ers regarding your feedback. I believe > I included all the info you both requested in the message below. > > Schedule > - We definitely prefer May 9 for our workshop. Two organziers cannot >  make it on May 3. > > URL > - http://www.acse2003.cs.uvic.ca > > Title > - We would like to keep the title as originally proposed (see below). >  Kevin Sullivan used POP (Package-Oriented Programming) in the past. >  However, POP (Presentation-Oriented Publishing) is usually used >  together with MOM (Message-Oriented Middleware) in the XML and >  SGML communities. So POP is not ideal. Moreover, we would like >  to think of this workshop as more encompaasing than just tools. >  So we would like to keep the title as is. > > Abstract > - We extended the abstract as you requested: 346 words (see below) > > Authors or organizers > - The bios are all less than 110 words. > - URL to homepage for each organizer included in bios. > - URL to photo for each organizer included in bios. > - If at all possible, we would like to keep the original list of >  authors. Surely there must be a way to have more than four >  authors. > - If it is absolutely necessary, you can reduce the authors to >  the following list, which minimizes the universities and >  maximizes the industry and government organizations. > - Robert Balzer, Teknowledge Corporation, USA; balzer@teknowledge.com >  Marin Litoiu, IBM Canada Ltd., Canada; marin@ca.ibm.com >  Hausi A. Muller, University of Victoria, Canada; hausi@cs.uvic.ca >  Dennis B. Smith, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA; dbs@sei.cmu.edu > > > If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. > Happy Holidays! > Hausi > ============================================================================================ > > 3rd International Workshop on Adoption-Centric Software Engineering (ACSE 2003) > > Robert Balzer, Teknowledge Corporation, USA; balzer@teknowledge.com > Jens Jahnke, University of Victoria, Canada; jens@cs.uvic.ca > Marin Litoiu, IBM Canada Ltd., Canada; marin@ca.ibm.com > Hausi A. Muller, University of Victoria, Canada; hausi@cs.uvic.ca > Dennis B. Smith, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA; dbs@sei.cmu.edu > Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada; mstorey@cs.uvic.ca > Scott R. Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA; stilley@cs.fit.edu > Ken Wong, University of Alberta, Canada; kenw@cs.ualberta.ca > > Abstract > Understanding adoption of software engineering tools and practices is critical for the > software and information technology sectors, which are continually challenged to increase > their productivity. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners > who investigate innovative solutions to software engineering adoption issues. The key objective > of this workshop is to explore approaches where software engineering tools and practices are > implemented as extension of Commercial Off The Shelf Software (COTS) products and middleware > technologies that work in conjunction with software engineering tools as well as mined components. > The workshop aims to advance the understanding and evaluation of adoption of software engineering > tools and practices. > > Research tools in software engineering often fail to be adopted and deployed in industry. Important > barriers to adopting these tools include their unfamiliarity with users, their lack of interface > maturity, their limited support for complex work products of software development, their poor > interoperability, and their limited support for the realities of system documentation engineering. > Developing and deploying innovative research tools and ideas as extensions to modern, commonly used > platforms may ease these barriers. Recently, tool builders and standards bodies have invented effective > standards and interfaces for tool extension and customization. These advances have opened new research > avenues on how innovations in software engineering tools can be made more easily adopted by inserting > them as extensions to commonly used office suites and middleware platforms. > > Users will more likely adopt tools that work in an environment they use daily and know intimately. > For example, common office suites are used daily to browse Web content, produce multimedia documents, > prepare presentations, and maintain budgets. These suites and other middleware-based environments > can be extended and leveraged to provide familiar cognitive support for software engineering tasks. > > Injecting more of the great software engineering research results into industrial practice has > potentially a significant impact on the production of quality software. Thus, this research > addresses two diverse markets: the software developers, who need to understand and document > existing software systems, but also the researchers, who want to inject and validate their > research tools in industrial development processes. > > Biographies of organizers > > Dr. Robert Balzer, Teknowledge Corporation, USA > Homepage: http://mr.teknowledge.com/daml/people/balzer/balzer-home.htm > Photo: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/acse-pictures/balzer.jpg > After several years at the Rand Corporation, Dr. Balzer left to help form the University of Southern > California's Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) where he served as Director of ISI's Software > Sciences Division and Professor of Computer Science at USC. In 2000 he joined Teknowledge Corporation > as their CTO and Director of their Distributed Systems Unit, which combines AI, DB, and SE techniques > to automate the software development process. His current research includes wrapping COTS products to > provide safe and secure execution environments, extend their functionality, and integrate them together; > instrumenting software architectures; and