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Session 1 (Wednesday, Nov. 3rd, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm)
 
Software Testing

xSUDS-SDL: A Tool For Diagnosis and Understanding Software Specifications. J. Jenny Li, Saul London, Plinio Vilela, and J. Robert Horgan, Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). [99102]

Software Testing and the UML. Clay Williams, Center for Software Engineering, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. [99119]

Experiment Management for the Xception Fault Injection Technology. Telmo Menezes, Critical Software, Lda., and Diamantino Costa, Dept of Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal. [99125]

A Stopping Rule for Time-Domain Software Testing. Mehmet Sahinoglu, Troy State University, Alabama and Abdulsattar Al-Khalidi, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey. [99113]

Testing and the Cost of Field Failures. Simeon Ntafos, University of Texas at Dallas, Texas. [99122]

Metrics & Analysis

Issues in Validating Object-Oriented Metrics for Early Risk Prediction, Saida Benlarbi, Cistel Technology, Ontario, Canada; Khaled El Emam, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada; and Nishith Goel, Cistel Technology, Ontario Canada. [99111]

Using Process Metrics to Enhance Software Fault Prediction Models. Greg Kaszycki, Nortel Networks. [99106]

Constructive Quality Modeling for Defect Density Prediction: COQUALMO. Sunita Chulani, IBM Research, Center for Software Engineering, Almaden, California. [99120]

Statistical Analysis of Data for Modeling the Behavior of Indeterministic Software. Ghodrat Moghadampour, Department of Information Technology and Production Economics, University of Vaasa, Finland. [99108]

Distributed Systems

Improving the Efficiency of Replication for Highly Reliable Systems. Masumi Toyoshima, Adel Cherif and Takuya Katayama, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan. [99112]

A Design Summary of the Oasis+ Distributed Shared Memory System. Karl Doering, Eric Will, Eric Parsons, Brett D. Fleisch, Dept. of CompSci and Eng., University of California, Riverside, CA. Weiping Zhu, Queensland University, Australia. [99123]

Session 2 (Thursday, Nov. 4th, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm)
 
Concepts & Theory

The Poverty of Reliability Growth Models. Timm Grams, University of Applied Sciences, Germany. [99103]

The Definition of 'Software Quality': A Practical Approach. Roland Petrasch. [99124]

Foundational Theory of Software Component Reliability. Dick Hamlet, Portland State University, Oregon, and Dave Mason and Denise Woit, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Canada. [99115]

Software Reliability Models for Use During Proposal and Early Design Stages. Martin L. Shooman, Hunter College, CUNY, New York. [99127]

Selecting Optimal COTS Products Considering Cost and Failure Rate , Ho-Won Jung, Korea University, Seoul, Korea and Chang-Shin Chung, ETRI, Daejeon, Seoul, Korea. [99109]

Reliability Assessment Through Certification Activities. A. Kornecki, S. Khajenoori, W. Thabet, H. Li, J. Chapman, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida. [99116]

On the Reliable Computation of Certain Boolean Functions by Noisy Decision Trees. A. Pedrotti, Universita di Trento, Italy. [99121]

Dependability & Safety

Dependability of Relational Safety-Critical Programs. Farokh B. Bastani and I-Ling Yen, University of Texas at Dallas, Texas and Victor L. Wintor, Sandia National Labs. [99126]

Designing Reliable Software Using DAF. Rakesh Agarwal, Bhaskar Ghosh and Ajit Sarangi, Infosys Technologies Ltd., India. [99104]

Spacecraft Reliability and Spatial Navigation. Cyrus F. Nourani, METAAI, Inc., California. [99114]

Progressive Software Reliability Modeling. Samuel Keene, Reliability Society, Boulder, Colorado. [99118]

Verifying Modern Processors in Integrated Modular Avionics Systems, Louis P. Bolduc, AlliedSignal Aerospace, Columbia, MD. [99110]