1st INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE QUALITY WEEK EUROPE (QWE'97) SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

The 1st International Software Quality Week/Europe Technical Program has a very strong technical program organized into separate tracks depending on the content of the presentations. The team of speakers at QWE'97 is the strongest ever assembled. Below are brief biographies for all QWE'97 speakers. Updated 29 October 1997.

Ms. Ana Andres & Mr. Bob Smith (European Software Institute) [SPAIN]
ISO-9000 Certification as a Business Driver: The SPICE Road (9M)

Ana Andres works at ESI in the area of Software Process Improvement. Her expertise comprises software improvement models, particularly SPICE, and software quality standards.
Mr. Bob Smith (Biography to be supplied)
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Dr. Agnes Arnould & Dr. Pascale Le Gall (CEA/Universite d'Evry) [FRANCE]
Some Aspects of Test Data Selection from Formal Specifications (3T)

Agnes Arnould is currently working as software testing engineer in CEA (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique). She received a PhD in computer sciences from the University of Paris XI in January 1997 and has already published several articles about the automated selection of test cases for bounded domains, using formal specifications. She is also a junior lecturer at the IUT of the University of Orsay.

Pascale Le Gall is a Maitre de Conferences in software engineering at the university of Every since 1993. She received a PhD in computer sciences from the University of Paris XI in 1993 and has been a student of the Ecole Normale Superieure of Paris Sorbonne. Her research interests are in the use of formal specifications for software design and their applications to software testing. She has published approximately ten research articles about formal specifications and/or software testing.
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Mr. T. Ashok (VeriFone India Pvt Ltd) [INDIA]
Class Evolution and Equivalence Categories (5T)

T. Ashok is the Manager of Software Test and Analysis Group at VeriFone India Private Limited at Bangalore India. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India. His interests include Software Testing, Object Technology and Software metrics.
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Dr. Boris Beizer, Software Engineer, Analysis [USA]
(Technology Track Chair)
An Overview of Testing (A, Part I & II)
The Future of Software Quality (7P)

Dr. Boris Beizer received a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. He has written twelve books, ranging from system architecture to his well-known pair on software testing -- Software Testing Techniques and Software System Testing and Quality Assurance -- both considered standard references on the subject. His latest book is Black Box Testing, an introduction to testing technology. He directed testing for the FAA's Weather Message Switching Center and several other large communications systems. He has been a speaker at many testing conferences and is also known for his seminars on testing. He consults on software testing and quality assurance with many organizations throughout the world.
(bbeizer@acm.org)
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Mr. William Bently (Bayer Corporation) [USA]
(Solutions Track Chair)

Mr. Bill Bently is a Member of the Q.A. Software Staff at Bayer Corporation, a world leader in production of medical diagnostics products. Mr. Bently is interested in how advanced software technologies can be used for attaining the high levels of quality necessary in critical applications. He is the developer of the advanced form of software testing known as Cd testing, which has been the subject of several papers he has presented at Quality Week. His latest paper pioneered a new direction for software testing theory and research; the development of a theory of test efficiency.
(bently@miles.com)
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Dr. Giora Ben-Yaacov (Cadence Design Systems) [USA]
Effective Implementation of ISO 9000 for Software (F)
Improving Software Testing with ISO 9000 Processes (6S)

Giora Ben-Yaacov, Ph,D., directs the ISO 9000 program at Cadence Design Systems. Cadence, with more than 3500 employees, is the largest supplier of software tools and professional services used to manage the design of semiconductors, computer systems, networking and telecommunication equipment, consumer electronics, and a variety of other electronic-based products. Prior to this, he had over 25 years of industry experience in implementing and managing software development and quality systems. He assisted many companies to prepare and document their quality and operation processes for ISO 9000 certification. He also taught ISO 9000 short courses at UC Extension, and he has been trained as a lead auditor to the ISO 9000 standards. Giora had been recognized as innovator and leader in advancing quality and state-of-the-art technology of software products for engineering applications. He is on the Editorial Board of IEEE CAP journal. He authored and presented numerous technical papers and made presentations at various conferences and industry meetings.
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Prof. Antonia Bertolino & Martina Marre, Senior Researcher, IEI-CNR
Paper Title: A General Path Generation Algorithm for Coverage Testing (4T)

