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   Hi,

   Next  week,  we  have a special PEM by Dr. Hausi Muller, member of the
   reading  committee  for  Leon  Moonen's  PhD  thesis.  For those of us
   interested  in  a  discussion  afterwards,  the CWI "Directiekamer" is
   available.

   !! Please note the unusual day (Tue) and time (13:30) of this PEM !!

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

                   Adoption-Centric Software Engineering

   Date:     3.12.02
   Time:    13:30
   Venue:   M.279
   Speaker: Dr. Hausi Muller (University of Victoria (BC), Canada)
   Title:   Adoption-Centric Software Engineering

                                   Abstract

   Research  tools  in  software engineering often fail to be adopted and
   deployed  in  industry.  Important  barriers  to  adopting these tools
   include  their  unfamiliarity  with  users,  their  lack  of interface
   maturity,  their limited support for complex work products of software
   development,  their  poor  interoperability, and their limited support
   for  the realities of system documentation engineering. Developing and
   deploying innovative research tools and ideas as extensions to modern,
   commonly  used  platforms  may  ease  these  barriers.  Recently, tool
   builders  and  standards  bodies have invented effective standards and
   interfaces  for  tool extension and customization. These advances have
   opened new research avenues on how innovations in software engineering
   tools  can be made more easily adopted by inserting them as extensions
   to   commonly  used  office  suites  and  middleware  platforms.  This
   presentation  concentrates  on  adoption-centric  tool development and
   outlines  how  common  office  tools  suites  and SVG (Scalable Vector
   Graphics)   to  improve  cognitive  support  and  interoperability  of
   software engineering tools.

                                      Bio

   Dr.  Hausi Muller is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science
   at  the  University  of  Victoria,  British  Columbia, Canada. He is a
   Visiting  Scientist  with  the  Centre for Advanced Studies at the IBM
   Toronto  Laboratory  and  the  Carnegie  Mellon  Software  Engineering
   Institute.  He  is  a  principal  investigator  of  CSER,  a  Canadian
   Consortium  for  Software  Engineering Research and a former principal
   investigator  with  the  IRIS  (Institute for Robotics and Intelligent
   Systems) Network of Centres for Excellence. Together with his research
   group  he investigates technologies to build adoption-centric software
   enginering tools and to migrate legacy software to object-oriented and
   network-centric platforms.

   Dr. Muller's research interests include software engineering, software
   evolution,   reverse   engineering,  software  reengineering,  program
   understanding,  software  engineering  tool  evaluation,  and software
   architecture.   He   is   General   Chair   for  IWPC-2003,  the  IEEE
   International  Workshop  on  Program Comprehension in Portland. He was
   General  Chair for ICSE-2001, the IEEE/ACM International Conference on
   Software  Engineering  in  Toronto.  He  was  a  Program  Co-Chair for
   ICSM-94,  the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance in
   Victoria,  CASE-95,  the IEEE International Workshop on Computer-Aided
   Software  Engineering  in Toronto, and IWPC-96, the IEEE International
   Workshop  on  Program  Comprehension  in Berlin. Dr. Muller was on the
   Editorial  Board  of  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He is
   Vice-Chair of the Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE).

   Have a nice day.
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