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Appendices for IDI, NTNU per 10 Nov. 2001

Additional documentation regarding the NFR self-evaluation of IDI, 2001:More details are provided regarding each research group as well as CVs, publication lists, up to 5 selected publications, and a personal statement from each of our faculty members.

Remark on Appendices: Ph.D. students with a project name in parentheses are externally supported, otherwise IDI/NTNU supported. The total number of Ph.D. students may be larger than what is stated on the fact sheet since not all Ph.D. students have a research fellowship; i.e. they are part-time students or their fellowships have expired.

Table of contents

Appendix 1: Algorithm and Visualization Group (AV)...............................................3AV-1 Professor Arne Halaas..........................................................................................4AV-2 Associate Professor Anne Cathrine Elster, Ph.D..................................................7AV-3 Assistant Professor Torbjørn Hallgren................................................................15AV-4 Adjunct Professor Dr. Techn. Bjørn Olstad.........................................................19AV-5 Adjunct Associate Professor Dr.Scient. Bjørn M. Sæther..................................26

Appendix 2: Computer Architecture and Design Group (DM).................................30DM-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Lasse Natvig..........................................................................32DM-2 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Pauline C. Haddow...............................................36DM-3 Professor Emeritus Olav Landsverk..................................................................38DM-4 Assistant Professor Steinar Line........................................................................38

Appendix 3: Database Systems Group (DB).............................................................40DB-1 Professor Kjell Bratbergsengen..........................................................................44DB-2 Professor Dr.Ing. Svein Erik Bratsberg...............................................................50DB-3 Professor Dr.Ing. Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd............................................................53DB-4 Professor Dr.Techn. Mads Nygård.....................................................................56DB-5 Adjunct Professor Peter H. Hughes....................................................................63DB-6 Associate Professor Roger Midtstraum..............................................................67DB-7 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Kjetil Nørvåg..........................................................71DB-8 Post.Doc. Herindrasana Ramampiaro................................................................76

Appendix 4: Graphics and Image Processing Group (BB)......................................79BB-1 Professor Richard E. Blake, Ph.D.......................................................................80BB-2 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Jørn Hokland..........................................................84BB-3 Adjunct Associate Professor Lars Aurdal, Ph.D................................................88

Appendix 5: Information Systems group (IS)...........................................................90IS-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Arne Sølvberg..........................................................................91IS-2 Associate Professor Dr. Ing. Guttorm Sindre.......................................................96IS-3 Adjunct Professor Dr.Ing. Jon Atle Gulla............................................................100IS-4 Adjunct Professor Dr.Ing. John Krogstie............................................................103IS-5 Adjunct Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Harald Rønneberg....................................107

Appendix 6: Knowledge Systems Group (KS)........................................................108KS-1 Professor Jan Komorowski, Ph.D.....................................................................109KS-2 Professor Mihhail Matskin, Ph.D.......................................................................119KS-3 Associate Professor Tore Amble......................................................................126KS-4 Adjunct Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Torulf Mollestad......................................128

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Appendix 7: Software Engineering Group (SU)......................................................130SU-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Reidar Conradi.....................................................................132SU-2 Professor Dr.Ing. Tor Stålhane.........................................................................146SU-3 Associate Professor Maria Letizia Jaccheri, Ph.D............................................151SU-4 Associate Professor Monica Divitini, Ph.D.......................................................155SU-5 Post.Doc. Dr.Ing. Alf Inge Wang......................................................................161SU-6 Post.Doc Marco Torchiano, Ph.D.....................................................................165

Appendix 8: HCI and Systems Development Group (SA)......................................178SA-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Torbjørn Skramstad..............................................................179SA-2 Professor Eric Monteiro, Ph.D..........................................................................183SA-3 Accociate Professor Dag Svanæs, Ph.D..........................................................188SA-4 Assistant Professor Terje Rydland...................................................................192

Appendix 9: Artificial Intelligence and Learning Group (AIL)...............................194AIL-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Agnar Aamodt......................................................................196AIL-2 Professor Keith Downing, Ph.D........................................................................204AIL-3 Assistant Professor Arvid Holme......................................................................209AIL-4 Assistant Professor Asbjørn Thomassen.........................................................210AIL-5 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Ketil Bø................................................................212AIL-6 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Øystein Nytrø......................................................219AIL-7 Adjunct Associate Professor Dr.Scient. Pinar Öztürk......................................221AIL-8 Assistant Professor Arvid Staupe.....................................................................224

Appendix 10: Information Management Group (IF)................................................229IF-1 Professor Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg...................................................................230


Appendix 1: Algorithm and Visualization Group (AV)

The AV group has the following faculty members: AV-1 Arne Halaas, professor AV-2 Anne Christine Elster, PhD, associate professor AV-3 Torbjørn Hallgren, assistant professor AV-4 Bjørn Olstad, dr.techn., adjunct professor AV-5 Bjørn M. Sæther, dr.scient., adjunct associate professor

The group has four PhD students: Magnus Lie Hetland, Tor-Kristian Jenssen, Chandini W. Merkesvik (on leave), and Børge Svingen, plus Ph.D.-track student Jøran Barkhald Sandberg (“researcher school”).

In 1996-2000 the group has produced three dr.ing. (Ph.D.) candidates: - Erik Normann Steen: “Analysis and Visualization of Multi-Dimensional Medical Images”,

1996, advisor: B. Olstad.- Øystein Grøvlen: “Concurrent Transaction and Query Processing – A Compensation-Based

Approach”, 1998, advisor: A. Halaas.- Sevald Berg: “Quantitative Techniques for Analysis and Visualization of Three-

dimensional Ultrasound Data”, 1999, advisor: B. Olstad.

The group is involved in teaching the follwing courses:

SIF8010 Algortihms and Datastructures (CS7) (Halaas)SIF8012 Algortithm Construction, Advanced Course (Halaas)SIF8014 Procedure Oriented Programming (Hallgren)SIF8039 Graphics, Image Processing and HCI (Hallgren: graphics part)SIF8040 Human Computer Interaction and Graphics (Hallgren: graphics part)SIF8052 Visualization (Hallgren)SIF8090 Algorithm Construction and Visualization, Specialization (all)SIF80AA Multimedia Searches on the Internet (Halaas)SIF80AB Advanced Visualization (Hallgren)SIF80BI Parallel Environments and Scientific Computing (Elster)DIF8903 Higly Concurrent Algorithms level (Halaas)DIF8916 Topics in Computer and Information Science (Elster/non-group members)


AV-1 Professor Arne Halaas

AV-1 CV for Arne HalaasPersonal data:

Cand. Real., Professor Arne Halaas(Part time:) Chief Technology Supervisor, FAST Search & Transfer ASA.Born: 20.09.43 in Trondheim.Address: Overlege Bratts v. 60, 7026 Trondheim, NorwayEmail: Arne [email protected]: +47 73593442 (NTNU)

Degrees:Cand. Real., Mathematics and Numerical Methods, Univ. of Oslo, 1969.

Professional career:1967-69: Programmer, Norwegian Computing Centre, Oslo. M.Sc. studies. 1970-72: Consultant (programming), Byggedata A.S., Oslo

1970-72: Part time lecturer Univ. of Oslo (Math. Programming, Optimization.)1972-79: University lecturer, NTH1980-81: Visiting ass. professor, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

1981-83: Head of dept., IDB, NTH 1982-83 Associate professor NTH1984 Full professor NTH (later NTNU)1987-90: Director, R&D Company Turbit AS., Trondheim1993-96: Head of dept., IDT, NTNU

1994-95: Visiting Professor at LIRMM, Montpellier, France 1997 : Chief Technology Supervisor, part time, Fast Search & Transfer Inc.

Awards: 1992: "From Research to Industrialization" (Norway)1993: "Excellent Research 1993", awarded annually to one person, employed by either NTNU or SINTEF. (Presented by SINTEF / Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA)

International assignments, 1991 -2001:

Prog. chair IFIPs VLSI'91, Member IFIPs WG10.5 on VLSI Systems, Member ed. board INTEGRATION VLSI Journal. Member of PhD-Committee in Lund, april'93. Member of PhD-Committee in Denmark, DTH, june'94. Evaluator of the Danish CoDesign Programme, Danish Research Council, 1995.

Current research:

Massively parallel arcitectures for fuzzy Information Retrieval and Machine Learning, primarily for population studies in genetic databases. The project involves a group of researchers in Fast Search & Transfer Inc., international subcontractors and, quite recently, researchers from the biotechnology community.

The status of the project is currently granted patents, no publications / publicity, no products. See also www.fastsearch.com and www.alltheweb.com .

Teaching: 7-8 subjects over the years, mainly courses on algorithms, since 1972 almost annually for large classes (now 500+). Have superviced 6 dr.ing.- candidates and have currently 4 candidates on their way. Two of those are


http://www.alltheweb.com/

http://www.fastsearch.com/

expected to finish in the beginning of 2002. Since 1982 I have superviced about 70 MSc. Diplomas. Now, I have 5 project students to finish their MSc. in May/June 2002.

AV-1 Publications for Arne Halaas

About 55, including text-books, different Journals as BIT, IEEE Comm., INTEGRATION the VLSI Journal (before 1991). During 1991-93 articles (written by journalists etc.) about the MS160 Non-numeric Coprocessors appeared in New Scientist and a high number of other Journals and Magazines in many different countries. After having initiated a close contact with industry in 1987 only a few less important results have until now been published. See Personal Statement.

1995: "Image filtering techniques and VLSI architectures for efficient data extraction in shell rendering", IEEE Conference on Image Processing, October ´95, Bjørn Olstad, Erik Steen, Arne Halaas.

1997 Building a Virtual Invasive Patient on a Budget”, Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 6, San Diego, California Jan. 1997, T. Hovden, R. Lillesveen, S. Forfang and A. Halaas

Invited talks, restricted to academia:

1998: “Opportunities and Constraints of Information Retrieval.” Digital Library and Electronic Publishing, NATO RTO/TIC, Tr. h., May 1998.2001: “How can Fast Search & Transfer Inc. compete in a demanding global market?”, at the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, Feb. 2001.1993-1995: Talks on VLSI-implemented search engines at DTU Denmark, Univ. in Lund, Univ. in Darmstadt, Univ. in Montpellier.

Patents

(parts in, see e.g. “inventor” in www.Delphion.com):

Non-numeric coprocessor (withdrawn): EP00664910A1 (08/02/1995), NO00951401A (06/15/1995), NO00951401A0 (04/10/1995), WO09409443A1 (04/28/1994).

Digital processing device: NO00984746A0, (10/09/1998), NO00985315A0 (11/13/1998), NO00994895A0 (10/08/1999), NO00994895A (04/10/2000), WO00022545A2 (04/20/2000), NO00985315A (05/15/2000), WO00022545A3 (08/03/2000).

A processing circuit and a search processor circuit: WO00029981A3 (08/10/2000), WO00029981A2 (05/25/2000)

A search engine with two-dimensional linearly scalable parallell architecture: WO00068834A1 (11/16/2000), NO20002419A0 (05/10/2000), NO20002419A (11/13/2000

AV-1 Selected papers for Arne Halaas -- Not provided

AV-1 Personal statement by Arne Halaas

Here, I take “personally” literally, trying to avoid repeating myself:The year 1987 was a turning point in my career. I was at this time encouraged to bring ideas to products, and saw private investors as the only opportunity. Ten years later (1997), after having been through a non-successful productification around our first Search Engine (on a board) anno 1992, Fast Search & Transfer ASA was established with new partners. Three of my Ph.D.-students left NTNU in 1997 with the ambition to build the best search engine(s) available. Their plans to finish their Ph.D.’s are still alive.


Personally, I admit that the price paid for the choices I have made over the past 10-15 years was a non-glamorous, according to common standards, development of my academic career. This, on the other side, is partly compensated by the fact that I have had a role in one of the most promising Internet based “Information Retrieval” companies world wide. To make this role clear, admittedly, it should be mentioned that www.alltheweb.com is not based on my ideas. , I am still working on a long term, and extremely advanced, project that has recently resulted in a prototype that has been successfully demonstrated. See Patents and Current Research.


http://www.alltheweb.com/

AV-2 Associate Professor Anne Cathrine Elster, Ph.D.

AV-2 CV for Anne C. Elster

See http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~elster for additional details.

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

High-Performance Scientific Computing and Algorithms for Telecommunication.

EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, August 1994;

Dissertation Title: Parallelization Issues and Particle-in-Cell Codes ; Minor: Computer Science; Abstract: http://www.englib.cornell.edu/thesesabstracts/August94/elster.html

M.S. in Electrical Engin., Cornell Univ, Ithaca, New York, USA, August 1988. Thesis Title: Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Matrix Operations.

B.Sc. in Computer Systems Engineering, cum laude, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, May 1985.

Comp. Sci./Pre-Business studies, Univ. of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA, 1981-82

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Norwegian University if Science and Technology (NTNU) -- Associate Professor Dept. of Computer and Information Science (January 2001 – present)

Acenor Inc. -- Founder and President (1999 - present) Advanced computing training courses and consulting. Recent course: US Air Force's Research Lab at WPAFB

Univ. of Texas at Austin -- Adjunct Assist. Prof. (June - Dec. 2000, Summer 2001) Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering

- Supervising a senior honors project [EE 484H] + independent research (S 2001) - Taught Operating Systems (Fall 2000) [ EE 360P] and

- Upper division data structures course (CS 7) in C++ (Summer 2000) [ EE 360C]

Univ. of Texas at Austin -- Research Associate/ Lecturer (Apr.1997 – Aug. 1999)Center for Numerical Analysis/ Texas Inst. for Computational and Applied Math.

Indep. research on parallel scientific computing and alg. for signal processing. UT Computer Science Department:

o Taught CS 2 (Summer 1997). [ CS 315] ando CS 7 (Summer 1998). [ CS 328] both in C++.

Schlumberger Austin Technology Center - Project/Research Engineer (1994-1997)Schlumberger APC-Research, Austin, TX, End-to-End Simulation Dept. (1996-1997).

Austin Systems Center, Austin, TX, Common Systems and Tools Dept. (1994-1996).

Xerox Corporation - Technical Summer Intern (Summers 1991 and 1992) Design Research Institute at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (organized with Xerox's Webster Research Center).

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center - Summer Research Intern (Summer 1987)Yorktown Heights, NY. Worked with J.W. Cooley, R. Agarwal and F. Gustavsson.


http://www.englib.cornell.edu/thesesabstracts/August94/elster.html

http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~elster

Chr. Michelsen Institute - Computer Research Intern (Summer 1986) Division of Computer Science, Bergen, Norway. Reasearch on the Intel Hypercube.

Norsk Hydro A/S - Computer Technician Porsgrunn, Norway. Summer 1985.

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS: Senior Member of IEEE (Fall 2000) Student Conference Award and Student Paper Competition Award for paper entitled "Basic Matrix

Subprograms for Distributed Memory Systems," DMCC5, April 1990;

Honorable Mention for paper entitled "Fast Bit-Reversal Algorithms", Conf. on Vector and Parallel Computing, June 1988;

Fellowships: Cornell University, Spring 1987; Royal Norwegian Council for Industrial and Scientific Research, Fall 1986;

Stipend for Outstanding Researchers, Heftyes' Memorial Fund, 1986. Member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies.

SELECTED OTHER GRANTS: NTNU/IDI Travel and Equipment grants (2001) CRA-W Travel grant for attending CRA-W Workshop in Atlanta, April 30-May 1, 1999. IBM SUR (Shared University Resources) grant . Co-PI with Drs. David M. Young and David R.

Kincaid on equipment grant for several high-end IBM RS6000 workstations, awarded Nov. 1998. Travel grants from MPI-NSF/ARPA and the Cornell Theory Center to attend the MPI Forum

meetings in Dallas, TX, 1993-94 (See Professional Activities); Scholarship grant to attend the Grace Hopper Conference, June 9-11, 1994.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Board Member (vara) of NOTUR (Norwegian national high performance computational program),

starting fall 2001. Committee Member of Computational Science & Engineering project at NTNU , Jan 2001-present. Board Member of SIMS (Scandinavian Simulation Society) , 2000-present. Originator & Maintainer of "Tenure- and Tenure-track Women in EE-CS" Database/Webpage. Session Chair, SIMS 2001, Oct 8-9, 2001, Porgrunn, Norway Chair/Founder, NTNU CSGSC 2001 (Comp. Sci. Graduate Student Conference)

Orginaized first conference of this type at NTNU. See details at http://www.csgsc.org Co-organizer The Fourth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific

Computation, held at the University of Texas at Austin, Oct. 18-20, 1998. Committee Member, the Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum, Fall 1992-1997. Panel Judge, SuperQuest 1994, a national (US) competition for high school students and their teacher-

coaches to to study at one of the participating US supercomputing facilities. Referee of technical articles for several journals and conferences. Session Chair, The Fourth Conference on Hypercubes, Concurrent Computers, and Applications, March

6-8, 1989, Monterey, CA. Member of the Graduate Student Advisory Committee of the Graduate School, 1987. President of IEEE Computer Society Chapter, Univ. of Massachusetts, 1984-85. Rewiewer for several international conferences and journals including:

o TheInternational Journal of HPCA, o Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering (CNME),o Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), o SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing (SISSC) ando Distributed Computing by Springer Verlag

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

ACM , IEEE , IEEE Computer Society , IEEE Signal Processing Society, NORSIG, SIAM, and SIMS (incl. NFA) as well as AAAS , AAUW , and AGU (American Geophysical Union, affiliated with IOP).


AV-2 Publication list for Anne C. Elster

Note: Most of this work was done elsewhere since Dr. Elster joined NTNU in Jan. 2001.

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

(1) Strandh, Robert (Univ. of Bordeaux) and Elster, Anne C., "Fast Recursive Bit Reversal: Shuffling N Elements in Less Than 5N Cycles with No Special Hardware", in review.

a. This work is an extension of the linear bit-reversal algorithm by Elster (developed and presented in 1987, published at ICASSP 1989) and which has since Alan Karp’s review article entitled “Bit Reveral on Uniprocessors”, in SIAM Review, March 1996 been known as “Elster’s Algorithm” since it at that point was still the fastest known algorithm.

(2) Kincaid, David R. and Elster. A.C. "Iterative Methods Symposium Honors Dr. David M. Young, Jr.", IEEE Computational Science & Engineering, pp 12-15, Dec. 1998.

EDITED BOOK:

(3) Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation II, Kincaid, D.R. and Elster, A.C. co-editors. Book published August 1999 through IMACS based on some of the papers presented at the Fourth IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation, Austin, Texas, Oct. 1998. This book is part of the IMACS Series in Computational and Applied Mathematics, Volume 5.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

(4) Elster, A.C. "Software Test-bed for Large Parallel Solvers ", in book Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation II, IMACS, 1999. Paper was orginally presented at Fourth IMACS International Symposium, Oct. 18-20, 1998, The Univ. of Texas at Austin. Abstract at:

http://king.ticam.utexas.edu/dmy98/abstracts.html

(5) Cavallaro, Joseph R. (Rice University), and Elster, A.C., "A CORDIC Processor Array for the SVD of a Complex Matrix", book chapter in SVD and Signal Processing, II: Algorithms, Analysis and Applications, Ed. R. J. Vaccaro, Elsevier, 1991, pp 227-239. [Revision of paper with the title published in Proc. of the 2nd Intern'l Workshop on SVD and Signal Processing, pp 66-73, Kingston, RI, June 25-27, 1990.]

REFEREED CONFERENCE ARTICLES:

(6) Sack,P. and Elster, A.C., "Fast MPI Broadcasts Through Reliable Multicasting", submitted Oct. 2001 for review at CAC’02/IPPDS.

(7) Elster, A.C and Clark, L.D., "Optimized FFTs for ADSL", Proceeding of the NORSIG 2001 Symposium Oct. 18-19, Trondheim, Norway.

(8) Elster, A.C. and Presberg, David L. "Setting Standards For Parallel Computing: The High Performance Fortran and Message Passing Interface Efforts", Theory Center SMART NODE Newsletter, May, 1993, Vol.5, No. 3, Cornell University.

(9) Cavallaro, Joseph R. (Rice University), and Elster, A.C., "A CORDIC Processor Array for the SVD of a Complex Matrix" in Proc. of the 2nd Intern'l Workshop on SVD and Signal Processing, pp 66-73, Kingston, RI, June 25-27, 1990. See also book chapter above.

DISSERTATION:


(10) Elster, A.C., "Parallelization Issues and Particle-in-Cell Codes", Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, August 1994. Abstract at: http://www.englib.cornell.edu/thesesabstracts/August94/elster.html

TECHNICAL REPORTS AND SELECTED OTHER WRITTEN PUBLICATIONS:

(11) Strandh, Robert and Elster, A.C., "A Very Efficient Linear-time, Logarithmic-space Bit Reversal Algorithm", Center for Numerical Analysis, TR no. CNA-287, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1998. (A shorter version of this report is being submitted as a reviewed journal publication.)

(12) .Elster, A.C., "Using ITPACK 2C on the UT Austin Math Sun Machines", Nov. 1998, CNA, Univ. of Texas at Austin. Included as course notes for Dr. David M. Young's graduate class on Diff. Eqn. and to be included on the ITPACK. Web pages at http://rene.ma.utexas.edu/CNA/ITPACK/

(13) Elster, A.C., On-line course notes for CS 328, a level CS7 class on Advanced Data Types in C++ taught at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, Summer 1998: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/user/elster/cs328-su98

(14) Elster, A.C., On-line course notes for CS 315, a level CS2 class on Data Structures and C++ taught at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, Summer 1997: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/user/elster/cs315.html

(15) Elster, A.C., "User's Guide -- FMM Code", documentation on how to use the Fast Multipole Method code used at TICAM, The Univ. of Texas at Austin, May 16, 1997.

(16) Elster, A.C., Design notes and and User's guide for the payphone-network interactions simulator we developed using DES (Discrete Event Simiulation). Internal documents, Schlumberger Austin Research Center, 1996.

(17) Elster, A.C., SWIFT documentation describing design, configuration and use of the Schlumberger World-wide Issue Tracking system, a distributed database based on SYBASE/SCOPUS. Internal documents, Schlumberger APC, 1995 and 1996.

(18) Elster, A.C., SMS documentation describing the structure of SMS, the Schlumberger Software configuration Management System. Internal documents, Schlumberger APC, Fall 1994.

(19) Elster, A.C., "MPI_LOAD_INFO ", Proposal presented to the MPI Committee in Dallas, Texas, May 12, 1993. This proposal encouraged adding dynamic process features to MPI. Although this proposal did not make it into the MPI-1 standard, it was one of the motivators for process control in MPI-2.

(20) Elster, A.C. and Ramesh, Palghat S. (XEROX, DRI) "Simulation of Charge Transport Using Parallel BLAS on the Intel Hypercube", Xerox Internal Report X9200084, Webster Research Center, NY, April 1992.

SELECTED OTHER PRESENTATIONS AND ABSTRACTS:

(21) Elster, A.C. and Clark, L.D., "Optimizing ADSL/VDSL Algorithms" SIAM Annual Meeting in San Diego, July 2001

(22) Elster, A.C. "Developing and Testing New Parallel Iterative Methods Using PETSc", Tenth SIAM Conference and Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, March 12-14, 2001, Portsmouth, Va. http://www.siam.org/confpart/showmin.cfm?SESSIONCODE=231

(23) Elster, A.C: "Research Techniques -- a Personal Perspective", Doctoral seminar, Dept. of Computer & Info Science, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, March 1, 2001. http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~ekaterip/dif8916/info-emner.html

(24) Elster, A.C. Informal talk on my research with R&D group members, Fast Search and Transfer ASA, Porsgrunn, Norway, Feb 9, 2001.



(25) Strandh, R. and Elster, A.C., "A Very Fast Recursive Bit-Reversal Algorithm", First SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Washington, D.C., Sep 21-24, 2000.

http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse00/cp12.htm>

(26) Elster, A.C. and Liang, C., "Developing and Testing Linear Solvers Using PETSc", First SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Washington, D.C., Sep 21-24.

http://www.siam.org/meetings/cse00/cp25.htm

(27) Elster, A.C., "Software Environment for Analyzing and Testing Large Parallel Scientific Codes", SciTools'98, Oslo, Norway, Sept 14-16, 1998. REVIEWED abstract at:

http://www.oslo.sintef.no/SciTools98/WebAbstracts/elster-abs.html

(28) Elster, A.C., "Parallel Infrastructures for Particle-in-Cell Codes". Parallel Infrastructures for Applications, workshop at the Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, April 24, 1996.

Schedule at: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/rvdg/workshop.sched2.html

(29) Elster, A.C., "Parallelization Issues and Particle Simulation Codes", and "SWIFT Schlumberger World-wide Issue Filing & Tracking System". In-house seminar, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Center, Cambridge, England, Feb. 1, 1995.

(30) Elster, A.C., Otani, Niels (Cornell, now Case Western) and Shaw, John G. (XEROX Research Center), "Parallelization Issues for Particle-in-Cell Codes", Supercomputing'94, Nov. 14-18, 1994. REVIEWED abstract of poster presentation at: http://www.computer.org/conferen/sc94/posters/elster_a.html

(31) Elster, A.C., "Parallelization Issues and Particle Simulation Codes", Schlumberger Austin Systems Center, in-house seminar, Autin, Texas, May 16, 1994.

(32) Elster, A.C., "Parallelizing C Particle Simulation Codes Using Pthreads", Parallel Computing on the Kendall Square Research KSR1, Workshop, Engineering & Theory Center, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York, May 6, 1993.

(33) Elster, A.C. "The Message Passing Interface (MPI) Forum", Cornell Engineering & Theory Center Staff-to-Staff Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Apr. 23, 1993.

(34) Elster, A.C., Part I: "Testing Particle Simulation Codes"; Part II: "KSR1 Overview", Xerox Design Research Institute Seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Dec. 8, 1992.

(35) Elster, A.C. and Ramesh, Palghat S. (XEROX), "Simulation of Charge Transport Using Parallel BLAS on the Intel hypercube", Xerox Workshop on Scientific Computation and Modeling, Ithaca, NY, April 22, 1992.

INVITED LECTURES (1994-2001):

(36) DSP Seminar -- Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, October, 2001: "Chebyshev Polynomials -- Not just for Filters". Abstract at:

http://signal.ece.utexas.edu/seminars/dsp_seminars/01fall/elster.html

(37) Guest Lecture -- Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, October, 2001: Guest lecture in EE 306, UT ECE's freshman course in Computer Engineering. The lecture covered numbering systems, bit manupulations, O(logN) vs O(N) and bit-reversal.

(38) DSP Seminar -- Dept. of Electrical & Comp. Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, April 12, 2001: "FFT Applications". Abstract at:

http://signal.ece.utexas.edu/seminars/dsp_seminars/01spring/elster.html

(39) Minisymposium talk -- SIAM Annual Meeting 2000 in Puerto Rico, July 10-14, 2000:"Complex Chebyshev Acceleration Using PETSc", Part of Mini Symposium organized by Dr. David Kincaid on "Iterative Methods: Honoring Professor David M. Young". Work is joint with Chun Liang and David M. Young. Schedule at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/an00/MS49.htm


(40) Graduate Lecture -- Department of Computer & Info. Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), February 11, 2000: "Optimization of Numerical Algorithms (Focus: FFT and Bit-Reversal Algorithms)" . (Translation of Norwegian title.)

(41) Undergraduate Lecture -- Department of Computer & Info. Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), February 11, 2000: "Examples Which Illustrate the Practical Benefits of Improved Algorithmic Time-Complexity" (Translation of Norwegian title.)

(42) Telecommunications and Signal Processing Seminar -- Dept of ECE, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, November 10, 1999: "Fast Fourier Transform and Fast Bit Reversal Algorithms"

(43) Colloquium -- Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, October 8, 1999: "Developments in Parallel Computing the past 15 years -- A Personal Perspective". (Translation of Norwegian title.)

(44) .Seminar -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, Jan. 12 and 14, 1999: "Algorithms for Bit Reversal and the The Fast Fourier Transform"

(45) Colloquium -- Dept of Comp. Science, Univ. of Southern California, Oct. 31, 1997:"Building a Software Environment for Analyzing and Testing Large Parallel Scientific Codes".

(46) Seminar -- Center for Numerical Analysis, Univ. of Texas at Austin, May 12, 1994: "Parallelization Issues and Particle Simulation Codes".

(47) .Seminar -- Dept. of Computer Science, University of Houston, Texas, May 11, 1994:(same as May 12, 1994 presentation).

(48) Seminar -- Dept. of Computer Science, Syracuse University, New York, April 20, 1994: (same as May 12, 1994 presentation).

AV-2 Five selected publications for Anne C. Elster

a) Elster, A.C., "Fast Bit-Reversal Algorithms", Proc. of the IEEE 1989 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Glasgow, Scotland, May 23-26, 1989, Vol. 2, pp 1099-1102. Paper was originally submitted to Conf. on Vector and

Parallel Computing, Tromsø, Norway, June 6-10, 1988 where it received Honorable Mention by the reviewers, but was later withdrawn due to timing and funding.

b) Strandh, Robert and Elster, A.C., "A Very Efficient Linear-time, Logarithmic-space Bit Reversal Algorithm", Center for Numerical Analysis, TR no. CNA-287, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1998. (A shorter version of this report is being submitted as a reviewed journal publication

c) Sack, P. and Elster, A.C., "Fast MPI Broadcasts Through Reliable Multicasting", submitted Oct. 2001 for review at CAC/IPPDS.

d) Elster, A.C. "Software Test-bed for Large Parallel Solvers ", in book Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation II, IMACS, 1999. Paper was originally presented at Fourth IMACS International Symposium, Oct. 18-20, 1998, The Univ. of Texas at Austin. Abstract at: http://king.ticam.utexas.edu/dmy98/abstracts.html


e) Elster, A.C., "Parallelization Issues and Particle-in-Cell Codes", Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, August 1994. Abstract at:


AV-2 Personal statement by Anne C. Elster

My main research foci are Parallel Scientific Computing and Communication Algorithms.

