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The Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss applications of automated reasoning, knowledge representation and artificial intelligence techniques to software engineering problems. This conference focuses on specific knowledge-based techniques for constructing, representing, reasoning with, and understanding software artifacts and processes. These techniques may be fully automatic, may support, or cooperate with humans.
KBSE-95 encourages contributions describing basic research, novel applications, and experience reports. Recent successful contribution topics include: applications, automating software design and synthesis, education, maintenance and evolution, process management, program understanding, requirements, reuse, security, user interfaces and human interaction, as well as validation and verification.
In addition to technical papers, KBSE-95 includes tutorials, panel discussions, and project demonstrations. The location of this year's conference is in Boston, Massachusetts.
Paper submission timetable (subject to revision):
Paper submission May 1, 1995
Notification Mid June 1995
Camera-ready copy July 1995
Papers should not exceed 6000 words in length, with full page figures counting as 300 words. Papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee using the following criteria: technical quality, originality, clarity, appropriateness to the conference community, and adequacy of references to related work. Six copies of the paper submission should be sent to the Program Chair.
Call for Panels
KBSE has a history of stimulating and thought-provoking panel discussions. If there is a KBSE-related topic that you would like to see a panel devoted to, and you are willing to organize this panel, you are strongly encouraged to submit a panel proposal. Panel proposals should consist of roughly two paragraphs describing the basic issue to be discussed and why you think it would be well suited to a panel format. A paragraph outlining each viewpoint that each panel member represents, and a tentative list of panelists should also be included. The proposal should contain the E-mail address and phone number of a single contact, and should be sent to the Tutorial/Panel Chair by May 1, 1995. Electronic submissions are preferred.
Call for Tutorials
The KBSE conference represents many diverse and highly specialized fields, and we encourage experts in any of these to take advantage of the opportunity to present their material in full or half day sessions. Tutorials will be the day before the conference, and have been effective in bringing newcomers up to speed for understanding technical discussion during the conference and in educating participants in the details of particular projects and technologies. Tutorial proposals should consist of a description of the topic, outline if available, a bibliography, and the qualifications of the presenter(s). Specify the target audience and any previous knowledge/experience required, and the tutorial goals in terms of the benefit to participants. You should estimate the materials tutorial attendees will require and the cost of preparation. Please specify whether you would prefer a half day or full day format. The proposal should contain the E-mail address and phone number of a single contact, and should be sent to the Tutorial/Panel Chair by May 1, 1995. Electronic submissions are preferred.
Call for Demonstrations
The conference will also host software demonstrations. Research prototypes and commercial products with some knowledge-based aspect are welcome. Please contact the Demo Chair by June 1st, 1995.
Program Chair:
Robert Balzer (USC/ISI), Barry Boehm (USC), Dave Fisher (NIST), Cordell Green (Kestrel Institute.), Mehdi Harandi (University of Illinois), Lewis Johnson (USC/ISI), Peter Selfridge (AT&T), Mike Evangelist (Florida International University), Doug White (Rome Laboratory).
Program Committee:
Paul Bailes (University of Queensland), Paul Bailor (AFIT), Kevin Benner (Andersen Consulting), Wolfgang Bibel (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt), Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh), Joe Carozzoni (Rome Laboratory), Paul Clements (SEI), Martin Feather (USC/ISI), Steve Fickas (University of Oregon),Mehdi Harandi (University of Illinois), Karen Huff (GTE Labs), Richard Jullig (Kestrel), Lewis Johnson (USC/ISI), Gail Kaiser (Columbia University), Axel van Lamsweerde (Universite Catholique de Louvain), Mike Lowry (NASA Ames), Gordon Novak (University of Texas), Walt Scacchi (USC), Peter Selfridge (ATT), Doug Smith (Kestrel), Loren Terveen (ATT), Richard Waldinger (SRI), Chris Welty (Vassar), Doug White (Rome Laboratory), Alan Whitehurst (US Army CERL).
Further conference information can be obtained by sending an electronic mail message to [email protected], through the World-Wide Web at URL:
http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/kbse
or by writing to: