Editor: George
Spanoudakis, Department of Computing, City University, London, UK.
Email: gespan@soi.city.ac.uk
Requirenautics Quarterly is published by the BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group as a service to its members. These web pages index those sections of the newsletter that are available on line. The full newsletter is only available in the printed version sent out to members. For information on how to join RESG, please see the RESG home page, or contact the membership secretary, Dr. Sara Jones, S.Jones@herts.ac.uk
RE-Soundings 1
Chairmans Message 2
Calendar 3
RE-Calls 13
UML '99: 2nd Int. Conference on the UML 14
REP '99: 1st Int. Workshop on the Requirements Engineering Process 15
ICSE '99 Workshop: COTS 16
EMMSAD '99: Evaluation of Modelling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design 17
Annals of Software Engineering, Special Volume on Software Maintenance, Call for papers 19
ACM TOSEM, Special issue on Software Engineering and Security, Call for papers 19
REFSQ '99 - 5th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundations for Software Quality, Call for papers 20
ISRE '99 - Doctoral Symposium
22
RE-Actors 24
After taking over from Steve Easterbrook, there were plenty of times when I thought that this issue would never reach you. Fortunately, the worst did not happen and eventually you have the 16th issue of Requirenautics in your hands. Special thanks to all those who assisted me along the way, especially Ian Alexander, whose contribution was indispensable.
Knowing that I will be inevitably compared to Steve, who has been skillfully editing RQ since 1994, makes me feel a bit uncomfortable. Nevertheless, I 'll try to do my best in my new role as the editor of the RQ, and I hope that with your own contributions RQ will continue to provide a service of good quality to the requirements engineering community. Both myself and other members of the RESG committee have been discussing various ideas on how to improve the contents and the presentation of RQ. I think that it won't be long before these ideas will materialise with profound effects to the newsletter.
Enough with the editorial changes and the plans though. Let's get to what we have in this issue. Ian Alexander shares with us his personal impressions from the European Conference on Industrial Requirements Engineering, which was organised by the RESG last October in London. He also suggests going against fashion in today's requirements engineering world and gives us his personal perspective on the new book of Ian Graham on requirements engineering and rapid development. Geoff Mullery considers quality assurance regimes in his article. You can also find a number of interesting calls for papers and a calendar of events you might wish to know about. I hope you will enjoy
Copy deadline for the next
issue is 26th March 1999
Department of Computing,
City University
As 1998 draws to a close, so does my three-month sabbatical at the NASA IV&V Facility in West Virginia, USA. It's been fascinating to work on the requirement specifications of the International Space Station, and watching it being launched and assembled in space as its specifications evolve!
Back to reality in London, the RESG organised its second major conference - CEIRE'98 - to follow-up RE-Day last year. The meeting attracted over 80 delegates from industry and academia, who enjoyed a variety of workshops, tutorials, a tools fair and other goodies. I'd like to thank the hardworking committee who organised the event, and of course all those who attended, participated and made it so successful.
European interest in RE is as keen as ever, if the number of conferences on the topic is anything to go by. The New Year sees the RESFQ workshop in Heidelberg, RE'99 in Limerick and REP'99 in Florence. See the inside of this issue to plan your European RE travel itinerary!
With all these major meetings taking place in 1999, the RESG strategy is to hold a number of small focused meetings on specific topics of interest to the membership. We will try to be as responsive as possible to your requests, so please drop us a line to tell us of your preferred themes for meetings (and suggestions for venues if you feel particularly averse to them being held in London!).
You will notice reading this issue that George Spanoudakis has taken over from Steve Easterbrook as Editor-in-Chief of this newsletter. Steve has done a fantastic job in launching and editing RQ since the RESG was founded back in October 1994. On behalf of the entire RESG membership, I would like to thank him for his years of contribution to the group. George has a tough act to follow, but I'm sure he will be more than up to it. George has been an Associate Editor of RQ for over a year and is therefore in an ideal position to ensure a smooth transition. Steve will continue to serve on the RESG in the short term in an advisory Associate Editor's role.
I am also sad to say that Olly Gotel is also leaving the RESG after many years of sterling service. Olly has served as Publicity Officer and Industrial Liaison Officer and has excelled in both. Her input to the RESG programme of events has also been great and we will miss her contributions. Thanks Olly and good luck!
The RESG committee always welcomes members who are prepared to volunteer their time organising events, writing for this newsletter and contributing to the group's activities. Please do drop us a line if you would like to get involved. We're a friendly and informal group, and the work can be very rewarding. We would especially welcome practitioners who feel they can devote time to help us make the group attractive and relevant to other practitioners.
On behalf of the RESG committee,
I would like to wish you all my warmest Season's Greetings, and my best
wishes for a New Year that meets all your requirements.
Imperial College, London
Next event organised by the group.
Patterns Day: Patterns for System Requirements and Architectures
Date: 5th May, 1999
Location: City University, London.
Format: An all day event, organised by the BCS Requirements Engineering and Software Reuse Specialist groups.
Contact: Neil Maiden (City University, E-Mail: N.A.M.Maiden@city.ac.uk )
The event will be divided
into two parts: (i) presentations on state-of-the-art patterns, patterns
development and patterns use in upstream systems development processes
such as requirements modeling and architectural design; (ii) small discussion
groups to discuss, review and improve patterns of different types. The
results from these discussions will feed back to the final presentation
session.
Other forthcoming events
organised by the group.
Requirements for E-Commerce
Date: July 1999
Location: London
Contact: Sara Jones,
University of Hertfordshire (E-Mail: S.Jones@herts.ac.uk
)
Managing Changing requirements
Date: 31st August 1999
Location: London
Contact: Bashar Nuseibeh,
Imperial College (E-Mail: ban@doc.ic.ac.uk
)
Requirements and COTS
Date: Autumn 1999
Location: York
Contact: Laurence
Brooks, University of York (E-Mail: Laurence.Brooks@cs.york.ac.uk
)
Dependable Distributed System Requirements
Date: February 2000
Location: London
Contact: Sara Jones,
University of Hertfordshire (E-Mail: S.Jones@herts.ac.uk
), Wolfgang Emmerich, University College, London (E-Mail: W.Emmerich@cs.ucl.ac.uk
)
RESUME:
a survey of requirements engineering practice in European industrial organisations
RESUME is a RENOIR funded survey being carried out at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. The main focus of RESUME is on Requirements Engineering practice in European organisations developing the products and services that are shaping the Information Society: massively deployed embedded systems and applications running on large-scale information infrastructures.
Some preliminary results are available at the RESUME web site:
http://dsa-isis.jrc.it/SysReqs/resume/resume.html
Also, for people interested in participating in the survey, we provide a downloadable MS-Word 6.0 document containing a questionnaire. The questionnaire can be answered by editing this document and sending it by e-mail to:
Andres.Silva@jrc.it
For further information about the survey, please, contact:
Philip.Morris@jrc.it
Andres.Silva@jrc.it
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
TP21 Ispra(VA) I-21020 Italy
Tel: +39 332 78 92 61 - Fax:
+39 332 78 95 76
February 1999
3rd IFIP International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems (FMOODS99), Florence, Italy, February 15th - 18th, 1999.
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/fmoods/
The First Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA1), San Antonio, Texas, USA, February 22-24, 1999.
http://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dep/prof/wicsa1/
International Conference on Process Modeling, February 22-24, Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus, Germany.
http://www.processmodelling.tu-cottbus.de
March 1999
SEPG `99 - The 11th Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Conference, Theme: Software Process Improvement (SPI) Investments Today for a Changing Tomorrow, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA March 8-11, 1999
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/products/events/sepg/
CSEET'99 - 12th Conference on Software Engineering Training and Education, Co-located with the ACM SIGCSE Symposium on Computer Science Education, New Orleans, USA, March 22-24, 1999.
RIDE-VE '99: Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. RIDE-VE'99 is the 9th workshop in a series of annual workshops on Research Issues in Data Engineering (RIDE) held in conjunction with the IEEE CS International Conferences on Data Engineering. In 1999, RIDE focuses on Information Technology for Virtual Enterprises. Millennium Hotel, Sydney, Australia. March 23-24, 1999.
