Promoted by: EDBT Foundation
EDBT Summer School is an established event promoted by EDBT Foundation, in
the alternate years with respect to EDBT Conference. The EDBT Summer School
97, which is the fourth of such events, focuses on methodologies and
technologies aimed at supporting the development of next-generation
information systems. The information revolution has caused two fundamental
changes which are having an impact on the very nature, and the fabric, of
industrialised societies. Firstly, individuals and organisations alike now
have access to 2-3 orders of magnitude more information than they ever had
before. Secondly, most of this information is in computerised form and can
be found in legacy information systems that were created independently, are
based on heterogeneous formats and are located at geographically
distributed sites. The next technological challenge, for those who are
making the information revolution happen, is to develop the means by which
individuals and organisations cope with all this newfound information at
their disposal, so that they can function effectively and meet their
respective objectives. To meet this challenge, we need to develop new types
of information systems for gathering, accessing and managing information to
ensure that it is available when needed, and remains current over time.
Moreover, these information systems will have to be cooperative,
distributed, flexible, and evolution-oriented.
The EDBT Summer School 97 intends to focus on methodologies and
technologies aimed at supporting the development of next-generation
information systems during this critical period.
Concerning methodologies, the course will present the state-of-the-art in
terms of tools and methods for building next generation information
systems. There is growing awareness that with respect to information
systems development, emphasis is shifting away from implementation towards
early phases of the lifecycle, such as requirement specification, analysis,
and design. These phases are supported by sophisticated methodologies and
tools that are attracting considerable research attention in fields such as
requirement engineering, conceptual modeling, formal specification, and
OOA&D methods. Moreover, emphasis is shifting away from methods which rely
on development-from scratch, towards method which reuse software, but also
software engineering expertise, including knowledge about the specific
application domain, expertise about requirements, architectures and
designs. Indeed, software reuse is generally acknowledged as one of the key
strategies in bringing down software costs, thereby facilitating the
development of information systems which will meet the information
revolution challenge.
The second half of the course will focus on emerging architectures and
technologies for the next-generation information systems. In particular,
the course will study advances in dedicated subsystems, such as database
managers and interface browsers, to be embedded in an information system;
also distributed services available through a network or the Internet,
offered by other cooperative systems, that can be invoked at run time. The
course will also review how information system components can be organised
according to an open, flexible architecture, compliant with emerging
standards, such as OMG/CORBA.
The course will end with an in-depth study of a large application involving
public administration. In particular, the course material will review the
problem area and the customer's requirements, the alternatives considered,
the selection criteria used and the final results of the project.
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* First Announcement *
EDBT Summer School '97
Hotel "La Palma", CAPRI
September 8-13, 1997
The program of the School is organised in two sections which together
consist of 7 teaching units (TU), plus two additional units. Each unit
takes half a day: three hours with an intermediate half-hour break, except
on Monday, with a shorter welcome unit and a longer introductory TU. The
standards timetable is:
> Morning session: 9,00 - 12,30
> Lunch break: 12,30 - 4,00 (free)
> Afternoon session: 4,00 - 7,30
> Course Dinner: 8,00 - 9,30
The two sections are:
"Methods and Tools" - which focuses on new approaches for building and
evolving Next-Generation Information Systems.
"Systems Technologies and Architectures" - which focuses on generic
technologies and surrounding technical issues that determine the
architectures, the operations, and the life-cycle of Next-Generation
Information Systems.
On Friday afternoon there will be a Poster Session dedicated to the
attendees wishing to present their work and discuss problems and results
with the other participants. Saturday morning there will be the final Panel
to summarise what has been presented during the course and to draw
impressions and, possibly, conclusions.
- Course Program -
SECTION I - Methods and Tools
Monday 8
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0. Introduction to EDBT Summer Course 97: Presentation of Teaching
Units and Speakers
J.Mylopoulos, M.Missikoff
1. Information Modeling: Notations and Techniques.
J.Mylopoulos (University of Toronto)
A.Borgida (Rutgers University)
A.Pirotte (University of Louvain, Belgium)
Tuesday 9
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2. Business Process Modeling and Object Technology: towards an integrated
framework.
M.Missikoff (IASI-CNR)
3. Dealing with Evolving Information Systems.
A.Cimitile (University Salerno)
SECTION II: Technologies and Architectures.
Wednesday 10
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4. Cooperative Information Systems:
The Next Generation and Migrating To Them.
M. Brodie (GTE)
>> Afternoon: boat trip
>> Evening: Social Dinner
Thursday 11
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5. Active Information Architectures and Systems.
L.Kerschberg (Mason University)
6. Web-based information systems.
P.Apers (University of Twente)
Friday 12
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7. The cooperative architecture of the unified network of the Italian
Public Administration.
C.Batini (AIPA)
8. Poster Session and free discussion
Saturday 13
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Panel session: The future of Information Systems
The course will end after the lunch break.
FEES
The registration includes: course hand-out, half-board at the Hotel La
Palma, from Sunday 7 to Saturday 13, the social dinner and the boat trip.
The amount is in Kilo-Italian-Liras (KIL, which approximately corresponds
to 1 DM, or 0.6 US$, or 3 FrF)
Registration fee: 2,400 KIL
Reduced registration fee: 2,100 KIL
The reduced registration applies to AICA members and to members of other
scientific and professional organisations that are sponsoring the School.
There will be a full time student reduced rate that will be communicated in
the next announcement.
The registration form and the forms of payment will be communicated in the
next announcement. For any information and for a preliminary registration,
please send a mail to:
edbt_ss@iasi.rm.cnr.it
COURSE ORGANISATION
Directors: John Mylopoulos, Michele Missikoff
Scientific Secretariat: Anna Formica, Roberto Pizzicannella
Organisation Secretariat: Mario Marabitti
Technical Support:
M.Angelotti, R.Cosmi, A.Maliziola, S.Medici
IASI-CNR, Viale Manzoni 30, 00185 Rome, Italy
Phone: (+396) 77161
Fax: (+396) 7716-461
email: edbt_ss@iasi.rm.cnr.it
SPONSORS:
CNR - National Committee for Engineering and Architecture
CNR - National Committee for Information Science and Technology
AICA - Italian National Computer Professional Association
Azienda Turismo e Soggiorno, Capri
CORINTO - Consortium for Research on Object Technology
RENOIR (*)
Telecom Italia (*)
(*) requested
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Michele Missikoff ph. (+396) 771.6422
IASI-CNR fax. (+396) 771.6461
Viale Manzoni 30, 00185 Rome, Italy e-mail: missikoff@iasi.rm.cnr.it
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