INDEXING ALPHABETICAL BY DAY

February 4, Monday | February. 5, Tuesday | February. 6, Wednesday

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MONDAY, 4 FEBRUARY, 2002

Keynotes:

Barry Boehm, USC and CeBase
Title: COTS-Based Systems: Top-10 List, Lessons Learned and Challenges

Ivar Jacobson, Rational Software Corporation
Title: Four Macro Trends in Software Development

Panel Discussion:

Building Survivable Systems from COTS Components: An Impossible Dream?
Moderator: Nancy Mead, Software Engineering Institute
Title: Building Survivable Systems from COTS Components: An Impossible Dream?

Panelists:
Joe Besselman, USAF
Title: Can COTS Effectively Perform Mission-Critical Applications?

Howard Lipson, Software Engineering Institute
Title: Building Survivable Systems from Commercial Components

Jeff Voas, Cigital
Title: Trustworthy/Survivable SOUP (Software of Unknown Pedigree)

Tutorials:

Evaluating COTS Software Products
Presenters: John Dean, National Research Council and Grace Lewis, Software Engineering Institute
- Presentation was not made available.

Estimating COTS-Based Software Systems
Presenters: Chris Abts, USC Center for Engineering and Betsy Clark, Software- Metrics
- Presentation was not made available.

COTS-Based Systems: Keys to Success
Presenter: Patricia Oberndorf, Software Engineering Institute
- Presentation was not made available.

Building Systems from Commercial Components
Presenter: Robert Seacord, Software Engineering Institute
- Presentation was not made available.

TUESDAY, 5 FEBRUARY, 2002

Keynotes:

Mike Moore, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Title: Managing the COTS Vendor Interface

Panel Discussion:

Once Burned - Forever Learned - Vendors Be Warned
Moderator: Will Tracz, Lockheed Martin
Panelists:
Tricia Oberndorf, SEI
Thomas G. Baker, The Boeing Company
Anthony Earl, Sun Microsystems Inc

Presentations:

Realizing the Potential for COTS Utilization: A Work in Progress
Presenter: Rhoda Hornstein, NASA Headquarters

Replaceable Components (Or Not) and the Service Provider Interface
Presenter: Robert Seacord, Software Engineering Institute

The Standard Autonomous File Server, A Customized, Off-the-Shelf Success Story
Presenters: Susan Semancik, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Annette Conger, Raytheon

Rethinking Process Guidance for Selecting Software COTS/Components
Presenter: Neil Maiden, City University

Merging Integration Solutions for Architecture and Security Mismatch
Presenter: Rose Gamble, University of Tulsa

Lessons Learned Integrating COTS into Systems
Presenter: Tom Baker, The Boeing Company

COTS-Based Systems (CBS) Functional Density - A Heuristic for Better CBS Design
Presenter: Chris Abts, USC Center for Software Engineering
- Presentation was not made available.

On Building Testable Software Components
Presenter: Jerry Gao, San Jose State University

The Challenges of COTS-Centric Software Development and Modernization: Some Experiences from the Field
Presenter: Joe Besselman, U.S. Air Force

The Limitations of Current Decision-Making Techniques in the Procurement of COTS
Software Components

Presenter: Cornelius Ncube, Zayed University

COTS Classification: A Proposal
Presenter: Marco Torchiano, NTNU - IDI

European COTS User Working Group: Analysis of the Common Problems and Current Practices of the European COTS Users
Presenter: Sandy Tay, European Software Institute

WEDNESDAY, 6 FEBRUARY, 2002

Keynote:

Ralph Hempel, Independent Consultant
Title: Mindstorms

Panel Discussion:

COTS Test Strategy
Moderator: Christina Laiacona, BASF Corporation
Panelists: John Dean, National Research Council Canada
Presentation Title: Product Evaluation and Testing

William Perry, Quality Assurance Institute
George Grigonis, Computer Validation Interest Group (CVIG)
- Presentations were not made available.

Presentations:

Combined Selection of COTS Components
Presenter: Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Identifying Evolvability for Integration
Presenter: Rose Gamble, University of Tulsa

Streamlining the Acquisition Process for Large-Scale COTS Middleware Components
Presenter: Anna Liu, CSIRO

A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation
Presenter: Patricia Oberndorf, Software Engineering Institute

Issues in Developing Security Wrapper Technology for COTS Software Products
Presenter: John Dean, National Research Council

Storyboard Process to Assist in Requirements Verification and Adaption to Capabilities
Inherent in COTS
Presenter: Sallie Gregor, SAIC
- Presentation was not available.

Meeting the Challenges of COTS Products: Integrating Technology by a Structured
Evolution Process

Presenter: Cecilia Albert, Software Engineering Institute

Risk Reduction in COTS Software Selection with BASIS
Presenter: Keith Ballurio, Software Productivity Consortium

The Integration of COTS/GOTS Within NASA's HST Command and Control System
Presenter: Barry Nims, NASA

Implementing Large-Scale COTS Reengineering Within the United States Department of Defense
Presenter: James Smith, II, Software Engineering Institute

COTS-Based System Engineering: The Linguistics Approach
Presenter: Nguyen Thanh Quang, ESSEC Business School

Five Hurdles to the Successful Adoption of Component-Based COTS in a Corporate Setting
Presenter: Anthony Earl, Sun Microsystems