I was born and grew up in Norway, but after receiving a one-year scholarship from The University of Oregon, I spent almost 20 years in theUnited States. I returned to Norway by joining IDI this past January (2001). Most of my research and experiences have hence been done while I was in the U.S., and I expect to keep close ties with my American colleagues.Graduate Work and Ph.D. Thesis (Selected Publication a):Since I published several papers during my early graduate career (all before 1991), two of which received honors (a student paper award and an honorable mention, respectively), my Ph.D. advisor did not encourage paper publications based on my dissertation. We hoped instead that I could focus on publishing the results in journals after graduating. However, since I joined industry (Schlumberger) right after my Ph.D., none of my Ph.D. work nor the work I did at Schlumberger got published as papers. Highlights of my Ph.D. work did get presented as a poster presentation at Supercomputing 1994 (due to the regular paper submission deadline being before my Ph.D. defense). However, my co-advisor f rom Xerox Research, Dr. John Shaw, used a lot of the experiences from my PhD work to build a very successful physical simulator for copy machines that had a major impact at Xerox.

Experience at Schlumberger, Univ. of Texas at Austin and Acenor Inc.:The work I did while at Schlumberger got mainly published as internal memos and reports (see list of Technical Reports). This work included development and DBA work on a distributed bug-tracking system built on Scopus and SYBASE, development of a Descrete Event Simualator (DES) of a payphone systems (I was primarily responsible for emulating the phone switching network protocol), as well as work on parallelizing a large physics code.

As Schlumberger decided to end their research efforts in Scientific Computing at their Austin, Texas site, I joined the University of Texas at Austin as a Research Associate/Lecurer in the spring of 1997. I worked mainly at their Center for Numerical Analysis, but later became an Adjunct Assistant Professor with their Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) as I spent time starting my own company Acenor Inc. (1999-2000). Among others, a UT colleague and I taught, through Acenor, a short-course for the US Airforce Research Center at WPAFB on Parallell Krylov Methods. Acenor Inc. was, however, “iced” when I joined IDI in January 2001so I could focus on my academic career again.

Current Collaborations at Univ. of Texas at Austin:I again spent this past summer (2001) as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin (ECE) where I supervised an Honors Project with led to the publication with Paul Sack (Selected Publication c). We expect to extend this work into another conference paper as well as a journal paper next year.

Work with Current NTNU Students and Others:Starting this fall, I am also supervising Jøran Sandberg, one of the three first candidates that enrolled in the “researcher school” program that we initiated this fall. The program lets 5th year



Masters students take their final M.S. year over two years while they start their Ph.D. work. Sandberg’s graduate work is focusing on Algorithms for Telecommunications. A recent publication I wrote with my husband, Dr. Lloyd Clark on “Optimizing FFT Algorithms for ADSL,” sketches some of the theories Mr. Sandberg will be basing his research on. Dr. Clark (Ph.D. EE MIT) will be an unofficial co-supervisor of Mr. Sandberg.

I am also currently teaching SIF 80BI Paralell Programming Environments and Scientific Computing as a special-topic 5th year course for 9 M.S. students. I am currently also developing a 4th year upper division/core course in this area that I expect to offer during the 2001/2002 academic year. This course and future MS/PhD project will hence build on my Parallel Environment work (Selected Publication d). The hope is that this course will also help me attract new graduate students in this area.

Finally, the linear bit-reversal algorithm I published in 1989 (Selected Publication a) has since 1996 been known as “Elster’s algorithm” since it at that point still was the fasted known such algorithm. With Prof. Robert Strandh we further enhanced this algorithms down to 5 cycles per element (load ans store take 2 each!) using recursive stack techniques (Selected Publication b). I plan to continue my collaborations with Dr. Robert Strandh and his students at Univ. of Bordeaux on bit-reversal/shuffles and other related algorithms.


AV-3 Assistant Professor Torbjørn Hallgren

AV-3 CV for Torbjørn Hallgren(No web page.)

NAME Torbjørn HallgrenMarried, two grown-up children

YEAR OF BIRTH 1942

NATIONALITY Norwegian

POSITION Assistant professor

EMPLOYER Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI)

EDUCATION Siv.ing. Applied Physics. The Norwegian Institute of Technology, (NTH), 1968Additional education:- Various subjects within computer science- Project leader seminar, NTNF

EMPLOYMENT1967 Research assistant at The Norwegian Defence

Research Institute (FFI), Kjeller, during mandatory military service.1968-1969 Research scientist at The Computing Centre, NTH.1969-1971 Research fellow of applied physics, NTH.1971-1977 Chief engineer at NTH with computer systems for managing student

files, course administration and examination administration as responsibility.

1977-1980 Research scientist at The Production EngineeringLaboratory, NTH-SINTEF.

1980-1993 Research scientist at SINTEF DELAB (formerly namedRUNIT, RUNIT-F and ELAB-RUNIT).

1982-1985 Group leader, Computer graphics group, RUNIT.1985-1986 Part time lecturer of programming at NTH.1986 -> Assistent professor at NTH/NTNU.

MAIN FIELDS OF COMPETANCE: Computer graphics, Virtual reality, Animation, Image analysis, Industrial computer vision

TEACHING EXPERIENCECourse design and teaching:- Elementary computer graphics- Advanced courses in computer graphics, visualization and virtual reality- Elementary computer science courses based on Pascal, Fortran and Java- Introductory programming course based on Matlab- Doctoral level course in “Physics of image formation”- Continuing education course in computer vision

OTHER TYPES OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE- Defined and supervised somewhere between 70 and 100 larger student projects in

the period from 1985 until 2000- Defined supervised somewhere between 50 and 80 diploma theses in the period

from 1985 until 2000- Defined and supervised 1 Ph.D. thesis (not finished)


- Initiation of and project management for the NTNU Distributed Visualization Laboratory (DVL)

- Member of the department’s (IDI) board for one period- Member of the department’s (IDI) and the faculty’s boards for curricula partly with

the responsibility to lead the work for the siv.ing. (M.Sc.) curriculum and for a period as the chairman of the faculty’s board for curricula.

LEAVE OF RESEARCH- Academic year 1998/1999 at the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation

(professors Norman I. Badler and Dimtris Metaxas), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS- Member of Eurographics, The European Association for Computer Graphics- Member of ACM- Member of ACM SIGGRAPH- Member of NOBIM (Norwegian Society for Image Processing and Pattern

Recognition). NOBIM Board member 1989-1991. Chairman of NOBIM 1991-1993- Member of IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) Governing

Board 1992-1995- General Chairman of 8SCIA (The 8th Scandinavian Conference on Image

Analysis), Tromsø June 1993.

AV-3 Publication list for Torbjørn Hallgren

About 60 reports, publications and talks. Most recent (not complete):

PATENTS: - Hallgren, T. & al.: "Method for Determining the Kind and Distribution Tissue in

Living Organisms", Norwegian patent pending PCT/NO93/00122, European patent pending 93 918.091.5.

CONFERENCES:- Hallgren, T., Halpegamage, C.W.: “An Algorithm for Interference Detection in

Cloth Animation”, Proc. ICVC99, pp. 129-133, Goa, India. Feb. 1999.- Halpegamage, C.W., Hallgren, T.: “Modelling and animation of clothes for virtual

reality applications”, CAA’98, Barcelona, Spain, March 1998. - Halpegamage, C.W., Hallgren, T.: "Presenting archaeological knowledge by means

of advanced computer graphics", CAA’96, Iasi, Romania, March 1996. Abstract printed in Proc. CAA’96, BAR International Series 845, Oxford 2000.

- Hallgren, T.:"Quality Evaluation of Living Crabs by Application of Image Processing Techniques", Proc. SEARCC '95, pp. 107-128, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 1995.

NATIONAL PUBLICATIONS:- Hallgren, T., Halpegamage, C.W.: “Visualisering av arkeologiske data – eksempler

fra rekonstruksjon av gamle Trondheim by”, talk at Fotogrammetridagene, Norsk Kartteknisk Forbund, Lørenskog October 17th to 18th 1996.

- Hallgren, T.: “Sortering av krabber ved hjelp av bildeanalyse”, talk at Industriseminar i bildebehandling”, NOBIN and SINTEF SI, Klækken November 1993.

- Hallgren, T.: “Kvalitetssortering av levende krabbe ved hjelp av automatisk bildebehandling”, Piksel’n, no. 4/9 December 1992.

MEDIA PUBLICITYTelevision:

- “Krabbefiske i Vallersund”, TVNorge January 18th 1994- News report on VR project on TV2 (date missing)- News report on VR project on TVNorge (date missing)


- Program (about 30 minutes) on VR project on NRK2 (date missing)- “Schrödingers katt” about VR project on NRK1 (data missing)

Newspapers and journals (not complete):- “Vil redde norsk krabbenæring”, Gemini 1992 (about sorting crabs)- “Teknologi sikrer fulle krabber”, Aftenposten 1992 (about sorting crabs)- “Gjennomlyst krabbe skal gjenerobre ferskmarkedene”, Fiskeribladet, December 8th

1992 (about sorting crabs)- “Håp for utsatt næring”, Adresseavisen, December 16th 1992 (about sorting crabs)- “Norsk krabbeprosjekt viser gode resultater”, Fiskaren, January 19th 1994 (about

sorting crabs)- “Snart kan du oppleve Trondheim i år 1200”, Avisa Trondheim, December 13th

1994- “Tilbake til middelalderen med «virtual reality»”, Gemini No. 3, October 1996

(about VR project)- “Back to the middle ages with Virtual Reality”, Gemini No. 4, December 1996- “NTNU får VR-lab”, Gemini No. 5, November 2000

AV-3 Two selected publications for Torbjørn Hallgren

a) Hallgren, T.: "Quality Evaluation of Living Crabs by Application of Image Processing Techniques", Proc. SEARCC '95, pp. 107-128, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 1995.

b) Hallgren, T., Halpegamage, C.W.: “An Algorithm for Interference Detection in Cloth Animation”, Proc. ICVC99, pp. 129-133, Goa, India. Feb. 1999.

AV-3 Personal statement by Torbjørn HallgrenAfter receiving my Masters degree in applied physic in 1968 I started my career working with computing systems as a research scientist at The Computing Centre, NTH. Most of my work was on solving engineering and mathematical problems using the UNIVAC 1107 and later on the UNIVAC 1108 computers. To present the results I took computer graphics into use. The programming for driving the flat bed plotter was low-level assembly programming. A graphical package for abstracting the usage from the plotter details was written. This work was a source of inspiration for the later 3D graphical package and modelling tool GPGS. The most important and interesting project I personally was responsible for, was on modelling and programming a system for computing the scattering characteristics of a radar antenna inside a dielectric radome structure.

A substantial part of my work at The Computing Centre was on building a software system for managing the student files of NTH.

After close to two years at The Computing Centre I returned to physics for about two years. My work was on modelling and simulating the transient initial phase of a spark (arc discharge).

In 1971 I picked up the work on NTH’s student administrative system that I left at The Computing Centre. As a chief engineer employed at the university administration I designed and built a program system covering most of the daily routines dealing with the student files. That included admission, exam preparation and planning, grading, graduating and statistics.

From 1977 to 1980 I was with The Production Engineering Laboratory, NTH-SINTEF. My work was mainly concentrated on assembly programming for logistic software. But I also had major engagements in systems analysis and design using the methods of SADT and as a certified instructor teaching courses on SADT.


In 1980 I moved to RUNIT (the descendent of The Computing Centre, NTH) to work with graphics and image processing. My main engagements were in project management, group management and marketing. The largest project I took part in, was a German-Norwegian collaborative effort on CAD and CAM for mechanical industries.

From 1985 I was part time engaged with teaching elementary programming courses with IDB (now IDI). Partly I slipped into deeper engagement with teaching. I took on the responsibility for the computer graphics activities and I took the initiative to establish IDI’s professorship in image processing. In 1993 I left my RUNIT position to get into full-time university employment.

During the first half of the nineties my research was mainly in image processing. My focus was on utilizing the physical nature of things to form images that could not be obtained by conventional imaging methods and to make the image forming process as good as possible to minimize the need to improve the image after capture and the need for “guesswork” in the process of analysing the image. The most visible result of my work was a system for analysing the meat contents of living crabs (cancer pagurus). The system has an industrial impact that has attained substantial public attention.

From about 1995 my interests mostly have been in computer graphics, geometric modelling, visualization, animation and virtual reality. “Virtual heritage” is an interesting area of application. The impact of the methods developed is highly interesting in other areas like education, entertainment and news distribution. Some early work on modelling local heritage drew nationwide media attention.

Present research areas are: Methods for modelling scenes based on archaeological data Methods for modelling living beings (humans inclusive) and artefacts as parts of virtual

urban and rural landscapes Modelling and animation of textiles and clothes (as worn by humans in virtual

landscapes) The use of PC clusters as an alternative to high-end specialized graphics computers

I spent the academic year 1998/99 at Center for Human Modeling and Simulation, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The visit resulted, among other things, in lasting scientific contacts.

By my initiative, a group of NTNU departments have succeeded in attaining substantial funding for graphical resources. Among those resources is a SGI Onyx graphics computer and a RAVE from Fakespace Systems. The RAVE is for the time being probably the most advanced facility for immersive virtual reality. The installation is presently the only one of its kind outside USA.

My activities have attracted a remarkably large number of students.

I feel I have made a substantial contribution to the department’s teaching and research. I find the lack of mechanisms to reward efforts like mine, unsatisfactory.


AV-4 Adjunct Professor Dr. Techn. Bjørn Olstad

AV-4 CV for Bjørn Olstad(No web page.)

P e r s o n a l d a t a :

Dr. techn., Prof. II Bjørn OlstadGeneral manager, Enterprise solutions - FAST Search & Transfer ASAAdjunct professor, NTNUBorn: 29.02.64Address: Blehrsgate 1, 3960 Stathelle, NorwayEmail: [email protected]: +47 48011157 (m) / +47 35963689 (p)

D e g r e e s :

M.Sc. (Cand. Scient.) in mathematics from the University of Trondheim, Norway 1985. Ph.D. (Dr. Techn.) in computer science / image processing from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1992: “Algorithms in image processing based on dynamic programming and syntactic modeling”

P r o f e s s i o n a l c a r e e r :

2001 : General manager and R&D director for FAST Search & Transfer – Enterprise Business Unit.

2001 : Director of Research and Development, FAST Search & Transfer ASA.2000 : Scientific advisor, GE Vingmed Ultrasound2000 : Chief scientist, FAST Search & Transfer ASA.1999 : Adjunct professor at NTNU, Trondheim.1996-1999 : Director of Research and Development, GE Vingmed Ultrasound1996 : Senior scientist at Vingmed Sound, Horten.1993-1995 : Professor in image processing/algorithm design at the Norwegian Institute of

Technology.1989-1992 : Assistant professor at NTNU, Trondheim.

P r o f e s s i o n a l e x p e r i e n c e s u m m a r y :

Scientific experience: Computer Science & Mathematics. In particular: algorithm design, image analysis, ultrasonic imaging, pattern recognition and information retrieval.

Market knowledge: Ultrasound imaging (GE Vingmed Ultrasound) and information retrieval/distribution in Internet, corporate- and mobile-networks (FAST Search & Transfer ASA).

Management experience: R&D director in GE Vingmed Ultrasound and FAST Search & Transfer (70-95 engineers), project leader for 6 national and European research programs, and general manager for mobile solutions and enterprise solutions in FAST Search & Transfer.

Presentation experience: Extensive teaching and technical presentation experience. For instance 5-10 annual lectures at all major European and U.S. cardiology conferences for the last 5 years. Courses taught at NTNU, Trondheim (50-400 students): “Programming”, “Programming Methodology”, “Algorithms and Data structures”, “Parallel Algorithms”, “Advanced Algorithms”, “Image Analysis” and “Biomedical Visualization”.

Scientific mentoring: Supervised the Ph.D. work of the following: Ph.D. Erik Steen, NTNU 1995 Ph.D. Sevald Berg, NTNU 1999 Ph.D. Steinar Bjærum, NTNU 2001

Reviewer for several international journals related to image processing.


AV-4 Publication list for Bjørn Olstad

Journal publications

1. Assessment of regional long-axis function during dobutamine echocardiography.Clin Sci (Lond). Apr;100(4):423-32, 2001.Cain P, Marwick TH, Case C, Baglin T, Dart J, Short L, and Olstad B.

2. Simultaneous display of strain and tissue velocity-a fast option for left ventricular function evaluationJournal of American College of Cardiology, Suppl, 2001L-Å Brodin, Mohsen Gaballa, Christoffer Madler, J van der Linden,and Bjorn Olstad

3. Use of peak systolic strain as an index of regional left ventricular function: comparison with tissue Doppler velocity during dobutamine stress and myocardial ischemiaJ Am Soc Echocardiogr. Aug;13(8):731-7, 2000Armstrong G, Pasquet A, Fukamachi K, Cardon L, Olstad B, Marwick T.

4. Strain Rate Imaging Can Accurately Identify Infarct Segments in Patients With Myocardial Infection: A Clinical StudyJournal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 35, Issue 2, Suppl. A, page 494 , 2000D. Mele, B. Olstad, M. Donateo, I. Pedini, P. Alboni, R. A. Levine

5. Dynamic three-dimensional freehand echocardiography using raw digital ultrasound dataUltrasound Med Biol. Jun; 25(5):745-53, 1999Berg S, Torp H, Martens D, Steen E, Samstad S, Hoivik I, Olstad B.

6. New functional imaging options with echocardiography based on myocardial velocity curvesIEEE Computers in Cardiology, 1999Brodin L-Å, van der Linden J, Jensen -Urstad M, Olstad B

7. Strain rate imaging can facilitate evaluation of left ventricular regional wall motion in patients with myocardial infarction: preliminary resultsEuropean Heart Journal Vol 20, Suppl., page 262 , 1999D. Mele, B. Olstad, K. Bettiol, I. Pedini, P. Alboni, R.A. Levine

8. Myocardial strain by Doppler echocardiography: a new method to measure regional myocardial function European Heart Journal Vol 20, Abstr. Suppl., page 262 , 1999S. Urheim, H. Torp, T. Edvardsen, B. Olstad, B. Angelsen, O.A. Smiseth

9. Regional mean systolic myocardial velocity estimation by real-time color Doppler myocardial imaging: a new technique for quantifying regional systolic functionJ Am Soc Echocardiogr. Jul;11(7):683-92, 1998Wilkenshoff UM, Sovany A, Wigstrom L, Olstad B, Lindstrom L, Engvall J, Janerot-Sjoberg B, Wranne, Hatle L, Sutherland GR.

10. Myocardial strain rate imaging: validation of a new doppler method to quantify myocardial function Echocardiography, vol. 15, no. 8, part 2, p. S39 , 1998S. Urheim, H. Torp, T. Edvardsen, B. Olstad, S. Rabben, A. Heimdal, B. Angelsen, O.A. Smiseth

11. Echocardiographic functional images based on tissue velocity informationHerz 23: pp. 491-498, 1998Lars-Åke Brodin, Jan van der Linden, and Bjørn Olstad

12. Edge-Detection in Noisy Data Using Finite Mixture Distribution Analysis Pattern Recognition, No. 5, May 1997, pp. 685-699.Mari Thune, Bjørn Olstad, and Nils Thune

13. Encoding of A Priori Information in Active Contour Models IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), No. 9, Sept. 1996, pp. 863-872.Bjørn Olstad and Anders Herman Torp

14. Efficient partitioning of sequences IEEE Transactions on Computers, VOL. 44, NO. 11, November 1995.Bjørn Olstad, and Fredrik Manne

15. Three-dimensional imaging of the brain cavities in human embryosUltrasound Obstet Gynecol. Apr;5(4):228-32, 1995Blaas HG, Eik-Nes SH, Kiserud T, Berg S, Angelsen B, Olstad B.

16. Volume rendering of 3D medical ultrasound data using direct feature mapping


IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 517-525, September 1994.Erik Steen, and Bjørn Olstad

18. Reasoning with entropy graphs for image operators Pattern Recognition, Vol. 26, No. 8, pp. 1255-1275, 1993.Bjørn Olstad

19. Adaptive temporal decimation for video compression algorithms Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 2(1), pp. 5-18, January 1993.Bjørn Olstad

20. Real-time image processing based on nonlinear models with applications to image enhancement, area detection and volume visualization Ultraschall in der Medizin, No. 14, pp. 210-213, 1993.Bjørn Olstad

21. Maximizing image variance in rendering of volumetric data sets Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 1(3), pp. 256-265, July 1992. Bjørn Olstad

Patents

22. US patent 5568811: Method for motion encoding of tissue structures in ultrasonic imagingBjørn Olstad

23. US patent 5820561: Analysis and measurement of temporal tissue velocity informationBjørn Olstad, Lars-Åke Brodin and Kjell Kristoffersen

24. US patent 5476096: Analysis and measurement of temporal tissue variationsBjørn Olstad and Torbjørn Bakke

26. US patent 5515856: Method for generating Anatomical M-Mode displaysBjørn Olstad, James Ashman, and Eivind Holm

27. USRE 37088: Method for generating Anatomical M-Mode displaysBjørn Olstad, James Ashman, and Eivind Holm

28. US patent 6099471: Method and apparatus for real-time calculation and display of strain in ultrasound imagingHans Torp, Andreas Heimdal, Bjørn Olstad and Kjell Kristoffersen

29. US patent 6019724: Method for ultrasound guidance during clinical proceduresAage Grønningsaeter, Bjørn Olstad, and Geirmund Undsgaard

30. Patent disclosure: Method for search and retrieval of information in computer networksBjørn Olstad, and Knut Magne Risvik

31. Patent disclosure: Method for real-time display of high-framerate ultrasoundBjørn Olstad

32. Patent disclosure: Method for time compounding of ultrasound dataBjørn Olstad

33. Patent disclosure: Method for computing tissue tracking imagesBjørn Olstad

34. Patent disclosure: Method for automatic Atrium-Ventricle plane detectionBjørn Olstad

35. Patent disclosure: Method for extracting information based on ultrasound located landmarksBjørn Olstad

36. Patent disclosure: Method for extracting wall function information relative to ultrasound located landmarksBjørn Olstad

37. Patent disclosure: Method for quantitation of stress echo examsBjørn Olstad

38. Patent disclosure: Optimizing ultrasound acquisition based on ultrasound located landmarksBjørn Olstad

39. Patent disclosure: Method for extracting ultrasound summary information useful for inexperienced users of ultrasound equipment.Bjørn Olstad

40. Patent disclosure: Optimizing ultrasound acquisition based on ultrasound located landmarksBjørn Olstad

Conference publications


41. Simultaneous Display of Tissue Velocity and Strain: A Fast Option in Evaluation of Myocardial Function American College of Cardiology 50th Annual Scientific Session , Orlando, Florida , 2001L. Brodin, M. Gaballa, J. van der Linden, C. Madler, B. Olstad

42. Myocardial strain rate imaging: validation of a new Doppler method to quantify myocardial functionEuroecho 2: December 9-12, 1998, Trieste, Italy.S. Urheim, H. Torp, T. Edvardsen, B. Olstad, S. Rabben, A. Heimdal, B. Angelsen, O.A. Smiseth.

43. Analysis of wall motion and wall velocities with curvilinear M-modeXXth Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, 22-26 Aug 1998.Brodin L-Å, Jensen-Urstad M, van der Linden J, Olstad B.

44. New functional imaging options with echocardiography based on myocardial velocity curves71st Scientific Sessions of American Heart Association, Dallas, November 8-11, 1998.Brodin L-Å, Jensen-Urstad M, van der Linden J, Olstad B.

45. Tissue velocity information of ventricular fibrillation in man 71st Scientific Sessions of American Heart Association, Dallas, November 8-11, 1998Jensen-Urstad M, van der Linden J, Hellström Å, Olstad B, Brodin L-Å.

46. Tissue doppler analysis of myocardial wall motion and velocities with curve-linear M-mode in left anterior and complete bundle branch blocks71st Scientific Sessions of American Heart Association, Dallas, November 8-11, 1998.Brodin L-Å, van der Linden J, Lind B, Jensen-Urstad M, Olstad B.

47. Evaluation of fuzzy neighborhood filters in medical imaging Proceedings SPIE Vol. 3034, p. 990-998, Medical Imaging 1997: Image ProcessingSevald Berg and Bjørn Olstad

48. Display of cardiac activation pathways with echocardiography Proceedings SPIE Vol. 3033, p. 309-315, Medical Imaging 1997: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional ImagesBjørn Olstad, Lars Åke Brodin and Sevald Berg

49. Can new methods of myocardial colour doppler information processing better display abberant cardiac activation pathways?XIXth Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, 24-28 Aug 1997.Jensen-Urstad M, Olstad B, Insulander P, Kennebäck G, Sutherland G, Brodin LÅ.

50. Quantitative wall motion coding in three-dimensional echocardiography Proceedings SPIE Vol. 2709, p. 424-432, Medical Imaging 1996: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional ImagesSevald Berg, Anders H. Torp, Klaus P. Schipper and Bjørn Olstad

51. Real-time quantitative wall motion coding in two-dimensional echocardiography Proceedings SPIE Vol. 2709, p. 413-423, Medical Imaging 1996: Physiology and Function from Multidimensional ImagesSevald Berg, Anders H. Torp, Klaus P. Schipper and Bjørn Olstad

52. 3D transvaginal ultrasound imaging for identification of endometrial abnormality Proceedings SPIE Vol 2432, p.543-553, Medical Imaging 1995: Physics of Medical ImagingBjørn Olstad, Sevald Berg, Anders H. Torp, Sturla Eik-Nes and Klaus P. Schipper

53. Shell rendering with hardware supported data extraction In proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1995, San Jose.Bjørn Olstad, Erik Steen and Olav Sandstå

54. Image filtering techniques and VLSI architectures for efficient data extraction in shell renderingIEEE Conference on Image Processing, October 1995Bjørn Olstad, Erik Steen, Arne Halaas

55. Visualization of multi attribute medical images In proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 1995.Erik Steen, Bjørn Olstad and Gaute Myklebust

56. Real-time three dimensional echocardiography for assessment of valvular function11th Symposium on Echocardiology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1995. Hans Torp, Stein Dørum, Eivind Holm, Erik Steen, Kjell Kristoffersen, Karl A. Berg, Hans J. Alker, and Bjørn Olstad

57. Automatic Custom Femoral Stem Design Based on Object Correlation Proc. of Medical Imaging 1995, San Diego, 1995.Bjørn Olstad, Anders H. Torp, and Jan Helge Sageflåt.

58. Guiding brain tumor surgery with 2D and 3D ultrasound imaging through second craniotomy10th European Congress of Neurosurgery, Berlin, Germany, May 7-12, 1995.


Unsgård G., Gronningsaeter A., Steen E., Lie T., Ommedal S., and Olstad B.59. Prospective use of ultrasound to monitor and guide brain surgery: A feasibility study in the 5-30

MHz frequency range10th European Congress of Neurosurgery, Frankfurt, Germany, May 4-6, 1995Unsgård G., Gronningsaeter A., Ommedal S., Lie T., Steen E., and Olstad B.

60. Prospective use of ultrasound to monitor and guide brain surgery, a feasibility study in the 5-30 MHz frequency rangeEuropean Association of Neurosurgical Societies, London, England, February 9-11, 1995Unsgård G., Gronningsaeter A., Ommedal S., Lie T., Steen E., and Olstad B.

61. Ultrasound-guided brain surgeryAnnual Meeting of the Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society, Reykjavik, Iceland, June, 1995Unsgård G., Gronningsaeter A., Berg S., Lie T., Ommedal S., and Olstad B.

62. Scale-space and boundary detection in ultrasonic imaging using nonlinear signal-adaptive anisotropic diffusion In proceeding of SPIE Medical Imaging, Newport Beach, California, 1994.Erik Steen and Bjørn Olstad

63. Combined visualization of tumor and vessel geometry using 4D tissue and doppler echo In proceedings of IEEE International ultrasonic Symposium, Cannes, 1994.Erik Steen, Bjørn Olstad, Gaute Myklebust, Sevald Berg and Klaus Schipper

64. Finite mixture distribution theory in image analysis In proceedings of IEEE International conference on image processing, Austin, Texas, 1994.Mari Thune, Bjørn Olstad and Nils Thune

65. Multispectral analysis of object surfaces extracted from volumetric data sets Proceedings ICIP-94, Vol. II, pages 46-50. Anders H. Torp and Bjørn Olstad

66. Simultanous Tracking of Endocard and Epicard in Ultrasonic Contrast Imaging In proceedings from 1994 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Cannes, Nov 1994.A.H. Torp, and B. Olstad, K.P. Schipper, S. Frigstad, and K. Øygarden

67. A PC-Based Real-Time Image Processing Environment 8SCIA: Proc. of The 8th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, May 1993, vol. I, pages 305-311.Anders H. Torp, Bjørn Olstad, Tore E. Andersen, Marius Kjeldahl, Knut Vidar Skjersli, and Ketil Bø.

68. A Nonlinear Loop Filter Model for Video Coding 1993 IEEE Winter Workshop on Nonlinear Digital Signal Processing, Jan 1993.Bjørn Olstad, John H. Husøy, and Anders H. Torp

69. Volume rendering in medical ultrasound imaging In proceedings of 8th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Tromsø, 1993.Erik Steen and Bjørn Olstad

70. Improving the computational complexity of active contour algorithms In proceedings of 8th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Tromsø, 1993.Bjørn Olstad and Harald E. Tysdahl

71. Volume rendering in medical ultrasound imaging based on nonlinear filtering In proceedings of IEEE winter workshop on nonlinear digital signal processing, Tampere, Finland, 1993.Erik Steen and Bjørn Olstad

72. The clinical impact of computer assisted evaluation of ultrasound tissue and flow data In P. Hanrath, R. Uebis, and W. Krebs, editors, Cardiovascular Imaging by Ultrasound, pages 435-451. Kluwer academic publishers, Dordrecht, 1993.Wolfgang Fehske, Klaus P. Schipper, Hans Torp, Jørgen Mæhle, Bjørn A. J. Angelsen, Bjørn Olstad,R. Rabahieh, David T. Linker, A. Hostert, and B. Lüderitz.

73. Annular array multiplanar TEE probe allowing 3D reconstruction of cineloops of the heart P. Hanrath et al. (eds.), Cardiovascular imaging by ultrasound, pp. 287-296, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.B. Angelsen, S. Dørum, J. Hoem, A. Brubakk, T. Skjærpe, H. Torp, B. Olstad, J. Mæhle, W. Fehske and K. Schipper

AV-4 Five selected publications for Bjørn Olstad

(A) Encoding of A Priori Information in Active Contour Models IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), No. 9, Sept. 1996, pp. 863-872.Bjørn Olstad and Anders Herman Torp


(B) Efficient partitioning of sequences IEEE Transactions on Computers, VOL. 44, NO. 11, November 1995.Bjørn Olstad, and Fredrik Manne

(C) US patent 5820561: Analysis and measurement of temporal tissue velocity information

Bjørn Olstad, Lars-Åke Brodin and Kjell Kristoffersen(D) Reasoning with entropy graphs for image operators

Pattern Recognition, Vol. 26, No. 8, pp. 1255-1275, 1993.Bjørn Olstad

(E) Volume rendering of 3D medical ultrasound data using direct feature mapping IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 517-525, September 1994.Erik Steen, and Bjørn Olstad

AV-4 Personal statement by Bjørn Olstad

My publications can be grouped into two time periods: A technical focus associated with my academic position at NTNU up until 1995. A patenting and clinical focus associated with my GE Vingmed position. The

publication focus in this period has been a clinical audience and hence support of publications by clinical collaborators or joint publication with these collaborators were prioritized.

