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Los Angeles (LA) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Technical Activity Committee on Artificial Intelligence (TACART)

             TACART

TOPIC:       An Intelligent Environment for Software Construction

SPEAKER:     Dr. Lawrence H. Miller.
             Manager, Software Engineering Environments Section,
             Computer Science Division, The Aerospace Corp.

DATE:        20 September 1995 (Wednesday night)

TIME:        The talk will begin at 7:30.

PLACE:       Loyola Marymount University, Pereira Hall 27.
             LMU is located at Loyola Blvd. and 80th Street in
             Westchester. From the 405, take the Manchester exit
             and proceed west to Loyola Blvd.  Turn north, and
             continue until you enter the LMU campus.  Ask the
             guard for directions to Pereira Hall. Parking is free.

ABSTRACT:    Software development is in crisis: large, mission- or
             life-critical systems are woefully late, grotesquely
             over budget, and rarely meet their original needs.
             Examples are everywhere: the FAA's air traffic control
             system, the Air Force's infrared satellite image
             processing system, the state of California's DMV system,
             Windows 95.

             At Aerospace we have attacked the problem by working on
             constructing an intelligent simulation environment that helps
             analysts solve planning problems related to executing and
             combining simulations in the spacecraft domain.  This system
             allows users to access a set of specialized simulation programs
             through a domain model of spacecraft objects and actions.  
             An intelligent session manager is the key component. It 
             requires a detailed knowledge base describing the inputs 
             and outputs of these simulation programs in terms of the
             attributes and operations of objects in an object-oriented 
             domain model. This talk presents a discussion of the kinds
             of knowledge that need to be represented to support the
             session manager, as well as how the session manager makes 
             use of this knowledge to support the user.

BIOGRAPHY:   LARRY MILLER has a BA in Math from the University
             of California at Santa Barbara, and MS and PhD
             degrees in Computer Science from USC. He has
             worked for Xerox (on the Star user interface),
             for UCLA as an assistant professor, for the USC
             Information Sciences Institute, and he joined
             Aerospace in 1989.  His primary research interests
             lie in software engineering, with an emphasis on
             reusability and user interface issues. He is a
             co-author of "Joy of C" and a member of the
             C language standardization panel.

DINNER:      No dinner is planned.  No social activities are planned.
CONTACTS:    Stephanie E. August  august@acm.org  (310) 645-9657
             L. Andrew Campbell campbell@aero.org (310) 336-8642
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