Brief Bio

Leszek A. Maciaszek is an Associate Professor of Computing at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He obtained his MSc and PhD degrees in Informatics from University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland (in 1972 and 1977, respectively). He has been working interchangeably in academia and industry. His assignments have included national organizations, international corporations and educational institutions in countries spanning four continents, including Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Kuwait, Macao, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore, Thailand, The Netherlands, and USA. Leszek's main areas of expertise evolve around the modeling, design, implementation and integration of enterprise information systems. He has authored about 120 publications related to databases, object technology, software engineering, systems modeling, and workgroup computing. Leszek's research interests in defining architectural, engineering and organizational imperatives for supportable enterprise systems stem from the experience gained in numerous consultancies, in particular as a project leader and software architect. Leszek has authored and co-authored a number of textbooks and reference books. His main books are: "Database Design and Implementation" (Prentice Hall, 1990), "Requirements Analysis and System Design" (Addison Wesley, 2001; translated to Chinese, Italian and Russian; 2nd edition published in 2005), and "Practical Software Engineering. A Case-Study Approach" (Addison Wesley, 2005; co-authored with Bruc Lee Liong).

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This keynote lecture will reflect on some of the most fundamental challenges facing the IT profession today. Business has embraced the Internet-age technology with zeal. Thanks to application integration technologies, organizations can function as loosely connected networks of cooperating units. Development of stand-alone applications is all but history. Accordingly, the term “application development” is being replaced by the more accurate term – “integration development”. Whether the application integration is internal to the enterprise or takes the form of external Business-to-Business (B2B) integration, the main integration challenge is similar – How to make the application a part of an integrated solution in a situation in which the integration developers have little control over participating applications and in a situation in which all applications are in a state of flux? In other words, how to make the integration solution supportable (i.e. understandable, maintainable, and scalable)? This talk will attempt to identify strategic (architectural), tactical (engineering), and operational (managerial) imperatives for building supportability into software. These imperatives will be defined for application development and then reconsidered as quality goals of integration development.

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Dr. Augusto's research experience since 1998 has been focused on AI-related problems and mostly related to temporal reasoning. His latest research activities have explored the application of spatio-temporal reasoning to Ambient Intelligence in general and Smart Homes in particular. He is currently editing a book on Artificial Intelligence Techniques applied to Smart Homes to be published by Springer Verlag as a volume in the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series during 2006. During his 12 years of academic work Dr. Augusto contributed with 18 journal/edited volume/book chapter publications, more than 30 conference/workshop publications, 4 presentations in the form of invited talks/tutorials/seminars for international conferences and companies and 5 extend seminars invited by different Universities. He is currently a co-chair of the 4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Telecare (ICOST'2006) to be held in Belfast. Previously has served as Steering/Program Committee member for more than ten international conferences and co-Chaired an international workshop for the last four years. AAAI member since 1993 and INSTICC member since 2004.

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Ambient Intelligence is growing fast as a multi-disciplinary area which can allow many areas of research to have a real beneficial influence in our society. The basic idea is that by enriching an environment with technology (sensors and devices interconnected through networks), a system can be built such that based on the real-time information gathered and the historical data accumulated, decisions can be taken to benefit the users of that environment. Examples of such environments are Smart Homes, probably the most well-known and well-advertised realization of the concept of Ambient Intelligence. But other applications are feasible and equally relevant. Specific areas of hospital, public transport stations, or any other public or private building can be equipped in such a way that the environment cooperates to improve safety, comfort and efficiency of the people interacting with it. This talk will describe the characteristics of these system, provide examples of applications and highlight the challenges ahead and the areas for potential development from the perspective of researchers and professionals attending ICSOFT2006.

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Tom Gilb is a freelance consultant, teacher and author serving clients mainly in Europe and the US. He has books in print: Competitive Engineering, Principles of Software Engineering Management and Software Inspection. He specializes in software engineering, systems engineering, and technical management. He resides in Norway and London. His most recent papers, book manuscripts and slides are available on www.gilb.com

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What can we do if we can quantify quality ideas?