The publication list (in particular conference papers) is incomplete for the last 5 years.

The selected papers give examples of mathematical modeling (D), algorithm design (B), object recognition (A), patenting in ultrasonic imaging (C), and volume rendering (E).

I consider these areas to contain my major scientific achievements: Image restoration: Developed methodology for temporal restoration of video sequences

that has been patented and commercialized in products by both Boston Scientific and GE Ultrasound.

Image recognition: Contributed to the algorithmic framework of snakes and modeling of a priori information in this framework. These techniques have been patented and applied to develop clinically adapted tools in ultrasound imaging.

Visualization: Pioneered volume rendering technology in 3D and 4D ultrasound. Tissue Doppler Imaging: Initiated technical and clinical work on Tissue Doppler

Imaging and in particular pioneered the application of this technology in stress echo. As high as 30-40% of all lectures given at major European echocardiography conferences have been related to this technology and a large fraction of these have been direct collaborators.

Strain rate imaging: Initiated and driven technical and clinical work on this new ultrasonic imaging modality. Strain rate has been proven to be the so far most sensitive modality for detecting ischemic heart disease. Robustness is however still an issue that requires further development. Both technical and clinical partners through GE Vingmed Ultrasound have published extensively on this new modality. As high as 10-20% of all lectures given at major echocardiography conferences have been related to strain and a large fraction of these have been direct collaborators.

Stress echo: Ischemic heart disease is the number 1 cause of death in western countries. The accuracy of detecting such disease has been 55-85% depending on the experience of the examiner during a stress echo exam. Two major stress echo studies have been organized addressing quantitation based on tissue Doppler indices. One study in


Australia lead by Prof. Tom Marwick, Brisbane and a European multi-center study lead by Prof. Alan Fraser, Cardiff. These studies have concluded that as high as 85% accuracy can be obtained with the automated, objective methododology that we have been developing. This result is identical to the best-trained cardiologist scores. Recent studies on new indices indicate that the accuracy potentially can be further improved to 90-95%.This result indicates a potential for a significant quality assurance in daily clinical practice and that a screening test for the number 1 cause of death in western countries might be viable.

Information retrieval: Have through FAST Search & Transfer contributed with technical solutions, patenting and lead development of information retrieval technology that currently powers companies like: eBay: All search at eBay will 2001/2002 be converted to FAST technology IBM.com: Site search at IBM has been powered by FAST since 2000/2001 Reuters: The next generation news distribution system of Reuters is built on FAST

technology. Ericsson: FAST powers information retrieval in mobile networks.

Content- based search in multimedia databases: An extremely robust algorithm for searching in musical information based on pitch and timing information has been developed. FAST Search & Transfer has commercialized this technology (cover stories / interviews in New Scientist Feb. 2001 and Newsweek, 2001). Publication awaits launch of service, which is in preparation by a major player in the mobile market.

Works in progress example: A framework for indexing of dynamic programming algorithms enabling efficient error tolerant search in large databases. The framework will give classes of dynamic programming optimizations algorithms and incorporate indexing techniques developed for textual information retrieval.


AV-5 Adjunct Associate Professor Dr.Scient. Bjørn M. Sæther

AV-5 CV for Bjørn M. Sæther, dr.scient.

PersonaliaName: Bjørn M. SætherAddress: Churchillsv. 23D

7058 JakobsliBorn: 28/9-1950Fam. situation: Divorced, 2 children

EducationHighschool Hamar Katedralskole 1969Engineer Trondheim Ingeniørhøgskole 1971Cand.mag UNIT/AVH 1976Cand.scient UNIT/AVH 1990Visting Scholar, Stanford University, USA 1996Dr.scient NTNU 1997

Dr. grade contains:Abstract algebra 1986IT59 Geostatistics 1991IT79 Neural networks 1992Pattern recognition 19943D Machine Vision 1995

Thesis: "Improved estimation of subsurface magnetic propertiesusing minimum mean-square error methods".

PracticeGeological survey of Norway 15/6-74 1/9-80 systems analystGeological survey of Norway 1/9-80 31/1-85 Mngr., Computer sectionStatoil Data/SU-DT 1/2-85 30/6-86 senior system consultantStatoil F&U LoU 1/7-86 31/1-94 staff engineerStatoil F&U LoU 1/2-94 1/10-98 adviser/image analysisStatoil F&U 1/10-98 .... specialist/visualisationNTNU/IDI 1/1-99 .... Adjunct assoc. prof.

AV-5 Publication list for Bjørn Sæther

Publications and reports

Sæther, B., 1978: "NGU-BILD II - et system for behandling og analyse av multispektrale scanner-data og digitaliserte flyfoto". NGU, EDB-dok. 78-07.

Sæther, B., Rindstad, B.I., 1983: "MINGU, brukerveiledning". NGU rapport nr. 2006 A.

Grønlie, A., Sæther, B., Karpuz, R., 1989: "Geologisk anvendelse av syntetisk apertur radar (SAR) og Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) bildeprodukter". NGU rapport 89.022.

Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., 1988: "Reiserapport - besøk ved ulike fjernanalyseinstitusjoner i USA, mars 1988". (Besøk ved: Tenneco, Lunar & Planetary Institute, Exxon, Unocal, Chevron, UCLA, JPL. Deltakelse på AAPG-møte, Houston.)

Tenneco & Statoil, 1988: "A study of Norway, Greenland and Svalbard: Onshore and Offshore Relationships". Prosjektrapport Tenneco/Statoil. Prosjektleder: Stephen H. Brown, Tenneco.


GeoKnowledge a.s, 1988: "Fjernanalyse onshore 1987 (Okavango-bassenget)". Ekstern prosjektleder: R. Sinding-Larsen, intern prosjektleder: B. Sæther.

GeoKnowledge a.s, 1989: "Fjernanalyse onshore 1988 (Western Dessert)". Ekstern prosjektleder: R. Sinding-Larsen, intern prosjektleder: B. Sæther.

Bruvoll, B., Rueslåtten, H., Sæther, B., 1990: "Litologisk klassifikasjon basert på satellittdata". Intern Statoilrapport.

Rueslåtten, H., Sæther, B., 1990: "Rapport - studiereise - Fjernanalyse". Intern Statoilrapport. (Besøk hos : Amoco, NOAA, I2S, Parc Place, USGS, Unocal og JPL.)

Sinding-Larsen, R., Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., Chen, Z., 1991: "Structural Interpretation of the Okavango Basin (South Central Africa) from Multisatellite Imagery". Presented at the Eigth Thematic Conference on Geologic Remote Sensing, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 29 - May 2, 1991.

Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., Henningsen, T., 1991: "Advanced Techniques for Lineament Analysis". Presented at the Eigth Thematic Conference on Geologic Remote Sensing, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 29 - May 2, 1991.

Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., Rundhovde, E., Fichler, C., Henningsen, T., Johansen, S.E., 1991: "Remote Sensing Methods in Offshore Exploration", NPF-konferansen "Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Norway", Stavanger 9-11 desember 1991. Foredrag og publikasjon, 1995.

Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H, 1991: "Interaktiv lineamentanalyse". Artikkel i NOBIMs tidsskrift Pikseln nr. 2, 1991.

Rueslåtten, H., Sæther, B., 1991: "Rapport - studiereise - Fjernanalyse". Intern Statoilrapport. (Deltakelse på ERIM-91, besøk hos: LCT, I2S, TerraMar og Chevron.)Sæther, B., 1991: "Statoils Fjernanalysesenter - årsrapport 1990". Intern Statoilrapport.

Sæther, B., Brenne, I., 1991: "Reiserapport ICANN-91", oppsummering fra International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Helsinki 1991.

Bremdal, B.A., Brenne, I., Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., 1993: "I2SAdvisor - A support tool for explorationists in remote sensing of hydrocarbon resources", EuroCaipep 1993.

Sæther, B., 1993: "Moving Window Hough". Bidrag til TGK prosjektet FA-metodikk 1992.

Bakke, S., Rundhovde, E., Sæther, B., 1993: "Analyse av digitale bilder", Intern Statoilrapport.

Solbakken, O., Sæther, B., 1993: "Evalering av fjernanalysesystemer og arbeidsstasjoner - reiserapport". Intern Statoilrapport.

Johansen, S.E., Henningsen, T., Rundhovde, E., Sæther, B., Fichler, C., Rueslåtten, H, 1994: "The Continuation of Caledonides North of Norway: Seismic Reflectors within the Basement beneath the Southern Barents Sea". Marine and Petroleum Geology, Vol.11, No.2.

Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H. & Grønlie, A., 1994: "Application of the Hough Transform for automated interpretation of Linear Features in Imageries". Presented at IGARSS-94, Pasedena, California, USA, august 8-12 , 1994.

Fichler, C., Sæther, B., 1994: "Image Enhancement and Structural Interpretation of Satellite Gravity Data of the Barent Sea". Presented at 56th EAEG Conference, Vienna, Austria, june 6-10, 1994.

Bremdal, B.A., Brenne, I., Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., 1994: "Defining analytic strategies in remote sensing using a hybrid knowledge-based approach", in Braunschweig, B. & Day, R.: Novel Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Petroleum, may 1994.

Fichler, C., Sæther, B., 1994: "The Barents Sea Geology visualized by marine and satellite gravity data". Presented at 2.nd. International Barents Symposium, Kirkenes, Norway, september 15-18 1994.

Fichler, C., Lundin, E., Rundhovde, E., Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., 1994: "Image processing and modelling of gravity and magnetic data offshore Mid-Norway". Statoil Report F&U LoU 94 033.


Fichler,C. & Sæther, B.M., 1995: "Satellite Gravity of the Barents and the Norwegian Sea from High- and Low Resolution ERS-1 and from GEOSAT". Statoil report F&U/LoU 95009.

Rueslåtten, H., Strøm, A., Sæther, B., Gabrielsen, R.H., 1996: "Visualisation and Classification on Images and Maps using the Hough Transform". Presented at the Eleventh Thematic Conference and Workshop on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, Las Vegas, Nevada, 27-29 February, 1996.

Fichler, C., Rueslåtten, H., Rundhovde, E & Sæther, B.M., 1997: "The Aeromagnetic Signature of Lithology and Hydrocarbon Seepage in the northern North Sea". EAEG, Geneve 1997.

Fichler, C. , Rundhovde, E, Johansen, S. & Sæther, B.M., 1996: "Barents Sea Tectonic Structures Visualized by ERS-1 Satellite Gravity Data with Indications of an OffshoreBalcalian Trend." Submitted to First Break October'96.

Sæther, B., Fichler, C. & Rueslåtten H., 1997: "Satellite Derived Gravity Data used for Offshore Exploration". Satellite Applications in Oil/Gas & Mining Industries, Singapore Febr. 25-27, 1997.

Fichler, C. , Rueslåtten, H., Rundhovde, E. & Sæther, B.: "Aeromagnetic anomalies related to hydrocarbon gas seepage and sedimentary lithology". EAGE 59th Conference and Technical Exhibition - Geneva, Switzerland, 26-30 May 1997.

Christine Fichler, Egil Rundhovde, Ståle Johansen & Bjørn M. Sæther: "Barents Sea tectonic structures visualized by ERS1 satellite gravity data with indications of an offshore Baikalian trend". Research article, First Break EAGE, November 1997.

Christine Fichler, Egil Rundhovde, Odleiv Olesen, Bjørn M. Sæther, Håkon Rueslåtten,Erik Lundin and A.G. Dore: "Regional interpretation of image enhanced gravity and magnetic data covering the mid-Norwegian shelf and adjecent mainland".Techtonophysics 306 (1999) pp 183-197.

Hesthammer, J., Hesthammer, S., Johansen, S.E., and Sæther, B.: "Preparing for e-learning in petroleum geoscience". Two-part article in EAGE First Break, April 2001, Part 1: Organizing, sharing and reusing content, pp 212-217.

Hesthammer, J., Hesthammer, S., Johansen, S.E., and Sæther, B.: "Preparing for e-learning in petroleum geoscience". Two-part article in EAGE First Break, April 2001, Part 2: Producing content, pp 217-222.

AV-5 Five selected publications for Bjørn Sæther

a) Hesthammer, J., Hesthammer, S., Johansen, S.E., and Sæther, B.: "Preparing for e-learning in petroleum geoscience". Two-part article in EAGE First Break, April 2001, Part 1: Organizing, sharing and reusing content, pp 212-217.

b) Hesthammer, J., Hesthammer, S., Johansen, S.E., and Sæther, B.: "Preparing for e-learning in petroleum geoscience". Two-part article in EAGE First Break, April 2001, Part 2: Producing content, pp 217-222.

c) Sinding-Larsen, R., Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., Chen, Z., 1991: "Structural Interpretation of the Okavango Basin (South Central Africa) from Multisatellite Imagery". Presented at the Eigth Thematic Conference on Geologic Remote Sensing, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 29 - May 2, 1991.

d) Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., Henningsen, T., 1991: "Advanced Techniques for Lineament Analysis". Presented at the Eigth Thematic Conference on Geologic Remote Sensing, Denver, Colorado, USA, April 29 - May 2, 1991.


e) Sæther, B., Rueslåtten, H., Rundhovde, E., Fichler, C., Henningsen, T., Johansen, S.E., 1991: "Remote Sensing Methods in Offshore Exploration", NPF-konferansen "Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation in Norway", Stavanger 9-11 desember 1991. Foredrag og publikasjon, 1995.

AV-5 Personal statement for Bjørn Sæther

My main interest has been using IT in geological, geochemical and geophysical diciplines. Remote sensing, integration of various datatypes and visualisation has been my main focus the last years. Today I’m project leader for computer based training in the geosciences.


Appendix 2: Computer Architecture and Design Group (DM)

The DM group has the following faculty members: DM-1 Lasse Natvig, dr.ing., professor DM-2 Pauline Haddow, dr.ing., associate professor (50% in 2001) DM-3 Olav Landsverk, professor emeritus DM-4 Steinar Line, siv.ing., assistant professor (univeersitetslektor)

The group has three local PhD students: Morten Hartmann, Gunnar Tufte (CAOS) and Katherina Jørgensen (MicroArray Lab at Medicine), and one remote: Piet van Remortel (Free University of Brussels).

In 1996-2000 the group has produced three dr.ing. candidates: - Gaute Myklebust: ”Implementations of an unsupervised neural network model on an

experimental multiprocessor system”, 1996, advisor: O. Landsverk.- Tørresen, Jim: ”Parallelization of Backpropagation Training for Feed-Forward Neural

Networks”, 1996, advisor: O. Landsverk.- Pauline Haddow: “A Framework for Modelling Communication Hardware in

Multicomputers”, 1998, advisor: L. Natvig.

The group has in 1992-2001 produced around. 80 M.Sc. students.

The group teaches the following seven courses: SIF8001 Information Technology, Introduction (4 classes),SIE4005 Digital Design and Computer Fundamentals (50%), SIF8025 Computers and Operating Systems (50%), SIF8062 Computer Design, SIF8064 Computer Architecture, SIF8084 Computer Design Project Work, SIF8091 Computer Design and Architecture Specialization, DIF8912 Computer Architecture 2,SIF80AC System level simulation of computers,SIF80AD HW/SW co-simulation,SIF80AE Parallel computational models,SIF80AF Biological inspiration, fault tolerance and adaptivity,SIF80AG New technologies for evolvable hardware,SIF80AH Evolvable hardware: modelling ans simulation.

The DM-group, short summary of activity year 1992-2001

The teaching activities of the group may be classified into computer architecture and computer design, ranging from digital technology through hardware to system software. The division of work and interfaces between hardware and software are central issues. Our technology focus has been reconfigurable technology (FPGAs) that may be considered as a compromise between ASIC technology and software.


During the period the RENNS project resulted in four Ph.D. theses and about 20 publications. RENNS is short for Reconfigurable Neural Network Server. The group built a fully functional multiprocessor with special purpose HW and SW. This was a large development project, and the Ph.D. students and faculty involved, had to spend a lot of their research time to do engineering work in addition to writing scientific papers. Also the current research activity involves prototyping and hardware engineering. The group gets financial support for our hardware lab, but we have no technical personell dedicated to the lab. The faculty and Ph.D. students hence have to use a significant portion of their time to develop and maintain a modern lab with rapid changes in technology and the necessary tools.

Two of the senior group members retired recently, and the group has been understaffed for a long period. We are giving six courses in the siv.ing. (M.Sc.) program, and among these are huge courses with 200-500 students and a labour-intensive laboratory course (now with 600 students!). The difficulties in recruiting new faculty members in addition to sick leaves and a maternity leave have given long periods of only 1-2 full time faculty members in the group. It has not been possible to give the assigned courses without reducing the research activity.

Haddow has with assistance of Gunnar Tufte during the last two years built up a significant research program in evolvable hardware. The progress in the BSPlab project has been slow due to lack of time and difficulties in getting students interested in the project.

The primary goal for the future is to fill some of the vacant scientific positions. We will continue to do research that supports our teaching.


DM-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Lasse Natvig

DM-1 CV for Lasse Natvig

Personalia: Born 20.05.58. Married, three children.

Resume: Lasse Natvig is Professor of Computer Architecture at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, since 1997. He received a siv.ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Computer Science in 1982, and a dr.ing. (Ph.D.) degree in Computer Science in 1991, both from The Norwegian Institute of Technology. His main fields of interests are computer architecture, parallel algorithms, parallel architectures, parallel programming, theoretical models of parallel computation, simulation of computer systems and system level simulation of hardware and mixed hardware/software systems. Natvig has four years of varied experience from the computer industry (Tandberg Data). He has taught a 4th year course and a PhD course in computer architecture in 10 years (course contents totally renewed two times), and a 2nd year course in computer fundamentals for approx. 450-600 students in the last four years. Natvig has also taught courses such as parallel algorithms, highly parallel algorithms, and the computer science introductory course for approx. 500 students in three semesters. He has supervised about 80 diploma (M.Sc.) theses or one-semester projects.

Positions:1983 – 87: Development engineer (HW & SW) at Tandberg Data, Oslo, Norway.1986 – 87: Group leader (Methods and tools), Tandberg Data, Oslo, Norway.1987 – 90: PhD (dr.ing.) student at Department of computer systems and telematics (IDT), NTH (The Norwegian Institute of Technology).1991 – 97: Associate Professor at IDT, NTH.1994 – 95: Head of the Department (IDT), NTH.1994 – 95: Member of the Board, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science1993 – 96: Member of the Board, IDT.1996 – 97: Sabbatical at Nordic VLSI. Research in Hardware Description Languages and participation in industrial project.1997 - : Professor (computer architecture) at IDI, NTNU. Group leader in Group for Computer Architecture and Design.

Supervision: Supervised Pauline Haddow during her PhD research resulting in the PhD thesis “A Framework for

Modelling Communication Hardware in Multicomputers” defended in 1998. Has supervised about 45 diploma students and about 35 half-year projects for students at our

specialization within the siv.ing. programme.

Teaching experienceSee end of resume above. Fullfilled NTNU’s pedagogical education called PEDUP in 1994.

Committee work and refereeing: Refereeing for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Member of the Board, Norwegian Informatics Conference, since 1999. Opponent and external examiner at the PhD doctoral defense of Simo Juvaste, University of Joensuu,

Finland, october 1998. (ref. Martti Penttonen) Second opponent for Stein Jørgen Ryan, Dr.Scient thesis, Univ. of Oslo, august 1998. (ref. Arne Maus) Second opponent for Tor Olav Skeie, Dr.Scient thesis, Univ. of Oslo, june 1998. (ref. Olav Lysne) Member of adjudication committee at the dr.ing. disputation of Sverre Wichlund, 1998 (ref. Einar Aas) Member of adjudication I at the disputation of Mikael Taveniku, Chalmers Tekniske Høgskola, Sweden,

november 1997. (ref. Bertil Svensson) Member of adjudication committee at the dr.ing. disputation of Kjersti Moldeklev, 1996. (ref. Finn Arve

Aagesen) Member of Committee on Computational Science and Engineering at NTH 1993-95. Resulting in a Strategic

University Programme (SUP), and two new professorships within the area. Paper reviewing for Norwegian Informatics Conference, yearly since 1995. Member of the evaluation committees of candidates for scientific positions at NTNU and other universities 5-

6 times since 1993. (Assoc. prof Høgskolen I Rogaland 1992, Two positions as Assoc. prof. at IDT 1993, Programme committee, Norwegian Informatics Conference 1999, 2000, 2001.


Other activitiesI did most of the IDI-work when IDI and the Department of Telematics (also NTNU) together organised the NIK-conference in Trondheim in 1999.

DM-1 Publication list for Lasse Natvig

Chapters in books(1) Lasse Natvig, General-Purpose Parallel Programming on the PRAM Model, Chapter 4 in Abstract

Machine Models for Highly Parallel Computers, Oxford Science Publications, 1995, pages 64-82.

Refereed -- int’l conference/workshops(2) Lasse Natvig, Simulating Parallel Architectures with BSPlab, in Proceedings of Int’l conf. On High-

Performance Computing and Networking, HPCN 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2110), June 2001, pages 547-550.

(3) Tormod Njølstad and Lasse Natvig, Experience from a 450 Students/Year Course on Digital Logic and Computer Fundamentals using FPGAs and –Controllers, In Proceedings of 2001 Int’l conf. On Microelectronic Systems Education, June 2001, pages 18-19.

(4) Pauline Haddow and Lasse Natvig, A Case Study in Multilevel Architecture Modelling using HDLs, In proceedings from the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Hardware Description Languages (APCHDL’97), pages 24-31.

(5) Lasse Natvig, High-level Architectural Simulation of the Torus Routing Chip, In Proceedings of 6’th Int’l Verilog HDL Conference (IVC97), Santa Clara, April 1997, pages 48-55.

(6) Lasse Natvig, Compile and Runtime Padding: An Approach to Realising Synchronous MIMD Execution, IFIP World Computer Congress, Track 4: Theoretical Foundations of Computing, IFIP Transactions A-51, Volume I, page 553-558, Hamburg, Aug 1994.

Articles -- national conferences (7) Lasse Natvig and Tormod Njølstad, Experience from a New Course on Digital Logic and Computer

Fundamentals at NTNU, to appear in Norsk Informatikk Konferanse (Norwegian Informatics Conference) 2001, November 2001.

(8) Lasse Natvig and Pauline Haddow, A Multilevel Simulation Study Linking Parallel Applications to Executable and Realisable Hardware Models, Norsk Informatikk konferanse (Norwegian Informatics Conference) 1997, (NIK97), pages 303-314.

(9) Lasse Natvig, Why Computational Science and Engineering Should be of Interest to Computer Scientists, Norsk Informatikk konferanse (Norwegian Informatics Conference) 1994, pages 195-205.

DM-1 Five selected publications for Lasse Natvig

a. Lasse Natvig, Simulating Parallel Architectures with BSPlab, in Proceedings of Int’l conf. on High-Performance Computing and Networking, HPCN 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS 2110), June 2001, pages 547-550.

b. Tormod Njølstad and Lasse Natvig, Experience from a 450 Students/Year Course on Digital Logic and Computer Fundamentals using FPGAs and –Controllers, In Proceedings of 2001 Int’l conf. on Microelectronic Systems Education, June 2001, pages 18-19.


c. Lasse Natvig, High-level Architectural Simulation of the Torus Routing Chip, In Proceedings of 6'th Int'l Verilog HDL Conference (IVC97), Santa Clara, April 1997, pages 48-55.

d. Lasse Natvig, General-Purpose Parallel Programming on the PRAM Model, Chapter 4 in Abstract Machine Models for Highly Parallel Computers, Oxford Science Publications, 1995, pages 64-82.

e. Lasse Natvig, Compile and Runtime Padding: An Approach to Realising Synchronous MIMD Execution, IFIP World Computer Congress, Track 4: Theoretical Foundations of Computing, IFIP Transactions A-51, Volume I, page 553-558, Hamburg, Aug 1994.

DM-1 Personal statement by Lasse Natvig

Administration and course developmentAfter finishing my dr.ing. (Ph.D.) research on parallel algorithms, I joined the Computer Architecture and Design group and started teaching Computer Architecture. In 1993-96 I was member of the department’s Board (”Vice-Chair”) and Head of the Department in 1994-95. The administration load was in general high during this period with a total rehaul of the siv.ing. (M.Sc.) program which was expanded from 4.5 to 5 years of study, and with the reorganization of NTH&UNIT into NTNU.

In 1997-98 I spent a sabbatical at Nordic VLSI, a leading company in custom design of VLSI chips. During my sabbatical there, I expanded my knowledge of state-of-the-art hardware design tools. This was achieved through my research on Hardware Description Languages (see selected publication c) and the participation in an industrial project.

Since the sabbattical I have been leading and participating in a total renewing of our computer fundamentals course (one half of the course SIE4005 digital logic and computer fundamentals). This has involved the design and development of a new stand-alone simple computer (lab board), in-house production of 45 such lab boards, totally new lectures and exercises, organising of the course and the laboratory with 450-600 students and the leading of the course staff counting about 25 part-time teaching assistants. (see selected publication b)..

The BSPlab project (http://www.idi.ntnu.no/bsplab)For the last 10 years I have been very enthusiastic about the elegance of Valiant’s Bulk Synchronous Model for Parallel Computations (BSP). I believe it has an important role in parallel computing that should be further investigated. This is a continuation of my interest in parallel computational models and parallel computing, and in my wish to bring results from theoretical computer science into teaching and practical use (selected publications d) and e)).

During my sabbatical I supervised two diploma students (Uthus and Dubdahl) that developed the BSPlab system. Several student projects have been run since then to evaluate BSPlab, and I am currently working on a textbook with the work title ”Understanding parallel computing with BSPlab”. The book explains step by step various concepts in parallel computing related to algorithms, architecture and performance. The intention is to use BSPlab extensively to run experiments tailored to explain the various concepts and performance effects. I am not aware of


http://www.idi.ntnu.no/bsplab

other textbooks that are focusing on the interplay between parallel hardware and software, and its effect on performance. (Selected publication a) gives a very brief overview of the project).

I regard BSPlab as basic research since it has increased understanding of the HW-SW interplay and its effect on performance in parallel computers as its main goal. The project has been severely slowed down by the difficulty of recruiting students to the project combined with our heavy teaching load and amount of vacant positions. The project has currently a vacant PhD fellowship. It is used in the teaching of the 4th year course computer architecture(http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~dam/fag/sif8064/index.php). BSPlab has users in Singapore, Netherlands and United Kingdom.


http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~dam/fag/sif8064/index.php

DM-2 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Pauline C. Haddow

DM-2 CV for Pauline C Haddow

Date of Birth: 04.02.64Position: Associate Professor 1998+Previous Position Assistant Professor 1997-1998Academic Grade: Dr. (1998)

Teaching experiencePauline’s main teaching duties have been to support the courses of the 4th and 5th year students studying computer architecture and design with focus on the design courses: computer design (4th year, 2.5vt), computer design project (4th year, 5vt) and research topics within computer design (5th year, 2.5vt). Pauline has also given lectures in the 3rd and 4th year computer architecture courses.

In 2000, Pauline redesigned the computer design course to support newer teaching forms including problem based learning, colloquia, semester assignments as well as more traditional lectures thus enabling assessment of the course to be divided over the different activities.

Pauline is currently on the IDI board and a member of the IDI research committee.

Research InterestsPauline’s current research interests lie in the newer research field of evolvable hardware directed towards adaptivity, fault tolerance and achieving large complex designs. She is investigating materials for new technology platforms for evolvable hardware. At the same time she is using today’s reconfigurable technology combined with evolvable hardware to model complex biological systems.

The latter project is an NFR financed project which is a cross-disciplinary project with the Department of Botany and the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering. This project is also part of our Computational Biology efforts at NTNU.

Pauline is leading a group of 4 Ph.D. students within the field of evolvable hardware within our research group Complex Adaptive Organically-inspired Systems, CAOS. Details of current projects within evolvable hardware may be found through our web page: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~pauline/CAOSmain.html.

Pauline, together with partners in the UK, is establishing a Virtual Centre for Computational Modelling of Biological Processes with Smart Materials. This will involve various funding bids, the first already in progress in the UK with a budget of £2200k and the movement of researchers between these groups. Pauline’s involvement is in the area of Evolvable Hardware in novel materials.

Program Committees and Journal Reviewing5th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware 2003Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2002)4th International Conference on Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware 20013rd NASA DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware 20012nd NASA DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware 2000IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary ComputationGenetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

DM-2 Publication list for Pauline C Haddow

Refereed International Conference Articles(1) Pauline C. Haddow, Gunnar Tufte and Piet Van Remortel, Introducing Growth to Achieve Large Complex

Design Solutions, to appear in the International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’01).


(2) Pauline Haddow and Gunnar Tufte, Bridging the Genotype-Phenotype Mapping for Digital FPGAs, 3rd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH’01), pp 109-115

(1) Pauline Haddow, and Piet van Remortel, From Here to There: Future Robust EHW Technologies for Large Digital Designs, 3rd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH’01), pp 232-239.

(2) Pauline Haddow and Gunnar Tufte, An Evolvable Hardware FPGA for Adaptive Hardware, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2000 (CEC'00), pp 553-560.

(3) Gunnar Tufte and Pauline Haddow, Evolving an Adaptive Digital Filter, 2nd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, (EH'00), pp 143-150.

(4) Gunnar Tufte and Pauline Haddow, Prototyping a GA Pipeline for Complete Hardware Evolution, 1st NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, 1999, (EH'99), pp 18-25.

(5) Pauline Haddow, A Prototype Framework for Modelling Communication Hardware in Multicomputers, Intern. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Proc. Tech. and Applications, 1999.

(6) Pauline Haddow and Lasse Natvig, A Case Study in Multilevel Architecture Modelling using HDLs, 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Hardware Description Languages, 1997, pp 24-31.

