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From David_Garlan@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU  Thu Aug 29 15:50:41 1996
To: boehm@SUNSET.USC.EDU, gannon@CS.UMD.EDU, mcg@lri.fr, ghezzi@ELET.POLIMI.IT,
        jah@praxis.co.uk, harrold@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU, dnj@cs.cmu.edu,
        jazayeri@TUWIEN.AC.AT, jeffay@CS.UNC.EDU, johnson@cs.UIUC.EDU,
        gregor@parc.xerox.com, jk@DOC.IC.AC.UK, avl@info.ucl.ac.be, oscar,
        dep@RESEARCH.ATT.COM, fbs@CS.CORNELL.EDU
Cc: moriconi@CSL.SRI.COM
Subject: update and request
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 09:45:20 -0400
From: David_Garlan@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU

Dear FSE PC Member:

<I mailed this note yesterday just as my machine was crashing, so I
don't know if it actually made it out. So I am resending.>

A quick report on progress. The proceedings are at the printer.  The
advance program has been printed and should be in the hands of
SIGSOFT members within a day or two. The program contents have turned
out VERY nicely (I think). Overall, it promises to be a great
conference!

Three administrative items:

1. Please you let me know if you are planning on attending the
   conference.

2. Session Chairs: I need session chairs for the paper sessions

 Wed, Oct 16
    10:45 - 12:15       Session 1: SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
     1:45 - 3:15        Session 2: EVOLUTION
 Thu, Oct 17
    10:30 - 12:00       Session 3: ANALYSIS I
     1:30 - 3:00        Session 4: TESTING
     3:00 - 4:00        Session 5: REUSE AND INTEROPERABILITY
 Fri, Oct 18
    10:45 - 12:15       Session 6: ANALYSIS II

If you will be attending, please let me know if you'd be willing to
chair a session, and also let me know whether you have a preference
for any specific session(s).

3. Publicity

I need your help with publicity. I have sent out a full program and
registration forms to several mailing lists (including the ICSE
mailing list). However, it would be helpful if you could post the
attached abbreviated Call for Participation on your local bboards --
or send it to anyone who you think might not have been reached by,
say, the ICSE mailing list.

Best regards,

David
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Subject: Call for Participation: SIGSOFT'96 (FSE4)


                           ACM SIGSOFT '96
		      Fourth Symposium on the
	        Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE4)
				   
		      San Francisco, California USA
			  14-18 October 1996

		   http://www.csl.sri.com/sigsoft96/

The Fourth Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering will
provide a forum for discussion of innovative research results
contributing to an engineering discipline for software systems.
SIGSOFT '96 includes a strong educational thread of tutorials,
workshops, panels, and invited speakers, supporting this year's theme
of software architecture and design.

SIGSOFT '96 is being held at the Holiday Inn Union Square, located in
the heart of downtown San Francisco, close to shopping, galleries,
theaters, and many of the best restaurants.  The Powell Street Cable
Car Line runs directly outside the hotel door, providing convenient
access to Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf, and other parts of the city.


Highlights of the conference include:

- Presentation of significant new research ideas
	Sessions on software modeling, analysis, testing,
	architecture, reuse, evolution, and evaluation.

- Keynotes
	Michael Jackson   - Problems, Methods, and Structures
	Henry Petroski    - Engineering Bridges: From Concept to Reality
	Eberhardt Rechtin - Software Systems Architecting

- Panels
	What Can Programming Languages Contribute to Software Engineering,
	    and Vice Versa?
	Industrial Priorities for Software Engineering Research

- Tutorials
	Design Patterns - John Vlissides
	Integration Mechanisms : OLE and CORBA - Michael Stal
	Views & Frames for Problem Analysis - Daniel Jackson & Michael Jackson
	Theorem Proving and Model Checking for Software - John Rushby
	Software Design and Implementation with Generic Components -
	    Mehdi Jazayeri & Georg Trausmuth 

Details about the conference program and registration can be found
on-line through the conference web site

	http://www.csl.sri.com/sigsoft96/


David Garlan  - Program Chair
Mark Moriconi - General Chair