waserman@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Tony Wasserman%MIS) (05/04/85)
Call for Participation
IFIP Working Group 8.1 Working Conference on
Environments to Support Information System Design Methodologies
4-6 September 1985; Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA
IFIP Working Group 8.1 (Design and Evaluation of Information Systems) is
organizing a working conference to explore various factors that affect
the information system development environment. The conference will
have several workshops combined with invited presentations on
information system development environments.
Presentations have been solicited in the areas of
(1) Hardware advances -- workstations, laser printers, local networks,
etc.
(2) System development tools and their integration
(3) Database design support tools
(4) Documentation support tools
(5) Support for geographically distributed design
(6) Ergonomic and human factors considerations
(7) Organizational aspects
The planned outcome of the conference is a series of position papers
written in the workshops. These papers will then be edited for future
publication.
Attendance will be limited to 150 persons with geographical and
organizational balance. Individuals wishing to participate in the
Working Conference should apply either to the General Chairman, Prof.
Anthony I. Wasserman, Medical Information Science, Room A-16, University
of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA, or to the Program Chairman,
Prof. Peter C. Lockemann, Institut fur Informatik, Universitat
Karlsruhe, Zirkel 2, 7500 Karlsruhe 1, Federal Republic of Germany, not
later than August 15, 1985. Applicants should enclose a brief statement
of their backgrounds and their preferred area(s) for workshops.
Applications may also be submitted electronically to
wasserman@ucbarpa.ARPA (ARPAnet)
ucbvax!ucsfmis!waserman (uucp)
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