SMBPI: Systems Modeling for Business Process Improvement, University of Ulster, Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland, 29-31 March 1999.
http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/informatics/events/smbpi.html
April 99
3rd International Workshop on Empirical Assessment and Evaluation in Software Engineering, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK, April 12-14, 1999.
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cs/events/ease99
Recent Calls for Papers
ESEC/FSE 99, Joint 7th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and 7th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-7), Toulouse, France, September 6-10, 1999
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~esec99/
Sponsored by the ACM SIGSOFT,
CEPIS (Council of European Professional Informatics Societies), and ONERA
Call for Contributions:
Technical Papers
The Programme Committee invites
authors to submit either research or experience papers for publication
and presentation at the conference. We encourage submissions in any field
of software engineering, including, but not limited to:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html.
Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee for originality, significance, timeliness, soundness and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly present an original contribution to the state-of-the-art. Theoretical papers should how their results relate to software engineering practice. Experience papers must clearly present "lessons learned" that will be of interest and benefit to a broad audience.
Full details concerning the submission procedure as well as the call for workshops and tutorials are available on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~esec99/
Important Dates:
Abstracts due: February 22, 1999
Papers submissions due: March 1, 1999
Authors notified: May 14, 1999
Camera-ready copy due: June 14, 1999
Conference: September 6-10,
1999
Organisation:
General Chair
Michel Lemoine,
ONERA ETLS / DPRS,
Toulouse, France
E-Mail: lemoine@cert.fr
Program Chair
Oscar Nierstrasz,
University of Berne,
Switzerland
E-Mail: oscar@iam.unibe.ch
UML '99: 2nd International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, October 28-30, 1999
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/UML99
Sponsored by IEEE Computer
Society Technical Committee on Complex Systems (pending). In Cooperation
with ACM SIGSOFT. With the Support of OMG.
Scope:
UML '99 will bring together
researchers in academia and industry who are developing processes, methods,
techniques, and semantic foundations for the UML. The conference will provide
a forum for discussing and evaluating promising approaches that will enhance
the application of UML.
The UML '99 organizing committee
invites authors to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research
and experience reports on UML or related topics.
Typical areas include (but
are not limited to):
Deadline for abstract: 5 May 1999
Deadline for submission: 15 May 1999
Notification to authors: 15 July 1999
Final version of accepted
papers: 25 August 1999
Submissions:
Submit your 10-15 page manuscript
electronically in Postscript or pdf using the Springer LNCS style. Details
are available at the conference web page. The UML '99 proceedings will
be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.
Organising Committee:
Conference chair:
Robert B. France, USA
Computer Science Department ,
Colorado State University ,
Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
E-Mail: france@cs.colostate.edu
Program chair:
Bernhard Rumpe,
Institut fuer Informatik,
T. Universitaet Muenchen ,
80290 Muenchen, Germany
E-Mail: rumpe@in.tum.de
REP 99 - 1st International Workshop on the Requirements Engineering Process: Innovative Techniques, Models, Tools to support the RE Process, Florence, Italy, September 3, 1999
http://www.univ-paris1.fr/CRINFO/REP9
Scope:
Experience in developing systems has shown that an inadequate understanding of system requirements is the single most important cause of user dissatisfaction and system failure. This has led to the area of Requirements Engineering.
Requirements engineering (RE) is the process of determining a complete, correct and clear specification of a future software-intensive system from the incomplete, inconsistent and ambiguous statements of need from stakeholders as diverse as end-users, managers and members of the public. Whereas conventional RE approaches focus on models and languages to express system specifications, there has been a recent shift towards a focus on requirements engineering processes (REPs). The prevalent view is that requirements emerge from a process of learning in which they are elicited, prioritized, negotiated, evaluated and documented. Requirements evolve with time. This necessitates managing requirements evolution and aligning requirements to organizational changes.