(7) Pauline Haddow, A Generalisation of Router Chip Design, Proceedings of the Fifth Euromicro Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1997, pp 307-310.

Invited talks(1) Pauline Haddow, Evolvable Hardware: From Logic to Signal Transduction, presented at Napier University,

Birmingham University and University of Sussex, UK. Jan 1999.

National Conferences and Workshops(2) Pauline Haddow, From Biology to Hardware: Evolvable Hardware, DAK Forum, Norway, Okt 2001. (3) Pauline Haddow and Gunnar Tufte, Evolving a robot controller in Hardware, Norsk Informatikkonferense,

NIK’99, pp 141-150(4) Lasse Natvig and Pauline Haddow, A multilevel simulation study linking parallel applications to executable

and realisable hardware models, Norsk Informatikkonferanse, NIK'98 pp 303-314

Ph.D. thesis: Pauline Haddow, A Framework for Modelling Communication Hardware in Multicomputers, Phd thesis, 1998, NTNU:1998:38.

DM-2 Five selected publications for Pauline Haddow

a. Pauline C. Haddow, Gunnar Tufte and Piet Van Remortel, Introducing Growth to Achieve Large Complex Design Solutions, to appear in the International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES’01).

b. Pauline Haddow and Gunnar Tufte, Bridging the Genotype-Phenotype Mapping for Digital FPGAs, 3rd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH’01), pp 109-115

c. Pauline Haddow, and Piet van Remortel, From Here to There: Future Robust EHW Technologies for Large Digital Designs, 3rd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH’01), pp 232-239.

d. Pauline Haddow and Gunnar Tufte, An Evolvable Hardware FPGA for Adaptive Hardware, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2000 (CEC'00), pp 553-560.

e. Gunnar Tufte and Pauline Haddow, Evolving an Adaptive Digital Filter, 2nd NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, (EH'00), pp 143-150.

DM-2 Personal statement for Pauline HaddowNot provided


DM-3 Professor Emeritus Olav Landsverk

AV-5 Mini-CV for Olav LandsverkName: Olav Landsverk

Position: Professor Emeritus, retired 1997, appointed 1970.

Research area: computer design.

CV and own publication lists not submitted, see Group publication lists.

DM-4 Assistant Professor Steinar Line

DM-4 CV for Steinar Line

Date of Birth: 18.07.74Position: Assistant Professor (Universitetslektor) 2000-2001Education: MSc. (2000)

Teaching experience: Steinar’s teaching duties the last year have been to cover the courses ‘Introduction to Information Technology’ (1st year, 2,5vt) and ‘Programming’ (1st year, 2,5vt). Last year Steinar also went through NTNU’s pedagogical education program (called PEDUP) while teaching and has a great interest in this area as well as computer science. This year Steinar is quite busy as he is teaching four classes of first year students and is the administrative leader of the Introduction to Information Technology course, which has a total of about 1600 students and 115 assistants.

MSc thesis: Steinar Line, Using BSPlab as a PRAM simulator, 2000

DM-X Group publications not listed above

Refeered int'l conference/workshops articles

(1) Julian Miller and Morten Hartmann, Evolving Messy Gates for Fault-Tolerance: Some preliminary Findings, Proc. The Third NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware, EH 2001, Editors D. Keymeulen and A. Stoica and J. Lohn and R. S. Zebulum, pp 116-123.

(2) Julian Miller and Morten Hartmann, Untidy Evolution: Evolving Messy Gates for Fault-Tolerance, Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. Fourth Int. Conf., ICES 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science no 2210, 2001, pages 14-25.

(3) Gaute Myklebust, Jon Gunnar Solheim. Parallel Self-organizing Maps for actual applications. IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, Perth, Australia, 1995.

(4) Gaute Myklebust, Jon Gunnar Solheim, Jarle Fredrik Greipsland. Self Organizing Maps on a Reconfigurable Computer. International Conference on Signal Processing Applications and Technology, Boston, USA, 1995

(5) Gaute Myklebust, Jon Gunnar Solheim, Erik Steen. Wavefront implementation of Self Organizing Maps on RENNS. International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (ICDSP'95), Limassol, Cyprus.

(6) Gaute Myklebust, Jon Gunnar Solheim, Erik Steen. Speeding up small sized Self Organizing Maps for use in visualization of multispectral medical images. Eighth IEEE Symposium Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'95), Lubbock, USA.


(7) Jon Gunnar Solheim, Gaute Myklebust. RENNS - a Reconfigurable Computer System for Artificial Neural Networks. First IEEE International Conference on Algorithms and Applications of Parallel Processing 1995. (ICA3PP'95), Brisbane, Australia.

(8) Jim Tørresen, Shinji Tomita and Olav Landsverk. The relation of Weight Update Frequency to Convergence of BP. World Congress on Neural Networks 1995, Washington D.C.

(9) Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. Exploiting multiple degrees of BP parallelism on the highly parallel computer AP1000. Fourth International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks 1995.Cambridge, U.K.

(10) Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. Parallel back propagation training algorithm for MIMD computer with 2D-torus network. The third Parallel Computing Workshop 1995, Kawasaki, Japan

(11) Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. Parallel back propagation training algorithm for MIMD computer with 2D-torus network. International Conference On Neural Network Processing 1995, Seoul, Korea

(12) Jon Gunnar Solheim, Gaute Myklebust. RENNS -an Experimental Computer System with a reconfigurable Interconnection Network. International Workshop on Parallel Processing, 1994, Bangalore, India.

(13) Gaute Myklebust, Jon Gunnar Solheim. RENNS - utilizing a reconfigurable communication system. Joint Conference on Information Sciences 1994, Raleigh, USA.

(14) Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. Parallel back propagation training algorithm for MIMD computer with 2D-torus network. Summer Workshop On Parallel and distributed Processing 1994, Okinawa, Japan

(15) Gaute Myklebust, Erik Steen. Neural Networks in visualization of multispectral medical images. Joint Conference on Information Sciences 1994, Raleigh, USA

(16) Olav Landsverk, Jarle Greipsland, Jan Anders Mathisen, Jon Gunnar Solheim, Lisbet Utne, RENNS - a Reconfigurable System for Simulating Artificial Neural Network Algorithms, In Proceedings of the ISMM International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, Pittsburgh 1992

(17) Olav Landsverk, Jarle Greipsland, Jan Anders Mathisen, Jon Gunnar Solheim, Håkon Dahle, Lisbet Utne. RENNS - a REconfigurable Neural Network Server, In Proceedings of International Conferonce on Neural Networks, Brighton, 1992

(18) Jan Anders Mathisen and Lisbet Utne, A Multi-purpose I/O-board. Proceedings from Field Programmable Logic 92

(19) Articles presentet at national conferences

(20) Gaute Myklebust, Jon Gunnar Solheim, Jim Tørresen. Parallel implementations of Self Organizing Maps on RENNS. Norwegian Neural Network Symposium 1994, Oslo, Norway.

(21) Jim Tørresen, Shin-ichiro Mori, Hiroshi Nakashima, Shinji Tomita, Olav Landsverk. The AP1000 computer running backpropagation. Norwegian Neural Network Symposium 1994, Oslo, Norway.

(22) Olav Landsverk, Jarle Greipsland, Jan Anders Mathisen, Gaute Myklebust, Jon Gunnar Solheim, Lisbet Utne. Neural Computing, the RENNS approach, NSANN93, Bergen, Norway. 1993

(23) Olav Landsverk, Jarle Greipsland, Jan Anders Mathisen, Jon Gunnar Solheim, Lisbet Utne, A Reconfigurable Server for Artificial Neural Networks, Proceedings from Norsk Informatikk Konferanse 1992, Tromsø, Norway.

(24) Jan Anders Mathisen, Jarle Greipsland and Ståle Smedseng, Dynamic reconfigurability -- a new approach to computer systems, Proceedings from Norsk Informatikk Konferanse 1992, Tromsø, Norway


Appendix 3: Database Systems Group (DB)

The DB group has the following faculty members:DB-1 Kjell Bratbergsengen, professor, since 1969, group leaderDB-2 Svein Erik Bratsberg, dr.ing., professor, since 2001DB-3 Svein Olaf Hvasshovd, dr.ing., professor from 2001, part-time from 1997DB-4 Mads Nygård, dr.techn., professor, since 1997DB-5 Peter Hughes, adjunct professor, since 1987DB-6 Roger Midtstraum, associate professor, since 1986, deputy group leaderDB-7 Kjetil Nørvåg, dr.ing., associate professor from 2001DB-8 Herindrasan Ramampiaro, postdoc on MOWAHS from Oct. 2001

The group has seven PhD students: Jon Olav Hauglid (Telenor-financed), Jon Heggland, Rune Humborstad (expired fellowship), Hien Nam Le (MOWAHS), Tore Mallaug, Olav Sandstå (expired fellowship), and Erlend Tøssebro.

In 1996-2000 the group has produced three dr.ing. (Ph.D.)candidates: - Rune Hjelsvold: ”Videostar – A Database for Video Information Sharing”, 1996, advisor:

K. Bratbergsengen.- Håvard Tveite: “Data Modelling and Database Requirements for Geographical Data”,

1997, advisor: K. Bratbergsengen.- Kjetil Nørvåg: “VAGABOND The Design and Analysis of a Temporal Object Database

Management System”, 2000, advisor: K. Bratbergsengen.In addition, we hadfour Ph.D. graduates in 1992-1995, and two expected in Nov.-Dec. 2001 (Ramampiaro, Sabaratnam).

The group teaches 17 MSc-level courses: SIF8020 Data modelling, databases and database management systems, SIF8022 Advanced database management systems SIF8025 Operating systems and computer architecture SIF8037 Distributed systems and performance evaluation SIF8041 Operating systems and database management systems SIF8050 Management of large data volumes MNFIT222 Operating systems, MNFIT223 Data communication and distributed operating systems, MNFIT213 Object-oriented systems development, SIF8095 Database technology -- specialization, including seven depth courses: SIF80AU Reliability and continuous availability in database management systems, SIF80AV Database systems for multimedia data, SIF80AX Mass storage technologies. SIF80AY Databases for geographic information systems, SIF80AZ Distributed systems -- advanced course, SIF80BA Semistructured data in databases, SIF80BB Transaction management).

In addition, we teach three Ph.D. –level courses: DIF8904 Database management systems DIF8905 Distributed database systems


DIF8913 Transaction processing systems

The group members have also taught introductory courses over a number of years.

History and backgroundThe group was established in 1972. It has a long history of innovation and cooperation with industry. In the seventies, a number of small systems based on the hierarchical set database model, were built. RA1 was the database system for BIBSYS, the national library information system, for a period of 15 years. RA2 was developed for Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk, used internally and marketed as their own product. RA3 was an experimental backend database computer, where the backend database computer was dedicated to database processing. In today’s terminology, this was a client-server architecture.

In the late seventies, we started the search for fast and efficient execution of operations in relational database systems. The ASTRA project was funded by Norsk Data and NFR. Parallel technology was used to enable fast execution, and persistent SIMULA enhanced with relations as a new data type was used to provide user-friendly data management. This language was named ASTRAL. A system prototype for a single processor computer was ready in 1980. Methods for parallel execution of relational algebra were also developed It was in this project that the hash based algorithms for doing parallel relational algebra were invented in 1978.

The non-parallel versions of the hash based relational algebra algorithms were implemented in the commercial database system TechRa. This development started in 1983, and the first version of TechRa was released in 1985. TechRa was the first relational database system with hash based algebra algorithms. The efficiency was superb, and TechRa is still marketed and sold.

To prove the hash-based algebra algorithms on parallel systems, we got funding from NFR from 1985 to 1990. A part of the Cross8 and Hypercube projects we built 5 parallel computers. The parallel methods were implemented and tested with excellent results. We also started research on reliable and continuously available systems in this period. In 1989 members of the group, together with fellow members of the SINTEF Tele and data Database group, established the company HypRa to commercialise the parallel methods developed so far, both for extreme performance and extreme reliability. Through a number of transformations HypRa became Clustra.

During the seventies and eighties we focused on developing core technology; network databases in the seventies and relational and parallel technology in the eighties. In the nineties a broadening took place. Development of core database technology was to a large extent moved out of the department and into industry, i.e. CLUSTRA. A number of more application-oriented projects emerged. Storage and retrieval of images was the major theme in two projects; historical images in the Bauta project and X-ray images in the PACS project. Later on, we took on moving pictures. Structuring and description of film and video were explored in the VideoSTAR prototype while efficient storage, retrieval and delivery of streaming data types were tested in the Elvira and LAVA prototypes. We have had activities on database systems for geographical information systems over the last 6 years. In the recent years, we have studied temporal aspects of geographical data. We have also had activities on transaction models in distributed cooperative systems. This was done in the CAGIS-project together with other groups at IDI. The ideas from the ASTRA project were revitalized in the mid-nineties through the VAGABOND project.


Funding of database researchNFR funded extensive database research in two periods between 1978 and 1990. The first period was the ASTRA project 1978-80, and the second period was the CROSS8 and HyperCube projects 1985-90. Through these projects, both excellent research results and a large number of M.Sc. candidates were produced. We were also lucky to strike important industrial contracts to commercialise our ideas. In the period 1983-85, we joined Sysscan (later Kvatro) in developing the Techra database management system. After NFR stopped database research funding in 1990, Telenor, Kvatro and later Clustra AS have been crucial in enabling and maintaining vital database research in Trondheim. Until 1990 SINTEF Tele and Data also had a strong database research group.

Strong and weak pointsThe group has doubled its staff this year with experienced and very well-qualified researchers. The group has a long tradition in database research, and Trondheim is a stronghold for development of database technology in Europe. We are strong on core database technology, like algebra, transaction processing, parallel technology in databases, availability and reliability. Several of our staff members and Ph.D. students have worked with leading database groups throughout the world. In summary, the group has a substantial network covering most major database groups in the world.

More cooperation with advanced database users is needed. We ought to do more on database performance optimization and utilization of database technology. We should have had more foreign visitors to our group and been more active in EU-research projects.

StrategyQuality of service will become more and more important in the years to come. Reliability, availability of service and data, and high capacity will be of growing importance. We will further develop our skills in these directions. In these areas we will benefit from our strong core competence.

We will increase our efforts on how to utilize database technology in emerging application areas. There are many demanding fields; multimedia databases, GIS, mobile applications, cooperative systems, and temporal issues. We will maintain and further develop our cooperation with advanced and demanding users, as well as international research groups.

Last year we developed a number of new, advanced courses, specializing in selected fields. The focus in the years to come will be on improving and consolidating, rather than expanding the number of courses. We intend to continue our tradition of being the major supplier of database experts in Norway.

Publications and external activitiesDuring the first two decades after the group was established, there was little emphasis on publication.1 Emphasis was on developing prototypes and systems for industry. During the last decade this has changed. Hence, in the future, we intend to continue our current mix of research based innovation and publication. We will strengthen our cooperation with industry.

We will also take on staging more international database conferences. As indicated before, we have already been asked to host the VLDB2005 conference in Trondheim. We will also work

1 It should be mentioned, though, that the group started off with writing a textbook on file and database systems: Bratbergsengen, Hofstad og Wibe: “Filsystemer og databaser”, Tapir 1972. This was used over a period of 15 years in most of our universities and regional colleges.


on attracting more foreign visitors to the group and thereby strengthening our international relations.

We emphasize good internal relationships; that group members should be supportive, and that both burdens and successes should be shared.


DB-1 Professor Kjell Bratbergsengen

DB-1 CV for Kjell Bratbergsengen

PERSONAL INFORMATIONNorwegian citizen, born in Lillehammer 1944, married to Rachel, 2 children

POSITIONS 1. Professor NTNU since 1984 2. Professor II, Høgskolen i Gjøvik (HiG – Gjøvik University College) (Adjunct Professor - Called to

Position, since 1998)

EDUCATION 1968 Siv. Ing. (M.Sc.), Faculty of Civil Engineering, NTH

PRIOR POSITIONS 74-84 Professor (dosent), computer science NTH 70-74 Assistant professor (universitetslektor) , computer science, NTH 69-70 Scholarship holder, computer science NTH 67-69 Researcher, RUNIT, University Computing Center

SABBATICALS 79-80 Visiting Scientist, Sperry Univac, Database Research Group, Minneapolis, USA, 12 months. Host:

George Champine. Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Department of Computer Science. Host:

Professor David DeWitt, 6 months.UNDP work

85-85 Visiting Professor, Beijing Inst. of Software - Beijing, China, 1 month

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, BOARDS, COMMITTEES, ETC. Established Norsk Informatikkråd 1.10.1976 at Bårdshaug Herregård. Member of preparatory committee

with Nils M. Nilsen and Kjell Overholt. Member “NTH advisory group for development of ADB systems for the NTH administration”, 1976-

1977. Department head, Department of computer science, 1976-1979. Board member, Almennavdelingen 1976-1979. Deputy member NTH Committee on computer science education, 1977-1982. NTH delegate to Norsk Informatikkråd, 1977-1981. Vice Dean, Almennavdelingen 1978-1979. Elected representative of employees to NTH Board and Council (Professorutvalget og Professorrådet)

1981-1983. Initiator and member of “The Gjeitnes committee for organizing the computer science education at NTH”

1982-1983. Board member ULA - Utdanningssenter i ledelse og administrasjon, 1983-86. Committee member "Brukerkomite for billedprosessering" appointed by NAVF for "NAVF National

laboratory for image processing", 1983-1989. Member of NTH “Fagutvalg for undervisning i databehandling” from 1984-1987. NTH appointed BIBSYS Board member, 1984-1990. Chairman IDT Committee of education, 1985-1987. UNIT appointed board member “Universitetsrådets EDB-komite”, 1985-1990, chairman, 1989-1990. Member ED-faculty Committee of education, 1985-1987. Deputy member SINTEF Council 1987. NTH appointed member of ”UNITs komite for informasjonsteknologi” 1987-1991, chairman 1990-1991. NTH appointed member of ”Gruppe for informasjonsteknologi” 1987-1994, chairman 1990-1994 Member and deputy chairman IDT Board, 1987-1990. NTH appointed SINTEF Council member, 1988-1993 Member of “NTH Committee for continuing education in information technology”, 1988-1989. NTH appointed member of ”Ingeniørutdanningsrådet: Fagråd for datateknikk” 1988-1989.


Member DELAB Board and DELAB Council, 1989-1992. Board member ”Nordiske datatidsskriftet BIT”, 1990-1993. Chairman IDT committee on physical resources (Utstyrsutvalget), 1990-1993. Deputy member ”Universitetsrådets EDB-komite”, 1991-1992. Board member NAVF Program on IT, 1991-1994. Member IDT Committee on research, 1992-1996. Board member "Parallellmaskin til forskning og undervisning ved NTH og SINTEF", 1992-1995. Board member NKUL 1994-1996. NKUL: The Norwegian Conference on Education and Learning, a

conference on modern learning methods using IT. Dean Faculty of electrical engineering and computer science, 1993-1996. Board member, Christiania Bank and Kreditkasse legacy, NTNU 1996-dd Member of "Styringsgruppen for NTNUs satsing på elektronisk informasjon", 1996-1998, report October

1996. Chairman FIM Committee on new budget models, 1996-1998, report December 1996. FIM is a new

faculty consisting of departments from three faculties all with different budget models and budgeting practise.

Deputy Department Head, IDT, 1996 NTNU appointed member of committee for establishing a new study program on surveying (Geomatics)

at NTNU, 1996-1997. "Geomatikk-utvalget". Report March 1997. http://www.iko.unit.no/iko/koutval.html.

Board member FIM, 1996-dd. Board member IDI, 1997-dd. Member IDI committee on education, 1997-1999, chairman from 1.8.1997. Board member NTNU program: IKK - Informasjon, Kommunikasjon and Kompetanse 1997-1998. Initiator and responsible “Seminar on Advanced Methods for Transaction Management and Workflow

Systems”, with Telenor Research, Trondheim, 9-10 September 1997. International PC member (ERCIM, SIGMOD, VLDB, DBTG). Scientific advisor, project "Jenter and data", 1998-dd. Committee chairman appointed by “Faculty of civil and environmental engineering” for developing a

”Multifaculty study program in geomatics”. Report October 1998. Chairman, FIM appointed group for coordinating courses of open and professional studies, 1998. Member of committee for developing a new budget model FIM and KB, 1998. Elected Department Head, IDI 1999-dd. Member NTNU appointed committee "Strategisk satsing, IKT kjerneteknologi", Spring 2000, report

April 2000. Member NTNU appointed committee "Strategisk satsing, IKT i tverrfaglig kunnskapsutvikling", Spring

2000, report April 2000. Member of NTNU “IKT-study programs advisory board”, 2000-dd. Board member NIF-Forskerne, 2000-dd Board member Rosingakademiet, Den Norske Dataforening, 2000-dd. Chairman Rosingakademiet, 2001. Board member, RAVE - The visionarium, 2001-dd. Initiator and PC member, seminar on Temporal GIS, Hell October, 2001. PC member seminar ”Er forskning lønnsomt?” (Is research profitable?) , Statoil research center October

2001

MAJOR FIELDS Database Systems, Operating Systems, Parallel Processing, Storage Systems

CURRENT COURSES AT NTNU SIF 8050 Management of large data volumes 2.5 w (100%) SIF 8041 Operating and database management systems 2.5 w (50%) SIF 8022 Advanced database management systems 2,5 w (20%) DIF8904 Database management systems, advanced course 2,5 w (100%) biannually.

CURRENT COURSES AT HIG D141A Database management systems, advanced course 2 w, (100%) SIV103 Database and information modelling 2,5 w (60%)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:


NIF-Norwegian Society of Chartered Engineers, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, DND

LANGUAGESEnglish (fluent), German, French (limited)

DB-1 Publication list for Kjell BratbergsengenSome selected papers are older than 10 yearsChapters in books

1. Kjell Bratbergsengen and Tor Stålhane "A feature analysis of ASTRAL", in Michael Brodie and Joachim Smidt "The Relational Task Group - Feature Analysis of Relational Database Systems", Springer Verlag 1981.

Journal papers2. Kjell Bratbergsengen, Parallel Database Machines, Rivista di Informatica, Vol.XXV, n.4 ottobre-

dicembre 1995.

Refereed conference papers3. Tore Amble, Kjell Bratbergsengen and Oddvar Risnes" ASTRAL: A Structured and Unified Approach to

Database Design and Manipulation" Proc. Database Architecture Conference, Venice 1978.

4. Kjell Bratbergsengen, Rune Larsen, Oddvar Risnes and Terje Aandalen "A Neighbor Connected Processor Network for Performing Relational Algbra Operations" Paper presented at 5th Workshop on Computer Architecture for Non-Numeric Processing, March 11-14, 1980 Pacific Grove, Ca.lifornia.

5. Kjell Bratbergsengen "Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations", The 10th Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Singapore Aug. 1984.

6. Kjell Bratbergsengen "Algebra Operations on a Parallel Computer - Performance Evaluation" The 5th International Workshop on Database Machines, Oct 5-8 1987 Karuizawa Japan.

7. Kjell Bratbergsengen: "The Development of the Parallel Database Computer HC16-186", Fourth Conference on Hypercubes, Concurrent Computers and Applications, Monterey, Ca, March 6-8, 1989.

8. HC16-186 Parallel (Database) Computers", Division of Computing Systems and Telematics, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Sixth International Workshop on Database Machines, France June 19-23, 1989.

9. Kjell Bratbergsengen and Tore Sæter "The Impact of High Reliability, High Capacity Database Servers on Telecommunication Systems and Services", 6th World Telecommunication Exhibition and Forum, TeleCom 91, Geneva, 7-15 oct. 1991.

10. Kjell Bratbergsengen, I/O Intensive Applications, ERCIM Symposium, Affordable Parallel Processing for Industry and Commerce, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory UK, 10-12 November 1993

11. Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, Aggregate and Grouping Functions in Object-Oriented Databases, Proceedings of the XVI International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC'96, Valdivia, Chile, November 1996.

12. Kjell Bratbergsengen and Kjetil Nørvåg, Improved and Optimized Partitioning Techniques in Database Query Processing, Fifteenth British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD15, London, July 1997.

13. Kjetil Nørvåg og Kjell Bratbergsengen, Log-Only Temporal Object Storage, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 97, Toulouse, France, September 1987.

14. Kjetil Nørvåg, Olav Sandstå og Kjell Bratbergsengen, Concurrency Control in Distributed Object-Oriented Database Systems, Proceedings of ADBIS'97, St.Petersburg, Russia, September 1997.

15. Kjetil Nørvåg og Kjell Bratbergsengen, Write Optimized Object-Oriented Systems, Presented at XVII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC'97, Valparaiso, Chile, November 1997.


16. Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, An Analytical Study of Object Identifier Indexing, Proceedings of DEXA 98, 9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Vienna, Austria, August 1998

17. Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, Optimizing OID Indexing Cost in Temporal Object-Oriented Database Systems, Proceedings of FODO'98, The 5th International Conference on Foundations of Data Organization, Kobe, Japan, November 1998.

18. Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, Optimal Object Descriptor Caching in Temporal Object Database Systems, Published in K.Tanaka, S. Ghandeharizadeh, and Y. Kambayashi (Eds.), Information Organization and Databases, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

19. Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, Optimal Object Descriptor Caching in Temporal Object Database Systems, In K. Tanaka, S. Ghandeharizadeh, and Y. Kambayashi (Eds.), Information Organization and Databases, pages 235-248, Kluwer Academic Publishers, November 2000.

Invited talks20. Kjell Bratbergsengen "The HC16 Database Computers", Presentation at the PRISMA Project Meeting,

Nijmegen Oct. 1989.

21. Kjell Bratbergsengen: "Parallel Execution of Relational Algebra Operations", PRISMA Project Meeting, Nordwijk Sept. 1990.

National conferences22. Kjell Bratbergsengen, Efficient Storage of Two and Three Dimensional Raster Type Data with Respect to

Retrieval of One, Two and Three Dimentional Features, Norsk Informatikkonferanse 1997, NIK'97, Voss, Norway, November 1997.

23. Kjell Bratbergsengen and Kjetil Nørvåg, Optimizing Hash Partitioning in Relational Algebra, Proceedings, Norsk informatikkonferanse 1996, Alta; Norway, November 1996.

DB-1 Five selected papers for Kjell Bratbergsengen

a. Kjell Bratbergsengen and Tor Stålhane "A Feature Analysis of ASTRAL", in Michael Brodie and Joachim Smidt The Relational Task Group - Feature Analysis of Relational Database System", Springer Verlag 1981.

b. Kjell Bratbergsengen, Rune Larsen, Oddvar Risnes and Terje Aandalen "A Neighbor Connected Processor Network for Performing Relational Algbra Operations" Paper presented at 5th Workshop on Computer Architecture for Non-Numeric Processing, March 11-14, 1980 Pacific Grove, California.

c. Kjell Bratbergsengen, "Hashing Methods and Relational Algebra Operations", The 10th Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Singapore Aug. 1984.

d. Kjell Bratbergsengen and Kjetil Nørvåg, “Improved and Optimized Partitioning Techniques in Database Query Processing,” Fifteenth British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD15, London, July 1997.

e. Kjell Bratbergsengen, “Efficient Storage of Two and Three Dimensional Raster Type Data with Respect to Retrieval of One, Two and Three Dimentional Features,” Norsk Informatikkonferanse 1997, NIK'97, Voss, Norway, November 1997.

DB-1 Personal statement for Kjell Bratbergsengen

Over the past ten years, my life has been influenced by administrative duties. I was Dean of the


Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1993 to April 1996 during the period of reorganization which led to the establishing of NTNU. The reorganization had a great impact on our department. The Telematics group, about ¼ of IDT, split off into a separate department. The rest merged with IFI into what is IDI today. IDI also formed a new faculty FIM. Given my background and experience, it was easy to get heavily involved in forming and developing our new faculty and the new department. This can be seen from my list of professional activities, boards, committees, etc. In 1999 I took on the task as Department head. I wanted the job, and it has been rewarding. During this period the two original groups that formed IDI were co-located, and people from two different academic cultures and traditions have now moved together and formed new and larger groups, i.e. divisions. It has also been a challenge to inform and let our larger university system understand the needs of IDI. IDI has been, and still is, expandingin every sense. Recruiting new faculty has been very important. It has been more important to me to have a well functioning department than to pursue my own research career.

My best research years were during the period from 1970 to 1990. I am particularly proud of what we did in the ASTRA, CROSS8 and Hypercube projects, which I led. Storing database data as persistent object data and having relations as a data type, was creative for its time, see a). We discovered the hash based algorithms for doing relational algebra in 1978. They were vaguely described in a paper from 1980, see b), however we waited until 1984 to publish them, see paper c). Paper c) is my most major paper. The paper should have been published earlier. However, at that time, we were considering patenting and commercialising the methods. It was interesting to be at SIGMOD’94 and listen to the presentations where people from IBM, Sybase and Oracle all told everyone that they now had started to implement hash based relational algebra in their systems. If we had done patenting in 1980 those patents would have been close to their expiration date in 1995. We did commercialise the methods in the TechRa database system (first version released in 1985).

The reason behind paper b) was the need to relocated data using hash-based algorithms for relational algebra. Searching for a scalable network we arrived at the hypercube topology, which is described and analyzed in b). Three parallel machines with hypercube networks were built in the second half of the eighties. The parallel methods were tested, and all our hopes and expectations were met. The experience with parallel machines and parallel databases layed the foundation for the later Hypra and Clustra companies. With colleagues from our own research group and the database group at “SINTEF Tele og data”, we started Hypra in 1989, and I became its first board chairman.

In my designs of database and storage systems, I have always established and used analytical models for the performance analysis. This was very successful in estimating the execution times for parallel algebra. Promised execution time estimated with some safety factor was 3.0 seconds, measured on prototype was 1.8 seconds. Analytical models have been a driving force to develop new methods and algorithms. “Lagring og behandling av store datamengder” (Storage and management of large data volumes), 414 pp, is a text book in Norwegian used in one of my courses. This book has performance models for matrix operations, storage and retrieval of homogeneous data like images and seismic data, sorting, and all relational algebra operations. Some times it is enough to minimize transported data volume between mass storage devices and main memory. However the ultimate criteria is time. Optimization of relational algebra operations on execution time is handled in article d). Even after working on optimizing relational algebra for more than two decades, there are still more to improvements to be made. Again, much of this is described in the textbook (revized and extended every year since 1987) , and not yet published. The later improvements have been on using bit vectors, signatures and indices. I will continue this work and give more priority to publishing. Paper e) is on how to store homogeneous data for efficient


retrieval.

