Index
SCHOOL OBJECTIVES
THE PROGRAM OF THE SCHOOL, Course Program
REGISTRATION
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, Contact Person
SPONSORS

SCHOOL OBJECTIVES

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. (Index)

THE PROGRAM OF THE SCHOOL

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. (Index)

- Course Program -

SECTION I - Methods and Tools

Monday 8

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

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

4. Cooperative Information Systems: The Next Generation and Migrating To Them. M. Brodie (GTE)

Afternoon: boat trip

Evening: Social Dinner

Thursday 11

5. Active Information Architectures and Systems. L.Kerschberg (Mason University)

6. Web-based information systems. P.Apers (University of Twente)

Friday 12

7. The cooperative architecture of the unified network of the Italian Public Administration. C.Batini (AIPA)

8. Poster Session and free discussion

Saturday 13

PANEL SESSION: The future of Information Systems

The course will end after the lunch break. (Index)

REGISTRATION (see FORM PAGE)

Registration fee: 2,000 KIL (code #01#), Reduced registration fee: 1,700 KIL (code #02#)

The amount is in Kilo-Italian-Liras (KIL, which approximately corresponds to 1 DM, or 0.6 US$, or 3 FrF)

The reduced registration applies to AICA members and to members of other scientific and professional organisations that are sponsoring the School.

Full time student reduced registration fee: 800 KIL (code #03#)
WARNING: the number of full time student registrations is limited.

For any information, please send a mail to: edbt_ss@iasi.rm.cnr.it (Index)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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 (Index)

Contact Person:

Anna Formica (IASI-CNR)
Phone: (+396) 7716428
email: formica@iasi.rm.cnr.it
email: edbt_ss@iasi.rm.cnr.it (Index)

SPONSORS:

CNR - National Committee for Engineering and Architecture
CNR - National Committee for Information Science and Technology
AICA - Italian National Computer Professional Association
CORINTO - Consortium for Research on Object Technology
RENOIR - European Network of Excellence on Requirement Engineering
TABOO - Italian Association for Technology and Applications O-O
IEEE Computer Society, TC Data Engineering
IFIP WG8.1 - Methologies and Evaluation of Information Systems
Azienda Turismo e Soggiorno, Capri

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