{"title":"Euro-conversion and Year 2000: a review of the project situation","authors":"R.R. Klosch","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716713","url":null,"abstract":"In 1999 and 2000, major business events such as European monetary union (EMU) and the Year 2000 problem will force organizations, in those situations where IT is critical to business survival, to set up and adequately fund relevant projects. The ability of the organization's IT departments to deliver timely and appropriate solutions will be critical to those companies. While most companies and governmental organizations can use a period until 2002 to become Euro-compliant, financial industries such as banks especially face an extreme time pressure, since they need to be Euro-compliant by the beginning of 1999. There is no single best technical or business approach to making a system Euro-compliant. Based on the current situation in each organization, companies must choose from a wide range of strategies and approaches with different costs and benefits. Our experiences in Euro projects have shown that the overall goal of a Euro-conversion project is to choose the most appropriate mix of technical and business solutions to implement timely Euro-compliance. Costs have been shown to be of minor importance in this context.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120943802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A multi-user visual object-oriented programming environment","authors":"Chung-Hua Hu, Feng-Jian Wang","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716665","url":null,"abstract":"Software systems are growing larger and more complex. The development of a large-scale software system usually requires the collaboration of multiple developers. This paper addresses several desirable features of a practical multi-user, visual object-oriented programming environment (mVOOPE), whose constituent components may be distributed over a long distance, unreliable communication environment such as the Internet. By incorporating three design rationales, more local processing, compact remote communication, and multithreaded collaboration, our mVOOPE makes a trade-off between performance and consistency requirements. The mVOOPE provides programming support with two aspects: visual programming for object-oriented languages and collaborative programming for incremental software development. So far a window-based environment prototype, developed with Visual C++, executes on multiple PCs connected by the network.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127720852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indexing multilingual information on the Web","authors":"Chi Lap Yip, B. Kao","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716722","url":null,"abstract":"The Web connects people speaking more than twenty languages in more than one hundred countries. Search engines, which provide users with starting points to navigate and retrieve resources an the Web, should thus be able to handle documents in many languages. Moreover, with information being added and changed every minute on the Web, search engines should discover new index terms time-efficiently. The paper introduces an abstraction of viewing multilingual documents and a statistical analysis method so that search engines can index multilingual documents in a generic, efficient, and effective manner with minimal requirements of language-specific information.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132752982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early measurement and improvement of software quality","authors":"J. Tian","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716656","url":null,"abstract":"The paper combines relevant research in software reliability engineering and software measurement to develop an integrated approach for the early measurement and improvement of software quality. Recent research in these areas is extended 1) to select appropriate software measures based on. A formal model, 2) to construct tree-based reliability models for early problem identification and quality improvement, and 3) to develop tools to support industrial applications. Initial results applying this approach to several IBM products demonstrated the applicability and effectiveness of this approach.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131946758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Euro-conversion And Year 2000 Problem","authors":"R. Mittermeir","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716711","url":null,"abstract":"Worldwide, software maintainers and EDP managers worry about the “Year-2000-problem ” (Y2K). At about the same time, a substantial number of economically developed countries will change their currency. However; this issue obtains unduly little attention. This panel aims at shedding some light on the software engineering aspects of the Euroconversion and relating it to the YZK-issue.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131951094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Architecture of ROAFTS/Solaris: a Solaris-based middleware for real-time object-oriented adaptive fault tolerance support","authors":"E. Shokri, P. Crane, K. Kim, C. Subbaraman","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716643","url":null,"abstract":"Middleware implementation of various critical services required by large scale and complex real time applications on top of COTS operating system is currently an approach of growing interests. Its main goal is to enable significant reduction application system design separating the concerns of the application designer for the application functionality from the concerns for application independent system issues. The paper presents the middleware architecture named the Real-time Object-oriented Adaptive Fault Tolerance Support (ROAFTS) and a prototype implementation ROAFTS/Solaris realized on top of both a COTS operating systems, Solaris, and a COTS CORBA complaint ORB, Orbix. ROAFTS supports distributed real time applications, each structured as a network of Time-triggered Message-triggered Objects (TMOs), and the TMO is a major extension of a conventional object for use in hard real time applications. The major components of ROAFTS include a TMO support manager for supporting the execution of TMO's, a generic fault tolerance server, and a network surveillance manager (NSM) which provides the generic fault tolerance server with fast fault detection notices. The generic fault tolerance server and the NSM themselves have been structured as TMO's. A discussion on an effective use of CORBA standards for moderate precision real time applications to run on COTS operating systems is also presented.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"319 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133994160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State management in WWW database applications","authors":"S. Hadjiefthymiades, D. Martakos, Costas Petrou","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716693","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, the WWW is believed to be the ideal technological platform for the introduction of online telematic applications as well as information systems in enterprise intranets due to its wide acceptance and standardisation (W3C). In the majority of cases, the databases supporting such novel applications are hosted by RDBMSs. The paper touches upon the incompatible nature of WWW compliant database applications and classical database applications (developed with Embedded SQL/3GLs, 4GLs, etc.). The WWW is often blamed for the stateless character of one of its constituents: the HyperText Transfer protocol (HTTP). The so-called \"user session\" concept is not applicable in its client/server architecture. Communication between clients and servers is realised by means of fairly simple request-response interactions (\"hits\") which are treated independently (without memory state) by servers. We propose an architecture for the deployment of stateful database applications in the context of conventional WWW servers. In this architecture, state information preserved in the WWW client as well as in specialised agents that operate behind the WWW server, provides the required basis for a \"session-aware\" database application. The main benefits of this architecture are that it doesn't modify existing server software and requires minimum programming effort for the porting of existing \"session-aware\" applications to the WWW environment.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127687208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data mining on text","authors":"Chris Clifton, Rick Steinheiser","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716738","url":null,"abstract":"Data mining technology is giving us the ability to extract meaningful patterns from large quantities of structured data. Information retrieval systems have made large quantities of textual data available. Extracting meaningful patterns from this data is difficult. Current tools for mining structured data are inappropriate for free text. We outline problems involved in Knowledge Discovery in Text, and present an architecture for extracting patterns that hold across multiple documents. The capabilities that such a system could provide are illustrated.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126941748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A generative approach for building data-oriented information systems","authors":"Bernhard Pieber, Wolfgang Goebl","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716668","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the development of object frameworks has become state of the practice for building data-oriented information systems. This approach has shown some success in improving productivity in building such systems. Using code generators has become a somewhat forgotten technology. But it is just the domain of data-oriented information systems where most of the processing consists of associative data access, that offers great potential for the use of generators. The paper describes a generative approach for building data-oriented information systems and compares it to the pure object framework approach. It shows why a pure object framework approach fails to achieve a sufficient amount of productivity gain in this domain. The approach takes advantage of patterns which occur in the implementation of data-oriented information systems. The common object framework approach is extended by the massive use of generators which apply these patterns on a model of the application.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124268214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A model for designing adaptable software components","authors":"G. Heineman","doi":"10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716647","url":null,"abstract":"The widespread construction of software systems from pre-existing, independently developed software components will only occur when application builders can adapt software components to suit their needs. We propose that software components provide two interfaces-one for behavior and one for adapting that behavior as needed. The ADAPT framework presented in the paper supports both component designers in creating components that can easily be adapted, and application builders in adapting software components. The motivating example, using Java-Beans, shows how adaptation, not customization, is the key to component based software.","PeriodicalId":252030,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (Compsac '98) (Cat. No.98CB 36241)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131283963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}