------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation IWFST-2005 International Workshop on Future Software Technology 2005 November 8 - 10, 2005 in Shanghai Co-sponsored by SEA (Japan) and UNU-IIST (Macau) In cooperation with Shanghai Municipal Informatization Commission SEA (Software Engineers Association of Japan) has been conducting A series of annual international technical symposium in China in cooperation with UNU/IIST (United Nations University's International Institute for Software Technology) since 1996. It has been titled as ISFST: International Symposium on Future Software Technology. This year we have decided to change the operational mode of the meeting from usual paper-presentation style symposium to discussion- oriented workshop. The workshop program will be organized as a set of working group discussions on pre-selected special topics. The name of the meeting is also changed from ISFST to IWFST: International WORKSHOP on Future Software Technology. The new style workshop will be held in Shanghai in November with a support from Shanghai Municipal Informatization Commission. By introducing this change of style, we expect that the participants will be able to share a unique opportunity of fruitful information exchange through intensive discussion in the intimate atmosphere of small working groups. The purpose of the workshop is to examine recent progresses in software technology, to exchange various technical and business information, and to promote the sound industry-academia cooperation in future. It will be a good place for practitioners, researchers and educators in software community to discuss about the trend of business and technology. Following 8 topics were carefully selected for this year's working group discussions: (a) Empirical Software Engineering: There are several national projects towards empirical software engineering in Japan, Australia, Germany, and USA. This is a kind of hot topic in software engineering community now. (b) Formal Method: There have been many R&D efforts in academic community, but not yet succeeded to apply their result to real world projects in the industry. Discussion will be focused on technology transfer aspect. (c) Government Policy: In each Asia-Pacific country around, there are several so-called national initiatives to promote software engineering. Some looks successful and some are not. Here we would like to discuss what kind of government action will be better to develop sound technology and business in future. (d) New Paradigm for Future: It seems necessary to introduce new paradigms for systems development in the dynamically changing environment of the Internet age. There are some candidates like Product Line Approach, COTS-based development, etc. etc. What are the strong or weak points of these new paradigms? (e) Open Source/Free Software: No doubt, this is one of the hot topics in our times. There are many things to be discussed to support development and use of OS/F software in future. Already China-Japan-Korea government are planning to start joint effort. Where are they going to? (f) Project Management: This topic has been discussed for long time but still alive and now there are more complicated factors to be considered: How to deal with shortening development cycle and rapidly changing requirement? How to coordinate geographically distributed project in outsourcing situation? etc. etc. (g) Quality/Testing: Quality assurance became more important as many software products came into our daily life. Also, it is an important problem how to assure the quality of evolving software systems, which are running on variety of hardware devices inter-connected via network. (h) Software Process: In the industry, there are strong interests on software process improvement framework like CMM, SPICE, etc. Until now, people's interests were focused on management aspects of SPI. But, from software engineering viewpoint, technical issues of SPI will become more important in future. We need to switch our intention somehow. Also, there are great possibilities of application of process technology to other domains beside software development. ********************* How to participate?!! ********************* To achieve a fruitful outcome of the workshop, we are planning to control the size of discussion group as 10 -15 people for each topic. We have already accepted about 60 discussants through the first round of Call-for-Position-Papers. But there are still enough seats to accommodate more people who are interested in discussion topics listed above. Attached below is the detailed information about the workshop organization with registration and hotel reservation forms. Please join us. We welcome your participation. IWFST-2005 Staffs General Co-Chairs: Dehua JU (ASTI Shanghai, China) Kyochul Kang (POSTECH, Korea) Hideo NAKANO (Osaka City Univ, Japan) Program Co-Chairs: Kouichi KISHIDA (SRA-KTL, Japan) Gihwon KWON (Kyonggi Univ, Korea) Minglu LI (Shanghai Japtong Univ, China) ------------------------------------------------- A. IWFST2005 General Information for Participants ------------------------------------------------- 1. Workshop Venue Tong Mao Hotel (TMH) Main venue for the working group discussion We have reserved 8 rooms on the 6th floor. Address: 357 Shongling Road, Pudong, Shanghai, China 200122 Tel: +86-21-5830-0000 Fax: +86-21-5835-2340 E-mail: tongmaohotel@163.com URL: http://www.telehotel.com.cn/ Shanghai International Conference Center (SICC) for Opening & Keynote Session in the morning of Nov 8. URL: http://www.shicc.net/index.htm 2. Workshop Schedule Nov 7 (Mon) Afternoon: Registration at TMH Evening: Welcome Reception Nov 8 (Tue) Morning: Opening & Keynote Session at SICC (move by bus between TMH and SICC) Afternoon: Working Group Discussion at TMH Evening: Banquet at TMH Nov 9 (Wed) Working Group Discussion at TMH Nov 10 (Thu) Working Group Reporting Session at TMH (maybe 2 parallel sessions) Nov 11 (Fri) After Workshop Excursion (visiting small town in the suburb) 3. Handout Material and Proceedings For the handout material for working group discussion, we collect presentation slides from all participants. After the workshop is over, SEA Japan will publish the post-workshop proceedings in CD. The contents will be: Summary report from each working group with collection of presentation slides used in discussion Position papers re-written reflecting the discussion at the workshop. 