Worries about loosing historical data and the constantly decreasing storage media price per unit, has made it feasible to store historical data together with operational data. How to develop efficient systems with these features will be the next challenge. This involves handling more types of data. Integration of traditional database data and XML-type features with temporal aspects is an important part of this future.


DB-2 Professor Dr.Ing. Svein Erik Bratsberg

DB-2 CV for Svein Erik Bratsberg, IDI/NTNU

PERSONAL Norwegian, Born 1965INFO Married, Two Children

POSITIONS • Professor (full professor), IDI/NTNU (since August 01)• Senior Research Scientist (20%), Clustra AS

EDUCATION 1993 Doktor ingeniør (Ph.D.), IDI/NTNU1991 PUFS (pedagogic education, 0.5 years), NTNU1989 Sivilingeniør (M.Sc.), IDI/NTNU

PRIOR 00-01 Systems Architect, Clustra ASPOSITIONS 97-00 Senior Engineer, Clustra AS

95-97 Research Scientist, Telenor R&D94-95 Research Scientist, SINTEF DELAB93-93 Førsteamanuensis (assoc. prof.), IDI/NTNU90-93 Research Fellow, IDI/NTNU

TEACHING Current NTNU Courses:EXPERIENCE MNFIT213 Object-oriented systems development

In addition, I have lectured operating systems, systems programming, programming languages, object-oriented systems and object-oriented analysis and design

ACCESS Telephone: +47 73 55 03 82POINTS Telefax: +47 73 59 44 66

Mail address: [email protected] address: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~sveinbraPostal address: IDI / NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway

PROFESSIONAL NIF: Norwegian Society of Chartered EngineersMEMBERSHIP

DB-2 Publication list for Svein Erik Bratsberg

JOURNAL ARTICLES

(1) Svein Erik Bratsberg, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen: “Parallel Solutions in ClustRa", IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Special issue on parallelism in commercial DBMSs, June 1997, pages 13-20.

(2) Svein Erik Bratsberg, Øystein Grøvlen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Bjørn P. Munch, Øystein Torbjørnsen: Providing a Highly Available Database by Replication and Online Self-Repair", In International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications, Special Issue on Databases and Telecommunications, pages 131-139, September 1996.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

(3) Svein Erik Bratsberg and Rune Humborstad: “Online Scaling in a Highly Available Database". In Proceedings, 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 11-14, Roma, Italy, Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, pages 451-460, 2001.


(4) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Svein Erik Bratsberg and Øystein Torbjørnsen:"An Ultra Highly Available DBMS". In Proceedings, 25th Internationa Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 10-14, Cairo, Egypt, Kaufmann Publishing, page 673, 2000.

(5) Svein Erik Bratsberg and Øystein Torbjørnsen: "Tutorial: Designing an Ultra Highly Available DBMS". In Proceedings, 2000 ACM SIGMOD, International Conference on Managament of Data, May 16-18, 2000, Dallas, Texas, USA, page 577 and in tutorial proceedings.

(6) Svein Erik Bratsberg, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen:"Location and Replication Independent Recovery in a Highly Available Database", In Proceedings, 15th British National Conference on Databases, July 7-9, 1997, London, Springer-Verlag LNCS 1271, pages 23-37.

(7) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein Erik Bratsberg, Per Holager: “A Highly Available, Real-Time Database System for Telecom Applications", In Proceedings, Sixth IFIP/ICCC Conference on Information Network and Data Communication, June 17-19, Trondheim, Norway, Chapman and Hall, pages 234-245, 1996.

(8) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein Erik Bratsberg,Per Holager: "The ClustRa Telecom Database: High Availablity, High Throughput, and Real-Time Response", In Proceedings, 21st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 11-15, Zurich, Switzerland, Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, pages 469-477, 1995.

(9) Svein Erik Bratsberg: “Integrating independently developed classes'',In M. T. Ozsu, U. Dayal, and P. Valduriez (editors), Distributed Object Management, Proceedings from International Workshop, August 19-21, 1992, Edmonton, Canada, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, pages 329-333, 1994.

(10) Svein Erik Bratsberg: ``Unified class evolution by object-oriented views'',In G. Pernul and A. M. Tjoa (editors), 11th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, October 7-9, 1992, Karlsruhe, Germany. Springer-Verlag LNCS 645, pages 423-439, 1992.

(11) (11) Svein Erik Bratsberg, Erik Odberg: ``Relation Refinement in Object-Relation Data Models'', In Kari Systa, Pertti Kellomaki, and Rauno Makinen (editors). Proceedings of the Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research, Tampere, Finland, 8-10 January, 1992. Tampere University of Technology, Software Systems Laboratory Report 14, 1992.

NATIONAL CONFERNCES

(12) Svein Erik Bratsberg: ``Transparent Evolution and Integration of Classes in Object-Oriented Databases'', In Proceedings, Norsk Informatikk Konferanse 1993, Halden, Tapir Forlag, pages 13-24, Nov. 1993.

DB-2 Five selected publications for Svein Erik Bratsberg

a. Svein Erik Bratsberg and Rune Humborstad: “Online Scaling in a Highly Available Database". In Proceedings, 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 11-14, Roma, Italy, Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, pages 451-460, 2001.

b. Svein Erik Bratsberg, Øystein Grøvlen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Bjørn P. Munch, Øystein Torbjørnsen: Providing a Highly Available Database by Replication and Online Self-Repair", In International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications, Special Issue on Databases and Telecommunications, pages 131-139, September 1996.

c. Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein Erik Bratsberg,


Per Holager: "The ClustRa Telecom Database: High Availablity, High Throughput, and Real-Time Response", In Proceedings, 21st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 11-15, Zurich, Switzerland, Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, pages 469-477, 1995.

d. Svein Erik Bratsberg: ``Transparent Evolution and Integration of Classes in Object-Oriented Databases'', In Proceedings, Norsk Informatikk Konferanse 1993, Halden, Tapir Forlag, pages 13-24, Nov. 1993.

e. Svein Erik Bratsberg: ``Unified class evolution by object-oriented views'',In G. Pernul and A. M. Tjoa (editors), 11th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach, October 7-9, 1992, Karlsruhe, Germany. Springer-Verlag LNCS 645, pages 423-439, 1992.

DB-2 Personal statement from Svein Erik Bratsberg

The main achievements during this ten year period have been within two areas. First, the work on schema evolution and integration within object-oriented databases which was carried out as a dr.ing. (Pd.D.) study and connected to the work on versioned databases in the EPOS project. Secondly, the work on highly available databases within the Clustra DBMS. The foci of this work have been online self-repair, two-level logging and recovery and online scaling and schema evolution within strict response time requirements posed by the telecommunications applications.

For the future the work will continue along the Clustra path, e.g., by extending the work on online schema evolution, experimental work on performance within distributed databases, work on availability modelling and measuring, etc.


DB-3 Professor Dr.Ing. Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd

DB-3 CV for Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, dr.ing.

PERSONAL Norwegian, Born 1954INFO Married, Four step children, one natural child (November/December 01)

POSITIONS Tenured full professor, IDI/NTNU (since September 01)

EDUCATION 1992 Doktor ingeniør (Ph.D.), IDI/NTNU1980 SivIng IDI/NTNU

PRIOR 97-01 Chief Technology Officer, Clustra IncPOSITIONS 97-01 Vice President Product Development, Clustra Inc

97-99 Member of Board, Clustra AS95-97 Research Manager, Telenor R&D93-95 Senior Research Scientist, Telenor R&D93 Chairman of Board, Teleserve Tecnology91-92 Director of Technology, Teleserve Technology90-92 Member of Board, Teleserve Tecnology85-88 Head of Database Section, SINTEF DELAB80-93 Research Scientist, SINTEF

TEACHING Current NTNU Courses:EXPERIENCE SIF8022 Advanced Database Systems


Mail address: [email protected] address:Postal address: IDI / NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway


DB-3 Publication list for Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd

JOURNAL ARTICLES

(1) Svein Erik Bratsberg, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen: “Parallel Solutions in ClustRa", IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Special issue on parallelism in commercial DBMSs, June 1997, pages 13-20.

(2) Svein Erik Bratsberg, Øystein Grøvlen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Bjørn P. Munch, Øystein Torbjørnsen: Providing a Highly Available Database by Replication and Online Self-Repair", In International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems for Electrical Engineering and Communications, Special Issue on Databases and Telecommunications, pages 131-139, September 1996.

(3) Øystein Torbjønsen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd:”Application of an Abstract Machine Supporting Fault-Tolerance in a Parallel Database Server”. International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering. Volume 9, No 2, 1994.

(4) Jim Gray, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd:”Panel Session: Do the DBMS Software Vendors Offer the Products


Required by the Industrial Users in Communication Industry?”, Springer Verlag, 1999.


(5) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen:”A Process Architecture Supporting Fault-Tolerance in a Parallel Database Server”. In Proceedings of the Nordic Seminar on Dependable Computing Systems. August 1992.

(6) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Svein Erik Bratsberg and Øystein Torbjørnsen:"An Ultra Highly Available DBMS". In Proceedings, 25th Internationa Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 10-14, Cairo, Egypt, Kaufmann Publishing, page 673, 2000.

(7) Øystein Torbjørnsen:”An Abstract Machine Supporting Fault-Tolerance in a Parallel Database Server”. Pacific Rim International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Systems. 1993.

(8) Svein Erik Bratsberg, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen:"Location and Replication Independent Recovery in a Highly Available Database", In Proceedings, 15th British National Conference on Databases, July 7-9, 1997, London, Springer-Verlag LNCS 1271, pages 23-37.

(9) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein Erik Bratsberg, Per Holager: “A Highly Available, Real-Time Database System for Telecom Applications", In Proceedings, Sixth IFIP/ICCC Conference on Information Network and Data Communication, June 17-19, Trondheim, Norway, Chapman and Hall, pages 234-245, 1996.

(10) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein Erik Bratsberg,Per Holager: "The ClustRa Telecom Database: High Availablity, High Throughput, and Real-Time Response", In Proceedings, 21st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 11-15, Zurich, Switzerland, Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, pages 469-477, 1995.

(11) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjønsen:”Fault Tolerant Mechanisms in Distributed Database Management Systems”. Nordic Seminar on Dependable Computing Systems, 1994.

(12) Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Young-Kuk Kim.”Towards Real-Time Performance in a Scalable, Continously Available Telecom DBMS”. In Proceedings of the RTDB Conference, 1996.

(13) Øystein Grøvlen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen:”On-Line Query Processing through Undo/No-Redo Compensation”. International Workshop on Advanced Transaction Models and Arhitectures, 1996.

(14) Rune Humborstad, Maitrayi Sabaratnam, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen:”1-Safe Algorithms for Symmetric Site Configurations”. In Proceedings of the 23rd VLDB Conference, 1997.

(15) Øystein Grøvlen, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, “Compensation Based Query Processing in On-Line Transaction Processing Systems”. In Proceedings of BNCOD, 1997.

(16) Maitrayi Sabaratnam, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd:”Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fault-Tolerance in Replicated Database Management Systems”. In Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing, 1999.

(17) Maitrayi Sabaratnam, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd:”Cost of Ensuring Safety in a Distributed Database Management System”. In Proceedings of the Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing. 1999.

BOOKS

(18) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd:”Recovery in Parallel Databases” (PhD thesis at NTNU). First edition 1995. Second edition 2000. In Database Series edited by Theo Haerder, Verlag Vieweg, Gemany.


PATENTS

(19) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd: “Contionously Available Database Server Having Multiple Groups of Nodes, Each Group Maintaining a Database Copy with Fragments Stored on Multiple Nodes”. United States Patent, Patent Number 5,423,037.

(20) Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd:”Continously Available Database Server Having Multiple Groups of Nodes with Minimum Intersecting Sets of Database Fragment Replicas”. United States Patent, Patent Number 5,555,404.

DB-3 Five selected publications for Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd

a) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein Erik Bratsberg,Per Holager: "The ClustRa Telecom Database: High Availablity, High Throughput, and Real-Time Response", In Proceedings, 21st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 11-15, Zurich, Switzerland, Morgan Kaufmann Publishing, pages 469-477, 1995

b) Rune Humborstad, Maitrayi Sabaratnam, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen:”1-Safe Algorithms for Symmetric Site Configurations”. In Proceedings of the 23rd VLDB Conference, 1997

c) Maitrayi Sabaratnam, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd:”Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fault-Tolerance in Replicated Database Management Systems”. In Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing, 1999

d) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd: “Contionously Available Database Server Having Multiple Groups of Nodes, Each Group Maintaining a Database Copy with Fragments Stored on Multiple Nodes”. United States Patent, Patent Number 5,423,037.

e) Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd:”Recovery in Parallel Databases”. First edition 1995. Second edition 2000. In Database Series edited by Theo Haerder, Verlag Vieweg, Gemany

DB-3 Personal statement by Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd

I have over the past 10 years focused my activities on database systems meeting all the following requirements: 1) continuously available (class 5), 2) real-time response (95% of TPC-B like transactions below 5ms), 3) linear throughput performance scaling, 4) applying stock HW, OS, and communications. This research has achieved significant results in the form of publications and patents. The Clustra database company was started and funded on the results of this research. I was the VP of Product Development and CTO of Clustra until I joined IDI/NTNU September 01.

I will focus my next year’s research activities on the next area related to continuously available database systems. The area is online non-blocking database schema modifications. Taking down a database for hours to perform a significant schema modification is unacceptable in telecom and in a growing number of other industries. This research will be carried out in cooperation with Clustra.


DB-4 Professor Dr.Techn. Mads Nygård

DB-4 CURRICULUM VITAE - MADS NYGÅRD

PERSONAL Norwegian, Born 1953INFO Married, No Children

POSITIONS • Professor, IDI / NTNU (Full Professor - Called to Position)• Professor II, IED / HIS (Adjunct Professor - Called to Position, see below)

EDUCATION 1990 Dr. Techn. (D.Sc.), IDT / NTH1982 Dr. Ing. (Ph.D.) - Course Part only, IDB / NTH1979 Siv. Ing. (M.Sc.), IDB / NTH

FULL TIME 97-... Full Professor, IDI / NTNUEXPERIENCE 83-97 Section Head / Research Manager / Principal Research

Scientist / Research Scientist, SINTEF (Several departments)79-83 Assistant Professor / University Fellow, IDB / NTH

PART TIME 97-... Adjunct Professor (20%), IED / HIS (Stavanger University College)EXPERIENCE 94-97 Adjunct Professor (20%), IMF / NLH (Norw. Agricultural University)

SABBATICAL 01-01 Visit. Prof., Imperial College - London, EnglandSTAYS 00-00 Visit. Prof., Univ. of Cape Town - Cape Town, South Africa

FULL TIME 88-88 Visit. Fac., Asian Inst. of Technology - Bangkok, ThailandUNDP WORK 84-84 Visit. Fac., Beijing Inst. of Software - Beijing, China

PART TIME 96-98 Evaluator, TRENDS Research Project, EUINT. WORK 95-97 Participator, ACTRANS Research Project, EU

89-93 Member, MC5 Task Force, OECD82-83 Participator, DDB Research Project, EU

SPECIAL 99-... Member - Board of Directors, IDIACTIVITIES 98-... Chairman/Member - Educational Board, IDI

97-... Chairman/Member - Educational Board, FIM-CompSci.98-... Member - Educational Board, FIM-Math/Phy.98-... Member - Educational Board, FIM-NonTechn.81-83 Member - Board of Directors, FIM79-81 Member - Educational Board, IDB

89-93 Member - Board of Directors, SINTEF

97-99 Member - Board of Directors, NIF-NORWAY 93-99 Chairman/Member - Technical Board, NIF-NORWAY90-93 Member - Priv. Sector Board, NIF-NORWAY92-97 Chairman/Member - Reg. Sector Board, NIF-TRONDHEIM87-90 Chairman/Member - Corporate Board, NIF-SINTEF

NUMBERS International Publications: 311992-2001 National Publications: 49

Article Review Committees - International Journals: 1Paper Review Committees - International Conferences: 6Session Organizing Appointments - International Conferences: 2Session Chairman Appointments - International Conferences: 4Best Paper Awards - International Conferences: 1

Evaluation Committees - Full Professorships: 6


Evaluation Committees - Associate Professorships: 5Evaluation Committees - PhD Theses: 1

Supervision - PhD Students: 3Supervision - MSc Diploma Students: 12Supervision - MSc Project Students: 21Lecturing - PhD/MSc Courses: 18

MAIN FIELDS Database Systems, Operating Systems,Distributed Computing, Parallel Processing,Transportation Informatics & Knowledge Engineering

CURRENT Operating Systems & Computer Architecture - MSc, 2.5W, 50%NTNU COURSES Distributed Systems & Performance Evaluation - MSc, 2.5W, 50%

Transaction Processing - MSc, 1.25W, 100%Advanced Distributed Systems - MSc, 1.25W, 100%Distributed Database Systems - PhD, 2.5W, 100% (Biannually)

CURRENT Distributed Systems - MSc, 4W, 100%HIS COURSE

ACCESS POINTS Telephone: +47 73 59 34 70Telefax: +47 73 59 44 66Mail address: [email protected] address: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~madsPostal address: IDI / NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway

REFERENCES University: Professor Kjell Bratbergsengen, IDI / NTNUIndustry: Vice President Kristen Rekdal, TeleLogic Norway


LANGUAGES English (fluent), German, French (limited)

DB-4 INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS - 1992-2001 - MADS NYGÅRD

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

(1) Mads Nygård: “Tailor-Made Concurrency Control - Distributed Transactions As A Case”; In Journal AJIS: Australian Journal of Information Systems, Volume 3, Number 1 (1995), Pages 53 - 70 (18 pages), Sydney – Australia, 1995

(2) Agnar Aamodt, Mads Nygård: “Different Roles and Mutual Dependencies of Data, Information and Knowledge - An AI Perspective on their Integration”; In Journal DKE: Data and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 16 (1995), Pages 191 - 222 (32 pages), North Holland Elsevier, Amsterdam - The Netherlands, 1995

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

(3) Mads Nygård et. all. (three authors in total): “The TRENDS Research Project - Report from the External Reviews”; EU Report EU-TRENDS-98-01, Brussels – Belgium, 1998

(4) Kåre Rumar, Mads Nygård et. all. (nine authors in total): “Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems - Theoretical Study”; OECD Report DSTI/RTR/RVC(92)1, Paris – France, 1992

(5) Frank J. Mammano, Mads Nygård et. all. (eight authors in total):


“Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems - Practical Evaluation”; OECD Report DSTI/RTR/RVC(92)2, Paris – France, 1992


(6) Heri Ramampiaro, Mads Nygård: “CAGIS Trans: A Transactional Framework for Cooperative Work”; In Proc. PDCS’01: 14th Internat. Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Dallas – USA, 2001

(7) Heri Ramampiaro, Mads Nygård: “CAGIS Trans: Providing Adaptable Transactional Support for Cooperative Work”; In Proc. CIST’01: 6th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Miami - USA, 2001

(8) Heri Ramampiaro, Mads Nygård: “Supporting Customisable Transactions for Cooperative Work: An Experience Paper”; In Proc. CTS’02: Collaborative Technologies Symposium, San Antonio - USA, 2001

(9) Erlend Tøssebro, Mads Nygård: “Representing Uncertainty in Spatiotemporal Databases”; Submitted for publication, 2001

(10) Erlend Tøssebro, Mads Nygård: “A Discrete Model for Uncertain Spatial Data”; Submitted for publication, 2001

(11) Erlend Tøssebro, Mads Nygård: “A Discrete Model for Uncertain Temporal Data”; Submitted for publication, 2001

(12) Heri Ramampiaro, Mads Nygård: “Cooperative Database Systems: A Constructive Review of Cooperative Transaction Models”; In Proc. DANTE’99: 1999 Internat. Symposium on Database Applications in Non-Traditional Environments, Kyoto - Japan, 1999

(13) Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann, Arne-Jørgen Berre, Mads Nygård: “OMODIS - Object-Oriented Modeling and Database Support for Distributed Multimedia Systems”;

In Proc. NIK’96: 9th Norwegian Informatics Conference, Alta – Norway, 1996

(14) Bente Gaarder Andersen, Mads Nygård, Ivar Christiansen: “RTI / ITS in Integrated Operation - Norway’s Regional Road Traffic Centres”; In Proc. IEEE VNIS ’95: 6th Internat. Conference on Vehicle Navigation & Information Systems, Seattle – USA, 1995

(15) Mads Nygård: “Tailor-Made Concurrency Control with Specialized Distributed Transactions”; In Proc. ACIS’94: 5th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne – Australia,1994

(16) Mads Nygård: “Partial Recoverability with Distributed Transactions”; In Proc. IEEE IPCCC’94: 1994 Internat. Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Phoenix – USA,1994

(17) Mads Nygård: “Concurrency Control and Distributed Transactions: An Efficient Approach”; In Proc. SCCC ’94: 14th Internat. Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, Conception – Chile,1994

(18) Mads Nygård: “Recovery of Distributed Transactions: A Flexible Approach”; In Proc. SCCC ’94: 14th Internat. Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, Conception – Chile, 1994

(19) Mads Nygård: “Reflections on State-of-the-Art within RTI / IVHS”;


In Proc. IEEE VNIS ’94: 5th Internat. Conference on Vehicle Navigation & Information Systems, Tokyo – Japan, 1994

(20) Mads Nygård: “Relaxed Criteria for Concurrency Control in Distributed Databases”; In Proc. IFIP TC6’93 Internat. Symposium on Network Information Processing Systems, Sofia – Bulgaria, 1993

(21) Mads Nygård: “Sensible Variants of Non-Serializability in Replicated Distributed Databases”; In Proc. IFIP TC6’93 Internat. Symposium on Network Information Processing Systems, Sofia - Bulgaria, 1993

(22) Mads Nygård: “Article-Acquisition: A Scenario for Non-Serializability in a Distributed Database”; In Proc. PARLE ’93: 1993 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe Conference, Munich - Germany, 1993

(23) Mads Nygård: “Multi-Criteria: Degrees of Recoverability in Distributed Databases”; In Proc. PARLE ’93: 1993 Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe Conference, Munich - Germany, 1993

(24) Mads Nygård: “BINMOD: A Model for Non-Serializability in Distributed Databases”; BNCOD 11: 11th British National Conference on Databases, Stoke - England, 1993

(25) Mads Nygård: “VARCRIT: Degrees of Serializability in Replicated Distributed Databases”; BNCOD 11: 11th British National Conference on Databases, Stoke - England, 1993

(26) Mads Nygård, Agnar Aamodt: “Road Transport Informatics: Conceptual Framework and Technological Components”; In Proc. IEEE VNIS ’93: 4th Internat. Conference on Vehicle Navigation & Information Systems, Ottawa - Canada, 1993

(27) Mads Nygård, Stein Johannessen, Per Engeset, Jan Myrås: “Automatic Traffic Control in Norway - Functional and Political Issues”; In Proc. IEEE VNIS ’92: 3rd Internat. Conference on Vehicle Navigation & Information Systems, Oslo – Norway, 1992

INTERNATIONAL TALKS

(28) Mads Nygård: “In Search of Transactional Quarks”; Invited Talk - Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town - South Africa, 2000

(29) Mads Nygård: “Theoretical and Applied Mathematics - A Computer Science Viewpoint”; Invited Talk - 1st Nordic Workshop on Mathematics Education for MSc Students, Trondheim – Norway, 2000

(30) Mads Nygård: “Stepwisly Committing Transactions: How to Manage their Termination in Distributed Databases”; Invited Talk - Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim – Norway, 1997

(31) Mads Nygård: “Distributed Databases - Limitations and Possibilities”; Invited Talk - IFIP TC6’93 Internat. Symposium on Network Information Processing Systems, Sofia – Bulgaria, 1993


DB-4 FIVE SELECTED PUBLICATIONS – 1992-2001 - MADS NYGÅRD

a) Erlend Tøssebro, Mads Nygård: “Representing Uncertainty in Spatiotemporal Databases”; Submitted for publication, 2001

b) Heri Ramampiaro, Mads Nygård: “CAGIS Trans: Providing Adaptable Transactional Support for Cooperative Work”; In Proc. CIST’01: 6th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Miami – USA, 2001

c) Mads Nygård: “Tailor-Made Concurrency Control - Distributed Transactions As A Case”; In Journal AJIS: Australian Journal of Information Systems, Volume 3, Number 1 (1995), Pages 53 - 70 (18 pages), Sydney – Australia,1995

d) Agnar Aamodt, Mads Nygård: “Different Roles and Mutual Dependencies of Data, Information and Knowl-edge - An AI Perspective on their Integration”; In Journal DKE: Data and Knowledge Engineering, Volume 16 (1995), Pages 191 - 222 (32 pages), North Holland Elsevier, Amsterdam - The Netherlands, 1995

e) Mads Nygård: “Partial Recoverability with Distributed Transactions”; In Proc. IEEE IPCCC’94: 1994 Internat. Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications, Phoenix – USA, 1994

DB-4 PERSONAL STATEMENT - MADS NYGÅRD

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

11 years of University experience as Research Assistant, University Fellow, Assistant Professor, Visiting Faculty, Visiting Professor, Adjunct Professor and Full Professor. 13 years experience from Research Institutes as Research Scientist, Principal Research Scientist, Research Manager and Section Head. All within Computer Science. Published several research publications & development reports - and several textbooks & lecture notes - both nationally and internationally. Lectured several courses in universities, research establishments and computer industry, both domestic and abroad, and both at M.Sc.- and Ph.D.- level. Managed and participated in several projects, both research and development, and both nationally and internationally.

SPECIAL ACHIEVMENTS

01: Organizing, reviewing papers for and chairing a Special Session at SCI’02: 6th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando - USA

01: Organizing, reviewing papers for and chairing a Special Session at CTS’02: Collaborative Technologies Symposium, San Antonio - USA

98: Appointed to the National Evaluation Committee for Full Professorships, Oslo - Norway

97: Selected to Evaluate Papers for IJCIS: Internat. Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, Trier - Germany


96: Selected to Review Work for EU on TRENDS: Traffic Engineering Network Data Service, Brussels - Belgium

94: Awarded 1-out-of-10 Best Papers at ACIS’94: 5th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne - Australia

94: Appointed Session Chairman at SCCC’94: 14th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, Conception - Chile

92: Initiated, Organized and Managed a Panel Debate on “Road Transport Informatics - Past, Present and Future” with 10 of the World’s Top Experts at VNIS’92: 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Navigation & Information Systems, Oslo - Norway

92: Appointed Session Chairman at VNIS’92: 3rd International Conference on Vehicle Navigation & Information Systems, Oslo - Norway

91: Initiated, Organized and Managed two Workshops on “Road Transport Informatics - New Software and Hardware” with 10 of Norway’s and 6 of Germany’s Top Experts at Siemens Germany, Berlin & Munich - Germany

89: Appointed National Expert to OECD on Information Technology in Transportation Engineering - and worked for 3 years with OECD Task Force MC5 on “Evaluative Research of Road-Vehicle Communication Systems”, Paris - France

SOME ASSIGNMENTS• Developed (50%) and participated in (2001-...) the project “MOWAHS - Mobile Work Across

Heterogeneous Systems”, a distributed systems project in a basic research program financed by NFR

• Developed (25%) and participated in (1997-2001) the project “OMODIS - Object-Oriented Modelling and Database Support for Distributed Multimedia Systems”, a distributed systems project in a basic research program financed by NFR

• Participated in (1997-2001) the project “CAGIS - Cooperating Agents in the Global Information Space”, a distributed systems project in a basic research program financed by NFR

• Reviewed (1996-1998) the project “TRENDS - Traffic Engineering Network Data Service”, an EU research project for the integration of database technology aspects into transportation informatics

• Participated in (1995-1997) the project “ACTRANS - A Transaction Processing Toolkit for ACTS”, an EU research project for the integration of transaction management aspects into telecom applications

• Managed (1995-1997) the project “NAMSEN RIVER - Monitoring and Control”, a multi-discipline research program concerning the integration and exploitation of information systems for river supervision, financed by NFR and several Norwegian industrial companies

• Managed and participated in (1994-1996) the project “OSLO NATIONAL AIRPORT - Traffic Information Systems”, a multi-client consultancy program for the national air transport authorities

• Participated in (1991-1993) the project “IDIS - Integrated Decentralized Information Systems”, a work on applying already available information technology earlier and better, financed by NTNF and several Norwegian industrial companies

• Worked in (1989-1993) OECD Task Force MC5 on “Evaluative Research of Road-Vehicle Communication Systems”, a research project on the use of information technology in transportation engineering

• Managed (1988) as Visiting Faculty the subproject “Advanced Databases” of an educational program at M.Sc.- level in Computer Science for 40 students in Bangkok, Thailand. Financed by UNDP. Lectured the course “Advanced Databases” at the Asian Institute of Technology

• Managed (1984) as Visiting Faculty the subproject “Operating Systems” of an educational program at M.Sc.- level in Computer Science for 40 students in Beijing, China. Financed by UNDP. Lectured the course “Operating Systems” at the Beijing Institute of Software

• Participated in (1982-1983) the project “DDB - Distributed Data Bases”, an EU research project trying to unify the views of computer network researchers and database system researchers on distributed systems


ABBREVIATIONS USED - MADS NYGÅRD

IDI/IDT/IDB Department of Computer and Information ScienceFIM Faculty of Physics, Informatics and MathematicsNTNU/NTH Norwegian University of Science and Technology

IED Department of Electrotechnics and InformaticsHIS Stavanger College

IMF Department of Mathematical SciencesNLH Norwegian University of Agricultural

SINTEF Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Researchat the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

NFR/NTNF Royal Norwegian Council for Research

NIF Norwegian Society of Chartered Engineers

EU European Union

OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

UNDP United Nations Development Program


DB-5 Adjunct Professor Peter H. Hughes

DB-5 CV for Peter H. Hughes

PERSONAL British citizen, born 1940, domiciled in England.INFO

POSITIONS Professor II, (Adjunct Professor) IDI / NTNU, NorwayDirector, Modicum Ltd ,UK

EDUCATION 1968 M.Sc. (Computer Science, University of London)1962 B.Sc. (Physics, University of Liverpool)

FULL TIME 92- Founding director, Modicum Ltd ,UK EXPERIENCE (independent consultancy)

85-92 Project manager and technical strategist ICL/STC/Northern Telecom, UK

80-85 Senior lecturer(foerste ammanuensis), NTH/IDI 73-76 Principal technical officer, ICL, UK70-73, 76-79 Research & development, RUNIT, SINTEF64-70 Systems programmer, University of London, UK

PART TIME 90- Adjunct Professor IDI (IDT) NTNUEXPERIENCE 86-89 Annually renewed contract at IDI

SABBATICAL 83-84 Polytechnic of Central London & Imperial College, STAYS University of London.

