23. COMPSAC 1999: Phoenix, AZ, USA

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/compsac/1999,
  title     = {23rd International Computer Software and Applications Conference
               (COMPSAC '99), 27-19 October 1999, Phoenix, AZ, USA},
  booktitle = {COMPSAC},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  year      = {1999},
  isbn      = {0-7695-0368-3},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Legacy System

• Alok Mehta, George T. Heineman:
  Architectural Evolution of Legacy Systems. 4-12
  
• Helen M. Edwards, Gillian M. Mallalieu, J. Barrie Thompson:
  Some Insights into the Maintenance of Legacy Systems within Small Manufacturing and Distribution Organizations in the UK. 13-20
  
• Hongji Yang, Zhan Cui, Paul O'Brien:
  Extracting Ontologies from Legacy Systems for Understanding and Re-Engineering. 21-
  

Database Systems

• Ju-Won Song, Kyu-Young Whang, Young-Koo Lee, Sang-Wook Kim:
  The clustering Property of Corner Transformation for Spatial Database Applications. 28-35
  
• Raimund K. Ege:
  Object-Oriented Database Access via Reflection. 36-41
  
• James B. Crigler, Ali Orooji:
  ORR: Object-Relational Rapprochement. 42-
  

Panel - Network Security

• Elisa Bertino:
  Protecting Information in the Web - Position Paper. 50-
  

Formal Verification

• Maha Boughdadi, Robert Busser:
  An Industrial Application of an Integrated UML and SDL Modeling Technique. 54-60
  
• Taeho Kim, Yeong-Tae Song, Lawrence Chung, Dung T. Huynh:
  Dynamic Software Architecture Slicing. 61-66
  
• Xiaoping Jia, Sotiris Skevoulis:
  A Generic Approach of Static Analysis for Detecting Runtime Errors in Java Programs. 67-
  

Network Security

• Robert N. Smith, Sourav Bhattacharya:
  A Protocol and Simulation for Distributed Communicating Firewalls. 74-79
  
• Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Cesare Stefanelli:
  Mobile Agents Protection in the Internet Environment. 80-85
  
• Stephen S. Yau, Xinyu Zhang:
  Computer Network Intrusion Detection, Assessment And Prevention Based on Security Dependency Relation. 86-
  

Panel - Can Generic Software Be Assured?

• Jeffrey M. Voas:
  Can Generic Software Be Assured? 94-95
  
• John C. Dean:
  Ensuring the Capability of COTS Products. 96-97
  
• Ronald J. Kohl:
  Establishing Guidelines for Suitability of COTS for a Mission Critical Application. 98-99
  
• Norman F. Schneidewind:
  Cost Framework for COTS Evaluation. 100-
  

Software Testing

• Chia-Chu Chiang, Joseph E. Urban:
  Validating Software Specifications against User Claims. 104-109
  
• Anneliese von Mayrhauser, Michael Scheetz, Eric Dahlman:
  Generating Goal-Oriented Test Cases. 110-115
  
• Hwan Wook Sohn, David Chenho Kung, Pei Hsia:
  CORBA Components Testing with Perception-Based State Behavior. 116-121
  
• Ji-Tzay Yang, Jiun-Long Huang, Feng-Jian Wang, William C. Chu:
  An Object-Oriented Architecture Supporting Web Application Testing. 122-
  

Reliable Distributed Computing

• K. H. Kim, Juqiang Liu, Masaki Ishida, Inho Kim:
  Distributed Object-Oriented Real-Time Simulation of Ground Transportation Networks with the TMO Structuring Scheme. 130-138
  
• Ing-Ray Chen, Ding-Chau Wang, Chih-Ping Chu:
  Response Time Behavior of Voting Schemes for Managing Replicated Data. 139-144
  
• Yongdong Tan, Isao Kaji, Kinji Mori:
  Autonomous Coordination for Atomicity of Transaction in Heterogeneous Systems. 145-150
  
• Antonio Mendes da Silva Filho:
  Toward More Reliable Telecom Systems. 151-
  

Software Design and Development

• Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Jing Dong, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena:
  A Pattern-Based Approach to Structural Design Composition. 160-165
  
• Wei-Tek Tsai, Yongzhong Tu, Weiguang Shao, Ezra Ebner:
  Testing Extensible Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Frameworks through Scenario Templates. 166-171
  
• Michael L. Nelson:
  A Design Pattern for Autonomous Vehicle Software Control Architectures. 172-
  

Information Systems and Information Retrieval

• David C. Ni, J. Martinez, J. Wang:
  System Scaling for Large-scale Internet-Based Online Services. 180-185
  
