Method Engineering '96
Official Program
August 25-28, 1996

Atlanta, Georgia
Wyndham Garden Hotel - Buckhead

Sunday 25
17.00-19.00Registration
18.00-20.00Welcoming reception
Monday 26
8.00Registration
9.00Conference Opening
9.10Welcome from the conference chairs
Kalle Lyytinen, General Chair
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Program Chair
Richard J. Welke, Organizing Chair
9.30Keynote Lecture:
A Primer to Method Engineering
James Odell, USA
10.30Coffee Break
11.00Paper session: ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES
Structural Artifacts in Method Engineering: The Security Imperative
Richard Baskerville (Denmark, USA)
Characterizing IS Development Projects
Kees van Slooten and Bert Hodes (The Netherlands)
12.30 Lunch
14.00Panel: REENGINEERING METHOD ENGINEERING?
Chair: Keng Siau, (USA)
Panelists:
Lucas Introna (UK), Graham McLeod (South Africa), Jeffrey Parsons (Canada), Yair Wand (Canada)
15.30Coffee Break
16.00Paper session: COMPUTER-ASSISTED METHOD ENGINEERING TOOLS
Towards an Integrated Environment for Method Engineering
John C. Grundy and John R. Venable (New Zealand)
A Functional Framework for Evaluating Method Engineering Environments: the case of Maestro II/Decamerone and MetaEdit+
P. Marttiin, F. Harmsen and M. Rossi (Finland and The Netherlands)
Method Rationale in Method Engineering and Use
Harri Oinas-Kukkonen (Finland)
17.30End of first day's sessions
18.30Bus to BBQ (proposed)
Tuesday 27
8.30Registration
9.00Paper session: EXPERIENCES WITH METHOD COMPOSITION
How to Compose an Object-Oriented Business Process Model
Peter Kueng, Peter Bichler, Peter Kawalek and Michael Schrefl (UK and Austria)
Human Work as Context for Development of OO-Modeling Techniques
Jens Kaasboll and Ole Smordal (Norway)
Translating OMT* to SDL, Coupling Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Formal Description Techniques
K. Verschaeve, B. Wydaeghe, V. Jonckers and L. Cuypers (Belgium)
10.30Coffee Break
11.00Paper session: METHOD MODELLING
A Proposal for Context-Specific Method Engineering
Colette Rolland and Naveen Prakash (France and India)
Comparison of Four Method Engineering Languages
Frank Harmsen and Motoshi Saeki (the Netherlands and Japan)
12.30Lunch Break
14.00Paper session: ALTERNATIVE CONSTRUCTION PARADIGMS
Method Engineering: Who's the Customer
L. Mathiassen, A. Munk-Madsen, P.A. Nielsen and J. Stage (Denmark)
Simulation-Based Method Engineering in Federated Organizations
P. Peters, M. Mandelbaum and M. Jarke (Germany)
15.30Coffee Break
16.00Panel: METHOD ENGINEERING: EXPERIENCES IN PRACTICE
Panel Chair: Gezinus J. Hidding (USA)
Panelists:
James J. Odell (USA), John Parkinson (USA),
Gerard M. Wijers (the Netherlands)
17.30End of second day sessions
EveningConference dinner
Wednesday 28
9.00Keynote Lecture:
Information Systems Development: A Broader Perspective
David Avison (UK)
10.30Coffee Break
11.00Paper session: GENERATION AND EVALUATION OF TOOLS
Lazy Functional Meta-CASE Programming
Stef Joosten (USA)
A Practical Strategy for the Evaluation of Software Tools
Antony Powell, Andrew Vickers, Eddie Williams and Brian Cooke (UK)
Core Objects Required For A Generic CASE Repository
Gordon Manson, Siobhn North and Abdullah Alghamdi (UK)
12.30Lunch
14.00Paper session: METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS
A Classification of Methodological Framework for Computerized Information Systems Support in Organizations
John Krogstie and Arne Solvberg (Norway)
Method Engineering: Current Research Directions and Implications for Future Research
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Matti Rossi and Hui Liu (Finland)
15.30 Closing session
Announcement of Method Engineering '99
16.00End of Conference
16.30Open Scientific meeting IFIP WG8.1/8.2: Taskgroup on Method Engineering
18.00End of conference