From: vandeweg@cs.utwente.nl (Rob Vandeweg)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Call for papers 4th European workshop on the Next Generation of CASE Tools (NGCT-93)
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:05:53 GMT
Reply-To: ngct@cs.utwente.nl
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS



FOURTH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON THE NEXT GENERATION  OF CASE 
TOOLS (NGCT-93)

Held in association with CAISE-93


On June 6 - 8, 1993, the fourth NGCT Workshop will take 
place in Paris at the Sorbonne University in association 
with the CAISE-93 conference.

Programme: Dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper
Local Organisation: Prof. Colette Rolland

The workshop brings together leading European researchers on 
Computer Aided Software Engineering. The first three 
workshops held at Noordwijkerhout (the Netherlands), 
Trondheim (Norway), and Manchester (UK) were attended by 25 
- 30 researchers, and have laid the groundwork for 
continuing exchange of research ideas in this area. The 
fourth workshop will consolidate and expand this exchange of 
ideas further into active development and update of the 
agenda for CASE research.
Attendance at the workshop will be by invitation only and is 
limited to 25 delegates to promote effective discussion and 
exchange of ideas in a small group. The programme has been 
arranged to encourage informal exchange of ideas. Every 
effort  will be made to keep costs to a minimum.

THEMES

Themes of the workshop will be focused on architectural 
specification of aspects of new generation CASE environments 
with special emphasis on issues as, but not limited to:
* Development process support
* Group software development tools
* Repositories
* MetaCASE (meta-modelling)

Topics in the past have covered:

* Reuse in CASE tools
* Reverse engineering CASE tools
* CASE architectures
* Method support in CASE, including formal methods
* Metamodelling for CASE environments and MetaCASE
* Innovative and Knowledge based CASE tools
* CASE tools for Object-Oriented analysis and design
* Human factors and Organisation issues
* User interfaces and CASE
* CSCW for CASE
* Repository techniques and standards
* Natural language support

Please note submissions must have tool based, i.e. CASE, 
subject matter.


The format of the workshop will consist of short paper 
presentations and thematic discussions plenary as well in 
subgroups.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Two types of submissions are invited:
* Full papers, length not more than 6,000 words
* Position papers, length not more than 2,500 words.
Papers will reviewed by the workshop committee, and 
attendance at the workshop is conditioned on acceptance of 
either a position or a full paper.

Authors of full papers should try to review related work as 
well as presenting their own results. Keynote presentations 
will be selected from full papers. Position papers are 
intended to describe experience and overview of results. 
Membership of working groups will be determined from 
position papers.
All accepted papers will be published in the informal 
workshop proceedings as a technical report (memorandum) of 
the Twente University, which will be supplied to delegates. 
It is intended that a formal published volume of edited 
proceedings will be proceeded after the workshop. The 
proceedings of the second workshop were published as 'Next 
generation CASE tools' by the IOS Press (Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands) last year in the series 'Studies in Computer 
and Communication Systems'.

The procedure will be to select papers on the basis of 
review results and then discussion in working groups. A 
number of papers (no more than twelve) will be selected for 
development to a publication standard. Authors should note 
in their submissions that material which is submitted to the 
main CAISE-93 conference can not be published in the NGCT 
edited proceedings because of copyright restrictions.

The deadline for paper submission will be February 28th,
1993. The call for participation for CAISE-93 can be 
obtained from the secretary of the workshop committee.

WORKSHOP PLAN

NGCT-93 will have as the previous year a panel format of 
discussion and small groups to stimulate development of 
ideas on focused themes. The programme will be as follows:

Day 1. Saturday 6th June 12.00 am - 5.00 pm

(a) Presentation of four - five keynote papers selected from 
the submitted full papers. Twenty minute presentations plus 
five minutes questions. Choice of these papers will depend 
on their academic merit and coverage of topics. We intend to 
have only one paper per theme area presented, even if we get 
several excellent papers on one theme.

(b) Panel presentations. Participants will be invited to 
join panels on basis of  their submitted (position or full) 
papers. Panellists may give five - ten minute short 
presentations. Each panel will be composed of four - five 
participants, 45 minutes per panel, 25 minutes presentation 
plus twenty minutes discussion with the other delegates 
acting as audience. Four - five panels overall, selected on 
coherence of themes.

Day 2 Sunday 7th June 9.30 am - 5.30 pm

Continuation of panel presentations.

(c) Selection of working groups. Participants may elect to 
join a panel or to form a separate group for subjects which 
were not presented. The aims is to form six - seven groups 
on topic themes (assuming a workshop membership of about 
25).

(d) Discussion of topics in working groups. Review of 
submitted papers, ideas for development.

Day 3 Monday 8th June 9.00 - 12.00 am

(e) Plenary session. Presentation by each working group of 
its conclusions, discussion by whole workshop. Plans for 
published volume, and future meetings of workshop.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Papers (three copies) should be sent by Sunday 28th February 
1993 to:
     Dr S. Brinkkemper,
     Department of Information Systems,
     Faculty of Informatics, University of Twente,
     P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands,

     e-mail: {ngct@cs.utwente.nl},
     tel.nr:  +31-53-893690
     fax-nr:  +31-53-339605 

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April 
7th 1993. Camera ready copy should be supplied by 10th May 
1993.


WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

Rudolf Andersen, University of Trondheim, Norway
Sjaak Brinkkemper, University of Twente, NL (chair)
Terry Halpin, University of Queensland, Australia
Neil Maiden, City University, UK.
Colette Rolland, University of Paris, France
Alistair Sutcliffe, City University, UK
Veli-Pekka Tahvanainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK
Benkt Wangler, SISU, Sweden
Rob van de Weg, University of Twente, NL (secretary)
Richard Welke, Georgia State University, USA
Gerard Wijers, SERC, NL


Those interested in participation and wishing to obtain the 
final call for participation should contact the program 
committee:
     Rob L.W. van de Weg,
     Department of Information Systems,
     Faculty of Informatics, University of Twente,
     P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands,

     e-mail: {ngct@cs.utwente.nl},
     tel.nr:  +31-53-893690
     fax-nr:  +31-53-339605 
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