4.Registration Please make your registration using IWFST Registration Form until Oct 31 (Mon). IWFST is a discussion-oriented workshop. So, please prepare your slides for presentation at the working group discussion and e-mail it to the following address by Oct 31 (Mon). Numbers of slides are limited minimum 2 and maximum 6. We will compile all the slides to produce handout material for discussion. 5. Registration Fee Regular: 1,500 RMB Student: 750 RMB [*] Registration web will be closed on Oct. The fee includes a programme with abstracts, 4 lunches, 4 dinners (including a banquet), and the after-workshop proceedings. 6. Method of Payment: Cash (RMB = Chinese Yuan) only. Please pay your workshop fee at registration desk in the lobby of Tong Mao Hotel. 7. Lodging We have reserved a number of rooms at Tong Mao Hotel. Standard room rate is 750 RMB/night, including breakfast. If 2 people want to share a twin room, rate for one person is 375 RMB/night. If you want to stay this hotel, please make reservation by sending e-mail to the local arrangement staff in ASTI Shanghai until Oct 8 (Sat) using IWFST2005 Hotel Reservation Form. The numbers of reserved rooms are limited. Your request will be processed by first-in-first-serve basis. 8. After Workshop Excursion (Optional) We are planning to have after-workshop excursion to the neighborhood small town on Nov 11 (Fri) to provide opportunity of open-air free information exchange among participants. Budget plan is now ongoing. Maybe it will be free of charge or need to have some additional charge. 9. Need VISA? If you need to get entry VISA to China, please send your request to the local arrangement: nli@asti.com.cn Then you can get a formal invitation letter for VISA. For some countries including Japan, you do not need entry VISA for a short visit within 2 weeks. Please check at nearby Chinese Embassy. That's all. If you have any question please e-mail to: k2@sra.co.jp --------------------- B. Registration Form --------------------- Please complete following form and return it by e-mail to: iwfst2005-entry@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp Your e-mail will be automatically forwarded to local arrangement staff in Shanghai (also to SEA Office in Japan). ************************** IWFST 2005 Registration From ************************** Title: Select one (Prof. Dr. Mr. Ms) Name: _____________ _________________ ______________ (Surname) (First name) (Middle name) Sex: (Male, Female) Nationality: Passport No.: Affiliation: Mailing Address: Tel: Fax: E-Mail: Accompanied Person (if any): Name: _________ ____________ _____________ (Surname) (First name) (Middle name) Sex: Nationality: Passport No.: Check one of the working groups you selected to join: [ ] (a) Empirical Software Engineering [ ] (b) Formal Method [ ] (c) Government Policy [ ] (d) New Paradigm [ ] (e) Open Source/Free Software [ ] (f) Project Management [ ] (g) Quality/Testing [ ] (h) Software Process If you have already submitted your position paper, please prepare presentation slides for working group discussion (2-6 slides) and e-mail to: iwfst2005-paper@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp If you have not yet submitted your position paper, please prepare it in plain text (1 page) or slides (2-6 slides) describing your opinion about the discussion topic of the selected working group and e-mail it to the address above. Workshop Fee: [ ] Regular: 1,500 RMB [ ] Student: 750 RMB Extra Banquet for Accompanied Persons: [ ] persons * 100 RMB (*Not Fixed Yet*) Total Extra Banquet Fee ........ _____ RMB After Symposium Excursion (Optional); Are you interested to join after-symposium excursion? Yes [ ] No [ ] ******************** End of Registration Form *************** --------------------------------- C. IWFST2005 Hotel Reservation Form --------------------------------- Please complete following form and send it by e-mail to Ms. Nan Li of ASTI Shanghai who is take-caring our hotel reservation. Her e-mail address is: nli@asti.com.cn If you want to use Fax, the number is: +86-21-6485-3390 ## Room reservation deadline is ** Oct 8th(Sat) ** ## Do not miss the date! ****************************** IWFST2005 Hotel Reservation Form ****************************** Name: _________ ____________ _____________ (Surname) (First name) (Middle name) Sex: (Male, Female) Nationality: Passport No.: Affiliation: Mailing Address: Tel: Fax: E-Mail: Room type: [ ] Single [ ] Twin Check-in Date: Check-out Date: Room sharing person (in the case of sharing a twin room): Name: _________ ____________ _____________ (Surname) (First name) (Middle name) Sex: (Male, Female) Nationality: Passport No.: Special Request (If any): ******************** End of Hotel Reservation Form ********************Updated on: Mon Oct 17 14:14:14 JST 2005
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