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Monterey Workshop 2002
Radical Innovations of
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During the last decade object-orientation was the driving factor for new system solutions in many areas ranging from e-commerce to embedded systems. New modeling languages such as UML, new programming languages such as Java and CASE tools have considerably influenced the system development techniques of today and will remain key techniques for the near future. However, actual practice shows many deficiencies of these new approaches:
As a consequence there is an urgent need for new "post object-oriented" software engineering and programming techniques.
This workshop would be the 9th in a series of Software Engineering workshops for formulating and advancing software engineering models and techniques, with the fundamental theme of increasing the practical impact of formal methods. Previous workshops have been devoted to "Real-time & Concurrent Systems", "Software Merging and Slicing", "Software Evolution", "Software Architecture", "Requirements Targeting Software", "Engineering Automation for Computer Based Systems", "Modeling Software System Structures in a Fastly Moving Scenario" and "Engineering Automation for Software Intensive System Integration".
A major goal for this series of workshops is to help focus the software engineering community on issues that are vital to improving the state of software engineering practice, bringing together American and European leading scientists actively engaged in the area. The following quotations from the PITAC (President's Information Technology Advisory Committee) 1998 Interim Report to the President of USA help set the context for the workshop initiative.
"The demand for software has grown far faster than the resources we have to produce it. The result is that desperately needed software is not being developed. Furthermore, the nation needs software that is far more usable, reliable, and powerful than what is being produced today."
"... it has become clear that the processes of developing, testing, and maintaining software must change. We need scientifically sound approaches to software development that will enable meaningful and practical testing for consistency of specifications and implementations."
Unfortunately, as the same interim report emphasizes, "current support (for research) is taking a short-term focus, looking for immediate returns, rather than investigating high-risk long-term technologies".
As a consequence, there is a danger of even widening the gap between fundamental research and current (not always best) practice. Indeed, together with long standing problems, such as the quest for software reliability, we are facing the need and partly the emergence of radically different ways of producing software.
The aims of the Workshop, continuing the effort to bring together pragmatic and foundational research in software engineering, are threefold:
The workshop will encourage joint work leading to joint publications by researchers from different institutions by including a session focused on identifying opportunities for future collaboration and integration of complementary advances.
The workshop provides a bridge between industry and academia. The program will provide a balanced view of academic research and industrial visions, developments and proposals. Contributions are sought in but not limited to the following areas:
Scientific development has a large amount of inertia and it takes effort sustained for a long time to produce changes in direction. Over the years, the Monterey Workshop has succeeded in changing the attitude of the top researchers in the field towards practical relevance, and has initiated technology transfer by encouraging researchers to apply revolutionary ideas and methods developed at other research centers. The workshop has created stronger cooperation between U.S. and European researchers and fostered cooperation and collaboration among researchers with disparate points of view. Collaboration between researchers from different backgrounds requires a long time for people from different schools of thought to understand each other's work and to find common ground for integration and fruitful collaboration. Some examples new collaborations between Prof. Manna's group at Stanford and Prof. Broy's group at Technical University of Munich, as well as between Prof. Auguston at New Mexico State University and Prof. Luqi's Software Engineering Group at NPS.