Antonia Bertolino graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pisa in 1985. Since 1986 she has been a researcher with the "Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione" of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), in Pisa. Her research interests are in software engineering and dependability. Currently she is working at approaches for estimating and reducing the cost of debug testing techniques and at methods for the evaluation of software reliability. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Systems and Software.
Martina Marre is currently a doctoral candidate in computer science at University of Buenos Aires. Her research interest include program testing and verification.
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Mr. Stefan Biffl & Greg Thomas (Technical University of Vienna) [AUSTRIA]
Quality Improvement in "Heroic" Projects - A reasonable Activity Model for Quality Enhancement for Medium-Sized "Chaotic" Software Development Projects(11M)

Stefan Biffl and Greg Thomas are members of the faculty of computer science at the Vienna University of Technology. They have done research in quality assurance, project management, and role models in software engineering. A second focus has been human computer interaction and user interface design. Besides the typical academic work of lecturing and publishing, the authors have done software engineering consulting as well as people and process management in various industrial projects.
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Mr. Robert Binder (RBSC, Inc.) [USA]
Modal Testing Strategies for Object-Oriented Software (D, Part I & II)
Test Automation for Object-Oriented Systems (I)

Robert V. Binder has over 22 years of software development experience. He is President of RBSC Corporation, providing consulting and training in software engineering and software process improvement since 1984. He is author of "Application Debugging" (Prentice-Hall, 1985). "Testing Object-Oriented Systems" is under contract with Addison-Wesley. He writes a regular column on testing for Object magazine. His articles have appeared in American Programmer, Communications of the ACM, Computerworld, CASE Outlook, CASE Trends, Database Programming and Design, IEEE Computer, Journal of Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, and Software Development. He is the of Chair a newly formed study group to develop an IEEE standard for built-in test for object-oriented software. Mr. Binder has an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a BA and MBA from the University of Chicago. He is an IEEE Senior Member, a member of the ACM, and holds the CDP and CCP.
(rbinder@rbsc.com)
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Ms. Rita Bral, SR/Institute [USA]
(QW'97 Conference Director)

Rita Bral is Executive Director of SR/Institute, the sponsor of the Quality Week conferences, and VP/Promotion at Software Research, SR/Institute's parent company, a role she has fulfilled since 1990. At SR she has been responsible for SR's promotion effort, for technical seminars, publicity, and trade-show activities, and has had major impact on TestWorks documentation and collateral technical material. Ms. Bral holds an Agrege in Pedagogy, University of Ghent and Licentiaat in Roman Philology, University of Ghent, Belgium.
(bral@sr-corp.com)
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Dr. Sankar Chakrabarti & Mr. Harry Robinson (Hewlett Packard Company) [USA]
Catching Bugs in the Web: Using the World Wide Web to Detect Software Localization Defects (10S)

Sankar L. Chakrabarti is a Member of the Technical Staff at the Workstation Technology Center, Hewlett-Packard Company. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry and subsequently obtained a M.S. in Computer Science from Oregon State University in 1985. His main interests are in the area of software testing, specification and programming tools.
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Harry Robinson is a software design engineer with HP in Corvallis, Oregon. He received a BA degree from Dartmouth College and a BS and MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Prior to joining HP he spent ten years developing and testing software for AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1995, he received the AT&T Network Systems Quality Award for "Accomplishment of Outstanding Value in the Area of Quality". Lucent Technologies (the successor to AT&T Bell Laboratories) is pursuing patents based on his work in software test automation.
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Mr. Howard Chorney (Process Software Corporation) [USA]
A Practical Approach to Using Software Metrics (12M)

