ICRE '96 Advance Program
MONDAY, 15 APRIL 1996
8 AM - Noon Tutorial 1
"Software Requirements Engineering" by Richard Thayer
1 PM - 5 PM Tutorial 2
"Managing the Requirements Process" by Tom DeMarco
TUESDAY, 16 APRIL 1996
8:45 AM - 10.30 AM Plenary Session 1
Welcome: Conference Chair
Program Overview: Program Chair
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11 AM - Noon Two Parallel Sessions
Session 2A: Experiences in Elicitation
Chair: Linda A. Macaulay (University of Manchester Institute of Science
and Technology, UK)
- "Requirements Elicitation with Indirect Knowledge
Elicitation Techniques: Comparison of Three Methods, by Eva
Hudlicka (GTE Laboratories, USA)
- "Early Elicitation and Definition of Requirements for an
Interactive Multimedia Information System", by S. Jones, C. Britton
(University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Session 2B: Collaboration in Requirements Analysis
Chair: Yahya Al-Salqan (West Virginia University, USA)
- "Structuring Utterance Records of Requirements Elicitation
Meetings Based on Speech Act Theory", by Motoshi Saeki, Kinji
Matsumura, JunOichi Shimoda
(Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
- "Hypermedia Support for Collaboration in Requirements Analysis", by Kenji
Takahashi, Kenji Ota, Jeffrey Smith (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation, USA) and Colin Potts, Vinay Kumar (Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA)
Noon - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Two Parallel Sessions
Session 3A: Panel
"Ripe Fruits of Requirements Engineering, Moderated by John Brackett
(Boston University, USA)
Sessions 3B: Adapting & Applying Analysis Methods
Chair: Colin Potts (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
- "Contributions of SFMEA to Requirements Analysis", by Robyn R.
Lutz (Jet Propulsion Laborator, USA), Robert M. Woodhouse (Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
- "Integrating Soft Systems & Object Oriented Analysis", by D.
W. Bustard, T. J. Dobbin (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland)
- "Capturing Functional Requirements Through Object Interactions", by Daniel
A. Rawsthorne (BDM Federal, Inc., USA)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Two Parallel Sessions
Session 4A: Traceability
Chair: Janet Drake (University of Northern Iowa, USA)
- "Parasitic Languages for Requirements", by Mike G. Hill (Defense Research Agency, UK)
- "PRO-ART: Enabling Requirements Pre-Traceability", by Klaus Pohl (Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Session 4B: Validation and Testing
Chair: Carl Singer (IBM Corporation, USA)
- "Lessons Learned from a Trial Application of Requirements Validation Using
Statecharts", by C. R. Nobe, W. E. Warner (Boeing Commercial Airplane Group,
USA)
- "A Formal Approach to Requirements Based Testing of Open System Standards"
by J. F. Leathrum and K. A. Liburdy (Clemson University, USA)
WEDNESDAY, 17 APRIL 1996
9 AM - 10:30 AM Plenary Session 5
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - Noon Two Parallel Sessions
Session 6A: Prioritization
Chair: Colette Rolland (University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne,
France)
- "Software Requirements Prioritizing", by Joachim Karlsson (Linkoping
University, Sweden)
- "Quality Requirements Analysis in Customer Centered Software Development",
by Johan Vanwelkenhuysen (INRIA, France)
Sessions 6B: Considering User Goals and Tasks
Chair: Jen-Yen Chen (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)
- "User-Centered System Decomposition: Z-Based Requirements
Clustering", by Pei Hsia, C. T. Hsu, David C. Kung, Lawrence B. Holder
(University of Texas, USA)
- "Goal-Based Requirements Analysis", by Annie I. Anton (Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA)
Noon - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Two Parallel Sessions
Session 7A: Panel
"Where and How do Formal Methods Fit in Requirements Engineering," Moderated by
Betty H.C. Cheng (Michigan State University, USA)
Session 7B: Requirements Processes
Chair: Ivy Hooks (Compliance Automation, Inc., USA)
- "Requirements for Requirements Engineering Techniques", by
Linda A. Macaulay (University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology, UK)
- "Project Aurora: Dawn of a New Way", by Ellen A. White, H. Theodore Stump,
Linda A. Ness (Bellcore, USA) and Derek W. Schultz (Media Design Associates,
USA)
- "Using Generic Method Chunks to Generate Process Model Fragments", by
Colette Roland, Veronique Plihon (University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne,
France)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Break
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Two Parallel Sessions
Session 8A: Agreement among Multiple Stakeholders
Chair: D. W. Bustard (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland)
- "Collaboration during Conceptual Design", by Lara D. Catledge,
Colin Potts (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
- "A Facilitator Method for Upstream Design Activities with Diverse
Stakeholders", by Regina M. Gonzales, Alexander L. Wolf (University of
Colorado, USA)
Session 8B: Impact of Enterprise and Domain Requirements
Chair: Ellen White (Bellcore, USA)
- "Combined Analysis of User Interface and Domain Requirements",
by Georg Kosters, Hans-Werner Six, Josef Voss (University of Hagen,
Germany)
- "Exploiting an Enterprise Model during Systems Requirements Capture and
Analysis", by R. E. M. Champion, T. T. Moores (City University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong)
THURSDAY, 18 APRIL 1996
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Best Paper Session 9
Chair: Merlin Dorfman (Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., USA)
- "Requirements Analysis from Multiple Perspectives: Experiences with
Conceptual Modeling", by Georg V. Zemanek, Harald Huber (USU Softwarehaus,
Germany), and Hans W. Nissen, Matthias Jarke (Informatik V, RWTH Aachen,
Germany)
- "Aids for Identifying Quality Attribute Requirements Conflict", by Barry
Boehm, Hoh In (University of Southern California, USA)
- "Design & Use of an Object Oriented Tool for Requirements Tracing", by
Francisco A. C. Pinheiro, Joseph A. Goguen (Oxford University, USA)
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM - Noon Two Parallel Sessions
Session 10A: Natural Language Specifications
Chair: Nancy Mead (Software Engineering Institute, USA)
- "Software Requirements Specification Database Based on Requirements Frame
Model", by Atsushi Ohnishi (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
- "Processing Natural Language Software Requirement Specifications", by Miles
Osborne, Craig MacNish (University of York, UK)
Session 10B: Assessing Object-Oriented Analysis in Specific Domains
Chair: Lloyd Williams (Software Engineering Research, USA)
- "An Assessment of the Applicability of Object-Oriented Analysis to the
Development of Information Systems", by Isabel Santos (Instituto Politecnico
de Viana do Castelo), Joao Alvaro Carvalho (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
- "GeoOOA: Object-Oriented Analysis for GIS-Applications", by Georg Kosters,
Bernd-Uwe Pagel, Hans-Werner Six (University of Hagen, Germany)
Noon - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Plenary
Panel Session 11
"Requirements Engineering at Age 20: Looking Back, Looking Ahead,
Moderated by Barry Boehm (University of Southern California, USA)
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Closing Session 12
Conference Program Summary: Program Chair
Future Events: Conference Chair
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Coffee
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