• Giovanni Felici, Fushing Sun, Klaus Truemper:
  A Method for Controlling Errors in Two-Class Classification. 186-191
  
• Yong S. Choi, Suk I. Yoo, Jaeho Lee:
  Hierarchically Organized Neural Net Agents for Distributed Web Information Retrieval. 192-
  

Panel - Software Engineering Licensing

• Donald J. Bagert:
  Licensing Software Engineers: The Computer Society Must Continue to Lead. 200-201
  
• J. Barrie Thompson:
  It's Different on the Other Side of the Pond. But Should It Be That Way? 202-
  

Software Process and Management

• Akira Abeta, Ken'ichi Kakizaki:
  Implementation and Evaluation of an Automatic Personal Workflow Extraction Method. 206-212
  
• Douglas M. Sycamore, James S. Collofello:
  Using System Dynamics Modeling to Manage Projects. 213-217
  
• Kevin A. Gary, Timothy E. Lindquist:
  Cooperating Process Components. 218-
  

Network and Mobile Systems

• Sourav Bhattacharya, Srihari Palangala, Tolety Siva Perraju:
  Multimedia Tools and Applications in the Development of a Large Complex Network System. 226-231
  
• Keith Knauber, Biao Chen:
  Supporting Preemption in Wormhole Networks. 232-238
  
• Hakki C. Cankaya, David W. Matula, Mihaela Iridon:
  Performance Analysis of a Graph Model for Channel Assignment in a Cellular Network. 239-
  

Panel - Here, There and Everywhere: The Future of Software Engineering Education

• J. Barrie Thompson:
  Here, There and Everywhere: The Future of Software Engineering Education. 242-242
  
• Helen M. Edwards:
  Software Engineering Education from a UK Academic's Perspective. 243-244
  
• Bart J. Nigro:
  Here, There and Everywhere: The Future of Software Engineering Education: Corporate View. 245-245
  
• T. H. Tse:
  One System, Two Ideologies: Integrating the Two Worlds of Software Engineering Education. 246-
  

Software Architecture

• Kent Wreder, Yi Deng:
  Architecture-Centered Enterprise System Development and Integration Based on Distributed Object Technology Standard. 250-258
  
• Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano:
  Object-Oriented Architectural Support for Developing Complex Systems. 259-264
  
• Wen-Li Wang, Mei-Huei Tang, Mei-Hwa Chen:
  Software Architecture Analysis-A Case Study. 265-
  

Storage System and Caching

• B. Sonah, Mabo Robert Ito:
  Merging Interval Caching with Adaptive Viewers' Bias Based Caching Strategy. 272-277
  
• Joo-Yong Kim, Kyoungwoon Cho, Kern Koh:
  A Proxy Server Structure and its Cache Consistency Mechanism at the Network Bottleneck. 278-283
  
• Han-joon Kim, Sang-goo Lee:
  A New Flash Memory Management for Flash Storage System. 284-
  

Application of Special Interests

• Chung-Shyan Liu, Wei Kuo, Lan-Yang Ch'ang, Wen-Chang Lin:
  The Design of Agent-Based Tools for Bio-Informatics. 294-295
  
• Anil Khatri:
  Validation of a Patient Headache Care Education System (PHCES) Developed from a Unified Modeling Language (UML) Domain Model. 296-298
  
• Peter S. Heck:
  Steps Toward a Theory of Coordination for Intelligent Agent Societies. 299-
  
• Xiaoqing Liu, Ravi Viswanathan:
  A WWW Based Software Metrics Environment for Software Process Management and Software Product Quality Improvement. 301-304
  
• Hideaki Hirayama, Hiroki Honda, Toshitsugu Yuba:
  Distributed Shared Memory with Log Based Consistency for Scalable Data Mining. 305-308
  
• Huan Liu, Hongjun Lu:
  Mining Weak Rules. 309-
  

Software Development

• Michael Duell:
  Looking Beyond Software to Understand Software Design Patterns. 312-313
  
• Linda Rising:
  Patterns in Postmortems. 314-315
  
• Stephanie D. Crouch, Dick B. Simmons:
  The Unique Reference NCSLOC Metric. 316-317
  
• Hoh In, Ana Erendira Flores-Mendoza:
  Initial Design of the "Plug-n-Analyze" Framework for Architecture Tradeoff Analysis. 318-319
  
• Shikun Zhou, Hongji Yang, Paul Luker, Xudong He:
  A Useful Approach to Developing Reverse Engineering Metrics. 320-321
  
• Tsuneo Yamaura, Tohru Kikuno:
  A Framework for Top-Down Cost Estimation of Software Development. 322-
  

