From: vpt@jytkoson2.jyu.fi (Veli-Pekka Tahvanainen)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: CFP: 1st int. summer school on metamodelling and methodology engineering
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:00:36 GMT
Expires: Fri, 1 May 1992 07:00:00 GMT
Organization: (none)


Call for Participation:

The First International Summer School on Metamodelling and Methodology
                               Engineering

              "The Midnight Sun Metamodelling Festival"

June 23rd - 26th, Mattilanniemi, Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland

MOTIVATION:

The interest in the issues of modelling information systems development
methods (metamodelling) and combining them in IS development (methodology
engineering) has rapidly raised in the last few years, in particular due
to the expansion of CASE tools and customisable CASE environments (also
known as CASE shells). Therefore, we think the time is ripe to organise
the first comprehensive meeting of the researchers working on this novel
and interesting field.

We heartily welcome interested and knowledgeable participants to the first
summer school on metamodelling and methodology engineering to be held in
Central Finland after the Midsummer. We are proud to have some of the most
important figures of the field as our guests for a summer week; please see
the preliminary programme enclosed below.

WORKSHOP FORMAT:

We aim to have a small-scale discussive workshop with no more than 35
participants to allow for free exchange of ideas and debate. We expect
the participants to have some previous knowledge in the area in order to
ensure also active participation in discussions and group work. The main
working format will be thorough presentations of ongoing research by the
invited scholars in the field. Active comments from the participants are
solicited. In addition, group work will be arranged to invite new ideas
and to define new directions in the metamodelling field. Our aim is to
have the working groups produce a small summary of how they think their
particular subfield should evolve in the next few years. The workshop
will be closed by a panel where the leading students of the field present
their views of the future of metamodelling and methodology engineering
and debate the various opinions produced in the group work.

PARTICIPATION:

To participate, please send a short free-form description of your work in
the area of methodology engineering to the address(es) below no later than
May 1st. Attendance is based on invitation, and if more applications than
we can accept turn up, knowledge of the field and the level of current
activity (primarily) and the order of arrival (secondary) will be the
decision criteria to select the participants.

FEES:

We strive to keep the workshop low-cost for the participants with a likely
fee of FIM 1000/participant with a 50% discount for academic personnel and
students. This will include:
- tuition and general participation,
- workshop material,
- accommodations,
- coffees and lunch on the four workshop days,
- excursion
(one FIM is about 0.23 USD currently)

ADDRESSES:

For more information, please contact either:

Matti Rossi	or		Veli-Pekka Tahvanainen
mor@jyu.fi			vpt@hyeena.jyu.fi		(internet)
+358-41-603030			+358-41-603037			(phone)

		+358-41-603611					(fax)

	Department of Computer Science & Information Systems	(mail)
	University of Jyvaskyla
	P.O. Box 35
	SF-40351 JYVASKYLA
	Finland

SPELLING NOTE:

Actually, Jyvaskyla should be written with both a's replaced with a diheiresis
(like the German A-umlaut).

PROGRAMME: (changes are possible, even likely)

1st International Summer School on Metamodelling and Methodology Engineering
"The Midnight Sun Metamodelling Festival"

June 23rd-26th, Jyvaskyla, Finland

Tuesday June 23rd

Room MaA211, Mattilanniemi

09.00-10.00 Registration and Coffee (Aisle, MaA building)

09.30 Opening: Prof. Kalle Lyytinen (Univ. of Jyvaskyla)
- goals and organisation of the workshop

10.00 Overview of Metamodelling Today
- short (10 min.) presentation by each participating group
  on their work in the area

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Progress towards developing an ME framework: Successes & Obstacles
	Prof. Richard Welke (Georgia State University, USA)

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Applications of meta-modelling in Information systems research
	Prof. Sjaak Brinkkemper (Univ. of Twente, the Netherlands)

19.00 Sauna (courtesy of XXXXX)


Wednesday June 24th

Room MaA211, Mattilanniemi

08.30 CASE shells and requirements for method specifications
	TBA (Univ. of Jyvaskyla, Finland)

09.30 Coffee

10.00 Experiences of practical metamodelling and methodology engineering
	Tapani Kinnula & Jan Ljungberg (SISU, Sweden)

11.30 Properties of CASE-shells and experiences of methodology engineering
	Dr. Christian Krysander (Linkoping University, Sweden)

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Transformations and Metrics for metamodelling
	Prof. Paul Sorenson (Univ. of Alberta, Canada)

15.00 Forming of working groups and choosing of topics

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Group work (5 groups on selected topics, MaA103,104,204,205,210)


Thursday June 25th

Room MaA211, Mattilanniemi

08.30 Metamodeling for Integrated Database and Knowledge-base Design
	Prof. Olivia R. Liu Sheng (Univ. of Arizona, USA)

09.30 Coffee

10.00 Method Knowledge Engineering
	Dr. Gerard Wijers (SERC, the Netherlands)

11.30 CASE environments and methodology engineering
	Prof. Arne Solvberg (NTH, Norway)

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Contextual Information Systems: A Metasystem Environment for Systems
      Development and Delivery
	Dr. Minder Chen (George Mason Univ., USA)

15.15 Excursion to the beautiful Central Finland
	- Petajavesi old church
	- Serlachius art museum in Mantta
	- Paddle wheel boat on lake Keurusselka

~22.15 In the white night, group work continues until dawn...

Friday June 26th

Room MaA211, Mattilanniemi

08.30 Presentations and discussion of group work

09.30 Coffee

10.30 Presentations and discussion continue

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Panel: Methodology Engineering: What's up, Docs?
	Wijers, Sorenson, Welke, Chen, Solvberg, Lyytinen (chair)

15.30 Closing coffee
	Prof. Kalle Lyytinen
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