m14817@MITRE.ARPA (Charles Youman, youman@mitre.arpa) (04/19/88)
I think the following conference announcement will be of
interest to this group because there are a number of papers being presented
on expert systems.
Preliminary Program -- PRODUCTIVITY: PROGRESS, PROSPECTS, AND PAYOFF
27th Annual Technical Symposium of the Washington DC Chapter of ACM
Gaithersburg, Maryland June 9, 1988
Sponsors:
Washington DC Chapter, Association for Computing Machinery;
Institute for Computer Sciences & Technology, National Bureau
of Standards
Key Dates:
Register by June 1, 1988 and save over 10% of at door rate
Register by May 1, 1988 and save an additional 15%
Special rate for full time students
Productivity is a key issue in the information industry. Information
technology must provide the means to maintain and enhance productivity.
The symposium "Productivity: Progress, Prospects, and Payoff" will
explore theoretical and practical issues in developing and applying
technology in an information-based society.
Keynote address: "Near Term Improvements in Productivity"
Howard Yudkin, President and CEO, Software Productivity Consortium
Plenary panel: "What Are the Impediments to Improving Productivity?"
Walter Douherty, IBM
Phil Kiviat, SAGE Federal Systems
Marshall Potter, U.S. Navy
Al Scherr, IBM
Parallel sessions:
Processes and Tools for Higher Software Economics and Reuse
Software Productivity Uncertainty in Software Requirements
Software Specification Tools Development
Panel-Data Management Standards Expert Systems and Knowledge
A Key to Enhanced Productivity Engineering in Software Engineering
For more information, REPLY to this message -OR- contact the Symposium
General Chairman: Charles E. Youman
DC Chapter ACM (703) 883-6349
P.O. Box 12953 youman@mitre.arpa
Arlington, VA 22209-8953
27th Annual Technical Symposium
Program Schedule
8:00 -- 9:00: Registration
9:00 -- 9:15: Introduction
Welcoming Remarks
Richard L. Muller, DC ACM Chapter Chairman
James Burrows, Director, Institute for Computer Sciences and
Technology, NBS
Introduction of the Candidates for Chapter Office
Presentation of Awards
9:15 -- 10:00: Keynote Address
How Near-Term Productivity Gains Will Be Achieved
Howard L. Yudkin, President and CEO, Software Productivity
Consortium
Dr. Yudkin received his BSEE from the University of Pennsylvania
and both MSEE and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He has 30 years of experience in management,
engineering, research, and teaching.
Dr. Yudkin is President and Chief Executive Officer of the
Software Productivity Consortium, an organization established by
14 leading aerospace firms to develop tools and methods to
improve the efficiency of software development and the quality of
the product. The Consortium focuses on prototyping and
reusability, exploiting the technologies of systems engineering
and measurement. The organization is developing the components
and configuration techniques by which its sponsor companies can
create advanced development environments for software.
He was formerly with Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, Inc., and the
Computer Sciences Corporation. In government, Dr. Yudkin served
as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibilities
for defense communications systems and many of DoD's command and
control and data processing systems. He also served as an
Assistant Director, Defense Research and Engineering.
10:15 -- 11:00: Plenary Panel
What Are the Impediments to Improving Productivity?
Moderator: Wilma Osborne, Institute for Computer Sciences and
Technology, NBS
Philip J. Kiviat, Vice President, Business Operations, SAGE
Federal Systems, Inc.
Walter Doherty, Technical Consultant for Computing Systems, IBM
T. J. Watson Research Center
Al Scherr, Director of Integrated Applications, IBM Information
Systems Software Development
Marshall R. Potter, Technology Assessment Division, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management
Mr. Kiviat is Vice President, Business Operations of SAGE Federal
Systems, Inc. He is responsible for the acquisition and
management of application system development projects and the
marketing and sale of SAGE's product line for computer-aided
software engineering. Mr. Kiviat was the first Technical
Director of the Federal Computer Performance Evaluation and
Simulation Center (FEDSIM). He has held previous management
positions with Simulation Associates, Inc., CTEC, Inc., and SEI
Information Technology, and technical positions with United
States Steel Corporation and the RAND Corporation.
