VENUE: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Huxley Building, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK.
NOTE: You may find a LOCAL MAP of the area useful.
IMPORTANT DATES
• Deadline for submissions extended to Monday, 24th January 2000
• Notification of acceptance: 3rd April 2000
• Final versions (camera ready) of submissions for web publication and for inclusion in workshop pre-prints: 15th May 2000
• Submissions and final version of program available on workshop web site: 2nd June 2000
• Workshop dates: 10th to 12th July 2000
WORKSHOP SCOPE, INTENT AND THEMES
The FEAST 2000 workshop will bring together practitioners and academics with an interest in evolution and/or feedback in software, organisational and business processes. It will critically examine and discuss results achieved in relevant research, their potential significance and practical applications, identify possible solutions to emerging problems and seek to generate new ideas, directions and methods for future investigation. Themes of interest include:
The workshop will focus on these themes with individual contributions addressing topics within them. An initial list of topics will be found at http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mml/f2000/topics.
Studies of evolution and feedback in the software process were stimulated by the 1993 formulation of the FEAST hypothesis, a sequence of three FEAST workshops held at Imperial College, London, in 1994-5 and research projects FEAST/1 (1996-1998) and FEAST/2 (1999-2001), funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research council (EPSRC). The full impact and potential of feedback phenomena remains to be investigated. Recent interest has tended to concentrate on how to implement software evolution. The complementary questions of why software evolution occurs, what are its attributes, characteristics, role and impact as explored in the FEAST projects, how it may be controlled and how it is embedded in the wider context of feedback in business processes, have received less attention. These questions are becoming increasingly important with the shift to multi-supplier environments, increasing integration of computer-supported organisational and business processes, user-involvement in these processes, globally distributed systems and growing interest in re-use, components and COTS-intensive software. To fully address the question of how and to increase mastery of such processes one must achieve at least some understanding of the why and the what. The industrial viewpoint will be of particular interest.
PARTICIPATION
Participation by both industry and academia is expected. Participants are being invited on the basis of refereed position papers or extended abstracts that are relevant to the above themes and questions. All accepted submissions will be made available on the web in early June, prior to the workshop, to provide background for discussion. A number of submissions will be expanded into full papers for circulation at the workshop and for subsequent publication in a journal or proceedings. Active participation in the workshop and debate will be stimulated by keynote speakers, session leaders, discussion moderators and panellists.
Program Steering Committee: Giuliano Antoniol (Italy), Barry Boehm (USA), Brian Chatters (UK),Khaled El Emam (Canada), Patrick Humphreys (UK), Takuya Katayama (Japan), Manny Lehman (UK), Dewayne Perry (USA), Colin Tully (UK).
Program Committee: A list of PC members is available at the workshop web site.
Registration and accommodation booking forms are available at http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mml/f2000/registration.
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