Howard Chorney is currently the Software Quality Engineering Manager at Process Software Corporation in Framingham, MA. Before working at Process he worked for Digital Equipment Corporation. He has been involved in software testing for the past 5 years as a Test Engineer, Project Leader, and Manager. He has been in the computer industry for almost 20 years.
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Mr. Huey-Der Chu & Mr. John Dobson (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) [ENGLAND]
An Integrated Test Environment for Distributed Applications (12T)

Huey-Der Chu is currently a PhD student in the Centre for Software Reliability at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne funded by the National Science Council and Ministry of National Defense in Taiwan. He is also one a long-standing member of the Chinese Association for Software Quality (CASQ). He was an Instructor at the National Defense Management College in Taiwan, where he had participated in a research project for evaluating software quality using the statistical approach and got the Distinguished Teacher's Award in 1993 and 1994. His research currently interests in building an integrated environment for testing distributed applications and applying mobile agents with Java RMI to software testing.
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(Huey-Der.Chu@newcastle.ac.uk)
(jchew@acm.org)

John Dobson obtained a M.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Cambridge in 1963, and subsequently researched into mechanical translation. In 1968 he joined Rolls-Royce as instructor in the computing department. From 1971 to 1974 he taught at Newcastle Polytechnic and from 1974 to 1980 in the Computing Laboratory of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1980 he set up an independent R & D company with a small number of colleagues and was appointed Technical Director. In 1986 he returned to the Computing Laboratory as a full time researcher, initially in computer security funded by the UK Ministry of Defence, and later in information technology and organisational change, funded by the European Union. His current interests are in the application of the socio-technical systems approach used in informatics to telecommunications and telematics. He was appointed Professor of Information Management at the University in 1996.
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Mr. Jean-Marie Condom (Universite de Pau et des Pays de l'ADOUR) [FRANCE]
Meeting Quality Requirements in Robot-Based Manufacturing Using Z (10T)

Jean-Marie Condom received the Doctor degree in computer science from the University of Toulouse (France) in 1992. He is assistant professor at the University of pau. His research interests include human-computer interface and formal specification.
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Mr. Robert Darimont (Cediti) [BELGIUM]
GRAIL/KAOS: An Environment for Goal-Driven Requirements Engineering (2D)

(Biography to be supplied)
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Mr. Geert Poels & Dr. Guido Dedene (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) [BELGIUM]
Assessing the Size and Complexity of Formally Specified Conceptual Models (9T)

Geert Poels works as a research assistant at the Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders, and is a PhD candidate at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research interests are function point analysis, object-oriented metrics, and formal software measurement foundations. Currently he is conducting research on formal measurement of object-oriented specifications for software. Geert is a member of the board of the Belgian Software Metrics Association.

Guido Dedene is Professor in Managemnt Information Systems at the Department of Applied Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His lecturing and research activities concentrate on formal methods for systems development and quantitative systems management techniques.
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Mr. Tom Drake (Booz Allen & Hamilton) [USA]
Testing Software Based Systems: People, Process & Technology (E)

Mr. Drake is a senior technologist and organizational change/information management specialist for the international management and technology consulting firm of Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. He is currently on assignment with the United States National Security Agency where he manages and leads a software quality engineering initiative for their Software Engineering Knowledge Based Center. As part of an industry and U.S. government outreach program he holds frequent seminars and tutorials covering testing, code analysis, software metrics, coding practice, best current practices in software development, the business case for software engineering, software quality engineering, project management, organizational change, management and technology transformation, the future of information technology, and the people side of the business equation. He has personally measured and analyzed over 40,000,000 lines of C, C++, Java, Ada, Fortran, and PL/I code, plus others. Mr. Drake considers software a critical resource upon which much of the world's current and future prosperity, security, and economic competitiveness increasingly rests. Mr. Drake is an IEEE Society member, and had a theme article published in the November 1996 issue of IEEE Computer. He holds AS, BA, and MA degrees and has been in a PhD program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in the USA specializing in the information management, policy, and decision sciences.







