From: nancyg@banshee.bellcore.com (Nancy Griffeth)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
Subject: CONF: IEEE CommSoc Workshop on Feature Interactions, Florida, Dec 92
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:01:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug20.182755.10794
Organization: Morristown Research and Engineering
Originator: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu


Crossposted from news.announce.conferences



                  Call for Participation

                  International Workshop
                           on
Feature Interactions in Telecommunications Software Systems

     St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, December 3-4, 1992

 Sponsored by Bellcore and the IEEE Communications Society

This workshop is planned to encourage researchers from telecommunica-
tions and from a variety of computer science specialties (software
engineering, protocol engineering, distributed artificial intelli-
gence, formal techniques, and distributed systems, among others) to
apply techniques from their disciplines to the feature interaction
problem that arises in building telecommunications software systems.
The feature interaction problem refers to interference between two
features of a telecommunications system.  This interference hinders
the development of new features; it can be thought of as a special
case of the extensibility problem for software.  A number of papers
will be presented at the workshop on prevention, detection, and
resolution of feature interactions, using various approaches.

We hope to promote a dialogue among researchers in various related
areas, as well as the designers and builders of telecommunications
software. To this end, the workshop will have sessions for paper
presentations, including relatively long discussion periods.
There will also be two panel discussions and a short tutorial
on issues in the feature interaction problem.


                       Preliminary Program

                       December 3-4,  1992

Wednesday, December 2
---------------------
7-9 p.m. Reception


Thursday, December 3
--------------------
7:30-9 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9-10 a.m.  Keynote Address:

Robert L. Martin, Vice President
Software Technology and Systems, Bellcore

10:30-12 a.m. Tutorial:

E. Jane Cameron (Bellcore)
Pamela Zave (AT&T Bell Labs)

12-1:30 p.m.  Lunch

1:30-3 p.m.  Technical Session: Management

J. Aitken, ``Feature Interaction in Main-Stream IN Applications",
Logica Space and Communications Ltd., England.

M. Cain and D. Gillespie, ``Automatic Generation of Efficient
Run--Time Feature Management Data Structures from High-Level Feature
Relationships", US WEST Advanced Technologies, USA.

E. Kuisch, R. Janmaat, H. Mulder, and I. Keesmaat, ``A Practical
Approach towards Service Interactions", PTT Research, The Netherlands.

A. Ranade and J.C. Petrides, ``A pragmatic view of feature interaction
management'', Bellcore, USA.

3:30-5 p.m.  Panel on Industry Experiences and Requirements:

Chair:
Stuart D. Personick (Bellcore)

Members:
Steve Harris (Bell Northern Research)
Michael Cain (US West)
Roshan Chaddha (Bellcore)
Dave Smith (AT&T Bell Labs)
Harm Mulder (PTT Research)
Yasushi Wakahara (KDD R&D Labs)

6-8 p.m. Dinner

Friday, December 4
------------------

7:30-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30-10 a.m.  Technical Session: Detection

R. Boumezbeur and L. Logrippo, ``Specifying telephone systems in Lotos
and the feature interaction problem'', Newbridge Networks Corporation
and University of Ottawa, Canada.

Y. Inoue, K. Takami, and T. Ohta, ``Method for Supporting Detection
and Elimination of Feature Interaction in a Telecommunication System",
ATR Communication Systems Research Laboratories, Japan.

Y. Wakahara, M. Fujioka, H. Kikuta, H. Yagi, and S. Sakai, ``A method
for detecting interactions among services and service features'', KDD
R&D Labs, Japan.

10:30-12 a.m.  Technical Session: Platforms

M. Erradi, F. Khendek, R. Dssouli, and G. von Bochmann, ``Dynamic
extension of object-oriented distributed systems specifications'',
Universite de Montreal, Departement d'Informatique et de
Recherche Operationelle, Canada.

D.A. Lamb, ``Applying quilt To Feature Configuration", Queen's
University, Department of Computing and Information Science, Canada.

J. Mierop, S. Tax, and R. Janmaat, ``Service interaction in an
object-oriented environment'', PTT Research, The Netherlands.

12-1:30 p.m.  Lunch

1:30-3 Technical Session: Short Presentations

3:30-5 Panel on Contributions of Theory to Practice

Chair:
Alfred V. Aho (Bellcore)

Members:
Victor Lesser (Univ. of Massachusetts)
Luigi Logrippo (Univ. of Ottawa)
David Notkin (Univ. of Washington)
(others to be announced)

5:30 p.m.
Buses to airports and Globecom hotels in Orlando

Attendance

Workshop attendance is limited to 75 people.  Attendance will be
by invitation only.  There are still a few openings left at the
workshop, so prospective attendees are asked to submit a single
page description of their interests and how they relate to the
workshop to:

Nancy Griffeth
Bellcore, MRE 2L-237
445 South Street
Morristown, NJ 07962-1910
USA
E-mail: nancyg@thumper.bellcore.com
Tel: (201) 829-4538
Fax: (201) 829-5889

Location and Travel Arrangements

The workshop will be held at the Hotel Don CeSar in St. Petersburg,
Florida.  The hotel is 35 minutes from the Tampa International Airport
and 30 minutes from the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Airport.  Several
airlines are offering special fares for workshop attendees.  If enough
of the workshop attendees are interested in traveling to Orlando
(either for GLOBECOM or to visit DisneyWorld) after the workshop,
we will arrange transportation to a DisneyWorld hotel to leave at
5:30 on Friday.  The airlines will allow a round-trip passenger to
fly into one of the above airports and out of Orlando.

Workshop Co-chairpersons
Nancy Griffeth (Bellcore, USA)
Yow-Jian Lin (Bellcore, USA)

Program Committee
Chair: Hugo Velthuijsen (PTT, The Netherlands)
E. Jane Cameron (Bellcore, USA)
Steven Harris (BNR, Canada)
Gerard J. Holzmann (AT\&T Bell Laboratories, USA)
Michael Huhns (MCC, USA)
Luigi Logrippo (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Harm Mulder (PTT, The Netherlands)
Jan-Olof Nordenstam (ELLEMTEL, Sweden)
David Notkin (University of Washington, USA)
Akihiro Shimizu (NTT, Japan)
Yasushi Wakahara (KDD R\&D Laboratories, Japan)
Pamela Zave (AT\&T Bell Laboratories, USA)
Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds