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FOURTH  IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON 
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
(ICRE2000) 
An IEEE Software Technology Transfer Conference 
June 19-23, 2000
 
Hyatt Regency Woodfield
(847-605-1234)

Schaumburg, Illinois USA 

Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering

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Corporate Sponsors:                  

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

(Advanced Registration extended to May 26, 2000)

ICRE2000 is the fourth in a biennial series of conferences aimed at bringing together practitioners and researchers to discuss software requirements-engineering-related problems and results.  As a technology transfer conference, ICRE2000 is designed to provide (1) practitioners with an evaluation of promising requirements research and practice, and (2) researchers with an exposure to real-world requirements problems. 
 
  

ICRE2000 At-A-Glance
Monday, June 19, 2000 -- Pre-Conference Tutorials
8:30-12:00

A.M.

T1: Using Non-Functional Requirements to Improve the Software Development Process, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite and Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
T2: System Safety and the Requirements Engineering Process, John A. McDermid, University of York, York, UK
1:30-5:00

P.M.

T3: Using Abstract State Machines in Requirements Engineering,  Egon Boerger, Universita di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, currently visiting Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
T4: The “How To” of Use Case, Ivy Hooks, Compliance Automation, Inc., Boerne, TX, USA
Tuesday, June 20, 2000 -- Conference Program Day 1 (8:30-6:00)
A.M. Keynote I: Peter G.  Neumann, SRI International, USA Requirements-Related Risks in Critical Systems
Technical Session: 
A. Process and Modeling
Vendors

Exhibits

P.M. Technical Session: 
B. Specifications;  Poster Highlights
C. Panel: Certification & Licensing of Requirements Engineering Professionals 
Poster/Demo Session
Wednesday, June 21, 2000 -- Conference Program Day 2 (9:30-5:00)
A.M. Keynote II: David L. Parnas, McMaster Univ., Canada                Requirements  Documentation: Why a Formal Basis is Essential
Technical Session: 
D. Evolution
Vendors

Exhibits

P.M. Technical Session: 
E. Requirements, Analysis and Management
F. Panel: Why is it so difficult to introduce RE research results into mainstream RE practice?  
Conference Reception
Thursday, June 22, 2000 -- Conference Program Day 3 (9:00-2:30)
A.M. Technical Session: 
G. Reuse
Technical Session: 
H. Best Papers
P.M. Keynote III: Donald C. Gause, Savile Row, LLC, USA, Requirements Engineering, June 22, 2000, What have we accomplished? Where are we now? Where are we going?
Friday, June 23, 2000 -- Post-Conference Tutorials
8:30-12:00

A.M.

T5: Writing and Evaluating Requirement Specifications,  Linda H. Rosenberg and Albert Gallo, Software Assurance Technology Center, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
T6: The Most Ignored Piece of Requirements Engineering: Requirements Triage, Alan M. Davis, Omni-Vista, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO, USA
1:30-5:00

P.M.

T7: User DRIVEN Design---The Luxury That Has Become A Necessity, A Workshop In Full Life-Cycle Requirements Management, Donald C. Gause,  Principal, Savile Row, LLC, Binghampton, NY, USA
T8: Commonality Analysis for Defining Software Product Lines,  Mark A. Ardis, Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL, USA

CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

CONFERENCE CHAIR
Pei Hsia, University of Texas at Arlington
(hsia@cse.uta.edu)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Betty H.C. Cheng, Michigan State Univ
(chengb@cse.msu.edu)

David Weiss, Bell Laboratories 
(weiss@Bell-Labs.com)

TUTORIALS  CHAIR
Daniel Berry, Univ of Waterloo
(dberry@cs.technion.ac.il)

PUBLICITY CHAIR 
Annie Anton, N. Carolina State Univ
(aianton@csc.ncsu.edu)

EXHIBITS CHAIR 
David Hottman, Compliance Automation
(daveh@complianceautomation.com)

REGISTRATION CHAIR 
John Liu, Lucent Technologies
(yongliu@lucent.com)

FINANCE CHAIR 
David Levine, Univ. of Texas-Arlington
(levine@cse.uta.edu)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
Carl Chang, University of Illinois-Chicago 
(ckchang@eecs.uic.edu)

STEERING COMMITTEE  

D. Berry
C. Chang, Chair 
B. Cheng
A. Davis
M. Dorfman
P. Hsia
B. Lawrence 
N. Mead 
J. Siddiqi
D. Weiss 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE  

Annie I. Antón

North Carolina State Univ., USA

Joanne Atlee 

Univ. of Waterloo, Canada

John Boddie

DMR/Amdahl, USA

Karin Breitman

PUC-Rio, Brazil

Eric Byrne

Telcordia Technologies, USA

Jack Callahan 

NASA-WVU SW Research Lab, USA

Dwight Colby

Secure Computing Corp, USA

John Dobson 

U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 

Janet Drake 

University of Northern Iowa, USA

Steve Easterbrook

University of Toronto, Canada

Martin Feather 

Jet Propulsion Lab, USA

Marilyn Gaska 

Lockheed Martin Fed Systems, USA

Don Gause 

Savile Row, LLC, USA

Paul Grabow 

Baylor University, USA

Sol Greenspan

GTE Laboratories , USA

Constance Heitmeyer

Naval Research Lab, USA

Lalita Jagadeesan

Bell Laboratories, USA

Robert Johnson

Coyote Valley Software, USA

Nader Kameli 

Guidant Corporation, USA

Robyn Lutz

Jet Propulsion Lab , USA

John Mylopoulos

University of Toronto, Canada 

Bashar Nuseibeh 

Imperial College,  UK

Klaus Pohl 

Univ. of Essen, Germany

Linda Rosenberg 

NASA GSFC, USA 

Kurt Stirewalt

Michigan State University, USA

Axel van Lamsweerde

Univ. of Louvain, Belgium

Frank Weil

Motorola Labs, USA

Alan Yaung

IBM Corporation, USA

Greg Zelesnik

Evolutionary Systems, Inc. , USA

Didar Zowghi 

JRCASE, Macquarie University, Australia

KEY DATES  

Advanced Conference and Tutorial Registration:              May 19, 2000 (extended to May 26, 2000)
Conference Dates:                                                                 June 19-23, 2000