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Dr. Morten Elvang-Goransson (SimCorp AS) [DENMARK]
Devising a Specification Process (by Turning Gilb Style Inspections Inside Out) (3M)

MEG has specialised in software development and received a M.Sc. in 1988 and a PhD in 1991, both from the Dep. of Computer Science, The Technical University of Denmark. In July 1995 MEG joined SimCorp A/S in Copenhagen and is now a Senior Consultant. Since 1996 MEG has been involved in initiatives to strengthen the software development process in SimCorp, and MEG is currently responsible for running a Process Improvement Experiment, called GRIPS, sponsored by the European Commission under the ESSI "Software Best Practices" program. MEG is a strong believer in Software Inspections and generally in process improvement following the Capability Maturity Model as defined by the Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh.
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Mr. Sudipto Ghosh (Purdue University) [USA]
Software Fault Injection Testing on a Distributed System -- A Case Study (2S)

Sudipto Ghosh received a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and his M.S. in Computer Science from Iowa State University. Currently he is a Ph.D. student at Purdue University. His research interests are in software fault injection testing, reliability, fault tolerant computing. He is a member of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon honor society and ACM.
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Mr. Tom Gilb (Independent Consultant) [NORWAY]
Tutorial Title: Requirements Driven Test Management (G, Part I & II)
Paper Title: Evolutionary Project Management (6M)

Tom Gilb known worldwide as a lecturer and software technology author, devoted 80 pages of the earliest book describing inspection, Software Metrics (1976), to a description of software inspection methods. He has actively taught and installed and followed up the method internationally since 1975. He has consulted to key pioneers of Inspection at IBM development labs. He is the author of Principles of Software Engineering Management, and Software Inspections.
(Click here for Tom Gilb's Home Page)
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Dr. Michael Haug [GERMANY]
A Survey of EC-Sponsored Software Process Improvement Efforts (C)

Michael Haug is 46 years old, born February 5th, 1951. He has a diploma in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich. Over the last 24 years he has founded and lead four software companies active mostly in the field of software engineering services (GSE Gesellschaft fuer Software-Engineering), project management (pth projekt team haug) and training (HIGHWARE). He is consulting tip 500 companies in Europe assisting their software process improvement programmes. He is leading the EC-funded ESSI dissemination action EUREX.
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Mr. Hans-Ludwig Hausen (GMD Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH) [GERMANY]
Effective Metrication for Software Process Assessment and Software Product Evaluation (B)

Hans-Ludwig Hausen holds degrees on Electrical Engineering and on Computer Science from the technical University of Berlin and is currently a Senior Researcher at GMD German National Research Center for Information Technology. In the last 20 years he got experience as project manager, consultant and lecturer on CASE, Quality Engineering, Software Process Programming, and on Conformance Testing in national and international projects. Based on that experience he has written more than 60 publications on software engineering environments, software quality and productivity, process engineering and on CSCW for software projects. H. is a member of programme committees of IEEE and ACM special interests groups, a contributor to international standardisation bodies, including ISO and IEEE, and an expert advisor to national and European government.
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Ms. Anne Mette Jonassen Hass (DELTA, Software Engineering) [DENMARK]
BOOTSTRAP - The Real Way To SPI (2M)

Mrs. Anne Mette Jonassen Hass has 17 years experience in IT. She has been involved in all aspects of software development: analysis, design, coding, test, quality assurance, and management. Mrs. Hass has worked in various types of business such as hospitals, the oil industry, telecommunication, hardware producers, and the space industry, in Denmark, Norway, England, and France.

For the last 2 years she has worked as a consultant and registered BOOTSTRAP assessor, performing more than 14 BOOTSTRAP assessments in Denmark for companies of all sizes. Mrs. Hass also undertakes third party test and validation of software, especially safety critical software.
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Mr. Fraser Macdonald & Mr. James Miller (University of Strathclyde Department of Computer Science) [SCOTLAND]
ASSISTing with Software Inspection (11T)

Fraser Macdonald received the B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde in 1994. He is currently researching for his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science, University of Strathclyde. His research interests include software inspection, empirical software engineering and software visualization.