PART TIME 01- Reviewer, CARTS project, IST –1999-20608, EUINT. WORK 99-01 Reviewer, SUCSEDE project, Esprit 23242, EU

SPECIAL 00-... Member of Advisory Board, Dept. of Computer Science, ACTIVITIES University of Bradford, UK

98-… Active in a new series of International Workshops on Software Performance Engineering (WOSP98, WOSP00, ..) Program committee, session chair, working group coordinator, etc.

87-… Member of successive Program Committees for Series of International Conferences on Tools and Techniques for Computer Systems Performance Evaluation from 4th (1988) to 11th (2002)

NUMBERS International Publications: 101992-2001 National Publications: 4

Program Committees - International Conferences: 7Evaluation Committees - Full Professorships: 1Supervision - PhD Students: 3 (IS group, joint with A. Soelvberg)Lecturing - MSc Courses: 10Note: I was attached to the IS group for most of this period, moving to the DB group in 2001

MAIN FIELDS Performance engineering, Discrete-event simulation, Systems and software architecture modelling.

CURRENTNTNU COURSES Distributed Systems & Performance Evaluation - MSc, 2.5W, 50%

ACCESS POINTS Telephone: +44 (0) 1260 276740


Telefax: +44 (0) 1260 276740Mail address: [email protected] or [email protected] address: IDI / NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, NorwayPostal address (England):

28 Boundary Lane, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 3HZ, UK

REFERENCES University: Prof. Arne Soelvberg IDIIndustry: Dr Alan Steventon BT Martlesham (UK)

PROFESSIONAL British Computer Society: affiliate since 1965MEMBERSHIP

LANGUAGES English (mother tongue), Norwegian (fluent), French (limited)

DB-5 INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS - 1992-2001 – Peter H. HughesINTERNATIONAL REPORTS

(1) Gunnar Brataas, Salvador Perez Crespo, Peter Hughes (Editor), Klaus Miethe: “Evaluation of High Performance Databases for Interactive Services – Final Report”; (85 pages) Eurescom Project P617 (Telenor ASA, Telefonica SA, Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom) October 1998.

(2) P. H. Hughes and G.C.Titterington (Editors); contributions from 9 partners: “IMSE Project Final Report” (93 pages); Esprit Project 2143 IMSE: An Integrated Modelling Support Environment, Report to CEC Brussels, March 1992


(3) Peter Hughes: “Towards a Common Process Model for Systems Development and Performance Engineering” (short paper) in Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP2000), Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 2000; ACM Press, ACM ISBN 1-58113-195-x.

(4) Peter Hughes and Gunnar Brataas: “Scalability of a Workstation Cluster Architecture for Video-on-Demand Applications” In Proc. TOOLS 2000: 11th Internatiional Conference on Computer Performance Evaluation Tools and Techniques , Schaumburg IL., USA, March 2000; Springer Verlag LNCS Series No. 1786.

(5) Gunnar Brataas, Arne Soelvberg and Peter Hughes: “Basic Framework for Performance Engineering of Workflows: a Bloodbank Case Study” in Proc.HICSS 28: 28th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, Volume I, pp230-239; Hawaii, USA, Jan. 1998; IEEE Press.

(6) Gunnar Brataas, Peter Hughes and Arne Soelvberg: “Performance Engineering of Human and Computerised Workflow”; Proc. CAISE ’97,Barcelona, Spain; in Advanced Systems Engineering- CAISE 97; Springer 1997

(7) Gunnar Brataas, Arne Soelvberg and Peter Hughes: “Integrated Management of Human and Computer Resources in Task Processing Organisations: a conceptual view” Proc. HICSS 27: 27th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science; Vol.IV, pages 703-712; Hawaii 1994; IEEE Press.

(8) Cydney J Minkowitz, Vidar Vetland and Peter Hughes: “A Modular Approach to System Structure and Performance Specification” Short paper in 7th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation, Vienna, May 1994.

(9) Vidar Vetland, Peter Hughes and Arne Soelvberg: “Improved Parameter Capture for Simulation based on Composite Models of Software” In Proc. Summer Simulation Conference 1993, Boston USA.

(10) Vidar Vetland, Peter Hughes and Arne Soelvberg: “A Composite Modelling Approach to Software Performance Measurement” Extended abstract in Proc. ACM Sigmetrics Conference on Measurement and Modelling of Computer Systems, Santa Clara, California, USA, May 1993.

UK WORKSHOPS


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(11) N.P.Xenios and P.H.Hughes: “Modelling ATM Network Components with the Process Interaction Tool” In Proc. 7th UK Performance Engineering Workshop, Edinburgh 1991; published Springer Verlag 1992.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

(12) Peter Hughes: “Entropy Reduction in Information Processes” Modicum Report. April 1997.

(13) Charlie Repton and Peter Hughes: “Raising Liquidity” In Banking Technology February 1996 (a monthly journal of the finance industry) London, UK.

(14) Ken Wood and Peter Hughes: “Non-Functional Modelling” Lecture Notes for postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering , (141 pages) Department of Continuing Education, Oxford University 1994.

DB-5 FIVE SELECTED PUBLICATIONS - 1992-2001 – Peter H. Hughes

(a)Peter Hughes: “Towards a Common Process Model for Systems Development and Performance Engineering” (short paper) in Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP2000), Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 2000; ACM Press, ACM ISBN 1-58113-195-x.

(b)Peter Hughes and Gunnar Brataas: “Scalability of a Workstation Cluster Architecture for Video-on-Demand Applications” In Proc. TOOLS 2000: 11th Internatiional Conference on Computer Performance Evaluation Tools and Techniques , Schaumburg IL., USA, March 2000; Springer Verlag LNCS Series No. 1786.

(c) Peter Hughes: “Entropy Reduction in Information Processes” Modicum Ltd. April 1997.

This theoretical report was commissioned by BT and was followed by the award of a senior research fellowship to develop the work. A promising cross-disciplinary start was made on testing the theory against examples from programming theory, robotics, and genome replication, but had to be suspended pending a new source of funds.

(d)Charlie Repton and Peter Hughes: “Raising Liquidity” In Banking Technology February 1996 (a monthly journal of the finance industry) London, UK.

This report presents, in a form assimilable by the banking community, the results of a simulation study of Real-time Gross Settlement systems, based on statistics of actual transactions. The scheduling techniques explored are similar to problems encountered in the 1960’s when resource scheduling techniques were being investigated for computer operating systems.

(e)Cydney J Minkowitz, Vidar Vetland and Peter Hughes: “A Modular Approach to System Structure and Performance Specification” Short paper in 7th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation, Vienna, May 1994.

This paper summarises some of the key ideas behind the SP approach. SP (Structure and Performance Specification) was conceived by Hughes at IDB in the 1980’s and evolved via prototype tools for Norsk Data and ICL. It became one of the corner-stones of the conceptual model for the IMSE modelling environment and formed a departure point for three doctoral theses at IDI. The SP paradigm continues to assert its relevance, and is further applied in items (b) and (c).


DB-5 PERSONAL STATEMENT – Peter H. Hughes

Performance analysis applies to all levels of information processing, from the design of basic hardware and software to computer-based support of business processes. Current best practice is based upon classical methods of measurement and modelling, which are constantly evolving to meet changing demands of technology and markets. Performance engineering aspires to provide general methods which will help developers at all levels to meet predefined targets for performance and scalability. This area is far from mature, and touches on some fundamental issues which go to the heart of computer science.

As an adjunct professor (20% position), my teaching seeks to impart the enduring principles of performance analysis and the pragmatics of the current state of performance engineering. My research attempts in a small way to move this state forward. My work as an independent consultant provides a continuously updated practical context for these goals.

SOME ASSIGNMENTS

1989-91 Project Manager and technical lead at ICL/STC/Nortel for Esprit Project 2143 Integrated Modelling Support Environment (IMSE)

1994-96 CEC Value project CTT541 with Simulog SA, France 'Open Modline' productisation from IMSE.

1997-98 Consultant to Telenor AS and Deutsche Telekom, performance analysis of Video on Demand architectures (Eurescom project P617).

1998-99 Senior Research Fellow at BT Laboratories, Martlesham: (1) Entropy analysis (2) Scalability & stability issues for E-commerce

2000-01 Consultant to Clustra AS, Trondheim: performance engineering for a highly scalable fault-tolerant database product

ABBREVIATIONS USED – Peter H. Hughes

BT British TelecomCEC Commission of the European Communities EU European Union ICL International Computers Ltd IDI/IDT/IDB Department of Computer and Information ScienceFIM Faculty of Physics, Informatics and MathematicsNFR/NTNF Royal Norwegian Council for ResearchNTNU/NTH Norwegian University of Science and TechnologySINTEF Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research

at the Norwegian University of Science and TechnologySTC STC Technology Ltd, R&D labs for Standard Telecommunications.


DB-6 Associate Professor Roger Midtstraum

DB-6 CV for Roger Midtstraum

PERSONAL Norwegian, Born 1962INFO Married, Three Children

POSITIONS • Førsteamanuensis (Associate Professor), IDI/NTNU• Research Scientist (20%), Telenor Research and Development

EDUCATION 1987 Sivilingeniør (M.Sc.), IDB/NTH

PRIOR 88-99 Assistent Professor, IDI/NTNUPOSITIONS 86-88 Research Assistant, IDT/UNIT

TEACHING Current NTNU Courses:EXPERIENCE SIF8001 Information Technology, Introduction

SIF8020 Data Modelling and Database Management SystemsSIF8022 Advanced Database Management SystemsSIF8025 Computers and Operating SystemsSIF8095 Database Technology, SpecializationHFMV202 Hypertext and Multimedia

In addition, I have given older versions of database and programming courses at NTH/NTNU. Outside of NTNU, I have lectured database systems at Asian Institute of Technology and at Bodø Regional University.

SUPERVISION I have supervised 40 sivilingeniør (M.Sc.) Diploma students and supervise 3 dr.ing. (PhD) students.


Mail address: [email protected] address: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~rogerPostal address: IDI / NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway


DB-6 Publication list for Roger Midtstraum

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

(1) Rune Hjelsvold, Roger Midtstraum, and Olav Sandstå, Searching and Browsing a Shared Video Database,In Nwosu, Thuraisingham and Berra (eds.), Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Issues,Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 1996. pp. 89-122.


(2) Jon Olav Hauglid and Roger Midtstraum,SESAM - Searching Supported by Analysis of Metadata,to be presented at the 17th Association of Computing Machinery Symposium on Applied Computing. Special Track on Database and Digital Library Technologies, Madrid, Spain, March 10-14, 2002.

(3) Jon Olav Hauglid, Jon Heggland and Roger Midtstraum,WebSTAR - Video Database on WWW,Proceedings of Multimedia Computing and Networking 2000 (MMCN00), San Jose, California, USA, January 2000.


(4) Olav Sandstå and Roger Midtstraum, Improving the Access Time Performance of Serpentine Tape Drives, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’99), Sydney, Australia, March 1999.

(5) Olav Sandstå and Roger Midtstraum, Low-Cost Access Time Model for Serpentine Tape Drives, Proceedings of 6th IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, San Diego, California, USA, March 1999.

(6) Olav Sandstå and Roger Midtstraum, Analysis of Retrieval of Multimedia Data Stored on Magnetic Tape, Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Workshop on Multi-Media Database Management Systems, pp. 54-63, Dayton, Ohio, USA, August 1998.

(7) Olav Sandstå, Stein Langørgen, and Roger Midtstraum, Video Server on an ATM Connected Cluster of Workstations, Proceedings of XVII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC'97, Valparaíso, Chile, November 1997.

(8) Rune Hjelsvold, Stein Langørgen, Roger Midtstraum, and Olav Sandstå, Integrated Video Archive Tools, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '95, San Francisco, California, November 1995, pp. 283-293.

(9) Rune Hjelsvold, Roger Midtstraum, and Olav Sandstå, A Temporal Foundation of Video Databases, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Temporal Databases, Zürich, Switzerland, 17-18 September 1995, pp. 295-314.

(10) Rune Hjelsvold, Roger Midtstraum, and Olav Sandstå, Searching and Browsing a Shared Video Database, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Multi-Media Database Management Systems, Blue Mountain Lake, New York, August 28-30 1995, pp. 90-98.

(11) Rune Hjelsvold and Roger Midtstraum,Databases for Video Information Sharing, In Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, Conference on Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases III,San Jose, California, February 1995, pp. 268-279.

(12) Rune Hjelsvold and Roger Midtstraum, Modelling and Querying Video Data, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Databases, Santiago, Chile, September 1994, pp. 686-694.

NATIONAL CONFERENCES

(13) Jon Olav Hauglid and Roger Midtstraum,Searching in image databases using the SESAM approach,To appear in Proceedings of Norsk Informatikk-Konferanse, Tromsø, Norway, November 2001.

(14) Kjartan Rydland, Roger Midtstraum and Josip Zoric,Transcoding Versus Multiple Image Versions in Image Servers with QoS,To appear in Proceedings of Norsk Informatikk-Konferanse, Tromsø, Norway, November 2001.

(15) Jon Olav Hauglid, Jon Heggland and Roger Midtstraum,Video Database on WWW,Proceedings of Norsk Informatikk-Konferanse, Trondheim, Norway, November 1999.

(16) Roger Midtstraum and Olav Sandstå, Random I/O Performance of a Tandberg MLR1 Tape Drive, Proceedings of Norsk Informatikkonferanse, Kristiansand, Norway, November 1998.

(17) Olav Sandstå, Thomas Maukon Andersen, Roger Midtstraum and Rune Sætre, Access Time Modeling of a MLR1 Tape Drive, Proceedings of Norsk Informatikkonferanse, Voss, Norway, November 1997.


(18) Olav Sandstå, Stein Langørgen and Roger Midtstraum,Design and Implementation of the Elvira Video Server,Proceedings of Norsk Informatikkonferanse 1996, Alta, Norway, November 1996.

(19) Berit Irgens and Roger Midtstraum,Forkunnskapene i databehandling sin betydning for studieresultater i grunnleggende datafag, Proceedings of Norsk Informatikkonferanse 1996, Alta, Norway, November 1996.

(20) Berit Irgens, Roger Midtstraum and Zaheer-Uddin Quazi,Forkunnskaper i databehandling: Ferdigheter, holdninger og kunnskaper blant nye studenter høsten 1995, Proceedings of NOKOBIT’96, Kristiansand, Norway, Juni 1996.

(21) Rune Hjelsvold and Roger Midtstraum, Digital Video Archives, Proceedings of Norsk Informatikkonferanse 1994, Molde, Norway, November 1994, pp. 119-131.

DB-6 Five selected publications for Roger Midtstraum

a. Jon Olav Hauglid, Jon Heggland and Roger Midtstraum, WebSTAR - Video Database on WWW, Proceedings of Multimedia Computing and Networking 2000 (MMCN00), San Jose, California, SA, January 2000.

b. Olav Sandstå and Roger Midtstraum, Improving the Access Time Performance of Serpentine Tape Drives, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’99), Sydney, Australia, March 1999.

c. Rune Hjelsvold, Roger Midtstraum, and Olav Sandstå, Searching and Browsing a shared Video Database, In Nwosu, Thuraisingham and Berra (eds.), Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Issues, Kluwer Academic Publishers, April 1996. pp. 89-122.

d. Rune Hjelsvold, Stein Langørgen, Roger Midtstraum, and Olav Sandstå, Integrated Video Archive Tools, Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '95, San Francisco, California, November 1995, pp. 283-293.

e. Rune Hjelsvold and Roger Midtstraum, Modelling and Querying Video Data, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Databases, Santiago, Chile, September 1994, pp. 686-694.

DB-6 Personal statement by Roger Midtstraum

My recent research has been focusing on issues related to computer systems, which provide storage, retrieval and delivery of multimedia data.

In the Bauta project (1992-1995), we studied and developed a central image database system for a number of important Norwegian museums. In the VideoSTAR project (1993-1996), we focused on modelling of video data and had a particulat interest in retrieval of video data in large-scale video achieves. This work was continued in the WebSTAR project (1996-2000), now using the WWW as our computing platform. In the Elvira project (1993-1999), we developed two experimental video servers and studied storage of huge amounts of video data on a combination of disks and slow storage devices like tape and CD/DVD.


In the ongoing EMMA (Enhanced MultiMedia Achieve, 2000-) project, we have two main goals: First, we try to provide easy access to multimedia collections using intelligent and active user interfaces. Secondly, we try to develop solutions to support researchers making use of material stored in multimedia databases, e.g. a researcher studying the development of Norwegian folk dances. As part of this project, we have developed the SESAM prototype, which will be used to provide WWW access to the (multimedia) collections at the Norwegian Folk Museum.


DB-7 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Kjetil Nørvåg

DB-7 CV for Kjetil Nørvåg,

PERSONAL Norwegian, Born 1969INFO

POSITIONS • Førsteamanuensis (Associate Professor), IDI/NTNU

EDUCATION • 2000 Dr. Ing. (Ph.D.), IDI/NTNU • 1992 Sivilingeniør (M.Sc.), IDT/NTH

PRIOR 01-01 Post-doctoral researcher at the VERSO group at INRIA, FrancePOSITIONS 00-00 Associate Professor, IDT/UNIT

98-00 Assistant Professor, IDI,NTNU94-98 Research Fellow, IDI/NTNU93-94 System administrator in the computer department at the Royal Norwegian Airforce Academy

TEACHING Current NTNU Courses:EXPERIENCE SIF8025 Computers and Operating Systems

In addition, I have given older versions of computer systems and advanced computer architecture courses at NTNU.

SUPERVISION I have supervised 4 sivilingeniør (M.Sc.) Diploma students.


Mail address: [email protected] address: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~noervaagPostal address: IDI / NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway


DB-7 Publication list for Kjetil Nørvåg

JOURNAL ARTICLES

(1) Kjetil Nørvåg, "Fine-Granularity Signature Caching in Object Database Systems", Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2, pages 101-119, Elsevier Science, August 2001.

(2) Kjetil Nørvåg, "Issues in Transaction-Time Temporal Object Database Systems", Journal of Database Management, Vol. 12, No. 4, pages 40-51, Oct-Dec 2001.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

(3) Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen,


"Optimimal Object Descriptor Caching in Temporal Object Database Systems", In K. Tanaka, S. Ghandeharizadeh, and Y. Kambayashi (Eds.), Information Organization and Databases, pages 235-248, Kluwer Academic Publishers, November 2000


(4) Kjetil Nørvåg, "Temporal Query Operators in XML Databases", to be presented at the 17th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2002), Madrid, Spain, March 2002.

(5) Kjetil Nørvåg, "Object and Log Management in Temporal Log-Only Object Database Systems", Advances in Databases and Information Systems (Proceedings of ADBIS'2001),pages 10-224, Vilnius, Lithuania. Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol 2151) 2001.

(6) Kjetil Nørvåg, "A Comparative Study of Log-Only and In-Place Update Based Temporal Object Database Systems", Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM'2000), Washington D.C., USA, November 2000.

(7) Kjetil Nørvåg, "The Vagabond Temporal OID Index: An Index Structure for OID Indexing in Temporal Object Database Systems", Proceedings of the 2000 International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS), pages 158-166, Yokohama, Japan, September 2000.

(8) Kjetil Nørvåg, "Design Issues in Transaction-Time Temporal Object Database Systems", Current Issues in Databases and Information Systems (Proceedings of ADBIS-DASFAA 2000), pages 371-378, Prague, Czech Republic. Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol 1884) 2000.

(9) Kjetil Nørvåg, "Main-Memory Management in Temporal Object Database Systems", Current Issues in Databases and Information Systems (Proceedings of ADBIS-DASFAA 2000), pages 362-370, Prague, Czech Republic. Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol 1884) 2000.

(10) Kjetil Nørvåg, "A Performance Evaluation of Log-Only Temporal Object Database Systems", Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2000, Berlin, Germany, IEEE Computer Society July 2000.

(11) Kjetil Nørvåg, "An Approach to High-Performance Scalable Temporal Object Storage", Proceedings of the Workshop on High Performance Object Databases (HiPOD'2000), Cardiff, UK, July 2000.

(12) Kjetil Nørvåg, "The Persistent Cache: Improving OID Indexing in Temporal Object-Oriented Database Systems", Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB'99), pages 66-77, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 1999.

(13) Kjetil Nørvåg, "Efficient Use of Signatures in Object-Oriented Database Systems", Proceedings of Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS'99), pages 367-381, Maribor, Slovenia. Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol 1691) 1999.

(14) Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, "Optimizing OID Indexing Cost in Temporal Object-Oriented Database Systems", Proceedings of FODO'98, The 5th International Conference on Foundations of Data Organization, pages 137-146, Kobe, Japan, 1998.


(15) Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, "An Analytical Study of Object Identifier Indexing", Proceedings of DEXA'98, 9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, pages 38-49, Vienna, Austria. Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol 1460) 1998.

(16) Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, "Write Optimized Object-Oriented Database Systems", Proceedings of the XVII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC'97, pages 164-173, Valparaíso, Chile. IEEE Computer Society 1997.

(17) Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, "Log-Only Temporal Object Storage", Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA'97, pages 728-733, Toulouse, France. IEEE Computer Society 1997.

(18) Kjetil Nørvåg, Olav Sandstå, and Kjell Bratbergsengen, "Concurrency Control in Distributed Object-Oriented Database Systems", Proceedings of ADBIS'97, pages 9-17, St.-Petersburg, Russia, 1997. Later also published in Advances in Databases and Information Systems, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC), Springer-Verlag.

(19) Kjell Bratbergsengen and Kjetil Nørvåg, "Improved and Optimized Partitioning Techniques in Database Query Processing", Proceedings of BNCOD15, pages 69-83, London, United Kingdom. Springer Verlag (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol 1271), 1997

(20) Kjetil Nørvåg and Kjell Bratbergsengen, "Aggregate and Grouping Functions in Object-Oriented Databases", Proceedings of the XVI International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC'96, pages 67-76, Valdivia, Chile, 1996.

(21) Kjetil Nørvåg, "Neurocomputer Taxonomies", Proceedings of the World Congress on Neural Networks 1994, pages 596-600 (Vol. II), San Diego, 1994


(22) Kjetil Nørvåg, "Reducing the Cost of Perfect Match Accesses in Object Database Systems", to be presented at Norsk Informatikkonferanse, Tromsø, Norway, November 2001.

(23) Kjetil Nørvåg, "The Vagabond Parallel Temporal Object-Oriented Database System: Versatile Support for Future Applications", Proceedings of Norsk Informatikkonferanse, pages 175-186, Trondheim, Norway, 1999.

(24) Kjell Bratbergsengen and Kjetil Nørvåg, "Optimizing Hash Partitioning in Relational Algebra", Proceedings of Norsk Informatikkonferanse 1996, Alta, Norway, November 1996.

SUBMITTED PUBLICATIONS

(25) Kjetil Nørvåg,”The Vagabond Approach to Logging and Recovery in Transaction-Time Temporal Object Database

Systems"Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering.

(26) Kjetil Nørvåg,”A Study of Signature Caching in Parallel Object Database Systems"

(27) Kjetil Nørvåg,"A Study of Object Declustering Strategies in Parallel Temporal Object Database Systems"

(28) Kjetil Nørvåg,


” Buffer Performance Modeling In the Context of Unclustered Index Accesses with Non-Uniform Access Pattern”

OTHER WRITTEN MATERIAL

(29) Kjetil Nørvåg,”An Introduction to Fault-Tolerant Systems”Technical Report IDI-6/99, March 1999

DB-7 Five selected publications for Kjetil Nørvåga. Kjetil Nørvåg,

”The Vagabond Approach to Logging and Recovery in Transaction-Time Temporal Object Database Systems", Accepted for IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering.

b. Kjetil Nørvåg, "Fine-Granularity Signature Caching in Object Database Systems", Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2, pages 101-119, Elsevier Science, August 2001.

c. Kjetil Nørvåg, "A Comparative Study of Log-Only and In-Place Update Based Temporal Object Database Systems", Proceedings of the Ninth ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM'2000), Washington D.C., USA, November 2000.

d. Kjetil Nørvåg, "The Vagabond Temporal OID Index: An Index Structure for OID Indexing in Temporal Object Database Systems", Proceedings of the 2000 International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS), pages 158-166, Yokohama, Japan, September 2000.

e. Kjetil Nørvåg, "The Persistent Cache: Improving OID Indexing in Temporal Object-Oriented Database Systems", Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB'99), pages 66-77, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 1999.

DB-7 Personal statement by Kjetil Nørvåg


From my time as a Masters degree student in computer architecture, my main interests have been in the lower levels of computer systems, and in particular the cooperation (and bottlenecks) between hardware, operating system, and database systems. This has clearly influenced my research in database systems, which has focused on techniques that reduce the secondary storage bottleneck.

My main research areas have been storage structures, access methods, and query processing. During the research towards my doctoral degree, I studied these aspects in the context of temporal object database systems. Recently, during a 9 months postdoc stay at INRIA in France I have continued this work, and studied more closely storage and management of temporal XML data.

My future research will continue to include the topics described above, but I am also extending my research topics to other related areas. Currently, this includes inconsistency in XML data warehouses, and using data mining techniques for clustering of XML documents and related metadata (in collaboration with researchers at the VERSO group at INRIA (France) and from Athens University of Economics and Business)


DB-8 Post.Doc. Herindrasana Ramampiaro

DB-8 CV for Heri Ramampiaro

PERSONAL Nationality of Madagascar, Born 1972INFO Married

POSITION Post Doc. Research fellow, IDI/NTNU

EDUCATION 97-01 Doktoringeniør (Ph.D..) (Thesis under evaluation), IDI/NTNU95-97 Sivivilingeniør (M.Sc.), Stavanger University College

93-95 Høgskoleingeniør (B.Eng.), Ålesund College

PRIOR 97-01 Research Fellow, IDI/NTNUPOSITIONS 99-99 Visiting Research Student, Lancaster University, U.K.

SUPERVISION Supervised 2 sivilingeniør (M.Sc.) Diploma students.Supervised 3 student project groups


Mail address: [email protected] address: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~heriPostal address: IDI / NTNU, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway

PROFESSIONAL NIF: Norwegian Society of Chartered EngineersMEMBERSHIP ACM: Association of Computing Machinery, ACM SIGMOD

IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Computer Society

PROJECT 97-01 CAGIS: Cooperating Agents in the Global Information Space, IDIMEMBERSHIP 01- MOWAHS: Mobile Work Across Heterogeneous Systems, IDI

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIESCalled to organize a SPECIAL SESSION on Cooperative Distributed Information Systems at the Collaborative Technology Symposium 2002 (CTS02), San Antonio, USA, 27 – 31 January, 2002.

Organizing a SPECIAL SESSION on Cooperative Database and Web-based systems, accepted by the committee of the 6th World Multi Conference On Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002) July 14 - 18, 2002, Orlando , Florida, USA.

DB-8 Publication list for Heri Ramampiaro


1. Hien N. Lee, Heri Ramampiaro, Carl-Fredrik Sørensen and Alf Inge Wang, “The MOWAHS Characterisation Framework for Mobile Work”, Submitted to the 20th IASTED International Multi-Conference Applied Informatics (AI), Software Engineering Symposium, Under Review.

2. Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “Supporting Customisable Transactions for Cooperative Work: An Experience Paper“, Accepted at the Collaborative Technologies Symposium 2002 (CTS’02), San Antonio, TX.,USA, 2001.

3. Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “CAGISTrans: Providing Adaptable Transactional Support for Cooperative Work“, In Proceedings of the 6th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST’01), Florida, USA, Nov. 2001.


4. Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “CAGISTrans: A Transactional Framework for Cooperative Work“, In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDCS 2001), pp. 43-50, Dallas, USA, Aug. 2001.

5. Heri Ramampiaro, Alf Inge Wang and Terje Brasethvik, “Supporting Distributed Cooperative Work in CAGIS“, In Proceedings of the 4th Annual IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Nov. 2000.

6. Heri Ramampiaro, Monica Divitini and Sobah A. Petersen, “Agent-based groupware: Challenges for cooperative transaction models“, In Proceedings of the International Process Technology Workshop (IPTW 99), J. Estublier, G. Alonso, and H. Schlichter (ed.), Grenoble, France, Sept. 1999.

7. Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “Cooperative Database System: A Constructive Review of Cooperative Transaction Models“, In Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Database Applications in Non-Traditional Environments (DANTE'99), pp. 315-324, IEEE Computer Society Press, Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 1999.


8. Heri Ramampiaro, Alf Inge Wang, and Terje Brasethvik: "Supporting Distributed Cooperative Work in CAGIS" (NIK-version), Norsk Informatikkonferanse 2000, Bodø, 20-22 November, 2000.

9. Heri Ramampiaro, "Optimal Texture Classification Algorithm", Talk at the Norwegian Numerical Workshop - NNM '97, Os, Norway.

Other written materials

10. Herindrasana Ramampiaro, “CAGISTrans: Adaptable Transactional Support for Cooperative Work”, Dr.Ing Thesis, Submitted to the Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Informatics and IDI, Under evaluation. IDI-Report No. 06/2001.

11. Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “CAGISTrans: Supporting Cooperation among Agents using Customisable Transaction Models", Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Technical Paper IDI-nr. 5/2001.

12. Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “Transaction support for cooperative environments: A state-of-the-art”. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Technical Paper IDI-nr. 10/99.

13. Herindrasana Ramampiaro, “Exact Algorithms for Texture Classification”, M.Sc. Thesis, Stavanger University College.

DB-8 Five selected publications for Heri Ramampiaro

a) Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “Supporting Customisable Transactions for Cooperative Work: An Experience Paper“, Accepted at the Collaborative Technologies Symposium 2002 (CTS’02), San Antonio, TX.,USA, 2001.

b) Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “CAGISTrans: Providing Adaptable Transactional Support for Cooperative Work“, In Proceedings of the 6th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST’01), Florida, USA, Nov. 2001.


c) Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “CAGISTrans: A Transactional Framework for Cooperative Work“, In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (PDCS 2001), pp. 43-50, Dallas, USA, Aug. 2001.

d) Heri Ramampiaro, Alf Inge Wang and Terje Brasethvik, “Supporting Distributed Cooperative Work in CAGIS“, In Proceedings of the 4th Annual IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Nov. 2000.

e) Heri Ramampiaro and Mads Nygård, “Cooperative Database System: A Constructive Review of Cooperative Transaction Models“, In Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Database Applications in Non-Traditional Environments (DANTE'99), pp. 315-324, IEEE Computer Society Press, Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 1999.