Mr. Doherty is currently Technical Consultant for Computing
Systems at IBM's Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center
in Computing Systems. He also manages the Scientific Systems
Support Laboratory there. He has been Manager of Productivity
and Technology Transfer at IBM Research, an adjunct faculty
member at IBM's SRI, a Distinguished Visitor for the IEEE
Computer Society, and a National Lecturer for ACM. He developed
instrumentation and performance measurement technology and used
those tools to study the human-machine interface and productivity
resulting from the use of computers for the past 20 years.
Dr. Scherr is Director if Integraated Applications, IBM
Information Systems Software Development. He manages the
architecture for application programs to achieve consistency,
portability, and extendability. He is the focal point for
creating and supporting SolutionPac offerings. Earlier in his
career with IBM, Dr. Scherr managed the overall system design,
project office, and system test organizations that coordinated
the efforts of 18 development groups in producing 1.8 million
lines of code for the first release of MVS. Dr. Scherr is an IBM
Fellow.
Mr. Potter directs the Technology Assessment Division within the
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Financial
Management. He provides the Department of Navy direction for
joint programs and Navy research and development initiatives
covering the entire information resources area. Prior to this
position, Mr. Potter worked for the Naval Electronic Systems
Command, the Defense Communicatons Engineering Center, the David
Taylor Naval R&D Center, and the National Institutes of Health.
11:10 -- 1:00: Parallel Technical Sessions
Session IA: Processes and Tools for Higher Software Productivity
Session Chairman: Ronald Giusti, The MITRE Corporation
How to Lose Productivity with Productivity Tools
Elliot J. Chikofsky, Index Technology Corporation
Integrating Data and Process for Productive Systems Analysis
Robert Lambert, American Management Systems
What Productivity Increases to Expect from a CASE Environment --
Results of a User Survey
Peter Lempp, SPS Software Products and Services, Inc.
A Program a Day: Software Productivity's Four-Minute Mile
Bruce I. Blum, Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laborato-
ry
Session IB: Software Economics and Reuse
Session Chairman: William Wong, National Bureau of Standards
Software Production Economics: Theoretical Models and Practical
Tools
Chris F. Kemerer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Measureing the Software Development Process
Glen Winemiller, Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, Inc.
Software Reuse -- Key to Enhanced Productivity
John Gaffney, Software Productivity Consortium
Improving Small Systems Software Development Productivity Through
the Management Process
Emily Beaton, The MITRE Corporation
1:00 -- 2:00: Lunch
2:00 -- 3:15: Parallel Technical Sessions
Session IIA: Software Specification Tools
Session Chairman: Walter Ellis, IBM Corporation
Program Visualization as a Technique for Improving Software
Productivity
B. Kjell and P. Wang, George Mason University
Specifying Syntax-Directed Tools and Automating Their
Implementation
Larry Morell and Keith Miller, The College of William and Mary
The Visible Tools Shop: Increasing Programmer Productivity
Through Visual Displays
P. David Stotts, Richard Furuta, and Jefferson Ogata, University
of Maryland
Session IIB: Uncertainty in Software Requirements Development
Session Chairman: James D. Palmer, George Mason University
Impact of Requirements Uncertainty on Software Productivity
James D. Palmer, George Mason University
A Knowledge-Based Requirements System
Dolly Samson, George Mason University
A Knowledge-Based System to Reduce Software Requirements
Volatility
Margaret E. Myers, George Mason University
3:30 -- 4:45: Parallel Technical Sessions
Session IIIA: Panel -- Data Management Standards: A Key to
Enhanced Productivity
Moderator: Elizabeth Fong, National Bureau of Standards
Bruce Bargmeyer, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
John Campbell, National Computer Security Center
Joe Leahy, UNISYS
Melody Rood, The MITRE Corporation
Edward Stull, GTE Government Systems
Session IIIB: Expert Systems and Knowledge Engineering in
Software Engineering
Session Chairman: Jon Weyland, Boeing Computer Services
Applying Software Engineering to Knowledge Engineering (and
Vice-Versa)
L. H. Reeker, T. A. Blaxton, and Christopher R. Westphal, The BDM
Corporation
Typed Functional Programming for Rapid Development of Reliable
Software
Val Breazu-Tannen, O. Peter Buneman, and Carl A. Gunter,
University of Pennsylvania
An Experimental Expert System for Improving the Productivity of
Nautical Chart Cartographers
G. F. Swetnam and E. J. Dombroski, The MITRE Corporation
5:00 -- 5:15: Washington DC Chapter ACM Business Meeting
[Contact the message author for registration info. -- KIL]