James Miller received the B.Sc.in Computer Science and Microprocessor Systems from the University of Strathclyde in 1983 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde in 1989. Since 1987 he has been a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. His research interests include empirical evaluation of Software Engineering concepts, software inspection, CSCW, and the application of TQM tools and techniques to Software Engineering.
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Dr. Edward F. Miller, Software Research, Inc. [USA]
(Program Chair)

Dr. Edward Miller is President of Software Research, Inc., San Francisco, California, where he has been involved with software test tools development and software engineering quality questions. Dr. Miller has worked in the software quality management field for 25 years in a variety of capacities, and has been involved in the development of families of automated software and analysis support tools. He was chairman of the 1985 1st International Conference on Computer Workstations, and has participated in IEEE conference organizing activities for many years. He is the author of Software Testing and Validation Techniques, an IEEE Computer Society Press tutorial text. Dr. Miller received his Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) degree from the University of Maryland, an M.S. (Applied Mathematics) degree from the University of Colorado, and a BSEE from Iowa State University.
(miller@sr-corp.com)
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Mr. Marc Morel-Chevillet & Mr. Stephane Depres (Objectif Technologie) [FRANCE]
AVAL Objectives, Process and Results (8M)

Marc Morel-Chevillet and Stephane Depres are working for 0BJECTIF TECHNOLOGIE, a small but very active company in the process improvement field, and managing projects with object-oriented techniques and advanced technologies since 8 years.

Marc Morel-Chevillet is Quality and Improvement manager at 0BJECTIF Technologie, with the direct result of ISO9001 certification of the company's quality system. He has 10 years of experience in software domain and technologies. After direct involvement in development and software engineering, he is now senior consultant in charge of quality and process improvement. In this area, he leads assessment teams, in industrial or information systems domains, for internal assessment or sub-contractors capability determination. Marc also drives improvement projects, particularly in verification, validation and testing domains.

Stephane Depres manages projects, consulting missions and training sessions in object-oriented techniques, like OMT/UML, Coad-Yourdon, TUXEDO. He has developed a client-server application generator, and is the leader of AGATE, a failure management system.
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Mr. Don O'Neill (Independent Consultant) [USA]
Global Software Competitiveness Assessment Program (10M)
National Software Quality Experiment: A Lesson in Measurement 1992-1996 (12S)

Don O'Neill is a seasoned software engineering manager and technologist currently serving as an independent consultant. Following his twenty-seven year career with IBM's Federal Systems Division, Mr. O'Neill completed a three year residency at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) under IBM's Technical Academic Career Program. There he developed a blueprint for charting software engineering evolution in the organization including the training architecture and change management strategy needed to transition skills into practice.
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(ONeillDon@aol.com)
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Ms. Janet P. Oberti (BEA Systems, Inc.) [USA]
Testing an Object Request Broker (ORB) Using Automation (2T)

Janet has spent the last 2 years working as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer working on Objectbroker, formally owned by Digital Equipment Corp. She is currently the project leader for the test team. Prior to joining the Objectbroker group she worked 7 years with the Digital PATHWORKS PC Client Group where she maintained several of the DECnet utilities and was part of the DECnet DOS/OS/2 test team. Her experience prior to Digital was with New England Business Service, Inc., performing technical support and quality assurance. She graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a B.S. in geology.
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Mr. Paolo Panaroni (Intecs Sistemi, S.p.A.) [ITALY]
Testing, But...The Other Way Round: A Management Perspective (4M)

