Overview of Software Engineers Association (SEA)

Software Engineers Association of Japan was established in December 1985 to provide a "place for software engineers or researchers, who are working in different environments such as software houses, computer manufacturers, computing service bureaus, universities, and research laboratories, to exchange their technical experience or knowledge freely beyond the barriers of existing social organizations.

It is said that the largest problem in software community today is that of technology transfer. But, until recently, an appropriate mechanism supporting technology transfer was absent in Japanese society. SEA keeps on making various efforts to complement such a lack in social structure.

SEA's major activities are: publication of monthly newsletter (SEAMAIL), operating local chapters and special interest groups, holding seminars/ workshops/symposia, and cooperations with related academic/professional societies in and outside Japan.

At present (June 2006), SEA has about 400 individual members and institutional members. 6 local chapters (in Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyushu, Sendai, Hiroshima and Shanghai) and several number of special interest groups (Environment, Education, Formal, Network, Process, Open Source, etc) are in operation.

Major Domestic Events:

• Annual Software Symposium (Since 1980, 2007 in Niigata)
• Monthly Seminar/Forum in Tokyo.
• Summer Workshop for Young Software Engineers (since 1986-1997.)
• Software Design Workshop (since 1995)
• Annual Workshop on Software Education (since 1987)
• Annual Software Reliability Workshop (since 2004-)
  Annual Software Reliability Symposium (1990-1996.)
• Technical Management Workshop (since 1989)

International Events:

• SEA International forum on Methodology, Process and Modeling in Kyoto

• IWFST 2005, 2006

  - International Workshop on Future Software Technology 2006 in Beijin, China
  - International Workshop on Future Software Technology 2005 in Shanghai, China

• International Symposium on Future Software Technology (ISFST) 2004 in October at Xi'an was postponed from 2003.
  

  ISFST: International Symposium on Future Software Technology (Sponsored by UNU/IIST since 1996)
  (Xian 1996, Amoi 1997, Hangzhou 1998, Nanjing 1999, Guiyang 2000, ZhengZhou 2001, Wuhan 2002, Xian 2004)
  (Note: postponed 2003 sympoisum considering SARS.)

• Joint Workshop on System Development with Korean-Japan University sponsored by SEA

  (Pohang 1998, Cheju 1999, Fukuoka 2000, Seoul 2001, Cheju 2002, Nagoya 2003)

• Joint Workshop on Embedded Software Development

  (Seoul 2003)

• International CASE Symposium in China (Sponsored by UNU/IIST since 1994)

  (Beijing 1991, Urumti 1992, Tai'an 1993, Kunming 1994, Changsha 1995)

• Workshop on Asian Approaches to Software Engineering at ICSE-17 (Seattle, 1995)

• Joint Technical Workshop with MCC & SEI (Tokyo, Austin, Pittsburgh, 1996)

• International Symposium on "Science of Computing and Technology of Software"

  (The United Nations University Headquarters Aoyama, Tokyo on Dec. 16-17 1996)

• First Asia Pacific SPIN Workshop (HongKong, 1997.12.01)

• Asia Pacific Forum on Software Engineering (Kyoto, 1998.04.20-21)

  A co-located forum with ICSE'98 at Kyoto (1998.04.19-25)

• International Symposium on Future Software Environment (Kyoto, 1989).

Latest Events

Events list

Organization

Chair-person:

Kazuo Tanaka (IX Knowledge Inc.)

Vice Chairs:

Keijiro Araki (Kyushu Univ.)
Akira Kumagai (TAO Bear)
Hideo Nakano (Osaka City Univ.)
Mitsuhiro Takahashi (Denken)
Tetsuo Tamai (Tokyo Univ.)

Secretary General:

Kouichi Kishida (SRA-KTL, Inc.)

ATTENTION: Our official language is JAPANESE

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