Table Of ContentLecture Notes in Computer Science 3026
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C.V. Ramamoorthy RogerY. Lee
Kyung Whan Lee (Eds.)
Software Engineering
Research
and Applications
First International Conference, SERA 2003
San Francisco, CA, USA, June 25-27, 2003
Selected Revised Papers
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C.V.Ramamoorthy
UniversityofCaliforniaatBerkeley,ComputerScienceDepartment
Berkeley,CA94720-1776,USA
E-mail:[email protected]
RogerLee
CentralMichiganUniversity
SoftwareEngineering&InformationTechnologyInstitute
MountPleasant,MI48859,USA
E-mail:[email protected]
KyungWhanLee
Chung-AngUniversity,SchoolofComputerScienceandEngineering
Seoul156-756,Korea
E-mail:[email protected]
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Foreword
It was our great pleasure to extend a welcome to all who participated in SERA 2003,
thefirstworld-classsInternationalConferenceonSoftwareEngineeringResearchand
Applications, which was held at Crowne Plaza Union Square Hotel, San Francisco,
California, USA. The conference was sponsored by the InternationalAssociation for
ComputerandInformationScience(ACIS),incooperationwiththeSoftwareEngineer-
ingandInformationTechnologyInstituteatCentralMichiganUniversity.
This conference was aimed at discussing the wide range of problems encountered
inpresentandfuturehightechnologies.Inthisconference,wehadkeynotespeechesby
Dr.BarryBoehmandDr.C.V.RamamoorthyandinvitedtalksbyDr.RaymondYeh,Dr.
Raymond Paul, Dr. Mehmet S¸ahinoglu, which were fruitful to all who participated in
SERA2003.
Wewouldliketothankthepublicitychairsandthemembersofourprogramcom-
mitteesfortheirworkonthisconference.WehopethatSERA2003wasenjoyablefor
allparticipants.
C.V.Ramamoorthy
Preface
Itwasindeedourpleasuretowelcomeallofyoutothe1stACISInternationalConference
onSoftwareEngineeringResearchandApplications(SERA2003),June25–27,2003,
Crowne Plaza Union Square Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA. SERA 2003 fea-
turedexcellenttheoreticalandpracticalcontentscontributedbytheinternationalcom-
munity in the areas of formal methods and tools, requirements engineering, software
processmodels,communicationsystemsandnetworks,softwarequalityandevaluation,
softwareengineering,networksandmobilecomputing,parallel/distributedcomputing,
component- based software development, artificial intelligence and applications, soft-
waretesting,reuseandmetrics,databaseretrieval,HCI,softwarestandards,computer
security,softwarearchitectures,andmodeling.
Wereceived104papers(ourProgramCo-chairProf.KyungWhanLeereceived45
papersandProf.RogerLeereceived59papers)from22differentcountriesaroundthe
worldforpossiblepresentationattheconference.Amongthosepapers,alargenumber
were high-quality paper submissions. Three reviewers reviewed each paper.After the
completionofthepeer-reviewprocess,ourInternationalProgramCommitteeselected53
papers,whichgaveabouta49%acceptancerateforpublicationintheACISconference
proceedings. Of the 53 presented papers at the conference our international program
committee selected 23 outstanding papers for publication in Springer’s LNCS as the
post-conferenceproceedings.
Wewouldliketoexpressoursincereappreciationtothefollowingpeopleforcon-
tributing to the success of this conference: Dr. C.V. Ramamoorthy, conference chair;
Dr.BarryBoehmandDr.C.V.Ramamoorthy,ourkeynotespeakers;Dr.RaymondYeh,
Dr.RaymondPaulandDr.MehmetS¸ahinoglu,ourinvitedspeakers;thepublicitychairs
andtheInternationalProgramCommitteememberswhorosebeyondthecallofduty,
contributingalargepercentageoftheirtime;therefereeswhoacceptedthelast-minute
requests for extra reviews; the session chairs who presided over the sessions; all the
authors, attendees, and presenters who really made this conference possible and suc-
cessful; Prof. Dr. Walter Dosch for his extra time and effort in communicating with
Springer-Verlag about LNCS post-conference proceedings; and, finally, the editorial
staffatSpringer-Verlag.Furthermore,wewouldliketoextendspecialthankstoAlfred
HofmannofSpringer-Verlagwhomadethispublicationpossible.
