Complexity in ICT Systems and Projects - 18 April 2006

This all-day workshop will be the first Australian event to discuss the issue of complexity in information and communications technology [ICT] systems and projects. The program will comprise presentations and discussion forums to be led by leading researchers and practitioners who share a belief that something needs to be done to manage complexity and thereby assure:

• safety of life and property

• predictability of performance and degraded operations

• project cost and schedule achievement, and

• control of the inexorable growth in entropy and chaos

The workshop will be convened by the Systems Engineering Society of Australia [SESA] www.sesa.org.au, a technical society of Engineers Australia [EA], and supported by the Australian Computer Society [ACS], EA and The Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering.

The submission site is still open at www.aswec.org/ict_submission/openconf.php and your proposed presentations and papers are welcome at any time.

The preliminary program is as follows:

TIME	SESSION	TOPIC	SPEAKER	COMMENTS
0800
0830	REGISTRATION
0900	KEYNOTE 1 CHAIR: C SKINNER	WELCOME	P LOCKLEY	PRESIDENT SESA
0930		KEYNOTE	T STEVENSON
1000	BREAK
1030	PAPERS 1 CHAIR:	PAPER 1.1 #2: Controlling the inexorable growth in entropy and chaos for large systems	Prof Fergus O'BRIEN
1100		PAPER 1.2 #7: Terst automation through self-testing of component-based software	Fevzi BELLI - to be confirmed
1130		PAPER 1.3 #6: Management of Complexity inherent in large application development projects	Chris JAMES
1200		DISCUSSION
1230	LUNCH
1300
1330	KEYNOTE 2 CHAIR:	VISION		WARREN CENTRE
1400		KEYNOTE	P LINDSAY
1430	BREAK
1500	PAPERS 2	PAPER 2.1 #3: Component Architecture and Scale-free Networks	Lian WEN
1530		PAPER 2.2 #5: Software engineering - is there a better way?	Prof Geoff DROMEY
1600		PAPER 2.3 #4: A conjecture on Sorting Algorithms and the sace-free network property	Lian WEN
1630		DISCUSSION
1700	THE WAY AHEAD	SUMMATION	J PHILLIPS

For further information please contact Chris Skinner at [email protected] or by SMS or voicemail to +61-4-1499-0834