DB-8 Personal statement by Heri Ramampiaro

I was introduced to the database research field while taking a Masters of Science course on Distributed Database systems at the Stavanger University College. This has much influenced my research interests today that include advanced transaction management systems, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), mobile computing and agent technology.

I came to IDI-NTNU after finishing my M.Sc. and was affiliated with the CAGIS project – Cooperating Agents in the Global Information Space. Though the work with this project, I got the opportunity to further explore my fields of interest. The main results from this work were several papers written related to the above-mentioned interests and a Dr.Ing thesis (which is still under evaluation).

After submitting the thesis, I was appointed a Post Doctoral research position at IDI. Today, I am affiliated with the MOWAHS project, working specifically with issues related to the impact of mobility on database (transactional) support for mobile work environments. The results of this work will be a framework for characterising mobile work resulting in requirements for the transactional support, and models and tools for supporting mobile work using various electronic devices, such as laptops, palmtops, and cellular phones.

DB-X Publications from other DB members in 1992-20011. Øystein Torbjørnsen, Parallel Relational Database Algorithms, 1991 , Parallel Computing on Distributed

Memory Multiprocessors, NATO ASI Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences,Volume 103, Springer-Verlag, 1993.

2. Rune Hjelsvold, Video Information Contents and Architecture, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Cambridge, UK, March 1994.

3. Rune Hjelsvold, Digital Television Archives - Combining Computer Technology and Video, Presented at the Annual IASA/FIAT Conference 1994, Bogensee, Germany, September 1994.

4. Rune Hjelsvold, Sharing and Reuse of Video Information, Presented at the ACM Multimedia'94 Conference Workshop on Multimedia Database Management Systems, San Francisco, C.A., October 1994.


Appendix 4: Graphics and Image Processing Group (BB)

The BB group has the following faculty members: BB-1 Richard E. Blake, PhD, professor BB-2 Jørn Hokland, dr.ing., associate professor BB-3 Lars Aurdal, dr.ing., adjunct associate professor

The group has five PhD students: Zoran Constantinescu-Fülöp (CSE), Gabor Zoltan Csejtey (expired fellowship), Frank Lindseth (no fellowship), Atle Pedersen (Body in motion), and Gerthory Toussaint.

In 1996-2000 the group has produced one dr.ing. candidate: - Ole Henry Dørum: ”Reliable Curvature Estimation from Range Images”, 1996, advisor: R.

Blake. The group teaches the following courses: SIF8039 Graphics, Image Processing and Human Computer InteractionSIF8066 Computer VisionSIF8068 Statistical Image Analysis and LearningSIF8092Image Processing, Specialization


BB-1 Professor Richard E. Blake, Ph.D.

BB-1 CV of Richard E. Blake

Name: Richard E. Blake

Age 54

Post: Professor in Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Qualifications: MA Physics, Oxford University, (Matured from BA. 1968)Msc. Control Engineering, Sussex University, 1970D'Phil. Oxford University, 1978

Posts and Institutions:

1992 - present: Professor in Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. (Previously known as University of Trondheim - NTH.)

1990 - 1992 Visiting Professor of Computer Science, University of Alabama, USA.

1988 - 1990 Guest Professor in Graphics, Image Processing and Computer Vision, University of Trondheim - NTH, Norway.

1987 Visiting Scientist at IBM Scientific Centre, Bergen, Norway.

1986 Visiting Scientist at Chr. Michelsens Institutt, Bergen, Norway.

1983 - 1988 Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Tennessee, USA. (Academic leave 1986-1987.)

1975 - 1983 Senior Lecturer, (equivalent Senior Scientific Officer, UK Civil Service) in Computer Science, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Swindon, United Kingdom.

1971 - 1975 Lecturer, (equivalent Scientific Officer) in Computer Science, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Swindon, United Kingdom.

Merit appointments (without pay)

1986 Member of Science Alliance, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

1972-1978 Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford.

1971 Senior Scholar Wadham College, Oxford.

1965-1968 Major Scholar, Wadham College, Oxford.

Teaching experience.The subjects that I have taught in my varios posts are: programming languages: Fortran, Ratfor, Algol60, Algol68, Pascal, C; mathematics for computer scientists; complexity theory; data structures; real time system design; compilers; pattern recognition; computer vision; image processing; graphics.

Research based teaching.

The software tools created for research have been used extensively in teaching fourth and fifth year students, and in doctoral courses. My image processing courses have included many live demonstrations of image capture,


processing and recognition. I have constructed a portable optical bench that makes this possible in the classroom. It is not so usual for image processing courses to risk live demonstrations, but students have been strongly appreciative of them. Live demonstrations were particularly requested by the University of Mauritius in my computer vision course given there in September 2001.

I have developed some web based components for my courses. The students are able to execute image processing tools on the server side through the interface given by a web browser. The arrangements are not yet fully satisfactory because of some limitations in my cgi scripts. These will be improved in time for the course to be run in January 2002.

Teaching connections overseas.

In addition to the standard courses, I have been involved in specialist courses: Masters in Information Systems, Plan and Budget Organisation, Tehran, 1976; courses in pattern recognition and image processing for defence contractors in UK; and contribution to course in computer vision for University of Mauritius, 2001. I will be contributing to the design and teaching of Masters courses in Computer Vision and Graphics and Visualisation for The University of Mauritius.

Research connections overseas.

Research experience overseas has been obtained by securing faculty positions in overseas universities. In addition, research visits to Chr. Michelsens Institute, Bergen in 1984, 1985, 1986 and the IBM Scientific Centre, Bergen, in 1987 were overseas visits from my time based in the USA.

In September 1982 I enjoyed a Window on Science visit to The United States, sponsored by USAF, giving seminars at Wright Patterson AFB, Rome Air Development Center, United States Naval Weapons Center China Lake, University of New Mexico Albuquerque and The Northrop Corporation. The main subject of the visit was multi-sensor fusion.

I am a committee member for a doctoral student working on 3D modelling for graphics in Vilnius University.

I am a member of a NORFA network on Wireless Information Management organised by Aalborg University with partners from Finland, Sweden and Lithuania.

Following a recent visit to Mauritius, I have an agreement with University of Mauritius and University of Bangor that we will seek funds to apply my colour image processing techniques to monitor the health of coral reefs - the red component will be replaced by a thermal image.

During the last 5 years I have been a reviewer for IEEE Tranactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and Image and Vision Computing as well as some conferences.

Doctoral students graduating in the last 5 years:

Ole Doerum was awarded his dr.ing. for his thesis on fitting quadratic patches to range image data in 1996.

BB-1 Publications list for Richard Blake

Refereed journals:

"A quality measure for colour image segmentation"; with A Juozapavicius as second author, Nonlinear Analysis, Modelling and Control, 5, 2000. (A)

"Indices and data structures in information systems"; with A. Juozapavicius as first author, Informatica, Vol 10, No 1, pp71-88, 1999. (B)


"Symbolic approximation for computer vision"; Nonlinear Analysis, Modelling and Control, Vilnius, pp31-41, 1998. (C)

"Partitioning graph matching with constraints"; Pattern Recognition, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp439-446, March 1994. (D)

Refereed conferences:

"The extraction of structural features for use in computer vision." with P. Boros as second author, Proceedings of the Second Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 1995. (E)

"The calculation of the aspect graph from a CAD model" with P. Boros as first author, Proceedings of the Second Asian Conference on Computer Vision, December 1995. (F)

"A lattice based treatment of graph matching"; Invited paper, in Proceedings of The International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision, Singapore, 15-18 September 1992. (G)

"Recognising objects by matching attributed relational graphs"; Proceedings of The Seventh Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Aalborg, Denmark, August 1991. (H)

BB-1 Five Selected papers for Richard Blake

a) "Convergent matching for computer vision. " with A Juozapavicius as second author, under review for Pattern Recognition. (I) The paper has been expanded, as requested by an earlier review, and we are hopeful of publication in 2002.

b) "A quality measure for colour image segmentation"; with A Juozapavicius as second author, Nonlinear Analysis, Modelling and Control, 5, 2000. (A)

c) "Symbolic approximation for computer vision"; Nonlinear Analysis, Modelling and Control, Vilnius, pp31-41, 1998. (C)

d) "Partitioning graph matching with constraints"; Pattern Recognition, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp439-446, March 1994. (D)

e) "Recognising objects by matching attributed relational graphs"; Proceedings of The Seventh Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Aalborg, Denmark, August 1991. (H)

BB-1 Personal statement by R. E. Blake

The main themes of my research over the last 20 years are pattern recognition, computer vision, image processing and multi-sensor fusion.

An interest in syntactic pattern recognition began with my doctoral thesis. The theoretical part of the thesis presented an algorithm for the inference of a context free grammar. Problems with noise made syntactic pattern recognition insufficiently robust for practical use. This was true even for 1-dimensional patterns. In addition, there are theoretical problems in defining grammars suitable for patterns in 2 or 3 dimensions These difficulties caused my research interests to shift to model based recognition. The method is essentially 'predict and match'. Predictions are generated from a model; the match is the identification of the prediction that is most similar to fragments of the input data. The steps are iterated until all of the input data is processed.


References C, D and I are part of our research that provides control strategies that make graph matching a usable technique in pattern recognition. The main problem is that the matching of the relational graphs that represent the images is NP-complete. The system must avoid becoming trapped in ineffective searches.Papers C, D and I express our attempts to place the management of the NP-complete task on a formal and practical basis. Paper C is an updated version of paper G which was ahead of its time and needed improvement in its notation.

Papers A, E, F and H represent our attempts to create a complete system for model based object recognition. We have now integrated all the components of the system except for pose estimation. This is implemented but not yet included in the scripts that drive the image processing and matching.

Colour images convey information that should be useful for industrial inspection. This prompted my research into colour image segmentation and the extraction of structural features, references A, E and F.

Graphics research has been mainly devoted to representing 3D objects so that they can become reference patterns for computer vision. In addition to conventional colour images, the simulation of range images and extraction of planar patches is routine in my multi-sensor research. I have also done some work in simulating thermal images.

I began work on voxel representations in 1990, well before the technique was widely used. Recently, I have updated the software and I am now applying it to model paper fibres in association with a project with the Paper Industries Research Institute that is located in the NTNU campus.

The main strategy in my research has been to create working implementations. I am the author of approximately 350 programs and 400 scripts that, together with standard tools and public domain software, create my research environment in computer vision, graphics and image processing. These tools have formed the basis of two of the doctoral projects that I am supervising, and also many student projects in Norway, USA and UK.


BB-2 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Jørn Hokland

BB-2 CV for Jørn Hokland

Name: Jørn HoklandAge 35Post: Associate Professor (førsteamanuensis) in image analysis using knowledge-based methods

Qualifications: Basic and advanced courses in neuroscience and psychology (31/20 year equiv.)(attachment 1), NTNU, 1999-2001 Ph.D. (dr.scient) in Applied Statistics, University of Bergen, 1996 M.Sc. (siv.ing.) in Computer Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1991 B.E. in Computer Science, Bergen College of Engineering, 1989

Posts and Institutions:

1996 – present: Associate Professor in image analysis using knowledge-based methods, NTNU.

1994 Visiting Scientist at University of Massachusetts at Amherst, invited by Associate Professor Patrick Kelly, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering (6 months).

1992-1995 Ph.D. stipend at Dept. of Physiology and Dept. of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway.

1991-1997 Research Scientist at Chr. Michelsen Research A.S., Advanced Visualization Section, Bergen, Norway (Scientific Advisor 1996-1997).

Teaching experience

The subjects that I have taught are: image processing; image analysis; computer graphics; Bayesian image analysis; statistical image analysis and learning; connectionism for psychologists. I have been trained and have practiced as team facilitator in NTNU’s multi-disiplinary project Experts in Team.

BB-2 Publication list for Jørn Hokland

Refereed journal articles:

“Can robots without Hebbian plasticity make good models of adaptive behaviour?”, Hokland, J. & Vereijken, B., to appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2001). (A)

“Bayesian 2-D deconvolution: a model for diffuse ultrasound scattering”, Husby, O., Lie, T., Lango, T., Hokland, J. & Rue H., IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 48, pp. 121-130, Jan. 2001 (B)

“Bayesian 2-D deconvolution: effect of using spatially invariant ultrasound point spread functions”, Lango, T., Lie, T., Husby, O. & Hokland, J., IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 48, pp. 131-141, Jan. 2001 (C)

“Markov models of specular and diffuse scattering in restoration of medical ultrasound images”, Hokland, J.H. & Kelly, P.A., IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 43, pp. 660-669, July 1996 (D)


“Ultrasound speckle reduction using harmonic oscillator models”, Hokland, J.H. & Taxt, T., IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 41, pp. 215-224, March 1994 (E)

Refereed conference articles:

"New model and algorithm for restoring medical ultrasound rf-images", Hokland, J.H. & Kelly, P.A., Medical Imaging 1995: Image Processing, SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2434 , pp. 648-657, 1995 (F)

“Robust semi-transparent volume rendering of abdominal 3D ultrasound data”, Hokland, J.H. & Hausken, T., Proceedings, 1994 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, 1994, Vol. 3 , pp. 1567-1571, 1994 (G)

“Harmonic imaging: a model for ultrasonic speckle reduction”, Hokland, J.H. & Taxt, T., Proceedings, IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, pp. 1005-1010, 1993 (H)

Other international publications:

“Quest of the qualiameter”, Audsen, K. & Hokland, J., submitted to Journal of Consciousness Studies, November 2001 (I)

“Speckle reduction, restoration, and volume visualization in medical ultrasonics”, doctoral thesis, University of Bergen, 1995 (N)

National publications:

“Datasimulert psykologi”, Hokland, J., Pedersen, A. & Toussaint, G., Psykologisk Tidsskrift – NTNU, pp. 33-37, 3, 2000 (J)

”Subjektive opplevelsers uforklarlighet”, Audsen, K. & Hokland, J., Psykologisk Tidsskrift – NTNU, pp. 38-41, 3, 2000 (K)

“A Hebbian neural model of conditioning and concept learning”, Hokland, J., technical report, NTNU, April 1998 (L)

”A Hebbian neural model of classical and instrumental conditioning”, Hokland, J., technical report, NTNU, October 1997 (M)

BB-2 Five selected publications for Jørn Hokland

a. “Markov models of specular and diffuse scattering in restoration of medical ultrasound images”, 1996 (D)

b. ”A Hebbian neural model of classical and instrumental conditioning”, 1997 (M) / “A Hebbian neural model of conditioning and concept learning”, 1998 (L)

c. “Bayesian 2-D deconvolution: a model for diffuse ultrasound scattering”, 2001 (B)d. “Bayesian 2-D deconvolution: effect of using spatially invariant ultrasound point spread

functions”, 2001 (C)e. “Can robots without Hebbian plasticity make good models of adaptive behaviour?”,

2001 (A)


BB-2 Personal statement by Jørn Hokland

During work on my M.Sc. thesis in computer science I became interested in medical ultrasound imaging, which I pursued full-time in the period 1991-1995. After having done research on volume rendering/visualization methods (reference G) I developed an interest in the physics of medical ultrasonics (E, H), thanks to my advisor Prof. T. Taxt, M.D. After changing department from informatics to statistics I learned the tools which are still essential to my research and teaching: Markov Random Field models (MRFs) and Monte-Carlo Markov Chain methods (MCMC). In 1993, before my stay in Amherst, I developed what became the first MRF model of 2D medical ultrasound images, which includes point-spread functions, image noise, and specular and diffuse ultrasound scattering. Working with Associate Prof. P.Kelly, this model became the basis of a new MAP estimator algorithm which effectively restores 2D radio-frequency images, removing speckle noise and reducing blur (D, attached). An early conference version (F) got the award Honorable Mention for its quality, quantity, and relevance. The PhD thesis (N) was based on my work on ultrasound imaging (D,E,G).

When becoming a faculty member in August 1996, this initiated two major changes; the challenge of teaching, and pursuing a long-lasting fascination for computational neuroscience.

During my first four semesters I taught four different courses; digital image processing, digital image analysis, computer graphics, and a new course; Bayesian image analysis. As a new faculty member, adapting to these and other duties required much of my initial time, especially the challenge of teaching state-of-the-art statistical methods to computer science students. The new course attracted graduate level students from computer science, electrical engineering, physics, and statistics. In 1998, three PhD students, O.Husby (statistics), T.Lie and T.Lango (both ultrasonics), took interest in an MRF ultrasound restoration model I had developed during 1996-1998. This new model solves the instability problems of the first discrete region field model (D,F,N), by introducing a continuous hidden MRF. During 1998-1999 we developed a new efficient MCMC restoration algorithm to find MAP image estimates of my model (B, attached), and we made extensive experiments using this optimal method to assess for the first time the errors of using spatially invariant point spread functions in restoration of ultrasound images formed by variant point spread functions (C, attached).

My faculty position in the area “image analysis using knowledge-based methods” has allowed me to pursue an old fascination for Computational NeuroScience (CNS, alias artificial neural networks or connectionism). CNS is a theoretical framework for explaining psychological phenomena and behavior by the construction of models of relevant neural processes. I have extended the unsupervised learning model presented by A.H.Klopf (A neuronal model of classical conditioning, in Psychobiology, 16, 1988) to explain also instrumental conditioning (L) and concept/Gestalt learning (M), as argued in two preliminary reports (L/M, attached). This work has later been developed, but not yet published because of immature methods for experimental verification of CNS models which include tight spatio-temporal brain/environment loops. Until the summer of 2001, our department was not organized to encourage joint efforts in this field, and, in 1998, I initiated the project “The body in motion in cultural, natural, and simulated environments”, supported by NTNU, and including faculty members and PhD students from psychology, movement science, computer science, dance research, and philosophy. In this project, K.Audsen (philosophy) and I have studied the explanatory limitations of CNS models (I, K); A.Pedersen, G.Toussaint (both computer science) and I have suggested how MRF models may explain exploratory behavior as random bursting in neurons (J); and Prof. B.Vereijken (movement science) and I have recently


proposed a new methodology for testing CNS models by performing purely simulated ecological experiments (A, attached).

Over the past two years, to strengthen the basics needed to do research in CNS, I have formalized my qualifications in neuroscience and scientific psychology through various courses offered at NTNU. I plan to continue doing so, and to work with Prof. B.Vereijken to explain the shaping of gaits. After the recent fusion of old department groups into the Section of Intelligent Systems, Prof. K.Downing and I have collaborated to arrange joint meetings with graduate level students, combining our interests in artificial life and neural networks, and planning to improve the robot lab and simulated environment lab of our section (partly under the new inter-sectional group Complex Adaptive Organically-inspired Systems – CAOS).

Doctoral studentsI am the supervisor of Gerthory Toussaint (1998-2002) and Atle Pedersen (1999-2003), both working with CNS models under the co-supervisor of Prof. B.Vereijken at Dept. of Movement Science, NTNU. G.Toussaint studies MRF-CNS models of random bursting in neurons that may explain exploratory behavior and play an important role in learning. A.Pedersen works with CNS models of learning, and is presently developing an ecological simulator combining CNS models with mechanical models of body and environment.

I am also the co-supervisor of K.Audsen (philosophy) and of F.Lindseth (ultrasonics).


BB-3 Adjunct Associate Professor Lars Aurdal, Ph.D.

BB-3 CV for Lars Aurdal

Personal data

Date of birth: 30/11/1965 (in Bergen, Norway).Citizenship: Norwegian.Marital status: Married, 2 children.Address: Gabels gate 38

0272 OsloNorway

home: +47-22-54-85-40 office: +47-23-07-01-07Email: [email protected]

Education

06/93-03/97: Doctorate at the Ecole Nationale Superiéure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France. Thesis title: Analyse d'images IRM 3D multi-échos pour la détection et la quantification de pathologies cérébrales. Supervisors: Pr. Henri Maitre (ENST) and Pr. Isabelle Bloch (ENST). Thesis defended on the 4th of March 1997.

08/87-12/91: Studied electronics at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). Diploma work title: Sanntids kantdeteksjon (Real time edge detection). Supervisors: Pr. Tor Ramstad (NTNU) and Vidar Andersen (Norwegian Defense Research Establishment).

06/85-06/87: Norwegian Army Signal Corps Officer Training School.

Work experience

01/92-05/93: Worked as R&D engineer in the satellite communication division of ABB-NERA A/S (currently NERA A/S). Worked with the INMARSAT M/B system, mainly development and implementation of signal processing algorithms.

04/97-03/00: Worked as a scientist at NDRE (The Norwegian Defense Research Establishment). Worked primarily on IR image processing.

05/99-: Assistant Professor in part-time (20%) position at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), department of computer science. Work as lecturer in courses in image processing and algorithm theory.

04/00-: Postdoctorate scholarship at the Norwegian National Hospital. Worked on medical image processing in a multidisciplinary team.

Languages Fluent oral and written Norwegian, English and French. Some oral German.

Contacts

Professor Henri MaitreEcole Nationale Supérieure des TélécommunicationsDept. TSI46, rue Barrault75634 Paris CEDEX 13France +33-1-45-81-76-55

Professor Isabelle BlochEcole Nationale Supérieure des TélécommunicationsDept. TSI46, rue Barrault75634 Paris CEDEX 13France +33-1-45-81-75-85


BB-3 Publication list for Lars Aurdal

Congress Publications

L. Aurdal, X. Descombes, H. Maitre, I. Bloch, C. Adamsbaum, and G. Kalifa. Fully Automated Analysis of Adrenoleukodystrophy from Dual-Echo MR Images. In Proceedings CAR-95, Berlin, pages 3540, June 1995

L. Aurdal, H. Maitre, I. Bloch, and C. Adamsbaum. Segmentation et Quantification Automatique des Lésions de l'Adrénoleucodystrophie en IRM Multi-Echo. In Journal de Radiologie: Livre des Résumés des Journées Françaises de Radiologie, page 694, October 1995.

T. Geraud, L. Aurdal, H. Maitre, I. Bloch, and C. Adamsbaum: Estimation of Partial Volume Effect Using Spatial Context. Application to Morphometry in Cerebral Imaging. In Conference Record IEEE NSS/MIC-95, October 1995.

L. Aurdal, I. Bloch, H. Maitre, C. Graffigne, and C. Adamsbaum. Continuous Label Bayesian Segmentation, Applications to Medical Brain Images. In Proceedings ICIP-97, Santa Barbara, California, USA, October 1997.

I. Bloch, L. Aurdal, D. Bijno, and J. Müller: Estimation of Class Membership Functions for Grey-Level Based Image Fusion. In Proceedings ICIP-97, Santa Barbara, California, USA, October 1997.

T. Mala, E. Samset, L. Aurdal, B. Edwin, P. Hol, Ø. Mathiesen, O. Søreide, and I. Gladhaug:MR Monitored Cryoablation of Liver Tissue. In Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the 4th Symposium of the Japanese-Scandinavian radiological Society and the 7th Nordic-Japan PACS Symposium, Oslo, May 2001.

T. Mala, E. Samset, L. Aurdal, B. Edwin, P. Hol, Ø. Mathiesen, O. Søreide, and I. Gladhaug: Cryoablation of Liver Tumors Monitored by MRI. In Proceedings of the 11th World Congress of Cryo-Surgery (International and European Congress of Cryosurgery), Lisboa, October 2001.

T. Mala, E. Samset, L. Aurdal, B. Edwin, P. Hol, Ø. Mathiesen, O. Søreide, and I. Gladhaug. MR-Veiledet Kryoablasjon av Leversvulster. In Proceedings Radiologisk høstmøte, 2001.

Submitted Journal Publications

T. Mala, E. Samset, L. Aurdal, B. Edwin, I. Gladhaug, and O. Søreide: MRI Estimated Temperature Distribution in Liver Cryolesions. A Study of Cryolesion Characteristics Assumed Necessary for Tumor Ablation. Submitted to Cryobiology, 2001

T. Mala, L. Aurdal, L. Frich, E. Samset, B. Edwin, O. Søreide, and I. Gladhaug: Liver Tumor Cryo-Ablation – A Commentary on the Need of Improved Procedural Imaging. Submitted 2001.

BB-3 Five selected papers for Lars AurdalNot provided

BB-3 Personal statement for Lars Aurdal

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Appendix 5: Information Systems group (IS)

The IS group has the following faculty members: IS-1 Arne Sølvberg, professor IS-2 Guttorm Sindre, dr.ing., associate professor IS-3 Jon Atle Gulla, dr.ing., adjunct professor IS-4 John Krogstie, dr.ing., adjunct professor IS-5 Harald Rønneberg, dr.ing., adjunct associate professor

The group has seven PhD students: Terje Brasethvik (CAGIS, now Assistant Professor (universitetslektor)), Xiaomeng Su (Accenture-financed), Hallvard Trætteberg (NFR-financed, now university teacher), Harald Haibo Xiao (ElComAg, on leave), Raimundas Matulevicius, Darijus Strasunskas, and Håvard D. Jørgensen (a SINTEF researcher). Three of these are just starting and two in their final stages. In 1996-2000 the group has produced three dr.ing. (Ph.D.) candidates: - Gunnar Brataas: “Performance Engineering Method for Workflow Systems: An Integrated

View of Human and Computerised Work Processes”, 1996, advisor: A. Sølvberg.- Harald Rønneberg: “A Domain Modeling Language for Military Command, Control and

Information Systems”, 1997, advisor: A. Sølvberg.- Steinar Carlsen: “Conceptual Modeling and Composition of Flexible Workflow Models”,

1998, advisor: A. Sølvberg.In 2001:- Babak Ali Farshchian: ”A Framework for Supporting Shared Interaction in a Distributed

Product Development Project”, May 2001, advisor: A. Sølvberg.

Since 1989 the group has produced 17 dr.ing. theses, and two more (Bratsethvik, Trætteberg) are being defended in 2001/02.

Publications stand in http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/is/IS-papers-00.html; on the average 10-15 international publications per year from the group as a whole.

The group teaches the following courses: SIF8035 Information Systems, Basic CourseSIF8058 Collaboration TechnologySIF8060 Information Systems ModellingSIF8080 Customer Driven ProjectSIF8093 Informatio Systems, SpecializationDIF8917 IS Support SystemsDIF8918 IS Conceptual Models


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IS-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Arne Sølvberg

IS-1 CV for Arne Sølvberg, IDI, NTNU

Name Arne SølvbergYear of birth 1940Nationality NorwegianPosition ProfessorDepartment Department of Computer and Information Science,

Faculty of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics,The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Education

1971 Dr. ing. (Ph.D.) Computer Science, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, The University of Trondheim, Norway

1963 Siv. ing. (M. Sc.) Technical Physics, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, The University of Trondheim, Norway

Positions1974- Professor of Computer Science, The Norwegian Institute of

Technology, The University of Trondheim, Norway (now: The Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

1973-74 Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science, The Norwegian Institute of Technology

1964-74 Research Scientist, Computing Centre of The University of Trondheim (RUNIT)1967-74Manager, Information Systems Group

1964-67 Programming «Apprentice» doing technical-mathematical programming1963-64 Research Engineer, The Norwegian Defense Establishment for Civil Engineering and

Fortification

Main fields of competenceInformation systems design methodology, data base design, information modeling (knowledge representation), CASE-tools, software engineering environments

Selected scientific and professional activities

Membership in international committees:

1994-96 Member of ERCIM Executive Committee (ERCIM - European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics)

1981-94 Trustee of the VLDB Endowment1982-88 Chairman of IFIP Working Group WG 8.1 on Information Systems Design (IFIP =

International Federation of Information Processing societies). Member of WG 8.1 since 1976

1979-82 Norwegian representative of IFIP general Assembly1976- 99 Norwegian representative to IFIP Technical Committee TC8 on

Information Systems

International Scientific Conferences, key officer positions2001 Program Committee Co-chair, ER conference on Conceptual modeling,

Yokohama, Japan, November, 20011998 Program Committee Co-chair, Third IFCIS Conference on Cooperative

Information Systems (CoopIS'98), New York, 19981995 General Chairman, IFIP8.1 WC on Information Systems Development

for Decentralized Organisations (ISDO'95), Trondheim, Norway


1994 Co-founder of the International Baltic Workshop series on Databases and Information Systems

1991 General Chairman, CAiSE’91, Trondheim, Norway1990 Program Committee Chairman, CAiSE’90, Stockholm, Sweden1990 Co-founder of the CAiSE conference series1988 General Chairman, IFIP Working Conference on «The Role of Artificial Intelligence in

Data Bases and Information Systems», Canton, China1985 General Chairman, the 11th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases,

Stockholm Sweden1979 Program Committee Chairman, IFIP Working Conference «Methods and tools of

Information Systems Design», Oxford, UK

Program Committee member at many international Conferences, e.g. VLDB, Entity-Relationship conferences, IFIP conferences, etc, an average of six conferences a year

International Scientific Journals

1995- Member of Editorial Board, The Requirements Engineering Journal1993- Member of Editorial Board , The Journal of Data and Knowledge

Engineering1991-95 Editor, The VLDB Journal1990-96 Member of Editorial Board, «Journal of Information Systems»1984-92 Member of Editorial Board, «Decision Support Systems»1979-95 Member of Editorial Board, «Information Systems»

Miscellaneous

2001 Member of government committee for evaluation of Swedish university teaching of computer science, The National Agency for Higher Education, Sweden

1999 External Evaluator of Application for Center of Excellence, Austrian Research Foundation

1994-96 Member of EC DGIII RTD Advisory Group on Human Resources and Industrial Impact of 4th framework program

1990 Member of the Norwegian Government’s Committee for Evaluation of the Norwegian Information Technology program

1980-85 Scientific Advisor to the Swedish Research Foundation’s 5 year program of Computer Science Research

1998-99 Visiting Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara1988-89 Visiting Researcher, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

National Science Foundation Research Grant 1981 Visiting Researcher, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida1976-77 Visiting Scientist, IBM Research Laboratories, San Jose, California

Externally funded research projects since 1990

2002- ADIS, Norwegian Research Foundation NFR, research area is adaptive information services1998-2002 El ComAg, Norwegian Research Foundation NFR, research area is electronic commerce1997-2000 CAGIS, Norwegian Research Foundation NFR, research area is conceptual modeling, semantic

data modeling1994-97 TRIPLE-S, Norwegian Research foundation NFR, research area is CASE tool based on PPP

method.1996-98 AQUARIUS), subcontractor, EU-commission, research area is technical support for distance

education and CSCW.1996 HOD, main contractor, EU-commission, research area is heterogeneous organization of data1994-96 BATMAN, subcontractor, NFR, research area is CSCW tools1995-96 ORCHESTRA, subcontractor, EU-commission, research area is workflow systems


1989-93 TEMPORA contractor, EU-commission, research area is application of temporal data1989-91 IMSE contractor, EU-commission, research area is performance engineering

IS-1 Publications since 1990 for Arne SølvbergJournal papers:

1. O.I. Lindland, G. Sindre, and Sølvberg A.: ``Understanding quality in conceptual modelling'', IEEE Software, pages 42--49, March 1994.