generating systems from domain specific specifications. > > Dr. Jens-Holger Jahnke, University of Victoria, Canada > Homepage: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~jens/ > Photo: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/acse-pictures/jahnke.jpg > Dr. Jahnke is an Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He holds a doctoral degree > (summa cum laude) from the University of Paderborn, Germany. He received the E. Denert Software Engineering > Award in 2000 and has been appointed an Industrial Research Fellow by the Advanced Systems Institute of > British Columbia. He is a Principal Investigator of the Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER). > His current research focuses on network-centric aspects of software engineering, in particular system mediation, > system reverse engineering, embedded systems, data reengineering, and connection-based programming. > > Dr. Marin Litoiu, IBM Canada Ltd., Canada > Homepage: http://www.cas.ibm.ca/toronto/people/members/marin.shtml > Photo: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/acse-pictures/litoiu.jpg > Dr. Litoiu is member of the Centre for Advanced Studies at the IBM Toronto Laboratory where he initiates and > manages joint research projects between IBM and Universities across the globe in the area of Application > Development Tools. Prior to joining IBM (1997), he was a faculty member with the Department of Computers > and Control Systems at the University Politechnica of Bucharest and held research visiting positions with > Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, (1994 and 1995) and Polytechnic University of Catalunia (Spain), and the > European Center for Parallelism (1995). Dr. Litoiu's other research interests include distributed objects; > high performance software design; performance modeling, performance evaluation and capacity planning for > distributed and real time systems. > > Dr. Hausi A. Muller, University of Victoria, Canada > Homepage: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/ > Photo: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/acse-pictures/muller.jpg > Dr. Muller is a Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is a Visiting Scientist with the Centre > for Advanced Studies at the IBM Toronto Laboratory and the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. > He is a principal investigator of CSER. Together with his research group he investigates technologies to > build adoption-centric software engineering tools and to migrate legacy software to object-oriented and > network-centric platforms. Dr. Muller's research interests include software engineering, software evolution, > reverse engineering, software reengineering, program understanding, software engineering tool evaluation, > and software architecture. He is GC for IWPC-2003. He was GC for ICSE-2001. > > Dr. Dennis B. Smith, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, USA > Homepage: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/reengineering/index.html > Photo: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/acse-pictures/smith.jpg > Dr. Smith is a senior member of the technical staff in the Product Line Systems Program at the Software > Engineering Institute. He is the technical lead in the effort for migrating legacy systems to product lines. > In this role he has integrated a number of techniques for modernizing legacy systems from both a technical and > business perspective. Dr. Smith has been the lead in a variety of engagements with external clients. He led a > widely publicized audit of the FAA's troubled ISSS system. This report produced a set of recommendations for > change, resulting in major changes to the development process, and the development of an eventual successful > follow-on system. Earlier, Dr. Smith was project leader for the CASE environments project. This project examined > the underlying issues of CASE integration, process support for environments and the adoption of technology. He is > also a co-editor of the IEEE and ISO recommended practice on CASE Adoption. He has been general chair of two > international conferences, IWPC'99 and STEP'99. > > Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada > Homepage: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~mstorey/ > Photo: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/acse-pictures/storey.jpg > Dr. Storey is an Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria. Her main research interests involve understanding > how people solve complex tasks, and designing technologies to facilitate navigating and understanding large information > spaces. With her students and she is working on a variety of projects within the areas of software engineering, > human-computer interaction, information visualization, social informatics and knowledge management. Dr. Storey is a > fellow of the ASI and as such collaborates with the IBM PDC on HCI issues for eCommerce and distributed learning > applications, and with ACD systems. She is a principal investigator for CSER developing and evaluating software > migration technology and a visiting researcher at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies. > > Dr. Scott R. Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA > Homepage: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~stilley/ > Photo: http://www.cs.uvic.ca/~hausi/acse-pictures/tilley.jpg > Scott Tilley is an Associate Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. He is also Principal of > S.R. Tilley & Associates, a Southern California-based information technology consulting boutique. He maintains an > appointment as Visiting Scientist with the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was PC > Chair for SIGDOC 2001, and is GC of the WSE 2003. > > Dr. Kenny Wong, University of Alberta, Canada > Homepage: