NLR Model For Reliability
Modeling in
                 Software Testing
                 Mehmet Sahinoglu and Unal Can (Dokuz Eylul University,
Turkey)
12:00 - 1:30   Lunch
Afternoon Session:
1:30 - 3:00    Paper Presentations II
               - Software Testability As Ease of Establishing
Reliability
                 Dick Hamlet (Portland State University)
               - Better Software Reliability Estimate Using Software
                 Testability Predictions
                 Jefferey Voas, Keith W. Miller, and  Jefferey E.  Payne
                 (Reliable Software Technologies Corporation)
               - Comparisons of Methods in Reliability Estimation and
                 Stopping Rules for Software Testing
                 Mark C. K. Yang (University of Florida)
3:00 - 3:30    Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:00    Panel Discussion
               - Why are reliability models seldom used in practice?
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1992
Morning Session:
9:00 - 10:00   Invited Speaker John D. Musa (AT&T Bell Labs)
               - Software Reliability Engineering Practice
10:00 - 10:30  Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00  Paper Presentations III
               - Software Reliability Prediction for Telecommunication
Systems
                 J. D. Bennett, M. T. Denoncourt,J.D. Healy (Bellcore)
               - Using Reliability Models During Testing  With
Non-Operational
                 Profiles
                 Mladen A. Vouk (North Carolina State University)
               - Invocation-Count Based Structural Prediction Models
                 P. Lam, R. E. Seviora, and F. C. L. Chan (University
of
                 Waterloo)
12:00 - 1:30   Lunch
Afternoon Session:
1:30 - 2:30   Invited Speaker: Richard A. DeMillo (Purdue University)
               - Some Properties of a Reliability Theory that Would
                 be Useful to Software Engineers
2:30 - 3:00    Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:30    Panel
               - Reliability Estimation In Telecommunications
Industries:
                 Current Status and Future
4:30           Summing up: Aditya Mathur (Purdue University)

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REGISTRATION:

First contact:

Bob Horgan                              Aditya P. Mathur
Bellcore, MRE 2E-362                    Software Engineering Research
Center
445 South St.                           Purdue University
P.O. Box 1910                           W. Lafayette, IN 47907
Morristown, NJ 07962-1910               apm.cs.purdue.edu   (317)
463-3893
jrh@bellcore.com   (201) 829-4338

Then mail the information indicated below with check ($100, $50 student)
to:
     Continuing Education Business Office
     Purdue University
     1586 Stewart Center, Room 110
     West Lafayette, IN 47907-1586
Please Register the following (print or type):

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DIRECTIONS
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Directions to Livingston from NWK or East:

Take N.J. Turnpike North to Exit 15W (I-280).
Take I-280 West for 13 miles to Exit 4A (Eisenhower Parkway).
Proceed South on Eisenhower Parkway for 2.3 miles to Beaufort Ave.
(just below Livingston Circle).
Turn left onto Beaufort Ave. and make first right into Livingston
Corporate Center.

Directions to Livingston from the West:

Take Garden State Parkway South to Exit 145 (I-280).
Take I-280 West for 8 miles to Exit 4A (Eisenhower Parkway).
Proceed South on Eisenhower Parkway for 2.3 miles to Beaufort Ave.
(just below Livingston Circle).
Turn left onto Beaufort Ave. and make first right into Livingston
Corporate Center.

Directions to Livingston from the South:

Garden State Parkway North to Exit 145 (I-280).
Take I-280 West for 8 miles to Exit 4A (Eisenhower Parkway).
Proceed South on Eisenhower Parkway for 2.3 miles to Beaufort Ave.
(just below Livingston Circle).
Turn left onto Beaufort Ave. and make first right into Livingston
Corporate Center.

Directions to Livingston from the West:

Take I-80 to I-280 exit.
Follow I-280 East to Exit 4A (Eisenhower Parkway).
Proceed South on Eisenhower Parkway for 2.3 miles to Beaufort Ave.
(just below Livingston Circle).
Turn left onto Beaufort Ave. and make first right into Livingston
Corporate Center.
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