Forwarded message from [ramil@DOC.IC.AC.UK (Juan F. Ramil)] sent originally on Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:46:33 -0000: : Please accept our apologies if you receive this message more than once. : : Juan : : BEG, BORROW, OR STEAL: : USING MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES IN : EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING RESEARCH : : Monday, June 5, 2000 : http://www.csr.uvic.ca/icse2000/ : Limerick, Ireland : Announcement and Call for Papers : Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2000 : Notice of acceptance: March 15, 2000 : Workshop date: June 5, 2000 : : Overview : Theories and methods for empirical research have been developed by other disciplines over a long period of time. Therefore, as it makes sense to re-use code, it also makes sense to harness theories and methods from other fields to advance software engineering research. The goal of this workshop is to provide an interactive forum to investigate the feasibility of using multidisciplinary approaches in software engineering research. Interested participants are invited to submit position papers describing problems that would benefit from a multidisciplinary approach (either theory-based or method-based). Then, focusing on the position papers, expert guest speakers from other disciplines will address the issues brought up with the hope of encouraging more multidisciplinary research. : WORKSHOP FORMAT : This full-day workshop will provide beginning and experienced researchers in software engineering an opportunity to consult experts from other empirical disciplines. Over the course of the day, there will be 4-6 invited expert speakers who will respond to the position papers. Each speaker will present a 30-45 minute talk, followed by a 30-45 minute discussion. The workshop will conclude with a panel and open discussion to summarize the topics discussed throughout the day. : Invited speakers will be selected for their expertise in dealing with problems similar to those discussed in the position papers. Possible speakers are: : * Psychologist : * Sociologist : * Anthropologist : * Architect : * Design researcher : * Statistician : * Medical researcher : or, in the true nature of multidisciplinary research, the speaker may have experience with more than one of these fields as well as software engineering. : SUBMISSION : Interested participants should submit a position paper describing a problem in their current research that could benefit from a multidisciplinary perspective. These problems may relate to any aspect of software engineering, from research design to data analysis, from theory for understanding a phenomenon to difficulty obtaining access to a target population. These papers should be approximately 1500-2500 words (3-5 pages). : Position papers will be selected by a program committee using the following criteria: : * relevance to the theme of the : * educational value for participants : * potential for lively discussion : The chairs will use the position papers to guide selection of invited speakers, who will discuss how empirical methods from other disciplines could be applied within a software engineering context. : The position papers should be 1500-2500 words long (3-5 pages). Detailed : submission instructions are available on the workshop web site at : http://www.csr.uvic.ca/icse2000/ : The deadline for submission of position papers is February 1, 2000. : Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 2000. : Organizers: : Janice Singer : Software Engineering Group : National Research Council Canada : Bldg. M-50, Montreal Rd. : Ottawa, ON : Canada K1A 0R6 : Tel: +1 (613) 991-6346 : Fax: +1 (613) 952-7151 : Email: janice.singer@iit.nrc.ca : : Susan Elliott Sim : Department of Computer Science : University of Toronto : 10 Kings College Rd. : Toronto, Ontario : Canada : M5S 3G4 : Tel. +1 (416) 978-4158 : Fax. +1 (416) 978-4765 : Email: simsuz@cs.utoronto.ca : : Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey : Department of Computer Science : University of Victoria : PO Box 3055 STN CSC : Victoria, BC Canada V8W 3P6 : Tel: (250) 721 8796 : Fax: (250) 721 7292 : Email: mstorey@csr.uvic.ca : : ________________________________________________ : J F Ramil Dept. of Computing, Imperial College : 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK : Tel. + 44 207 594 8216 Fax + 44 207 594 8215 Fax(alt) + 44 207 581 8024 : ramil@doc.ic.ac.uk http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jcf1/ : : ===== Start of ISWorld List Footer ===== : ISWorld list is a service of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) : (http://www.aisnet.org) hosted at University College Dublin. For archives, : subscribing, or posting "norms" see http://www.isworld.org/isworldlist : ===== End of ISWorld List Footer =====

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