Sponsored by:
U.S. Army Research Office (ARO)

 

National Science Foundation (NSF)

 

U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR)

 

U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)

 

Organized by:
Department of CS, University of Illinois at Chicago

The Monterey Workshop Series

Workshop on Software Engineering for Embedded Systems:
From Requirements to Implementation

Chicago, Illinois
September 24-26, 2003

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A Position Paper from the Steering Committee.

 

Theme

The theme for this workshop is "Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: From Requirements to Implementation.” The workshop will be the 10th in a series of workshops, initiated in 1993 and devoted to exploring the critical problems associated with cost-effective development of high-quality software systems. The previous workshops were focused on the following themes: "Real-Time and Concurrent Systems," "Software Merging and Slicing," "Software Evolution," "Software Architecture," "Requirements Targeting Software," "Engineering Automation for Computer Based Systems," "Modeling Software System Structures in a Fastly Moving Scenario," "Engineering Automation for Software Intensive System Integration," and "Radical Innovations of Software and Systems Engineering in the Future." These workshops have a rich history of bringing together both American and European scientists that share a common interest in seeing that software development research serves as a catalyst for practical advances in next-generation software intensive systems.

 

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working on all aspects of design, implementation, and evaluation of software for embedded systems to exchange ideas on creating fully integrated software engineering solutions, from requirements capture to implementation. The goal is two-fold: first, to assess the state-of-the-research in current “point solution” specific problems in this domain; and second, to define a roadmap for future research aimed at bridging the gaps between current tools and methodologies and attempting to articulate a complete set of technology requirements. The first objective will be address through presentations by leaders in a variety of relevant areas. The second objective will be addressed through presentations of position papers and extensive open discussion periods.

 

Topics

Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

 

Exploiting domain-information for scalable design analysis

Requirements capture (from informal to formal)

Model-based design

Refinement checking of design-implementation correspondence

Special features of embedded systems

Synthesis of (partial) implementations from designs/specifications

Verification and validation

Technology for producing requirements and design documentation

Technology for semi-automated translation of legacy/domain languages to design/analysis platform needs

Engineering user interfaces

 

A sample of focus-questions for the workshop are the following:

 

How can embedded systems models be exploited throughout the software development process?

How can view-specific models of embedded systems be integrated?

How can requirements be carried effectively through the entire design life cycle?

How can engineering judgments and insight be married with formal methods to solve practical large-scale problems?

How can model-based methods work for the implementation since there's a tendency to change code, not models, when systems are being debugged?


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