Goal:
The goal of the REP workshop is to improve our understanding of the RE process. This workshop shall provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of :
Topics:
Topics include but are not
restricted to :
Full papers (max 5000 words)
or position papers (2000 words) must be sent electronically ( Word 95 or
97 or PS file) to REP@univ-paris1.fr.
Papers will be published by IEEE in the workshop proceedings.
Important dates:
Submission : March 15, 1999
Acceptance notification : April 30, 1999
Confirmation of participation : May 15, 1999
Camera ready paper due :
May 30, 1999
Organisation:
Program Chair
Colette Rolland
Université de Paris1,
90, rue de Tolbiac,
750013 Paris, France
E-Mail: rolland@univ-paris1.fr
Program Co-Chairs
Neil Maiden,
Centre for HCI Design
City University,
Northampton Square,
London EC1V OHB, United Kingdom
E-Mail: N.A.M.Maiden@city.ac.uk
Naveen Prakash
DIT
CRI, C1405 Kashmere Gate
Old IG Block
110006 DELHI, India
E-Mail: praknav@hotmail.com
Workshop - Ensuring Successful COTS Development, co-located with the 21st International Conference on Software Engineering, Los Angeles, California, USA Saturday, May 22, 1999
http://wwwsel.iit.nrc.ca/projects/cots/icsewkshp/icsecfp.html
Theme:
The theme of this one-day workshop is the application of research results from various areas of software engineering to the problems associated with the building, acquiring, maintaining, and managing software systems containing Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products. COTS products in this context are components that an organization acquires from a third party, with no access to the source code, and for which there are multiple customers using identical copies of the component.
Our goal for the workshop
is to highlight the role of existing research, in the areas of software
architecture, system design, software process, testing and verification,
software reuse, application management, security and cost estimation, in
addressing some of the problems associated with building and maintaining
long-lived COTS-based systems. In particular we want to investigate practical
application of these results in real-life development environments.
Contributions:
Experience reports, research papers, evaluations, and surveys are invited on relevant topics. These include but are not limited to:
Authors of papers selected
for presentation will be notified on or before March 15, 1999. Attendees
will be selected on the basis of their perceived contribution to the topics
to be discussed. Admission to the workshop will be by invitation only.
Participants will register with ICSE 99. The workshop will be limited to
30 participants not including the moderators. Preferably, at least half
the participants will be practitioners with the other part being made up
of researchers.
Important Dates:
Papers and Experience Reports: March 1, 1999
Acceptance notification:
March 15, 1999
Formatting guidelines are available at
http://sunset.usc.edu/icse99/pubformat/index.html.
Organizers:
John Dean, National Research Council Canada
Patricia Oberndorf, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Mark Vigder, National Research
Council Canada
EMMSAD '99 - CAiSE/IFIP8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design, Heidelberg, Germany, June 14-15, 1999
http://www.ait.unl.edu/doc2/faculty/siau/conference/EMMSAD99.html
Objectives:
EMMSAD '99 is the 4th in
the series of workshops on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis
and Design that started in 1996. EMMSAD workshops have been very successful
in bringing together researchers and practitioners in information systems,
method engineering, software engineering, database, and human computer
interaction that are interested in modeling methods in systems analysis
and design. These workshops provide a forum for researchers and practitioners
in the area to meet and exchange research ideas and results. EMMSAD'99
is an event jointly sponsored by the Conference on Advanced Information
Systems Engineering (CAiSE) and the International Federation for Information
Processing Working Group 8.1 (IFIP8.1).
Topics:
We are interested in theoretical and/or empirical evaluations of modeling methods and methodologies related to:
Important Dates:
Intention to Submit (optional): February 15, 1999
Paper Submission Deadline: March 1, 1999
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 1999
Camera Ready Copy Due: May
10, 1999
Organizers:
Keng Siau,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
USA
Yair Wand,
University of British Columbia, Canada
Annals of Software Engineering, Special Volume 10 on Software Maintenance, Call for papers
http://manta.cs.vt.edu/ase/vol10call.html
This special volume of Annals
of Software Engineering will focus on best software maintenance practices,
methodologies, and empirical results for a variety of systems, designs,
and architectures. Original papers are solicited that present research
results, innovative case studies, actual project experiences, state-of-the-art
surveys, and tutorials.
