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         +=======    Quality Techniques Newsletter    =======+
         +=======              June 2005              =======+
         +===================================================+

QUALITY TECHNIQUES NEWSLETTER (QTN) is E-mailed monthly to
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                       Contents of This Issue

   o  Newely Available SQRL Reports

   o  Software Testers Invited: Job Survey

   o  eValid: Latest News, New Features, Updates

   o  Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Collaboration
      Support Systems

   o  eValid: Usage Recommendations

   o  Mass Customization Information Systems in Business

   o  AVoCS 2005: Automated Verification of Critical Systems

   o  10th International Conference on Reliable Software
      Technologies

   o  ISoLA Workshop on Formal Methods, Verification, and
      Validation.

   o  Web Service Challenge

   o  QTN Article Submittal, Subscription Information

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                    Newly Available SQRL Reports

Our web address for downloading reports is:

         http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/sqrl/sqrl_reports.html

Contact: Doris Burns, Software Quality Research Laboratory, McMaster
University

                         SQRL Report No. 28

Title:  Guassian Elimination: a case study in efficient genericity
with MetaOCaml

Author:  Jacques Carette

Abstract:  The Gaussian Elimination algorithm is in fact an
algorithm family - common implementations contain at least 6 (mostly
independent) "design choices".  A generic implementation can easily
be parametrized by all these design choices, but this usually leads
to slow and bloated code.  Using MetaOCaml's staging facilities, we
show how we can produce a natural and type-safe implementation of
Gaussian Elimination which exposes its design choices at code-
generation time, so that these choices can effectively be
specialized away, and where the resulting code is quite efficient.

                         SQRL Report No. 31

Title:  COG-PETS: Code Generation for Parameter Estimation in Time
Series

Authors:  Christopher Kumar Anand, Jacques Carette, Andrew Thomas
Curtis, David Miller

Abstract:  We extend previous work on symbolic code generation for
efficient solvers in the domain of image and signal processing, to
take advantage of recurrence relations for efficiently generating
model function values corresponding to a regularly-sampled time
series.  First- and zeroth-order recurrences are symbolically
identified by Maple.  Two example applications to Magnetic Resonance
Spectroscopy and Relaxometry are described, and we show two orders
of magintude accelerations for the resulting solvers.

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                Software Testers Invited: Job Survey

Do we know what we do and do not like in our daily job?  Martins
Gills from Riga Information Technology Institute is conducting a
survey among software testers. The goal is to add some sketches to
the portrait of software tester. Some say the testers are special
persons, but testing itself is actually a quite boring activity. It
may depend on the tasks we do. The survey looks for things we prefer
or would like to avoid.

If you have 5-10 spare minutes for putting multiple-choice answers
to a bunch of questions, please visit the link:

           http://support.dati.lv/tsurvey/index2_en.html

There is no registration and no ads.  It will be active till the end
of July 2005.

Summary of the results will appear in QTN later this year.

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             eValid: Latest News, New Features, Updates

eValid is the premier WebSite Quality Testing & Analysis Suite.
eValid solutions help organizations maintain e-Business presence,
improve WebSite quality and performance, reduce down time, prevent
customer loss, and control costs.

eValid's Web Analysis and Testing Suite is comprehensive, yet
scalable and easy to use, and applies to a wide range of web
applications.  Because eValid is implemented inside an IE-equivalent
browser you are guaranteed to get 100% realistic user experience
results.

              Support for ASPs with Commercial License
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
License restrictions often limit how a consultant or a contractor --
or Application Service Providers (ASPs) firm -- can use eValid and
deliver the results to clients.  eValid's licensing now includes a
new option for ASPs that will simplify life, so both you and your
clients can benefit from eValid technology:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/License/Commercial/asp.support.html

                    Ramping Up of LoadTest Runs
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In server loading experiments a main goals often is to study how the
server complex responds to activity load that "steps up" at regular,
pre-programmed intervals.  Here's how to do this in eValid LoadTest
scenarios:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Loading/ramping.html

                     Playback Startup Sequence
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
To minimize playback de-synchronization as much as possible, the
latest eValid builds have a new and more-powerful recording startup
sequence.  The new startup sequence helps you manage disk cache and
cookie processing more reliably:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Testing/start.recording.html

                      LoadTest Scenario Editor
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
eValid now includes a scenario editor that makes the job of setting
up a LoadTest simple.  It's got:

  * Ability to create a server loading scenario that focuses
    attention on how users and user types are allocated.

