CALL FOR PAPERS

            3rd IEEE* High-Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium
                    November 13-14, 1998, Washington, DC
         (In conjunction with ICSM98, Metrics98, WESS98)

The objective of this Symposium is to provide an effective forum for original 
scientific and engineering advances in High-Assurance Systems design, 
development and deployment, and to foster communication among researchers
and practitioners working in all aspects of high assurance systems.  The
Symposium Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press
after the symposium meeting. A selected number of the accepted papers will
possibly be expanded and revised for publication in journals.


SCOPE: 
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The primary focus of the Symposium is on innovative research results in the
area of high-assurance (highly reliable, highly available, safety-critical,
real-time, and secure) systems.  Complex systems' engineering issues,
including hardware design, software engineering (both formal and informal
methods), performance evaluation, and system assessment are particular focus
of the Symposium.  Of special interests are the integrated system design
principles that consider multiple aspects of high assurance systems.  The
purpose of this Symposium is for public dissemination of such research results
from academia, industry, and government. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

o Techniques for achieving high dependability (reliability, availability,
  security, fault-tolerance, and real-time execution) in complex systems,
  including high-performance networks, parallel and distributed systems.
o System life-cycle, specification, design, implementation, verification,
  and validation techniques of high assurance systems.
o Evaluation methods and tools, including testing, reliability and
  availability assessment, performance evaluation, security assessment, etc.
  for high assurance systems.
o Application of formal methods on high assurance systems.
o Evolutionary design approaches for complex high-assurance systems.
o Software experiences for large high-assurance systems.
o CASE tools and other domain-specific tools for high-assurance systems.
o Cost model and assessment metrics for large software projects in the
  high-assurance domains.
o System management (scheduling, admission control, etc.) techniques for
  high assurance systems.
o Assurance monitoring systems.


SUBMISSION: 
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Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished papers to
the symposium.  The manuscript should contain no more than 20 pages (double
spaced).

1. Mail five copies of the manuscript to

         Prof. Jeffrey J.P. Tsai
         Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
         MC 154
         University of Illinois, Chicago
	 851 South Morgan Street
         Chicago, IL 60607 - 7053
         Email: tsai@eecs.uic.edu
         Phone: 312-996-9324
         Fax: 312-413-0024

   or e-mail the postscript file of the paper to tsai@eecs.uic.edu.

2. E-mail a cover page, inlcuding the title of the paper, the name, email
   address, and affiliation of each author, the contact author, and the
   area of the paper to

         tsai@eecs.uic.edu

   The paper will not be processed if the information is not received.

3. HASE 98 will also include few special tracks dedicated to focussed
   interest areas. For submission to these focussed tracks, contact the
   Track Chair(s) in the respective areas, listed below. Papers from these
   Focussed Tracks will be presented during HASE 98, and included in the
   pre-proceeding. These papers will also be published in the IEEE Proceedings
   subject to review acceptance by the Program Committee.

	Software Reliability Track
		Chair: Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University
                       Bojan Cukic, bojan@cs.uh.edu

	European Assurance Track
		Chair: Michel Ranyal, INRIA, France
                       raynal@irisa.fr

	Formal Methods in High-Assurance Track
		Chair(s): Victor Winter, Sandia
                          vlwinte@sandia.gov
			  Matts Heimdahl, University of Minnesota
                          heimdahl@cs.umn.edu

	High-Assurance in Intelligent Systems Track
                Chair: Tolety Siva Perraju, GTE Laboratories
                       tolety@gte.com

SCHEDULE:
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  Paper submission deadline:      5/15/98
  Panel submission deadline:      6/15/98
  Panel acceptance notification:  7/15/98
  Paper acceptance notification:  8/15/98
  Camera ready manuscript due:    9/15/98


MORE INFORMATION:
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  http://kel7.eecs.uic.edu/hase98/  


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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General Chair:          Raymond Paul, Department of Defense

Vice General Chair:     Victor Winter, Sandia Nat'l Lab, Dept. of Energy

Program Chair:          Jeffrey J.P. Tsai, University of Illinois, Chicago

Program Co-Chairs:      Thomas Keefe, Pennsylvania State University
			David Stewart, University of Maryland
                        Ann Tai, SoHar Inc.

Program Committee:

        Leon Alkalai, California Institute of Technology
        Kamel Barkaoui, CNAM, France
        Andrea Bondavalli, CNUCE-CNR, Italy
        IngRay Chen, Virginia Tech.
        Mario Dal Cin, University Erlangen, Germany
        Bojan Cukic, West Virginia Univ.
	Joanne B. Dugan, Univ. of Virginia
        Xudong He, North Dakota State Univ.,
	Herbert Hecht, SoHaR Incorporated
        Mats Heimdahl, Univ. of Minnesota
        Carol Hoover, Carneige Mellon Univ.
        Farnam Jahanian, Univ. of Michigan
        Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Florida Atlantic Univ.
        Kane Kim, Univ. of California, Irvine
        Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory
        Kinji Mori, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
        Sukumaran Nair, Southern Methodist Univ.
        Edgar Nett, GMD, Germany
        William H. Sanders, Univ. of Illinois
        Richard D. Schlichting, Univ. of Arizona
	Vic Thomas, Honeywell Technology Center
	Wei-Tek Tsai, Univ. of Minnesota
        Hongji Yang, De Montfort University, United Kingdom
	I-Ling Yen, Univ. of Texas at Dallas


Steering Committee:     C.V. Ramamoorthy, UC Berkeley (Chair)
                        Farokh Bastani, University of Texas at Dallas
                        Sourav Bhattacharya, Arizona State Univ.
                        Mohamed Fayad, University of Nevada
                        Wei-Tek Tsai, University of Minnesota

Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society