Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers ICECCS'95 First IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems Southern Florida, USA, November 6--10, 1995 Held jointly with 5th CSESAW, 3rd IEEE RTAW and 20th IFAC/IFIP WRTP Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society (Technical Committees on Multimedia Computing, Programming Languages, Real-Time Systems, Software Engineering; Task Force on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems; in cooperation with IFAC COMPUT) Keynote Speaker: David Lorge Parnas, McMaster University ICECCS'95 General Chair Alexander Stoyenko New Jersey Institute of Technology alex@vulcan.njit.edu IFAC/IFIP WRTP'95 Chair Phillip Laplante Fairleigh Dickinson University laplante@fdumad.fdu.edu CSESAW'95 Chair Steve Howell Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division showell@relay.nswc.navy.mil IEEE RTAW'95 Chair Prabha Gopinath Honeywell gopinath_prabha@ssdc.honeywell.com PC Co-Chairs (The Americas) Ted Lewis, Naval Postgraduate School lewis@cs.nps.navy.mil Bruce Shriver, Genesis 2 shriver@genesis2.com PC Co-Chair (Europe & Africa) Dieter Hammer Technical University of Eindhoven wsindh@win.tue.nil PC Co-Chair (Asia/Oceania) Tadashi Ae University of Hiroshima ae@csl.hiroshima-u.ac.jp Industrial/Exhibits Chair Thomas Bihari AMT Systems Engineering, Inc. teb@amt.columbus.oh.us Tutorials Chair Wolfgang Halang FernUniversitat Hagen Wolfgang.Halang@fernuni-hagen.de Local Arrangements Chair Borko Furht Florida Atlantic University borko@cse.fau.edu Publicity Chair Michael Hinchey University of Cambridge Mike.Hinchey@cl.cam.ac.uk Program Committee: T. Ae T. Bihari J. Bowen G. Cantone S. Chodrow E. Bertino D. Bhatt R. Freund B. Furht M. Eshaghian M. Evangelist P. Gopinath W. Halang D. Hammer M. Harmon A. Helal C. Heitmeyer M. Hinchey B. Holtcamp S. Horiguchi J. Huang Y. Kakuda H. Kasahara B. Kraemer P. Laplante J. Lavi H. Lee Y.-H. Lee T. Lewis K. Man T. Marlowe M. McElvany Hugue J. Miyao L. Motus K. Nilsen V. Nirkhe R. Nord J. de la Puente M. Pezze J. Philipose V. Prasanna P. Ramanathan H. El Rewini M. Rodd J. Schwartz B. Shriver G. Suski S. Takegaki B. Thuraisingham H. Toetenel M. Tokoro J. Vasell S. White M. Wilson Y. Yamaguchi Description: IEEE Computer Society's inaugural International Conference on the Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS'95) is to be held in Southern Florida, USA, in November 1995, jointly with the 5th Complex Systems Engineering Synthesis and Assessment Technology Workshop (CSESAW'95), the 3rd IEEE Workshop on Real-Time Applications (RTAW`95) and the 20th IFIP/IFAC Workshop on Real-Time Programming (WRTP'95). Scope: Complex computer systems are becoming common in many sectors, such as manufacturing, communications, defense, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and health care. These systems frequently include distributed, heterogeneous networks, and are driven by requirements on performance, real-time behavior, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, long life concerns, and other areas. Such requirements frequently conflict, and satisfaction of these requirements requires managing the tradeoffs among them during system development and throughout the entire system life. In practice, many engineering disciplines must contribute to the construction of complex computer systems. Moreover, such systems cannot be based on a single technique. Different paradigms and methods are necessary for different parts of the system. Although important results have been achieved in different areas, there is an increasing need to integrate these results in a sensible way. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from these various disciplines, to determine how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transition experts are all welcome. Long-term research, near-term complex system requirements and promising tools, and existing complex systems and commercially available tools will be examined on a level playing field. Cross-disciplinary and research-practice experiences and insights are of particular interest. An exhibit area for commercial tools and research prototypes is planned. Tracks/Mini-Tracks/Sessions: A number of tracks/mini-tracks are anticipated, chaired by PC members, as follows: -- Complex Real-Time Architectures, Tools, Environments and Languages (Marlowe, Nilsen, Ramanathan, Vasell) -- Dependable Real-Time Systems (Huang, McElvany Hugue) -- Database and Data Management (Bertino, Thuraisingham) -- Formal Methods (Bowen, Heitmeyer, Pezze) -- Heterogeneous Computing (Eshaghian, Freund) -- Re-engineering, Re-use, Reverse Engineering (Kraemer, Wilson) -- Systems Engineering/Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (Howell, Lavi) -- Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Real-Time Imaging (Furht, Laplante, H. Lee) Research, Technology and Application Topics: All aspects of the engineering of complex computer systems are of interest; these include, but are not limited to: -- Formal specification techniques -- Algorithms, optimization and analysis -- Performance estimation and prediction -- Reuse, reverse engineering, legacy applications -- Communications, mobile computing -- Massive databases and distributed systems -- Megaprogramming, visual programming -- Design methods, method integration -- Multimedia systems -- Metrics and project management -- Standards -- Tools and environments -- Prototyping and testing techniques -- Emerging technologies Both long (under 5000 words) and short (under 2500 words) submissions are welcome, including presentations of complete work, summaries of work in progress, position statements, exhibit proposals, tutorial proposals. A submission may address any combination of research, technology or applications within the ECCS area. Prospective participants are encouraged to contact and discuss their possible submissions with appropriate Chairs. All submissions should be made, in five copies, by April 30th, 1995 to: Alexander Stoyenko Real-Time Computing Laboratory Department of Computer and Information Science New Jersey Institue of Technology University Heights Newark, New Jersey 07102 USA alex@vulcan.njit.edu +1-201-596-3366 (office) +1-201-596-5777 (fax) Suggestions and questions concerning exhibits of research prototypes and commercially available tools and technology should be directed to: Thomas Bihari AMT Systems Engineering 1218 Kinnear Road Columbus, Ohio 43212 USA teb@amt.columbus.oh.us +1-614-486-7741 (office) +1-614-486-9459 (fax) ICECCS'95 is generously supported by the Office of Naval Research, the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, Honeywell, and the Real-Time Computing Laboratory at NJIT.. .