  * Ability edit and re-edit existing or new loadtest scenarios.

  * Capability to automatically generate the underlying *evl page.

Complete details on the scenario editor can be found at:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Loading/scenario.edit.html

                      HTTP Detailed Reporting
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
An enhanced capability for monitoring detailed HTTP download times
and download errors has been added to the eValid playback engine.
Users can select to have HTTP errors reported as WARNINGs or ERRORs.
In addition, detailed timing logs generated by eValid now include
the specific byte size and download time of each page component
separately.

For complete details see:
http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Settings/project.log.filters.html

                     Product Download  Details
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here is the URL for downloading eValid if you want to start [or re-
start] your evaluation:

http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Download.5/down.evalid.5.phtml?status=FORM

                   Contact Us With Your Questions
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We welcome your questions about eValid and its applications.  We
promise a response to every question in ONE BUSINESS DAY if you use
the WebSite request form:

http://www.soft.com/eValid/Information/info.request.html

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        Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A:
           Special Issue on Collaboration Support Systems

               http://www.agentgroup.unimo.it/tsmc06/

Collaboration is a widely applied style to collect a group of
people's intelligence. Collaboration support systems serve as an
important memory for the group. Ideally, such a system should evolve
to become a knowledge base for the collaborators and for those who
will use the results of the collaboration. How does one provide
effective software structures and tools that will support a large
group of people in their work, i.e., assembling, making use of,
extracting and working with extensive collections of ideas and
multi-media information? This question is still to be solved.

The aim of this special issue is to make the point of the situation
and to evaluate the state of the art in the field. Possible
submissions should relate to both innovative proposals and global
views of well-established systems/approaches not published
elsewhere. Papers should present approaches relying on computational
or mathematical models, and/or be supported by empirical
evaluations.

This call for papers will be distributed by means of mailing lists,
a web site, flyers at relevant conferences and personal contacts of
the guest editors.

Each submission will be reviewed by three referees. The referees
will be recruited among the constituent IEEE Technical Committee
members for Collaborative Intelligent Systems, the program committee
members of related conferences, and other experienced colleagues.

This special issue solicits, but is not limited to, papers on topics
that clearly address collaboration support systems, including:

* Human requirements for collaboration on distributed computers
* Organizational behaviors on collaboration support systems
* Formal and abstract models for collaboration support systems
* Role and group structures on collaboration support systems
* Objects and agents in collaboration support systems
* Multi-user interface design for collaboration support systems
* Analysis and evaluations of collaboration support systems
* Security and privacy issues in collaboration support systems
* Information sharing in collaboration support systems
* Software engineering for collaboration support systems
* Industry and enterprise application case study

                           Guest Editors

                         Dr. Giacomo Cabri
            Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
                Universite di Modena e Reggio Emilia
                               Italy
                      cabri.giacomo@unimore.it

                           Dr. Haibin Zhu
           Department of Computer Science and Mathematics
                        Nipissing University
                               Canada
                       haibinz@nipissingu.ca

                       Professor Jian-Bo Yang
                 Manchester Business School (East)
                    The University of Manchester
                           United Kingdom
                   jian-bo.yang@manchester.ac.uk

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               eValid -- Some General Recommendations

Here are common eValid problem areas and references to pages that
provide general good-practice recommendations.

* Functional Testing Recording and playing scripts, with validation,
    is a sure way to confirm operation of a web site or web
    application.

  o Protecting Login Account Names and Passwords

    If you are recording logging into a site, eValid will need to
    make a record of your account name and password.  For the best
    security, you should record login and password details in
    encrypted form.  There's an option in the Script Window Dialog
    to turn on the Encoded Input option that protects critical
    private information.  See:
     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Testing/encode.input.html>

  o Initial State

    Being a fully stateful recording and playback engine, eValid is
    very sensitive to the initial state when playback begins.  Here
    are some recommendations about to manage your test's Initial
    State effectively.  See:
     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Testing/initial.conditions.html

  o Session Cookies

    Session cookies are remembered inside eValid and the surest way
    to clear them is to close eValid and launch it again.

  o Modal Dialogs/Logins

    Because of the nature of modal dialogs you may not be able to
    use them directly.  Instead, eValid provides a way to construct
    a reliable script by creating the correct commands via the
    Script Window Dialog.  Check the documentation on modal dialog
    support and on testing modal logins:

