Program: November 29 Conference Day

 

Keynote

 

Time

Nov 29
09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 10:15

Keynote 3

10:15 - 10:30 Short Break
10:30 - 12:00 Tracks 1/2/3
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:45 Keynote 4
13:45 - 14:00 Short Break
14:00 - 17:30 Tracks 1/2/3

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20:00 - 22:00 Banquet

 

November 29, Track 1

 

Time

November 29, Track 1

10:30 -12:00

1A. Component-Based Systems

Session Chair:  Xuemei Zhang, Bell Laboratories, USA zhang4@lucent.com

 

An Approach to Higher Reliability Using Software Components

Hongxia Jin and Peter Santhanam

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

jin@us.ibm.com

 

A Bayesian Approach to Reliability Prediction and Assessment of Component Based Systems

H. Singh, V. Cortellessa, B. Cukic, E. Gunel, and V. Bharadwaj

West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

cukic@csee.wvu.edu

 

Comparison of Architecture-Based Software Reliability Models

Katerina Goševa-Popstojanova

West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

Aditya P. Mathur

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Kishor S. Trivedi

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

katerina@ee.duke.edu

 

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:45 Keynote 4
13:45 - 14:00 Short Break
14:00 - 15:30

2A. Software Fault Models and Prediction

Session Chair:  Norm Schneidewind, Naval Postgraduate School, USA nschneid@nps.navy.mil

 

An Application of Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression for Software Fault Prediction

Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Kehan Gao

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

Robert M. Szabo

IBM Corporation, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

taghi@cse.fau.edu

 

A Fault Model for Fault Injection Analysis of UML Dynamic Specifications

Alaa Ibrahim and Hany H. Ammar

West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

Sherif M. Yacoub

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California, USA

hammar@wvu.edu

 

A Fault Model for Subtype Inheritance and Polymorphism

Jeff Offutt

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Roger Alexander

Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Ye Wu, Quansheng Xiao, and Chuck Hutchinson

George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

ofut@ise.gmu.edu

 

15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:50

3A. Fault Tolerant Distributed Software Systems

Session Chair:  Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA kst@ee.duke.edu

 

Estimation of Software Diversity by Fault Simulation and Failure Searching

Luping Chen, John May, and Gordon Hughes

University of Bristol, Bristol, England, United Kingdom

chen@cs.bris.ac.uk

 

Fault Tolerant Distributed Information Systems

John C. Knight and Matthew C. Elder

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

knight@cs.virginia.edu

 

Increasing the Reliability of Three-Tier Applications

W. Zhao, L.E. Moser, and P.M. Melliar-Smith

University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA

wenbing@alpha.ece.ucsb.edu

 

Low-Cost Flexible Software Fault Tolerance for Distributed Computing

Ann Tai and Kam S. Tso

IA Tech, Inc., Los Angeles, California, USA

William H. Sanders

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

Leo Alkalai and Savio N. Chau

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA

a.t.tai@ieee.org

 

 

 

November 29, Track 2

 

Time

November 29, Track 2

10:30 -12:00

1B. Testing GUI Software

Session Chair:  : Ann Tai, IA Tech, Inc., USA a.t.tai@ieee.org

 

Finite-State Testing of Graphical User Interfaces

Fevzi Belli

University of Paderborn, Germany

belli@upb.de

 

Incorporating Software Reliability Engineering into the Test Process for an Extensive GUI-Based Network Management System

Deirdre Donovan, Chryssa Dislis, Ray Murphy, Stephen Unger, Christina Kenneally, Janet Young, and Liz Sheehan

Motorola Ireland Ltd., Cork, Ireland

diedre.donovan@motorola.com

 

User-Based Testing of GUI Sequences and Their Interactions

Lee White, Husain Almezen, and Nasser Alzeidi

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

leew@eecs.cwru.edu

 

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:45 Keynote 4
13:45 - 14:00 Short Break
14:00 - 15:30

2B. Reliable Wireless and Mobile Systems

Session Chair:   Aad van Moorsel, HP Laboratories, USA  aad@hpl.hp.com

 

Modeling and Analysis of Using Memory Management Unit to Improve Software Reliability

Shih-Jeh Chang and Prudence T. Zacarias Kapauan

Lucent Technologies, Naperville, Illinois, USA

ptzk@lucent.com

 

Modeling and Verifying Strong Cache Consistency for Mobile Data Access

Jun Wei

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Huan Zhou

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shing Chi Cheung and Xu Wang

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

wjun@cs.ust.hk

 

Recovery Proxy for Wireless Applications

Bin Yao and W. Kent Fuchs

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

pufuchs@purdue.edu

 

15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:15

3B. Software Reliability Growth Models

Session Chair:  Min Xie, National University of Singapore, Singapore  mxie@nus.edu.sg

 

Analysis of Hypergeometric Distribution Software Reliability Model

T. Dohi, N. Wakana, and S. Osaki

Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Kishor S. Trivedi

Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

dohi@gal.sys.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

 

Discrete Equations and Software Reliability Growth Models

Daisuke Satoh

NTT Service Integration Laboratories, Japan

Shigeru Yamada

Tottori University, Japan

satoh.daisuke@lab.ntt.co.jp

 

Modeling the Fault Correction Process

Norman F. Schneidewind

Naval Postgraduate School, Pebble Beach, California, USA

nschneid@nps.navy.mil

 

 

 

November 29, Track 3

 

Time

November 29, Track 3

10:30 - 12:00

Fast Abstacts Session 2:  FT Techniques

 

FT Techniquies

 

Testing Programs Computing Numerical Function
Feodor Vainstein, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

 

On the Design of Consistent Executable Assertions for Distributed Software
Arshad Jhumka

Martin Hiller

Vilgot Claesson

Neeraj Suri

Chalmers University, Sweden

Extended Classification of Software Faults Based on Aging
Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan
Kishor Trivedi

Duke University, USA

 

Detection of Errors Using Aspect-Oriented State Consistency Checks
James Thai
Barry Pekilis

Alexander Lau

Rudolph Seviora

University of Waterloo, Canada


On Design Issue of LAN Topology Using a Dual Path Ethernet Module
IlSeok Han

HagBae Kim

Yonsei University, Korea

 

Development of a Scalable Clustering Streaming Server for the Internet
Personal-Live Broadcasting

Sangmoon Lee 
Sinjun Kang
Byungseok Min
HagBae Kim

Yonsei University, Korea


Benchmarking


A Look at Benchmarking the Dependability of SW & OS's
Andréas Johansson

Robert Lindström

Neeraj Suri

Chalmers University, Sweden

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:45 Keynote 4
13:45 - 14:00 Short Break
14:00 - 15:30

Panel 3

 

Is There a "Complete" Testing to Replace Program Proof?

  • Fevzi Belli, University of Paderborn, Germany
  • Jianong Cao, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Yvan Labiche, Carleton University, Canada
  • Jean-Claude Laprie, LAAS, Toulouse, France
  • Joachim Wegener, Daimler-Chrysler, Germany
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30

Student Poster Session

This session is for award presentation to Student Travel Grant Award winners,

and for the students to meet their industrial sponsors.