RogerY.Lee
KyungWhanLee
Organizing Committee
ConferenceChair
Prof.C.V.Ramamoorthy,ComputerScienceDepartment
UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
ProgramCo-chairs
Prof.RogerLee Prof.KyungWhanLee
ComputerScienceDepartment ComputerEngineeringDepartment
CentralMichiganUniversity(USA) Chung-AngUniv.(Seoul,Korea)
PublicityCo-chairs
Australia TheBalticStates&Scandinavia
Dr.SebastianNg Prof.Dr.JuriVain
SwinburneUniv.ofTechnology TechnicalUniv.ofTallinn
Canada/Africa China
Prof.SylvanusA.Ehikioya Dr.LiuJingnam
Univ.ofManitoba WuhanUniversity
Germany UK
Prof.Dr.WalterDosch Prof.PaulGarratt
Univ.ofLubeck Univ.ofSouthampton
HongKong Italy
Dr.Pak-LokPoon Prof.SusannaPelagatti
HongKongPolytechnicUniv. Univ.ofPisa
Japan Korea
Dr.YoshihiroAkiyama Prof.Haeng-KonKim
IBMGlobalServices-Japan CatholicUniv.ofDaegu
Lebanon Russia
Prof.RamziHaraty Prof.AlexandreZamulin
LebaneseAmericanUniv. InstituteforInformaticsSystems,
Novosibirsk
SouthAmerica USA
Prof.SilviaT.Acuna Prof.Chia-ChuChiang
Uni.Naci.deSantiago-Argentina Univ.ofArkansas-LittleRock
X OrganizingCommittee
InternationalProgramCommittee
DooHwanBae OhHyunKwon
(KAIST,Korea) (TongmyungUniv.ofIT,Korea)
JongmoonBaik EunSeokLee
(MotorolaLabs,USA) (SungkyunkwanUniv.,Korea)
Chia-ChuChiang JuhnyoungLee
(Univ.ofArkansas-LittleRock,USA) (IBMT.J.WatsonResearchCenter,USA)
ByungjuChoi XiaoqingFrankLiu
(EwhaWomansUniv.,Korea) (Univ.ofMissouri-Rolla,USA)
WalterDosch BrianMalloy
(Univ.ofLubeck,Germany) (ClemsonUniversity,USA)
SylvanusA.Ehikioya JunPark
(Univ.ofManitoba,Canada) (Samsung,Korea)
PaulGarratt DavidPrimeaux
(Univ.ofSouthampton,UK) (VirginiaCommonwealthUniv.,USA)
GongzhuHu YeongTaeSong
(CentralMichiganUniv.,USA) (TowsonUniv.,USA)
HaJinHwang AtsushiTogashi
(CatholicUniv.ofDaegu,Korea) (ShizuokaUniversity,Japan)
NaohiroIshii YoshiichiTokuda
(NagoyaInstituteofTechnology,Japan) (SONYCorporation,Japan)
MatjazJuric JuanTrujillo
(Univ.ofMaribor,Slovenia) (Univ.ofAlicante,Spain)
YanggonKim CuiZhang
(TowsonUniv.,USA) (Univ.ofCalifornia-Sacramento,USA)
OrganizingCommittee XI
AdditionalReviewers
JiriAdamek(CharlesUniversity,CzechRepublic)
ThomasAhlswede(CentralMichiganUniversity,USA)
GailAhn(Univ.ofNorthCarolina-Charlotte,USA)
CarstenAlbrecht(UniversityofLubeck,Germany)
ThomasBures(CharlesUniversity,CzechRepublic)
JieDai(CentralMichiganUniversity,USA)
AmirMadanyMamlouk(UniversityofLubeck,Germany)
MihoOsaki(ShizuokaUniversity,Japan)
PetrPlanuska(CharlesUniversity,CzechRepublic)
GillesRoussel(Universite´ deMarne-la-Valle´e,France)
RemziSeker(Embry-RiddleAeronauticalUniversity,USA)
Chong-weiXu(KennesawStateUniversity,USA)
