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The Tenth Nordic Workshop on Programming and Software Development Tools and Techniques

IT-University Copenhagen
Glentevej 67, 2400 Copenhagen NV
Denmark,
August 18-20, 2002.

The workshop is sponsored by the Department of Design and Use of IT (DUIT)

The tenth bi-annual Programming and Software Development Tools and Techniques (Formerly known as Nordic Workshop on Programming Development Environment Research) NWPER'2002 will be held in at the IT University Copenhagen from lunch (included in the program) on Sunday August 18 to Tuesday August 20.

Call for Papers (this page) Conference location & Accomodation Workshop program

Proceedings (pdf-zipped) Online proceedings Participants list

Intentions and Scope

The intention of NWPER is to bring together researchers and Ph.D. students in the fields of programming and software development tools and techniques. NWPER intends to be an open forum with ample time set aside for panels, subworkshops and/or discussions. At NWPER'2002 there will be one or more discussants appointed for each full paper in order to provoke discussion. The workshop intends to function as a platform for establishing co-operative research projects between the participants.

NWPER addresses research on programming and software development tools and techniques in a broad sense, including tools, methods and languages for programming and software development, as well as user interfaces for, architectures for and collaboration support within programming and software development environments.

The previous workshops took place in Lund (1983), Roskilde (1986), Linkøping (1989), Trondheim (1990), Tampere (1992), Lund (1994), Aalborg (1996), Ronneby (1998), and Lillehammar (2000). Most of the participants at earlier NWPER's were from the Nordic and Baltic countries, but everyone is welcome!

Workshop Format

The workshop will include the following activities:

Plenary and parallel paper sessions with original contributions (full papers and short papers) and discussions of each paper.
A plenary session with lab reports. Each participating research group will be asked to give a short presentation of their research activities.
Demonstrations of programming and software development environments.
Probably at least one panel session.
Maybe one or more highly interactive subworkshops to which presentations of relevant short papers may be allocated.

To facilitate discussion and make the workshop interactive, we will follow the structure the of the paper sessions from last time:

All the papers (full and short) will be made available electronically before the workshop. Everyone is expected to have read the papers in their "own" sessions and subworkshops before the workshop.
2-3 discussants will be appointed before the workshop for each full paper and 1 discussant for each short paper. The discussants will prepare and present a single slide answering key questions about each paper.
Paper presentations will be limited to 15 minutes strictly. Discussants will be limited to 2-3 minutes.
5-10 minutes will be set aside for general discussion of and questions about each paper.

Examples of key questions asked for each paper are "What is the main contribution of this paper?", "How will this contribution improve software development practice?", "What are the main problems with the contribution and/or the paper?", "Can the contribution be expected to scale to real-life problems?". The actual questions will maybe be tailored to fit with each session.

Paper Submissions

Submit full papers (at most 16 pages) or short papers (4-6 pages are recommended) by email to kasper@it.edu before April 26 as PDF. Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit papers about their ongoing or planned research. Indicate in the email whether you are a research student or not.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by three members of the programme committee (see below.)

We plan to publish as a Special Issue of the Nordic Journal of Computing of specially invited journal-length papers which elaborate on selected research results presented at the workshop. Similar Special Issues were published after the workshops in 1996, 1998, and 2000. We are currently investigating this option.

Demonstrations, Panels and Interactive Workshops

NWPER'2002 will include demonstrations and may include one or more panel sessions and subworkshops. In particular, the purpose of the subworkshops is to allow the participants to discuss topics of mutual interest in smaller groups. The workshops may also comprise presentations of relevant short papers.

All proposals go by email to kasper@it-c.dk.

Important Dates

April	26	2002	Papers due (full and short.)
April	26	2002	Panel and subworkshop proposals due (but earlier if possible!)
June	3	2002	Notification of acceptance or rejection.
July	1	2002	Aunouncement of preliminary program, including selected panels and subworkshops.
July	8	2002	Final formatted version of papers due.
July	18	2002	Papers available electronically and discussants allocated to each paper.
August	1	2002	Final registration due. Notice that the workshop is open, you need not have a paper accepted to register.
August	18-20	2002	Workshop.

Programme Committe

To be announced

Program and Organisation

Kasper Østerbye	Ulf Asklund	Dag I.K. Sjøberg
IT University Copenhagen	Department of Computer Science	Simula Research Laboratory
Glentevej 67	Lund Institute of Technology	University of Oslo
2400 Copenhagen NV	Box 118, S-221 00 Lund	P.O. Box 134, NO-1325 Lysaker
Denmark	Sweden	Norway
+45 3816 8886	+46 46 2229641	+47 67 82 83 00
kasper@it.edu	Ulf.Asklund@cs.lth.se	dagsj@simula.no

The NWPER'2002 sponsor is pending

http://www.it-c.dk/people/kasper/nwper2002
Last updated: May 1. 2002
kasper@it.edu

Call for Papers (this page)	Conference location & Accomodation	Workshop program
Proceedings (pdf-zipped)	Online proceedings	Participants list

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