Paolo Panaroni is Quality Manager at Intecs Sistemi (Italy) and head of the Process Engineering & Quality section. He has 20 years experience in software engineering and software quality. His current efforts are on software process modelling, metrics and software process improvement with a focus on aerospace and telecom software.
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Mr. Bruno Peeters (Gemeentekrediet van Belgie) [BELGIUM]
A COBOL Standards Compliance Checker (5M)
Measurement of Software Maintainability (8S)

Bruno Peeters graduated in 1987 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as civil engineer in computer science. Right after his graduation, he started working for Gemeentekrediet van Belgie, one of the major banks in Belgium. He was involved in several projects as an analyst. In 1992, he joined the Application Development Support Division where he introduced function points and investigated the application of software metrics. In 1994, he was responsible for the introduction of software inspections in the Information Systems division. During 1996, he was involved in the setup of an internal compliance checker. His current responsibilities at Gemeentekrediet are the introduction and monitoring of quality improvement techniques and software metrics. He is also chairman of the Belgian Software Metrics Association, a user group of software metrics practitioners in Belgium.
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Mr. Robert Poston (Aonix) [USA]
Paper Title: 10X Testing: Automating Specification-Based Testing (J, Part I & II)

Robert Poston is the Director of Software Testing Tools and Practices at Aonix, Inc. He has over twenty years of experience managing and developing software for communication, process control, simulation, radar, numerical control, business, and operating systems. He has degrees in electronics engineering, power engineering, and computer science.

A senior member of the IEEE, Mr. Poston received IEEE awards in 1971, 1980, and 1988 for his contributions to the engineering profession. He served as quality and testing specialist on President Reagan's 1984 People-to-People software engineering delegation to China. He chaired the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee from 1978 to 1982 and founded the first conference on Software Standards (SESAW) in 1982. For four years he developed, directed, and taught the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Seminars. Poston is co-chairperson of the IEEE Computer Society's Standard 1175 that defines interconnections among software tools.

Bob has written over 60 articles about software quality and testing, has served as a charter member of the editorial board of IEEE Software, and has lectured and taught in hundreds of professional forums. Today he is focused on automating software development and testing. His most recent book titled Automating Specification-Based Software Testing is published by the IEEE/CS Press.
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Ms. Barbara Quaquarelli (Cad.Lab S.p.A)) [ITALY]
Quality Improvement through VErification PROcess (PROVE) (8T)

Since 1992 Barbara Quaquarelli is in charge of the Quality function at CAD.LAB SpA which is part of the R&D department and is staffed by three persons. In her function she deals with software process improvement projects as PROVE which was launched in January 1996 and was granted funding by the European Commission. Previously she developed a considerable experience in the design and development of CAD systems. For five years she was project leader of the unit developing a 3D modelling system. Barbara holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Bologna.
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Mr. Ido Sarig (Mercury Interactive, Ltd.) [ENGLAND]
Demo Title: Automated Testing Solutions for the Year 2000 Problem (6D)

(Biography To Be Supplied)
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Mr. John Seddon (Consultant) [ENGLAND]
Keynote Title: In Pursuit of Quality: The Case Against ISO 9000 (L2)

John Seddon is an occupational psychologist, researcher, author and consultant. In 1996 he published his second research report on ISO 9000 - "ISO 9000 - Three Case Studies", available from his web-site. John is the author of the widely acclaimed "I Want You To Cheat: the Unreasonable Guide to Service and Quality in Organizations". In 1996 he published a cd-rom for managers entitled "Change Management Thinking" and this year he is publishing "In Pursuit of Quality: the Case Against ISO 9000".
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(john@vanguardconsult.co.uk)
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Mr. Thierry Tacquet (Objectif Technologie) [FRANCE]
Small Company Action Training and Enabling (SCATE) (3S)

Thierry TACQUET started his activities in 1986 as the first Software Quality Engineer at the French MoD Procurement Agency. He spent there three years of introducing that discipline, performing the first SQA audits and delivering the first AQAP-13 certificates within the French armament industry, together with direct work on the european AWACS, in NATO SQA working groups, and on the draft ISO 9001 at AFNOR, the french standardisation organisation.