Topics of particular interest
include but are not limited to:
Co-editors:
Dr Cristina Cifuentes and Professor Paul Bailes
Centre for Software Maintenance, Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072 Australia,
E-Mail: {cristina,paul} @csee.uq.edu.au.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Special issue on Software Engineering and Security, call for papers
http://www.research.att.com/~stubblebine/tosem.html
ACM TOSEM will bring out
a special issue dedicated to the intersection of concerns between security
and software engineering. We solicit submissions that address the following
issues and sub-areas:
Papers Due: April 1, 1999
Notification of Acceptance:
October 1, 1999
Guest Editors:
Premkumar Devanbu, UC Davis
Stuart Stubblebine, AT&T
Labs--Research
R E F S Q ' 9 9 - Fifth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, June 14-18 1999, Heidelberg, Germany (preceding the CAiSE '99 conference)
http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/conf/caise99/cfp-rfsq99.html
Purpose:
Achieving high quality means
to realise the needs of users and customers. These needs are elicited,
negotiated, documented and validated during requirements engineering (RE).
RE is therefore the most crucial phase of software development. The goals
of RE are:
Goal:
The goal of the REFSQ workshop
series is to improve the understanding of the relations between requirements
engineering and software quality. More precisely, REFSQ aims at having
intensive discussion provoked by brief presentations about:
Themes:
In accordance with the special
theme for CAiSE*99 - Component-Based Approaches - and following-up on issues
raised at last year's workshop, REFSQ'99 specifically invites submissions
addressing RE for Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) systems.
Relevant topics include,
but are not limited to:
1.Embedding RE in the organisational context
Relevant topics include: smoothly extending existing methods, developing techniques that are specific for individual domains and applications, assessing the helpfulness of formal representations, change management, organisational learning, business processes, etc.
2. Managing the quality of RE processes
Relevant topics include:
resource estimation, establishing and using traceability, process modelling
and monitoring, RE project organisation, quality models of RE and the RE
process, environments for supporting RE processes, CAME environments, etc.
3. Quality assurance and RE
Relevant topics include: models for quality assurance, considering quality assurance in RE, software quality and RE, specification of software quality requirements, measuring the quality of requirements, etc. Note that the themes and the lists of topics for each theme are not intended to be exhaustive.
Papers:
Papers of three types can
be submitted to the workshop:
Industrial problem statements
- People from industry are especially encouraged to submit problem statements.
Industrial problem statements should focus on perceived mis-matches between
current RE practice and research and/or on emerging areas of concern for
RE practitioners. An industrial problem statement may be about one page
long, but more comprehensive statements will also be considered.
Position papers - Position
papers should state the author's research position with respect to view
of current RE practice, relations between current RE practice and RE research,
and/or research methodology and ontological assumptions. Papers should
emphasise which topics that are of particular concern to the RE community
at present, and why. The maximum length of a position paper is 2000 words.
Full papers - Full papers
should emphasize what is new and significant about the chosen approach
and adequately compare it with similar work. Integration of the contributions
with mainstream or other research approaches to SE and RE are especially
encouraged. The maximum length of a full paper is 6000 words.
Instructions for authors:
Send your full paper (max. 6000 words), position paper (max. 2000 words) or industrial problem statement (approx. 1 page) by e-mail or via normal post before March 1st (arrival date) to:
pohl@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Klaus Pohl
RWTH Aachen
Informatik V
D-52074 Aachen
Email submission is encouraged,
as the accepted papers will later be distributed to the other participants
electronically.
Papers will be published in the REFSQ'99 workshop proceedings, and the papers will be made available electronically for the participants before the workshop. We also intend to provide paper preprints at the beginning of the workshop, but this is dependent on the funding we receive.
Workshop Format:
The workshop will be an interactive
forum. Attendance will be limited to 30 people and all participants must
have a paper accepted for the workshop. The workshop language is English.