     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Testing/modal.html
     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Testing/modal.hints.html

  o Opaque Objects

    Certain objects are opaque relative to eValid's internal view of
    web page properties, and have to be treated differently.  These
    object types include Java Applets and FLASH objects, discussed
    here:
     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Applications/java.applet/index.html
     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Advanced.Testing/flash.cookbook.html

    In addition, it may be helpful to see how to use eValid's
    Application Mode:
     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Advanced.Testing/application.mode.html

* Server Loading eValid applies load to a web server using the
    capability to run multiple eValid browser instances.

  o Machine Adjustments

    If you want to get more than ~25 eValid copies running at on
    time you probably need to make Machine Adjustments to optimize
    your computer as a server loading engine.  See:
     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Loading/machine.html

  o Ramping LoadTest Runs

    The most common form of application includes ramping up server
    load so you can study how the server performance degrades due to
    increasing load.
     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Loading/ramping.html

* Site Analysis eValid site analysis runs are a powerful way to
    confirm website properties.

  o Avoid Logout During Scan

    A common problem during a site analysis scan is that eValid logs
    you out before the scan is done!  This happens when you start
    the scan after logging into a protected area and the eValid
    search spider navigates you to the "logout" page.  The way to
    avoid this is to make sure that your Blocked URLs List includes
    "logout" and "signoff".  See:
     http://www.soft.com/eValid/Products/Documentation.5/Mapping/exclude.html

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         Mass Customization Information Systems in Business

                          A book edited by

                     Prof. Dr. Thorsten Blecker
          Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), Germany
                                 &
                    Prof. Dr. Gerhard Friedrich
University of Klagenfurt, Austria

http://www.manufacturing.de/calls/mc-it.htm

Introduction:

Mass customization is a business strategy that aims at satisfying
individual customer needs with near mass production efficiency. The
advances realized in information technology are critical enablers,
which make this strategy function efficiently. Information systems
can be implemented to support diverse activities in the mass
customization value chain. They assist customers during the product
specification phase in order to lead them in a fast-paced manner to
the product variants corresponding to their individual requirements.
Modern information systems, which support open-innovation even
enable customers to participate actively in the product design.
Furthermore, mass customization information systems contribute to
helping companies mitigate excessive product variety and increase
costs' efficiency on the shop floor and logistics through optimal
product modeling and production planning and scheduling.

The Overall Objective of the Book:

In the fields of mass customization information systems, there
exists a need for a book enclosing high quality analyses in this
area. The scientific community and professionals both will benefit
from a book that focuses on this subject. This book should describe
the state-of-the-art, innovative theoretical frameworks, advanced
and successful implementations as well as latest empirical research
findings in the area. The main objective is to bridge theory and
practice on the one hand and to fill research gaps and answer open
questions on the other hand. The book will improve the understanding
of the problems that are encountered during the conception of
information systems for mass customization. Furthermore, it provides
solution approaches for the mitigation of these problems and
simultaneously highlights new directions for future research.

The Target Audience:

The target audience consists of professionals and scientists working
in the field of computer science and artificial intelligence. In
addition, industrial engineers and researchers in business
administration with a special focus on information systems and IT
Management will find this book as an adequate reference that
describes current research and presents topics that can be more
deepened in the future. Graduate students in the mentioned areas
will find practical applications of some theoretical concepts that
are already discussed in class.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
    * Customer needs' elicitation
    * Personalization and advisory systems
    * Product modeling and configuration systems
    * Customer Relationship-Management systems
    * IT-Systems for Enterprise Resource Planning and
      Supply Chain Management
    * IT-architecture and infrastructure for mass customization
    * IT-support for open innovation

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically to:

                     Prof. Dr. Thorsten Blecker
      Department of Business Logistics and General Management
              HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (TUHH)
            Schwarzenbergstr. 95, 21073 Hamburg, Germany
      Tel.: +49 (0) 40 42878 3525; Fax: +49 (0) 40 42878 2200
                      E-mail: blecker@ieee.org

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             AVoCS '05: Fifth International Workshop on
             Automated Verification of Critical Systems

          University of Warwick, UK, 12-13 September 2005
               http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~avocs05
         Workshop e-mail address: avocs05@dcs.warwick.ac.uk

The aim of this workshop is to encourage interaction and exchange of
ideas among members of the international research community.
Particularly, we hope to achieve integration and transfer of
knowledge between academia and industry.