Three more years as Software Quality Manager in the french defense electronics company THOMSON-CSF enabled him to immerge in day-to-day SQA problems on many international major programmes. Consultant since 1993, first as ISO 9001 auditor in the IT sector, he now works for Objectif Technologie, leader in Europe for Software Process Improvement. Thierry TACQUET is Project Manager for the ESSI P24291 Project "Small Companies Action Training and Enabling".
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Mr. Tony Templeton (IBM Canada Ltd.) [CANADA]
Rapid Testing Strategies (11S)

Tony Templeton is an executive consultant with IBM's Application Solutions Consulting Practice in Toronto. He previously held a variety of technical and managerial positions in software development with IBM. As a consultant, he specializes in assisting clients to resolve project delivery and software quality issues. In 1992, he co-authored a Full Life-cycle Testing Methodology to help clients understand that testing starts with requirements. Recently he has been working on practical testing strategies for use in projects with compressed schedules. Mr. Templeton holds an MBA from the University of Toronto, and an Hon. B.Sc. in Mathematics from Queen's University in Kingston.
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Dr. Erik van Veenendaal & Dr. Ingrid B. Ottenvanger (KEMA/IP/Informatica Projectgroep) [NETHERLANDS]
Structured Testing According to TMap (H)

Dr. Erik P.W.M. van Veenendaal CISA has been working in the IT-industry since 1987 carrying out assignments in the field of quality assurance, project control, EDP-auditing and software testing. After having fulfilled a number of management positions at a leading Dutch IT quality consultancy company, he is currently, as manager Research & Development at KEMA Nederland bv, responsible for and involved in a number of European projects within the area of Software Product Quality. At the Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty Technology Management, he is involved in lecturing and carrying out research on test management. He is a joint author of "Testing According to TMap".
(E.vanVeenendaal@mta4.kema.NL)

Dr. Ingrid B. Ottenvanger works for IP/Informatica projectgroep, a Dutch company which is leading in the field of software testing and quality assurance. IP/ is the founding father of TMap (Test Management Approach). Dr. Ottenvanger is employed as a testmanager and as a TMap-consultant.

Dr. Erik Van Veenendaal & Dr. Jos Trienekens (KEMA/Eindhoven University of Technology) [NETHERLANDS]
Practical User-Oriented Software Product Quality Specification and Evaluation (L)

Dr. Jos J.M. Trienekens is a manager of IT-research projects, both on a national and international level at the Frits Philips Institute for Quality Management of The Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE). At TUE he is an associate professor Development of IT-products. His research focuses in particular on the assessment and the testing of software products and on quality assurance and software process improvement. Further he is a senior consultant at several industrial organisations. He initiated successfully several large IT-projects which are funded by the Dutch government and by the European Community. He has produced over 20 refereed papers and several books in the general area of information science. For already several years he is a PC-member at international conferences on software engineering. In 1997 he is co-programme chair at STEP'97 in London, UK. He is currently chairman of ENCRESS The Netherlands (European Network for clubs on Reliability and Safety of Software-intensive systems, an EC ESSI project).
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Mr. Otto Vinter (Bruel & Kjaer) [DENMARK]
How to Apply Static and Dynamic Analysis in Practice (5S)

Otto Vinter is managing a Software Technology department at Bruel & Kjaer, a major measuring instrument manufacturer, headquartered in Denmark with subsidiaries world-wide.

He is currently responsible for CEC sponsored projects to improve the development process. In this position, he has also been active in defining software engineering standards, procedures, and methods to be employed at Bruel & Kjaer. He has been the driving force in the company's transition from procedural programming to Object-Oriented development.

He has managed software development projects for 25+ years; with Bruel & Kjaer from 1986, before that with the Danish branch of Control Data Corp- oration, and with Regnecentralen.

