als@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Alice L. Schafer) (05/23/86)
The Scientific Workshop on Automatic Programming will be held
under the auspices of the AAAI conference in Philadelphia.
The purpose of this workshop is to gather the active researchers
in this field in order to share insights gained through implementation
and experimentation. Issues to be addressed include:
. What are the resistant problems in Automatic Programming?
. Are there metrics for comparing the conventional software
development approach to an APS?
. What should, and should not, be contained in a specification?
. What interaction is desired between the user and an APS?
. Are there basic building blocks that typify an APS?
The workshop will be held on Thursday August 14th, and will last
approximately three hours. The current plan is that one and a half hours will
be occupied by brief (seven minutes) presentations of current work, followed
by a panel discussion with active audience participation, moderated by
Tom Cheatham of Harvard. Due to the size of the available rooms, we
may have to limit the audience to researchers who have experience with
some aspect of the APS problem.
If you wish to present your current work or be on the panel you should
send us a 200-800 word abstract. The decision on who will participate will
be based on these abstracts. If you wish to participate as a member of the
audience instead, send us a short note containing a description of your work
or references to pertinent papers you have written. If we need to limit the
audience we will base our decisions on these responses.
Please post a printed copy of this notice at your workplace.
Organized by:
Alice Schafer Richard Brown Richard Piazza
(617) 271-2363 (617) 271-7559 (617) 271-2363
als@mitre-bedford.arpa rhb@mitre-bedford.arpa rlp@mitre-bedford.arpa
of the Knowledge-Based Automatic Programming Project (ISFI)
The MITRE Corporation
Mail Stop A-045
Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730