Software Frameworks and Systems Engineering

• Serge Lubenec:
  Venice - a Toolkit/Framework for Integration and Component-Based Computing. 326-327
  
• Garfield Hamilton:
  CataLogger: A Framework for Building Asset Management Solutions. 328-329
  
• Colin J. Hardy, Helen M. Edwards, J. Barrie Thompson:
  The MEA Framework: A New Perspective for the Development of Situation-Specific Methods. 330-331
  
• W. Feng:
  Dynamic Client-Side Scheduling in a Real-Time CORBA System. 332-333
  
• Michael L. Nelson, Guillermo Flores Jr.:
  Failure Planning in STESCA. 334-335
  
• Marion G. Ceruti, Ray C. Trout, Tse Lee:
  Effect of Complementary Processing on Navy Command and Control Software. 336-
  

Plenary Panel - Supply and Demands of Information Technology Workers

• Stephen S. Yau:
  Supply and Demands of Information Technology Workers. 342-
  

Software Reuse

• Hee Beng Kuan Tan, Hua Koon Tan:
  Software Reuse through a Novel Representation that Supports Factorization. 344-349
  
• Hanxiong Chen, Toshiro Ohno, Nobuo Ohbo:
  Processing Queries with Expensive Predicates by Filtering. 350-356
  
• Hewijin Christine Jiau, Kuo-Feng Ssu, Jim-Min Lin, Yu-Ping Ko:
  Reusing CAD Tools in Object Oriented Based Framework. 357-
  

Project Management

• Ly Danielle Sauer, Timothy E. Lindquist, Jeremy Cairney:
  Tracking Personal Processes in Group Projects. 364-369
  
• Pei Hsia, Chih-Tung Hsu, David Chenho Kung:
  Brooks' Law Revisited: A System Dynamics Approach. 370-375
  
• Ioana Rus, James S. Collofello:
  A Decision Support System for Software Reliability Engineering Strategy Selection. 376-
  

Panel - Computers as Partners: A Technology Forecast for Decision-making in the 21st Century

• Joseph P. Cavano:
  Computers as Partners: A Technology Forecast for Decision-Making in the 21st Century. 384-385
  
• E. Coupey, Pamplin Hall:
  Developing Dynamic Decision Support: Opportunities, Issues and Approaches. 386-387
  
• John de Oliveira:
  Talking with Computers about the Future We Shall Share. 388-389
  
• Elizabeth D. Liddy:
  NLP-Supported Decision-Making. 390-391
  
• Daniela Rus:
  Mobile Information Agents for Processing under Information Overload: A Position Statement. 392-
  

Software System Development

• Carl K. Chang, Seongwoon Kim:
  I3: A Petri-Net Based Specification Method for Architectural Components. 396-402
  
• Amy Sundermier, Suzanne W. Dietrich, Vandana Shah:
  An Active Database Approach to Integrating Black-Box Software Components. 403-409
  
• Tae-Hoon Kim, Yeong-Gil Shin:
  Role-based Decomposition for Improving Concurrency in Distributed Object-Oriented Software Development Environments. 410-415
  
• Teresa G. Sparkman:
  Lessons Learned Applying Software Engineering Principles to Visual Programming Language Application Development. 416-
  

E-Business and Application Systems

• Karl R. P. H. Leung, Lucas Chi Kwong Hui:
  Signature Management in Workflow Systems. 424-429
  
• Kimio Kuramitsu, Ken Sakamura:
  Digiket: Decentralized Architecture for Worldwide Electronic Market. 430-435
  
• Jiacun Wang, Chun Jin, Yi Deng:
  Performance Analysis of Traffic Control System Based on Stochastic Timed Petri Net Models. 436-441
  
• Neng-Fa Zhou:
  Building Java Applets by Using DJ - A Java-based Constraint Language. 442-
  

Software Verification and Analysis

• Kuangnan Chang, David Chenho Kung, Pei Hsia:
  OBL: A Formal Deduction Method for Object-Oriented Systems. 450-455
  
• Xiaoping Jia, Sushant Sawant, Jiangyu Zhou, Sotiris Skevoulis:
  Detecting Null Pointer Violations in Java Programs. 456-461
  
• Xudong He, William C. Chu, Hongji Yang, Stephen J. H. Yang:
  A New Approach to Verify Rule-Based Systems Using Petri Nets. 462-467
  
• Chin-Yu Huang, Sy-Yen Kuo, Michael R. Lyu:
  Optimal Software Release Policy Based on Cost and Reliability with Testing Efficiency. 468-