The author received his Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Danish Technical University in 1968. He has given public seminars, been associate teacher for BSc. level education in Computer Science, and is an active participant in Danish software-knowledge exchange groups.
(Click here for Mr. Otto Vinter's Home Page)
(ovinter@bk.dk)
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Dr. Tony Wasserman (Software Methods & Tools) [USA]
30 Years of Software Engineering -- What Have We Learned? (1P)

Anthony I. Wasserman is President of Software Methods & Tools, which provides software development products and services. He was previously Founder and Chairman of IDE, which built the Software through Pictures modeling environment. Prior to that, Dr. Wasserman was a University of California professor, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and the University of Geneva. Tony has made numerous contributions to software engineering research, including pioneering work in rapid prototyping of interactive information systems and software engineering environments. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is among the few people to be elected as a Fellow of both the Association for Computing and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (tonyw@methods-tools.html)
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Ms. Rosa Weber, Ms. Karen Thelen & Mr. Gary Dehlin(Honeywell Technology Center) [USA]
Model-Based Requirements Definition and Verification Test Generation for Cockpit Display Systems(9S)

Rosa Weber is a Principal Research Scientist in the Systems and Software Department at the Honeywell Technology Center in Minneapolis, USA. Ms. Weber has 8 years of research experience in the areas of domain-focused reuse, requirements analysis and modeling, V&V, engineering framework technology and interconnection networks. Ms. Weber has a M.S. in Computer Science from Kent State University (1987) and a B.A. in Computer Science, Math and English from Gustavus Adolphus College (1985). She can be reached via email at weber@htc.honeywell.com.

Karen Thelen is a Principal Research Scientist at the Honeywell Technology Center (HTC) in Minneapolis. Ms. Thelen has been HTC for over 20 years. Her primary interests are in the areas of process and testing. She has worked on many efforts in these areas, both government and internal efforts including a DARPA STARS (Software Technology for Adaptable Reliable Systems) in the area of process and internal projects such as ARTTS. She can be reached via email at thelen@htc.honeywell.com.

Experience:
Gary Dehlin has over 15 years experience in software process, software tools, standards, and training primarily in support of the development of commercial and military real-time avionics systems. For the past two years, Gary has been leading the development of an integrated model-based system/software development environment. His prior experience includes managing the software development environment for the Boeing 777 Aircraft Information Management System, leading the Engineering Technical Training program, and contributing to the international commercial avionics software development standard, RTCA DO-178B.

Education:
M.S. Computer Science, Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN
B.S. North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Title:
Technical Staff
Honeywell, Inc.
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Dr. Denise Woit (Ryerson Polytechnic University) [CANADA]
Specifying Component Interactions for Modular Reliability Estimation (6T)

Dr. Denise Woit received BMath and MMath degrees from the University of Waterloo, and earned her Ph.D. in Computing and Information Science at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario Canada in 1994. She is presently an Assistant Professor in the department of Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Ontario, and holds an adjunct position as Assistant Professor in the Communications Research Laboratory, department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Dr. Woit's research interests include software testing techniques, software reliability and software engineering. Her consulting and research focus on providing automated support for building reliable software systems.
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Mr. Nicholas Zvegintzov (Software Management Network) [USA]
Testing for Year 2000 (K)

Nicholas Zvegintzov is an internationally known expert on the management of existing software systems, including testing, documentation, adaptation, functional modification, and re-engineering. He keeps in close touch with users, managers, practitioners and researchers responsible for the future of existing software, and he serves as a unique channel of communication between these communities.

He was General Chair of the 1985 IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), and serves on the ICSM Program Committee (1983-date). He has given Tutorials for ICSM, for the Washington DC Chapter of the ACM, for CASE-95, for the Software Management Association Annual Meeting, and for several commercial training companies.

He has a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University in Experimental Psychology and Philosophy. From 1962 to 1969 he researched in computer science and artificial intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh. From 1969 to 1979 he programmed, designed, upgraded, and documented application systems. In 1979 he established a full-time software management consulting practice.
(Click here for Software Management Network's Website)
(72050.570@compuserve.com)
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