The workshop subject is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively.
It covers all aspects of automated verification (model checking,
theorem proving, specification, etc) pertaining to various types of
critical systems, be it safety-critical, business-critical, or
performance-critical.

The technical programm will consist of invited talks, regular
papers, and short presentations.  The workshop will be relatively
informal, with an emphasis on discussion.

Previous AVoCS workshops were held at the University of Oxford
(2001), the University of Birmingham (2002), the University of
Southampton (2003), and the Royal Society in London (2004).

                               Topics

Topics addressed include:
- Specification and Refinement
- Requirements Capture and Analysis
- Model Checking: Theory, Tools and Applications
- Abstract Interpretation
- Theorem Proving
- Software and Hardware Verification
- Verification of Probabilistic and/or Real-Time Systems
- Verification of Distributed Protocols including Security
- Performance and Dependability Evaluation
- Case Studies

                            Proceedings

Preliminary proceedings will be published by the University of
Warwick and distributed at the workshop.  This will include
preliminary versions of regular papers, and abstracts of short
presentations.

After the workshop, authors of regular papers will have an option to
prepare a final version for proceedings in Electronic Notes in
Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier), and to submit a full
version for a special issue of a high-quality international journal.

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                  10th International Conference on
          Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2005

                    20 - 24 June 2005, York, UK

           http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2005.html

The University of York, sponsored by Ada-Europe and in cooperation
with ACM's Special Interest Group in Ada, organizes this year the
"10th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies -
Ada-Europe 2005" from 20 to 24 June in York.

The conference offers nine tutorials, including a look at Ada 2005,
a full technical program of refereed papers, a collection of
industrial presentations reflecting current practice and challenges,
three eminent invited speakers, an exhibition, and a social program.

The 9 excellent tutorials cover a broad range of topics, including:
developing web-aware applications in Ada, correctness by
construction, real-time Java, architecture analysis and design,
Ravenscar and SPARK, containers in Ada 2005, software fault
tolerance, requirements engineering for dependable Systems, and a
half day tutorial (at a reduced rate) on the new features of Ada
2005, presented by four of its designers: John Barnes, Alan Burns,
Pascal Leroy and Tucker Taft.

Technical Program:  21 fully refereed and carefully selected papers
on the latest research on Ada-related issues, including new tools,
applications and industrial practice and experience.  A collection
of 10 industrial presentations reflecting current practice and
challenges.  Springer Verlag publishes the proceedings of the
conference, as LNCS Vol. 3555.

Keynote Speakers: John McDermid discusses model-based development of
safety-critical software.  Martyn Thomas presents "Extreme Hubris"
in which the principles of Extreme Programming are examined and
shown to be misguided and dangerous, and in which an alternative
Manifesto for Reliable Software is proposed.  Bev Littlewood talks
about assessing the dependability of software-based systems.

The exhibition opens in the mid-morning break on Tuesday and runs
continuously until the end of the afternoon break on Thursday.  The
exhibitors include the following vendors: AdaCore, Aonix, ARTiSAN
Software, Esterel Technologies, Green Hills Software, I-Logix, LDRA
Software Technology, PolySpace Technologies, Praxis High Integrity
Systems, Silver Software, TNI Europe.

York is a beautiful and historical (small) city in the north of the
UK.  It has a first class university with one of the best Computer
Science departments in the world. The Department has been involved
with the development of programming languages for a number of years
(indeed it ran the first series of technical meetings on Ada in the
1970s). It is pleased to host this meeting on reliable software
technology.

York can be reached easily by train from London (approximately 2.3
hours), Manchester airport (2 hours), Leeds/Bradford Airport (1
hour).  The conference is held at the Royal York Hotel which is
adjacent to the York train station a few minutes from the centre of
York and the Minster (Cathedral).

The conference's social program includes a wine and buffet reception
on Tuesday evening at Bedern Hall, a 14th century hall which was
used as a refectory of the vicars of York Minster, and the
conference banquet on Wednesday evening at the National Railway
Museum. This York-based Museum is the largest railway museum in the
world, responsible for the conservation and interpretation of the
British national collection of historically significant railway
vehicles and other artifacts. The Museum contains an unrivaled
collection of locomotives, rolling stock, railway equipment,
documents and records.

