---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: SYSTEMIC ASPECTS OF COMPONENT-BASED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT at the EMC SR 2002, Vienna, April 2002 Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 19:56:11 +0200 From: Gerhard Chroust gc@SEA.Uni-Linz.ac.at To: Distribution List gc@SEA.Uni-Linz.ac.at

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SYSTEMIC ASPECTS OF COMPONENT-BASED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT (SESSION D)

Chairpersons: Gerhard Chroust and Friedrich Stallinger Kepler University Linz, Austria

at the SIXTEENTH EUROPEAN MEETING ON CYBERNETICS AND SYSTEMS RESEARCH (EMCSR 2002) April 2 - 5, 2002 University of Vienna, Austria

Component-based System Development, i.e. the composition of systems from existing or newly developed components is hailed as one of the panaceas for problems inherent to software and system development. It promises higher quality, lower cost and shorter development time. While purely technical aspects seem to be largely understood, many questions of a wider socio-technical-economic context are still open and need an answer. These answers have to consider the whole, complex system development environment, especially the human factors, and therefore need an interdisciplinary approach. We encourage submissions of papers discussing systemic, cultural and organizational aspects of component-based system and software development. Suggested areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

· Imbedding component-oriented development into a development organisation (concepts of software factory, separated versus integrated component provision, ...) · Psychological and cultural aspects ('not invented here'-syndrome, 'never trust another software engineer'-attitude) · Motivational issues (e.g. incentive systems to motivate engineers and projects to produce/use components) · Legal aspects of component usage (intellectual property, copyright, licensing) · Organisational aspects of populating, maintaining and making accessible libraries of components · Accepting and bridging gaps between stated requirements and 'approximately fitting' components · Estimating costs and risks of adapting a component versus building a new component · Component markets and marketing of components (intra-organisational as well as external)

Deadline for submission: October 19, 2001

Details of submission and further information can be found on http://www.oefai.at/emcsr/ Contributions (4 hard copies!) conforming to the submission guidelines (http://www.oefai.at/emcsr/) should be sent to the Secretariat of the EMCSR: I. Ghobrial-Willmann and Wiltrud Stoeckl Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies A-1010 Vienna 1, Schottengasse 3 (Austria) Phone: +43-1-5336112-60 Fax: +43-1-4277-9631 E-mail: sec@oefai.at

Further information: Gerhard Chroust, Friedrich Stallinger Systems Engineering and Automation Kepler University Linz 4040 Linz phone: +43-732-2468-8866, -8868 email: {gc,fs}@sea.uni-linz.ac.at

________________________________________________________________ o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Gerhard Chroust Abteilung für Systemtechnik und Automation Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Altenbergerstr. 69 A-4040 Linz Tel.: +43 - 2468 - 8866 Fax.: +43 - 2468 - 8878

E-mail: gc@sea.uni-linz.ac.at mailto:gc@sea.uni-linz.ac.at Homepage: <http://www.sea.uni-linz.ac.at/>

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