The workshop will be organized in conjunction with the CAiSE*99 conference,
and some earlier CAiSE conferences have required workshop participants
to also attend the main conference. The accepted papers will be made available
electronically to all workshop participants before the workshop, so that
presentations can be kept short. Each full-paper presentation will be summarized
and commented on by all the other authors of full papers in the same session,
acting as discussants. The discussants will be followed by a plenary discussion
of the paper. In addition, there will be a plenary discussion at the end
of each session. At the end of the workshop there will be a general discussion,
possibly including a brainstorming session about areas or topics of RE
research that the participants perceive as important.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: March 1, 1999
Acceptance notification: April 15, 1999
Confirmation of participation: April 30, 1999
Camera ready paper due: May
15, 1999
Program Chairs:
Andreas Opdahl, Univ. of Bergen, Norway
Klaus Pohl, RWTH Aachen,
Germany
ISRE 99 - Doctoral Symposium, 7th and 8th of June, Limerick, Ireland
http://www.ul.ie/~isre99/ISRE-docsym-end.html
The ISRE 99 Doctoral Symposium
is a two day workshop to be held June 7th and 8th, prior to the International
Symposium on Requirements Engineering (ISRE).
Goal:
The goal of the Doctoral
Symposium is to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques,
tools and applications to requirements engineering and give them the opportunity
to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international
atmosphere. The symposiums aims:
Who should submit?
Student participants should
consider participating in the doctoral workshop at least six months before
completion of their dissertation, but after having settled on a research
area or thesis topic.
Organisation:
Michael Goedicke, University of Essen, Germany, Workshop Co-Chair
Klaus Pohl, RWTH Aachen,
Germany, Workshop Co-Chair
Important Dates:
Deadline for submissions: March 15, 1999
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 1999
Camera-ready copy due: April 28, 1999
ISRE 99: June 7-11, 1999
Financial Support:
The activity is a RENOIR sponsored event. Students belonging to a RENOIR node and attending the doctoral symposium can apply for travel support by RENOIR.
Submissions:
To apply as a student participant
in the Doctoral Symposium, prepare a submission package consisting of three
parts listed below. Each of these parts must be submitted electronically
by the listed deadlines.
General Information:
Name of student, Univ. and department, full mailing address, telephone, fax, email address.
Name of thesis advisor, Univ. and department, full mailing address, telephone, fax, email address.
Brief description of research topic (25 words or less)
2 to 5 key words.
Research Abstract:
Submit an abstract describing
your dissertation research. Your abstract should be at least 3 pages, but
not more than 5 pages long, when prepared according to the format guidelines
below. The research abstract should clearly indicate:
Letter of Recommendation:
Ask your thesis advisor to
submit a letter of recommendation to pohl@informatik.rwth-aachen.de. The
letter of recommendation must include a detailed assessment of the current
status of your thesis research and an expected date for thesis submission.
More Information:
Contact or send an e-mail to
Klaus Pohl,
RWTH Aachen, Ahornstrasse 55
52056 Aachen, Germany
Tel: +49 (241) 80-21513, Fax: +49 (241) 8888-321
E-Mail: pohl@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Chair: Dr. Bashar Nuseibeh, Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK. E-Mail: ban@doc.ic.ac.uk, Tel: 0171-594-8286, Fax: 0171-581-8024
Treasurer: Dr. Neil Maiden, Centre for HCI Design, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, UK. E-Mail: N.A.M.Maiden@city.ac.uk, Tel: 0171-477-8412, Fax: 0171-477-8859
Secretary: Dr. Wolfgang Emmerich, University College London, Department of Computer Science, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. E-Mail: W.Emmerich@cs.ucl.ac.uk, Tel: +44 171 504 4413, Fax: +44 171 387 1397
Membership Secretary: Dr. Sara Jones, Department of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK. E-Mail: S.Jones@herts.ac.uk, Tel: 01707 284370, Fax: 01707 284303
Newsletter Editor: Dr George Spanoudakis, City University, Department of Computing, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB. E-Mail: gespan@soi.city.ac.uk, Tel: 0171 477 8413, Fax: 0171 477 8587.
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