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                      2005 IEEE ISoLA Workshop
                     on Leveraging Applications
          of Formal Methods, Verification, and Validation

                       23-24th September 2005
         Loyola College Graduate Center, Columbia, MD (USA)

                    With a Special track theme:
       Formal Methods in Human and Robotic Space Exploration

              http://sttt.cs.uni-dortmund.de/isola2005

ISoLA is a forum for developers, users, and researchers to discuss
issues related to the adoption and use of rigorous tools for the
specification analysis, verification, certification, construction,
test, and maintenance of systems from the point of view of their
different application domains. To bridge the gap between designers
and developers of (formal methods based) rigorous tools, and users
in engineering and in other disciplines, it fosters and exploits
synergetic relationships among scientists, engineers, software
developers, decision makers, and other critical thinkers. In
particular, by providing a venue for the discussion of common
problems, requirements, algorithms, methodologies, and practices,
ISoLA aims at supporting researchers in their quest to improve the
utility, reliability, flexibility and efficiency of tools for
building systems and users in their search of adequate solutions to
their problems. Applications and case studies with a conceptual
message and experience papers with a clear link to tool construction
are all encouraged.

Particularly welcome are Regular contributions, Survey papers,
Student Papers and Tool demonstrations concerning

Use of
 * Deduction and model-checking
 * System construction and transformation techniques
 * Program analysis
 * Compositional and refinement-based methodologies
 * Testing and test-case generation
 * Tool environments and tool architectures
 * Agent techniques,
 * Coordination technologies

Application Areas:
 * Electrical engineering, embedded systems, and controllers
 * Integration (legacy systems)
 * Interoperability (HW/SW, MEMs, )
 * Pervasive Computing
 * Financial and banking sectors, E-commerce
 * Real-time, hybrid, and safety critical systems
 * Robotic Systems for Space Exploration
 * Telecommunications
 * Transportation and aviation

Keynote Speaker: John C. Knight (U. Virginia, USA) Why Are Formal
Methods Still Not Used More Widely?

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                      Web Services Challenge

  Held at the IEEE Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE-05)

                  Oct 18-20, 2005, Beijing, China

                            Supported by
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Electronic Commerce (TCEC)
Centre for e-Transformation Research (CTR), Hong Kong Baptist University
                    Founder R&D Centre, Beijing
                       IBM China Research Lab

           http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~ctr/wschallenge/

                             Background

Web services discovery and composition are two indispensable
capabilities required by the emerging service-oriented architecture
to enable the next-generation e-Business applications.  Following
the great success of the first Web Services Challenge held in Hong
Kong in March 2005, a similar competition geared towards the
management of web services will be held at ICEBE 2005. The
competition solicits industry and academic researchers that develop
software components and/or intelligent agents that have the ability
to discover pertinent web services and compose them to create
higher-level functionality.

                        Competition Overview

This competition will be limited to syntactical matching based on
the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Participants will be
required to *identify* and *compose* WSDL-specified services based
on their input and output messages as specified in a directory of
WSDL documents.  Although the technical details of this second
contest will be similar to the first one, an enlarged web services
repository will be used for the evaluation. Each finalist will be
required to register and attend the conference to give presentation
and demonstration for final evaluation.

Competitors of Web Services Challenge will be evaluated based on the
*design* and *functional capabilities* of their component/agent.

(A) Design

Participants are required to submit a technical description of their
software agent or component of no more than 2 pages. This
description and local evaluation will be used to judge and rate the
design of the entry. The 2-page description should follow the IEEE
Computer Society format as specified by the main conference and will
be published as a poster paper in the general proceedings for all
accepted finalists.

(B) Functional capabilities

This challenge will be separated into the following two functional
competitions.

           Competition A: Service Discovery Capabilities

Participants will be provided with a directory of web services
specifications and a specific discovery request as represented by
the provided input messages and the required output messages. The
participants component/agent will be required to find all services












that meet the requirements .

          Competition B: Service Composition Capabilities

Given the same service repository provided in Competition A, the
participants will be provided with another discovery request.  In
this competition, the request can only be fulfilled by the
composition of multiple services.  The participant will be required
to supply the sequence and list of services that meet the
requirements.

Participants are encouraged to contact the competition chair to
express interest in the contest and the platform they plan to use
for the system development. More detailed technical description as
well as preliminary sample WSDL descriptions and service repository
can be found at

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~ctr/wschallenge/

                     William K. Cheung (Chair)
                Centre of e-Transformation Research
                  Department of Computer Science
                    Hong Kong Baptist University
                          Hong Kong, China
                  Email: william@comp.hkbu.edu.hk

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