Evaluation solutions/designs/architectures against the quantified quality requirements (Impact Estimation)
Test and measure the degree to which solutions meet quality and cost expectations ( when they were chosen)
Measure evolutionary project progress towards quality goals and get early & continuous improved estimates for time to completion
Communicate quality goals much better to all parties (users, customers, developers, testers, lawyers)
Contract for results
Pay for results only (not effort expended)
Reward teams for results achieved
Motivate technical people to focus on real business results
Simplify requirements ( the top few quantified- everything else is design)
Collect numeric data about designs, processes, organizational structures, to learn and use in future
Permits systematic corporate or academic research of a development environment

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Prof. Karagiannis studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and graduated several visit stays in the USA and Japan. From 1987 until 1992 he was business unit manager for Business Information Sytems at the Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Management (FAW) in Ulm. 1993 he founded the Department of Knowledge Engineering at the Insitute for Computer Science and Business Informatics at the University of Vienna, focusing on Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence and Meta-Modelling. Prof. Karagiannis has published lot of scientifical research papers in the field of Databases, Expert Systems, Business Process Management, Workflow-Systems and Knowledge Management. He is the author of two books concerned with Knowledge Databases and Knowledge Management and is engaged in national and EU-funded research projects. The Business Process Management Approach he established, which is concerned with the thematic of Knowledge- and Business Process Management, has been succesfully implemented in several service companies. He founded the european software- and consulting company BOC ITC Ltd. (http://www.boc-eu.com), which realised the development and implementation of the business process management toolkit ADONIS.

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The state-of-the-art in the area of modelling of organisations is based on fixed metamodels. Due to rapid changing business requirements the complexity in developing applications which deliver business solutions is continuously growing. To manage this complexity, environments providing flexible metamodelling capabilities instead of fixed metamodels have shown to be helpful. The main characteristic of such environments is that the formalism of modelling – the metamodel – can be freely defined and therefore be adapted to the problem under consideration. The invited talk will give an introduction into metamodelling concepts and presents a generic architecture for metamodelling platforms. Three best practice examples fro industry projects, applying metamodelling concepts in the area of business process modelling for e-business, e-learning, and knowledge management are presented. Finally, an outlook to future developments and research directions in the area of metamodelling is given.

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Brian Henderson-Sellers is Director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research and Professor of Information Systems at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is author or editor of 27 books and is well-known for his work in OO and AO methodologies (MOSES, COMMA, OPEN, OOSPICE, FAME), OO metrics and metamodelling. More recently, he has chaired workshops at OOPSLA and AOIS on agent-oriented methodologies. He is Editor of the International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering and on the editorial board of Journal of Object Technology, Software and Systems Modelling and International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence. In July 2001, Professor Henderson-Sellers was awarded a Doctor of Science (DSc) from the University of London for his research contributions in object-oriented methodologies.

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The FAME project uses method engineering to construct a methodological approach for agent-oriented software development. Its precursor was a project utilizing the object-oriented OPEN Process Framework, in which its repository of OO-focussed method fragments was extended to support various agent-oriented methodological approaches. In this talk, I will show how method engineering provides an excellent base for constructing situation specific software engineering methodologies for both object and agent software development. Both OPF and FAME use an existing repository coupled to an appropriate metamodel (which in the near future will be the new ISO standard metamodel ISO24744, itself based on the concept of powertypes). This flexible, yet standardized repository supplies method fragments that are then configured to support specific projects. In addition, all existing, and new, OO and AO methodologies can be recreated, thus providing an industry strength resource for object-oriented and agent-oriented software development.

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Marten J. van Sinderen is an associate professor at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, and manager of A-Services Internet, one of the strategic research orientations of the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, the ICT research institute of the University of Twente. His research interests include design methods and architectures for networked systems, and service platforms for supporting context-aware mobile applications. He currently leads the Dutch Freeband A-MUSE project on service design and semantic interoperability. He received his Master’s degree in electrical engineering and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Twente, The Netherlands.

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Service oriented architecture (SOA) is characterized by the separation of (service) functionality from (service) provider. A service denotes the functionality that is relevant to the user of the service, without burdening the user with irrelevant details on how the service is implemented. A user is not interested in who provides the service. Many different providers may implement the same service, differentiating among each other through the cost/performance ratios achieved by their implementations. Therefore, services are advertised in cyberspace by service descriptions, each one capturing information on essential characteristic of a service and on the locations of associated providers. Special infrastructure functions can find and evaluate a set of service descriptions that have (near) match to a user request, thus supporting automated discovery, selection, invocation and even composition of services. The SOA paradigm is very attractive, since it promises a “lego approach” to software applications. However, the technological state-of-the art (Web Services) so far offers only a partial implementation of the SOA potential, and design approaches with clear architectural guidelines and incorporating the business view are still subject of research. This talk will discuss one such approach and consider architectural styles that play a role in it.

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