Subject: Call for Papers- 11th Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference (1st announcement)
From: [email-masked] (adele howe)
Date: 11 Dec 1995 08:23:12 -0700
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.software-eng

KBSE'96

The 11th Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference

September 25-28, 1996

The Syracuse Sheraton
Syracuse, N.Y. 

Sponsored by Rome Lab.
Pending cooperation with AAAI, ACM SIGART and SIGSOFT, 
and the IEEE Computer Society. 

Preliminary Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: April 12, 1996 

General up-to-date information about KBSE can be found at the KBSE
Home Page, http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/kbse/

The Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference has for the
past decade been providing a forum for researchers and practitioners
to discuss the application of automated reasoning, knowledge
representation, and other artificial intelligence techniques to software
engineering problems. KBSE-96 will continue this tradition with a
focus on constructing, representing, reasoning with, and
understanding software artifacts and processes using
knowledge-based techniques. These techniques may be fully
automatic, may support, or cooperate with people. 

KBSE-96 encourages contributions describing basic research, novel
applications, and experience reports. Some, but by no means all, of the
topics solicited are: 

    Applications 
    Automating software design and synthesis 
    Software Domain Modeling 
    Education 
    Knowledge Acquisition 
    Maintenance and evolution 
    Plan and Cliche Recognition 
    Process management 
    Program understanding 
    Requirements 
    Reuse 
    User interfaces and human interaction 
    Validation and verification 

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. In addition,
several of the highest quality accepted papers will be published in a
special issue of The Journal of Automated Software Engineering 

KBSE-96 will also include invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions,
and project demonstrations. 

Submission Information

Papers should not exceed 6000 words in length, with full page figures
counting as 300 words. Papers will be reviewed by at least three
members of the program committee according to: technical quality,
originality, clarity, appropriateness to the conference community, and
adequacy of references to related work.

Electronic submissions in Postscript, PDF, MIF, or RTF will be
accepted. Postscript submissions must be printable on an Apple
Laserwriter or viewable with ghostscript. If you can not test using
one of these mechanisms, do not submit postscript. Page size for all
electronic submissions must be 8.5x11 (U.S. Letter). Electronic
submissions should be sent to [email-masked].

For hardcopy submission, six copies of the paper submission should be
sent to the Program Chair.  No fax submissions will be accepted.

Important Dates

    Sumission Deadline: April 12, 1996 
    Author Notification: TBA 
    Camera-Ready Submissions: TBA 

Venue

KBSE will be returning to its roots in 1996, as the conference was
located in the Syracuse/Rome area through 1991. The site of KBSE-96 is
the same as KBSE-91, the Syracuse Sheraton, which is just outside the
main campus of Syracuse University. The leaves will have just started
changing color. An Oktoberfest celebration is planned with a local
brewery.

KBSE-96 Organization

General Chair:
Doug White
Rome Laboratory
[email-masked] 

Program Chair:
Chris Welty
Vassar College
Computer Science Dept.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(914) 437-5992
[email-masked] 

Tutorials/Panels Chair:
David Redmiles
Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
University of California at Irvine
[email-masked] 

Publicity Chair:
Adele Howe
Computer Science Dept.
Colorado State University
[email-masked] 

Program Committee:
Paul Bailor, AFIT
Israel Ben-Shaul, Technion
Kevin Benner, Andersen
Alan Bundy, U. Edinburgh
Paul Clements, CMU SEI
Prem Devanbu, AT&T
Martin Feather, USC ISI
Steve Fickas, U. Oregon
Gerhard Fischer, CU Boulder
Jim Gish, GTE
Cordell Green, Kestrel
Mehdi Harandi, UIUC
Lou Hoebel, Rome Lab
Karen Huff, GTE
Lewis Johnson, USC ISI
Gail Kaiser, Columbia U.
Yves Ledru, IMAG
Michael Lowry, NASA Ames
Alex Quilici, U. Hawaii
David Redmiles, UC Irvine
Howard Reubenstein, GTE
Daniela Rosca, ODU
Akiyoshi Sato, NEC
Peter Selfridge, AT&T
Dorothy Setliff, U. Pittsburgh
Doug Smith, Kestrel
Loren Terveen, AT&T
Chris Welty, Vassar College
Doug White, Rome Lab
Alan Whitehurst, BYU