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From: [e-mail] (Rob Vandeweg)
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Subject: Call for papers 4th European workshop on the Next Generation of CASE Tools (NGCT-93)
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS



FOURTH EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON THE NEXT GENERATION  OF CASE
TOOLS (NGCT-93)

Held in association with CAISE-93


On June 6 - 8, 1993, the fourth NGCT Workshop will take
place in Paris at the Sorbonne University in association
with the CAISE-93 conference.

Programme: Dr. Sjaak Brinkkemper
Local Organisation: Prof. Colette Rolland

The workshop brings together leading European researchers on
Computer Aided Software Engineering. The first three
workshops held at Noordwijkerhout (the Netherlands),
Trondheim (Norway), and Manchester (UK) were attended by 25
- 30 researchers, and have laid the groundwork for
continuing exchange of research ideas in this area. The
fourth workshop will consolidate and expand this exchange of
ideas further into active development and update of the
agenda for CASE research.
Attendance at the workshop will be by invitation only and is
limited to 25 delegates to promote effective discussion and
exchange of ideas in a small group. The programme has been
arranged to encourage informal exchange of ideas. Every
effort  will be made to keep costs to a minimum.

THEMES

Themes of the workshop will be focused on architectural
specification of aspects of new generation CASE environments
with special emphasis on issues as, but not limited to:
* Development process support
* Group software development tools
* Repositories
* MetaCASE (meta-modelling)

Topics in the past have covered:

* Reuse in CASE tools
* Reverse engineering CASE tools
* CASE architectures
* Method support in CASE, including formal methods
* Metamodelling for CASE environments and MetaCASE
* Innovative and Knowledge based CASE tools
* CASE tools for Object-Oriented analysis and design
* Human factors and Organisation issues
* User interfaces and CASE
* CSCW for CASE
* Repository techniques and standards
* Natural language support

Please note submissions must have tool based, i.e. CASE,
subject matter.


The format of the workshop will consist of short paper
presentations and thematic discussions plenary as well in
subgroups.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Two types of submissions are invited:
* Full papers, length not more than 6,000 words
* Position papers, length not more than 2,500 words.
Papers will reviewed by the workshop committee, and
attendance at the workshop is conditioned on acceptance of
either a position or a full paper.

Authors of full papers should try to review related work as
well as presenting their own results. Keynote presentations
will be selected from full papers. Position papers are
intended to describe experience and overview of results.
Membership of working groups will be determined from
position papers.
All accepted papers will be published in the informal
workshop proceedings as a technical report (memorandum) of
the Twente University, which will be supplied to delegates.
It is intended that a formal published volume of edited
proceedings will be proceeded after the workshop. The
proceedings of the second workshop were published as 'Next
generation CASE tools' by the IOS Press (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands) last year in the series 'Studies in Computer
and Communication Systems'.

The procedure will be to select papers on the basis of
review results and then discussion in working groups. A
number of papers (no more than twelve) will be selected for
development to a publication standard. Authors should note
in their submissions that material which is submitted to the
main CAISE-93 conference can not be published in the NGCT
edited proceedings because of copyright restrictions.

The deadline for paper submission will be February 28th,
1993. The call for participation for CAISE-93 can be
obtained from the secretary of the workshop committee.

WORKSHOP PLAN

NGCT-93 will have as the previous year a panel format of
discussion and small groups to stimulate development of
ideas on focused themes. The programme will be as follows:

Day 1. Saturday 6th June 12.00 am - 5.00 pm

(a) Presentation of four - five keynote papers selected from
the submitted full papers. Twenty minute presentations plus
five minutes questions. Choice of these papers will depend
on their academic merit and coverage of topics. We intend to
have only one paper per theme area presented, even if we get
several excellent papers on one theme.

(b) Panel presentations. Participants will be invited to
join panels on basis of  their submitted (position or full)
papers. Panellists may give five - ten minute short
presentations. Each panel will be composed of four - five
participants, 45 minutes per panel, 25 minutes presentation
plus twenty minutes discussion with the other delegates
acting as audience. Four - five panels overall, selected on
coherence of themes.

Day 2 Sunday 7th June 9.30 am - 5.30 pm

Continuation of panel presentations.

(c) Selection of working groups. Participants may elect to
join a panel or to form a separate group for subjects which
were not presented. The aims is to form six - seven groups
on topic themes (assuming a workshop membership of about
25).

(d) Discussion of topics in working groups. Review of
submitted papers, ideas for development.

Day 3 Monday 8th June 9.00 - 12.00 am

(e) Plenary session. Presentation by each working group of
its conclusions, discussion by whole workshop. Plans for
published volume, and future meetings of workshop.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Papers (three copies) should be sent by Sunday 28th February
1993 to:
     Dr S. Brinkkemper,
     Department of Information Systems,
     Faculty of Informatics, University of Twente,
     P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands,

     e-mail: {[e-mail]},
     tel.nr:  [phone]
     fax-nr:  [phone]

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by April
7th 1993. Camera ready copy should be supplied by 10th May
1993.


WORKSHOP COMMITTEE

Rudolf Andersen, University of Trondheim, Norway
Sjaak Brinkkemper, University of Twente, NL (chair)
Terry Halpin, University of Queensland, Australia
Neil Maiden, City University, UK.
Colette Rolland, University of Paris, France
Alistair Sutcliffe, City University, UK
Veli-Pekka Tahvanainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK
Benkt Wangler, SISU, Sweden
Rob van de Weg, University of Twente, NL (secretary)
Richard Welke, Georgia State University, USA
Gerard Wijers, SERC, NL


Those interested in participation and wishing to obtain the
final call for participation should contact the program
committee:
     Rob L.W. van de Weg,
     Department of Information Systems,
     Faculty of Informatics, University of Twente,
     P.O. Box 217, NL-7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands,

     e-mail: {[e-mail]},
     tel.nr:  [phone]
     fax-nr:  [phone]