2. Vestli, I. Nordbø, and A. Sølvberg: ``Modelling control in rule-based systems'', IEEE Software, pages 77--81, March 1994.

Chapters in books3. Sølvberg A.: "Data and what they refer to", in P.P.Chen et al. (eds.): Conceptual Modeling, pp.211-226,

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 1999.Books:

4. A.Sølvberg and C. H. Kung: Information Systems Engineering, Textbook, ISBN 3-540-56310-5, Springer-Verlag, 1993.

Edited proceedings:5. Sølvberg, A.: "Co-operative Concept Modeling", in Brinkkemper S., Lindencrona E.,

Sølvberg A. (eds.): Information Systems Engineering: State of the art and Research Themes, Springer, June 2000.

Conference & Workshop papers:6. Sølvberg A.: "Conceptual Modeling in a World of Models" in R.Haschek (ed.): Entwicklungsmethoden

fuer Informationssysteme und deren Anwendung, pp.63-77, B.G.Teubner, 1999.

7. Brasethvik T., Sølvberg A.: "A Referent Model of Documents", ERCIM Workshop on Web-bases & Meta-data, St. Augustin, Bonn, May 1998.

8. Carlsen, S., Krogstie, J., Sølvberg, A. and Lindland, O. I., "Evaluating Flexible Workflow Systems," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-30), Maui, Hawaii, 1997.

9. G.Brataas, P H. Hughes, A. Sølvberg: Performance Engineering of Workflow Systems with an Integrated View of Human and Computerised Work Processes. Proc. CAiSE'97.

10. S.Carlsen, J. Krogstie, and A. Sølvberg:»A Process Model Quality Framework: Towards Process Models as a Knowledge Creation Arena», Proc.IFIP 8.1 Conference on Quality in Software Systems Engineering, 1997.

11. Krogstie, A. Sølvberg: A classification of methodological frameworks for computerised information systems support in organisations. In Proc. IFIP 8.1/8.2 Conf. Method Engineering: Principles of Method Construction and Tool Support, August 1996, Atlanta, USA, Chapman&Hall, 1996

12. Sølvberg, J. Krogstie, and A. H. Seltveit, editors: Proceedings of the IFIP8.1 WC on Information Systems Development for Decentralized Organisations (ISDO'95), Trondheim, Norway, 21-23 August 1995. Chapman & Hall.

13. M.W.Yang, A. H. Seltveit, and A. Sølvberg: A distributed repository management system for formal conceptual IS models. In G. Grosz, editor, Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on The Next Generation of CASE Tools, pages 195--213, Jyväskylä, Finland, 1995.

14. Farshchian, B. A., Krogstie, J. and Sølvberg, A.: Integration of User Interface and Conceptual Modelling, in Stephanidis, C. (ed.) Proceedings of the Workshop on User Interfaces for All, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, ICSFORTH, Heraklion, Greece, 1995

15. Brataas, P. Hughes, and A. Sølvberg: ``Integrating management of human and computer resources in task processing organisations: A conceptual view'', 27th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Volume 4, p. 703--712, Maui, Hawaii, January 4--7 1994.


16. Gulla, O. I. Lindland, G. Willumsen, and A. Sølvberg: ``Executing, viewing and explaining conceptual models'', Proc. First IEEE International Conference on Requirement Engineering (ICRE-94)}, pages 166--175, Colorado Springs, USA, April 18-22 1994.

17. A.Sølvberg: «Information systems engineering for wicked systems», in R. Wieringa and R. Feenstra, editors, Working papers of the International Workshop on Information Systems - Correctness and Reuseability (IS-CORE `94), 1994.

18. J.Krogstie and A. Sølvberg: ``Software maintenance in Norway: A survey investigation'', Proc. ICSM'94, September 1994 (best paper award).

19. Vestli, I. Nordbø, and A. Sølvberg. Developing well-structured knowledge-based systems. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'94), pages 366--373, Jurmala, Latvia, June 21-23 1994.

20. M.-W.Yang and A. Sølvberg. The new PPP: Its architecture and repository management. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on The Next Generation of CASE Tools, Utrecht, Holland, 1994.

21. R Andersen and A. Sølvberg: ``Conflict management in systems development groups'', In N. Prakash, C. Rolland, and B. Pernici, editors, Information Systems Development Process (IFIP 8.1), p. 207--227, Como, Italy, 1993, North Holland.

22. V.Vetland, P. Hughes, and A. Sølvberg. Improved parameter capture for simulation based on composite work models of software, in Proceedings of the 1993 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Boston, USA, July 19--21 1993.

23. R.Andersen and A. Sølvberg: ``Support for development teams in information systems engineering'', Proc. 3rd European Workshop on the Next Generation CASE Tools, Manchester, England, 1992.

National papers:24. Lunde Ø., Brasethvik T. and Sølvberg A.: "A model -based approach to data-warehousing". NOKOBIT-

97 (Norsk konferanse om organisasjoners bruk av IT), Bodø, Norway,1997.

IS-1 Five selected papers Arne Sølvberg

a) Sølvberg, A.: "Co-operative Concept Modeling", in Brinkkemper S., Lindencrona E., Sølvberg A. (eds.): Information Systems Engineering: State of the art and Research Themes, Springer, June 2000.

b) Sølvberg A.: "Conceptual Modeling in a World of Models" in R.Haschek (ed.):Entwicklungsmethoden fuer Informationssysteme und deren Anwendung, pp.63-77, B.G.Teubner, 1999.

c) Sølvberg A.: "Data and what they refer to", in P.P.Chen et al.(eds.): Conceptual Modeling, pp.211-226, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, 1999.

d) Lindland O.I., Sindre G, and Sølvberg A.: ``Understanding quality in conceptual modelling'', IEEE Software, pages 42--49, March 1994.

e) Bergheim G., Sandersen E., Sølvberg A.: ”A Taxonomi of Concepts for the Science of Information systems” in Falkenberg & Lindgreen (eds): Information systems concepts: an In-depth analysis, pp.269-321, North-Holland, IFIP, 1989.


IS-1 Personal statement from Arne Sølvberg

I have been involved with computer science teaching and research since 1965. My interests were turned to information systems in 1969 when I attended a seminar given by Professor Børje Langefors of Stockholm University. When NTNU in 1972 established a full engineering specialization in Computer Science I got the first professorship here and remained the only full professor until 1984 when the next chair was established. I have hence followed ringside the fantastic development from a humble start with 20 students accepted each year, to last year’s intake of nearly 300 students for Master’s studies. During the first years there was little understanding of computer science being more than a craft, and research funds were hard to find unless tied either to very applied work, or to very non-applied theoretical computer science. Because of the success we have had with our educational program, we have experienced a continuous expansion in student numbers. Resources to cover the student expansion always came too late to permit a reasonable level of research activity.

When Norway in 1988 was admitted to participate in the ESPRIT program I was for the first time given the opportunity to hire enough doctoral students to enable a “normal” scientific life. During the next ten years I managed to lead 15 doctoral candidates through to defend their thesis. The publication lists in http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/IS-grp/IS-papers-01.html contain the international publications of my doctoral students from the period starting in 1998-99. I have been rather modest in participating as co-author in the publications, mostly because I have thought it better for young persons to start to publish on their own as soon as possible. After the EU-financing dried up during the late 1990’s, because of changes in Brussels research policy, it has once again been difficult to find external money for basic oriented research in information modeling and information systems. The situation is now somewhat more promising than it was because NTNU seems to be more willing than before to give money to match our teaching efforts. Some of my previous doctoral students return to professor positions, and I am about to establish a small group of very gifted doctoral students, from whom I have high expectations.


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IS-2 Associate Professor Dr. Ing. Guttorm Sindre

IS-2 CV for Guttorm Sindre, NTNU

Personalia: Guttorm Sindre, born 9 August 1964, Nordfjordeid, Norway. Norwegian citizen. Married, one child (born October 2000).

Home address: Nedre Kristianstens gate 15B, NO-7014 Trondheim, Norway. Phone +47 73527507.

Education:1988-90: PhD (dr.ing.) in computer science, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Dept of Computer Systems and Telematics. 1986-89: BSc (cand.mag.) with subjects English (1,5y), Linguistics (1y), and History (1y), plus Introductory Philosophy (0,5y), The University of Trondheim (Now NTNU), Faculty of humanist sciences.1983-87: MSc (siv.ing.) in computer science, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Dept. of Computer Systems and Telematics.

Present job and work address: Associate Professor at Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim, Norway, Phone +47 73 593469, Fax +47 73 594466, Email [email protected].

Employment (after university studies):2000- : associate professor, Dept. of computer and information science, NTNU.1999-00: senior lecturer, Dept. of computer and information science, NTNU. 1995-99: freelance writer.1992-95: associate professor (1.amanuensis), Department of computer systems and telematics, NTNU. 1991-92: researcher at SINTEF(-B), Trondheim, but with office at the department and reporting to prof. Conradi. 1990-91: military service, software development (C, SQL, Oracle*CASE) at Haakonsvern Naval Base.

Projects: DAISEE (national IS-group project): involved during my last year of MSc studies, 1987-88 TEMPORA: ESPRIT-project, involved during my PhD studies, 1988-90. NSR (national project with industry involvement), during my period as a SINTEF 1991-2. REBOOT (ESPRIT project): 1990-94. Also involved in writing the application for the project SPIQ, but quit my job (1995) before it started.

IS-2 Publication list for Guttorm Sindre, NTNU

Journal papers: 1. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "Facet Modelling: an Approach to Flexible and Integrated

Conceptual Modelling", Information Systems, 22(5):291-323, 1997.

2. John Krogstie, Guttorm Sindre: "Utilizing Deontic Operators in Information Systems Specification", Requirements Engineering Journal, 1:210-237, December 1996.

3. Even-André Karlsson, Guttorm Sindre: "Industrial Applications of the REBOOT Methodology", International Journal of Applied Software Technology, 1(3/4):203-218, Dec 1995.

4. Guttorm Sindre, Reidar Conradi, Even-André Karlsson: "The REBOOT approach to software reuse", Journal of Systems and Software, 30(3):201-212, September 1995.

5. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "A Taxonomy for Real-World Modelling Concepts", Information Systems, 19(3):229-241, April 1994.

6. Odd I. Lindland, Guttorm Sindre, Arne Sølvberg: "Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling", IEEE Software, 11(2):42-49, March 1994.


Book chapters:7. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "Real-World Modelling", In Allen Kent, James G. Williams (eds.):

Encycl of Computer Science and Technology, vol 37, suppl 22, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1997.

8. Guttorm Sindre, Sivert Sørumgård, Even-André Karlsson:"Managing a repository", chapter 3 (pp.79-112) in Even-André Karlsson (Ed.):Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England, 1995.

Refereed conference/workshop papers:9. Guttorm Sindre, Andreas L. Opdahl: "Templates for misuse case description",

In Proc. REFSQ'2001, Interlaken, Switzerland, 4-5 June 2001.

10. Guttorm Sindre, Andreas L. Opdahl: "Eliciting security requirements by misuse cases",In Proc. TOOLS-37, Sydney, 20-23 Nov 2000.

11. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "Towards an Integrated, Simulative Framework for Real-World Modelling", In Proc. 29th Hawaii International Conference on the Systems Sciences (HICSS'29), Maui, HI, 3-6 Jan 1996.

12. Sivert Sørumgård, Guttorm Sindre: "Aspects of Software Process Quality", In Proc. 4th Software Quality Conference, Dundee, Scotland, 4-5 Jul 1995.

13. Guttorm Sindre, John Krogstie: "Process Heuristics to Achieve Requirements Specifications of Feasible Quality", In Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'95), Jyväskylä, Finland, 12-13 Jun 1995.

14. John Krogstie, Odd Ivar Lindland, Guttorm Sindre: "Towards a deeper understanding of quality in requirements engineering", In Proc. 7th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'95), Jyväskylä, Finland, 14-16 Jun 1995.

15. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "Facet Models for Problem Analysis", In Proc. 7th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'95), Jyväskylä, Finland, 14-16 Jun 1995.

16. John Krogstie, Odd Ivar Lindland, Guttorm Sindre: "Defining Quality Aspects for Conceptual Models", In Proc. IFIP WG 8.1 International Working Conference on Information System Concepts (ISCO3), Marburg, Germany, 28-30 Mar 1995.

17. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "Representing Real-World Processes", In Proc. 28th Hawaii International Conference on the Systems Sciences (HICSS'28), Maui, HI, 3-6 Jan 1995.

18. John Krogstie, Guttorm Sindre: "Extending a Temporal Rule Language with Deontic Operators", In Proc. 5th Intenational Conference in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'94), Jurmala, Latvia, 21-23 Jun 1994.

19. Reidar Conradi, Guttorm Sindre, Geir Høydalsvik: "A Comparison of Modelling Frameworks for Software Processes and Information Systems", In Proc. 3rd European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'94), Grenoble, 7-8 Feb 1994, Springer Verlag (LNCS 772).

20. Rudolf Andersen, Reidar Conradi, John Krogstie, Guttorm Sindre, Arne Sølvberg:"Project courses at the NTH: 20 years of experience", In Proc. 7th SEI Conference on Software Engineering Education (CSEE'94), San Antonio, 5-7 Jan 1994, Springer Verlag (LNCS 750).

21. Geir Høydalsvik, Guttorm Sindre: "On the purpose of object-oriented analysis", In Proc. 8th Annual Conference: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'93), Washington DC, 26.Sep-1.Oct 1993. (ACM SIGPLAN Notices 28(10))

22. Guttorm Sindre, Bjørn Gulla, Håkon Jokstad: "Onion graphs: aesthetics and layout", In Proc. 1993 IEEE/CS Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'93), Bergen, Aug 24-27, 1993.


23. Guttorm Sindre, Sivert Sørumgård: "Terminology evolution in component libraries", In Proc. 3rd International Congress on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering (TKE'93), Cologne, Germany, Aug 24-27 1993.

24. Rolf Lunheim, Guttorm Sindre: "Computing and privacy: a cultural perspective", In Proc. IFIP WG 9.6 Conference on Security and Control of Information Technology in Society, M/S Ilich, Aug 12-17 1993.

25. John Krogstie, Guttorm Sindre: "Introducing social and ethical concern in the computer science curriculum: why and how", In Proc. 16th conference on Informatics Research in Scandinavia (IRIS'16), København, Denmark, Aug 7-10 1993.

26. Guttorm Sindre, Even-André Karlsson, Tor Stålhane: "A method for software reuse through large component libraries", In Proc. 5th International Conference on Computing and Information (ICCI'93), Sudbury, Canada, May 26-28 1993.

27. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre, Vidar Vetland: "Performance Considerations in Object-Oriented Reuse: a Research Agenda", In Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Software Reusability (Reuse'93), Mar 24-26 1993, Lucca, Italy.

28. Sivert Sørumgård, Guttorm Sindre, Frode Stokke: "Experiences from the Application of a Faceted Classification Scheme", In Proc. 2nd International Workshop in Software Reusability (Reuse'93), Mar 24-26 1993, Lucca, Italy.

29. Geir Magne Høydalsvik, Guttorm Sindre: "Object-Oriented Role Modeling for the Analysis and Design of Organizational Information Systems", In Proc. 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Jan 5-8 1993, Maui, USA.

30. Guttorm Sindre, Sigurd Thunem, Even-André Karlsson, Jean Faget, Bjorn Gronquist:"A Life-Cycle Approach to Software Reuse", In Proc. 5th International Conference: Software Engineering & its Applications (TOULOUSE'92), Dec 7-12 1992, Toulouse, France.

31. Even-André Karlsson, Guttorm Sindre, Sivert Sørumgård, Eirik Tryggeseth:"A Weighted Term Space Approach to Relaxed Search", In Proc. 1st International Conf. in Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'92), Baltimore, Nov 8-11 1992.

32. Sigurd Thunem, Guttorm Sindre: "Development with and for Reuse: Guidelines from the REBOOT Project", In Proc. ERCIM workshop on Software Reuse, Oct 29-30 1992, Heraklion, Greece.

33. Sivert Sørumgård, Guttorm Sindre, Frode Stokke: "Experiences in Reusable Component Classification", In Proc. ERCIM workshop on Software Reuse, Oct 29-30 1992, Heraklion, Greece.

34. Guttorm Sindre, Jean Faget, Even-André Karlsson: "Organizational Aspects of Software Reuse", In Proc. Singapore Computer Society Silver Jubilee Conf., Singapore, Oct 12-14 1992.

35. Guttorm Sindre, Even-André Karlsson, Tor Stålhane: "Software reuse in an educational perspective", In Proc. 6th SEI Conf. on Software Engineering Education (CSEE'92), San Diego, Oct 5-7 1992, Springer-Verlag (LNCS 640).

36. Guttorm Sindre, Even-André Karlsson, Patricia Paul: "Heuristics for maintaining a term space structure for relaxed search", In Proc. 2nd Int'l Conf. in Database and Expert System Applications (DEXA'92), Valencia, Sep 2-4 1992.

National papers:

37. Guttorm Sindre, Andreas L. Opdahl: "Eliciting Security Requirements by Misuse Cases", In Proc. 14th Norwegian Informatics Conference (NIK'2001), Tromsø, 26-28 Nov 2001.

38. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "Integrative Models of Concrete Problem Domains", In Proc. 9th Norwegian Informatics Conference (NIK'96), Alta, 18-20 Nov 1996.

39. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "A framework for real-world modelling", In Proc. 6th Norwegian Informatics Conference (NIK'93), Halden, Norway, Nov 16-17 1993.


40. Guttorm Sindre: "TEMPORA - an ESPRIT project", In Proc. 2nd Norwegian Informatics Conference (NIK'89), Stavanger, Norway, Nov 14-15 1989.

41. Odd Ivar Lindland, Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "PPM - the Process and Phenomenon Model", In Proc. DnD/InfoTech'88, Oslo, Norway, Oct 1988.

IS-2 Five selected papers by Guttorm Sindre, NTNUa) Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: "Facet Modelling: an Approach to Flexible and

Integrated Conceptual Modelling", Information Systems, 22(5):291-323, 1997.

b) John Krogstie, Guttorm Sindre: "Utilizing Deontic Operators in Information Systems Specification", Requirements Engineering Journal, 1:210-237, December 1996.

c) Guttorm Sindre, Reidar Conradi, Even-André Karlsson: "The REBOOT approach to software reuse", Journal of Systems and Software, 30(3):201-212, September 1995.

d) Odd I. Lindland, Guttorm Sindre, Arne Sølvberg: "Understanding Quality in Conceptual Modeling", IEEE Software, 11(2):42-49, March 1994.

e) Geir Høydalsvik, Guttorm Sindre: "On the purpose of object-oriented analysis", In Proc. 8th Annual Conference: Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'93), Washington DC, 26.Sep-1.Oct 1993. (ACM SIGPLAN Notices 28(10)).

IS-2 Personal statement by Guttorm Sindre, NTNU

As can be seen from my publication list, the output after 1997 is quite limited. This is because I quit my university job in 1995 and was away for four years. From 1995 to 1999 I made a failed attempt to become a novelist. As I returned to the university, I was first employed as a senior lecturer (1999-2000), a position with a double teaching burden and no time allocated for research. Hence, it is only from the summer of 2000 that I have been back as an associate professor with explicit research time, and even in the autumn of 2000 I had quite limited time for research because I took on extra teaching for extra pay (partly out of greed, but also to help out the understaffed department). Besides, now that I have a wife and a child, I cannot work evenings and weekends in the same way as before. Hence, it is not out of laziness that I have done only a limited amount of research and publication in 2000/2001.

However, I feel that things are improving when it comes to my opportunities for high quality research. I have recently (summer 2001) employed a talented PhD student. Cooperation with other members of the IS group, as well as with Prof. Opdahl in Bergen, looks promising. For the study year of 2002/3 I have been granted my first sabbatical, which will further help me regain research momentum. Moreover, although teaching is an important task – and one that I highly appreciate – I will be less eager to take on extra teaching in the future. As a family man I cannot work evenings and weekends to the extent that I did in 1992-95, so I have to stay more focussed, guarding my research time and not spreading myself too thinly on many topics. From 2000 onwards, I have chosen to focus on requirements engineering techniques, more specifically use cases and security requirements.


IS-3 Adjunct Professor Dr.Ing. Jon Atle Gulla

IS-3 CV for Jon Atle Gulla

Personalia:Jon Atle Gulla, born 19 August 1965, Trondheim. Norwegian citizen.

Home address:Njardarvollen 27A, 7032 Trondheim, Norway. Phone +49 172 5377365.

Education:M.Sc. (1988), Ph.D. (1993) in Computer Science – both from NTH (now NTNU), Trondheim.M.Sc (1995) in Linguistics from AVH (now NTNU), Trondheim.

Present job and work address:Manager for FAST Search & Transfer’s linguistics department (Elexir) in MunichElexir Sprach- und InformationstechnologieRindermarkt 7DE-80331 MünchenGermanyPhone: +49 8923888660, Email: [email protected]

Adjunct associate professor at Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI)Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)NO-7491 Trondheim, NorwayEmail: [email protected]

Language skills: Fluent in Norwegian and English, good in German. Some French and Spanish.

Scientific profile:Conceptual modeling, business modeling, Enterprise Business Applications, project management, computational linguistics, information retrieval, document management

Jobs held and stays abroad: 1992: Invited stay at University of Arlington in Texas (6 months) 1993/1994: Two invited stays (2 weeks each) at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. 1995-96: Research scientist at the German National Center for Information Technology (GMD),

Darmstadt, Germany 1996: Associate professor at NTH, Trondheim (6 months). 1997-1999: Senior consultant at Norsk Hydro,Hydro Data, Brussels, Belgium 2000: Project leader at Norsk Hydro, Hydro IS Partner, Oslo, Norway. 2001: Manager for Elexir Sprach und Informationstechnologie, Fast Search & Transfer, Munich,

Germany

Professional responsibilities: 1996: Member of program committee and organizing committee of NLDB’96, Amsterdam. 2000: Member of program committee of NLDB’2000, Versailles. 2000: Cofounder of Aquafacts Partners, a company specializing in statistical analysis of fish farming

data, Molde. 2001: Cofounder of LingIT, a computational linguistics company, Trondheim. 2001: Member of program committee of NLDB’01, Madrid.




IS-3 Publication list for Jon Atle Gulla

Journal papers:1. Gulla, J. A. and T. Brasethvik, A Model-Driven ERP Environment with Search Facilities, Data &

Knowledge Engineering, 2002 (forthcoming).2. Brasethvik, T. and J. A. Gulla. Natural Language Analysis for Semantic Document Modeling. Data &

Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier Science, 2001 (forthcoming).3. Stein, A., J. A. Gulla, and U. Thiel. "User-Tailored Planning of Mixed Initiative Information Seeking

Dialogues." User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, special issue on Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction, 8(1-2), 1999, pp.133-166.

4. Gulla, J. A., B. van der Vos, and U. Thiel. "An Abductive Linguistic Approach to Model Retrieval." Data and Knowledge Engineering, 23(1), pp. 17-31, 1997.

5. van der Vos, B., J. A. Gulla, and R. van de Riet. "Verification of Conceptual Models Based on Linguistic Knowledge." Data and Knowledge Engineering, 21(2), pp. 147-163, 1997.

6. Gulla, J. A. A General Explanation Component for Conceptual Modeling in CASE Environment. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Volume 14, Number 3, pp. 297-329, July 1996.

Book chapters:7. Stein, A., J. A. Gulla, A. Müller, and U. Thiel. "Abductive Dialogue Planning for Concept-Based

Multimedia Information Retrieval." In P. Fankhauser and M. Ockenfeld (eds.), Integrated Publication and Information Systems. 10 Years of Research and Development, pp. 129-148, 1998, Sankt Augustin: GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik.

8. Stein, A., J. A. Gulla, A. Müller, and U. Thiel. "Conversational Interaction for Semantic Access to Multimedia Information." In M. T. Maybury (ed.), Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval, pp. 399-421, 1997, Menlo Park, CO: AAAI/The MIT Press.

9. Gulla, J. A. "Combining Functional Grammar and Rhetorical Structure Theory for discourse representation." In J. H. Connolly, R. M. Vismans, C. S. Butler, and R. A. Gatward (eds.), Discourse and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar, Functional Grammar Series 18, pp. 75-90, 1997, Mouton de Gruyter.

Refereed conferences/workshop papers:10. Gulla, J. A. and T. Brasethvik. Model-Driven Business Management – the Linguistic Perspective. In

Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Applications of Natural Language for Information Systems (NLDB’01), Madrid, 2001.

11. Gulla, J. A. and T. Brasethvik. "On the Challenges of Business Modeling in Large-Scale Reengineering Projects." In Cheng (ed.), Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE'2000), Schaumburg, Illinois, June 2000.

12. Gulla, J. A. and T. Mollan. "Implementing SAP R/3 in a Multi-Cultural Organization." In Eder, Maiden and Missikoff (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Enterprise Management and Resource Planning Systems (EMRPS'99), pp. 127-134, Venice, November 1999.

13. Gulla, Jon Atle & Stein, Adelheit (1997). Mixed-Initiative Retrieval Dialogues Using Abductive Reasoning. In Computational Models for Mixed Initiative Interaction. Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University, CA (pp. 64-70). AAAI Technical Report SS-97-04.

14. Stein, Adelheit & Gulla, Jon Atle (1997). Inferring and Negotiating User Goals: Adaptive Dialogue Planning Using Abduction. In ABIS-97. Proceedings 5. GI-Workshop Adaptivität und Benutzermodellierung in interaktiven Softwaresystemen, Saarbrücken. SFB 378 (READY), Memo 65 (pp. 127-137), September 1997.

15. Stein, Adelheit; Gulla, Jon Atle & Thiel, Ulrich (1997). Making Sense of Users' Mouse Clicks: Abductive Reasoning and Conversational Dialogue Modeling. In Anthony Jameson; Cécile Paris & Carlo Tasso (Eds.), User Modeling: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference, UM97 (pp. 89-100). Vienna, New York: Springer Wien New York.

16. Thiel, U., J. A. Gulla, A. Müller and A. Stein. Dialogue Strategies for Multimedia Retrieval: Intertwining Abductive Reasoning and Dialogue Planning. In I Ruthven (Ed.), Proceedings of the Final Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIRO’95), Electronic workshops in computing, Springer-Verlag, 1996.

17. Gulla, J. A. and S. N. Moshagen. Representations and derivations in the TROLL lexicon. In H. Lødrup, I. Moen and H. G. Simonsen (Eds.), Proceedings of the XVth Scandinavian Conference on Linguistics, Oslo, 1995.


18. Gulla, J. A. and O. I. Lindland. Modeling Cooperative Work for Workflow Management. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’94), Utrecht, 1994, Springer-Verlag.

19. Gulla, J. A. and G. Willumsen. Using Explanations to Improve the Validation of Executable Models. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Systems Engineering (CAiSE’93). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp.194-221, 1993.

20. Willumsen, G., J. A. Gulla, O. I. Lindland, and A. H. Seltveit. An Integrated Environment for Validating Conceptual Models. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE’93), July 1993.

21. Lindland, O. I. and G. Willumsen and J. A. Gulla. Prototyping in Transformation-Based CASE-Environments. In B. I. Blum and C. L. Chang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’93). IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 596-603, 1993.

22. Gulla, J. A. and O. I. Lindland and G. Willumsen. PPP: An integrated CASE environment. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’91). Springer-Verlag, pp. 194-221, 1991.

IS-3 Four most important papers from Jon Atle Gullaa) a). Paper 1: Gulla, J. A. and T. Brasethvik, A Model-Driven ERP Environment with

Search Facilities, Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2002 (forthcoming).

b) b). Paper 2: Gulla, J. A., B. van der Vos, and U. Thiel. "An Abductive Linguistic Approach to Model Retrieval." Data and Knowledge Engineering, 23(1), pp. 17-31, 1997.

c) c).Paper 3: Gulla, J. A. A General Explanation Component for Conceptual Modeling in CASE Environment. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Volume 14, Number 3, pp. 297-329, July 1996.

d) d). Paper 4: Gulla, J. A. and T. Brasethvik. "On the Challenges of Business Modeling in Large-Scale Reengineering Projects." In Cheng (ed.), Proceedings of the Forth International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE'2000), Schaumburg, Illinois, June 2000.

IS-3 Personal statement from Jon Atle GullaAfter completing my doctoral degree at NTH in 1993, I spent almost two years at the Linguistic department, AVH, and received my Master’s thesis in linguistics in 1995. With a background in computer science and linguistics, I worked on linguistic techniques in information retrieval systems at GMD in Germany. Joining Norsk Hydro, one of the biggest companies in Norway, in 1997, I concentrated on ERP systems, data warehouse, business modeling and project management. I returned to computational linguistics at FAST in 2000, where we use linguistic techniques to improve the search engine technology of FAST. I am also involved in the establishment of a linguistic software company, LingIT, in Trondheim.Most of my work experience is from companies in Germany and Belgium. I took part in one of the biggest European SAP projects 1997-1999 in Brussels, and I am now the manager of the linguistic group of FAST in Munich. FAST provides one of the biggest search engines on internet and is used by portals like Lycos and T-Online, as well as by companies like eBay, IBM, and Dell. It has been important to me to use state-of-the-art technology in industrial solutions and to feed industrial experience back to the academic community. While working in industry, I have had an adjunct position at the university in Trondheim.My research combines information systems engineering and computational linguistics. I have extensive international contacts in both fields of research, and I have also actively taken part in industrial exploitation of this research. I expect my work to continue in the same direction, with a focus on how linguistic techniques may be incorporated in enterprise systems.


IS-4 Adjunct Professor Dr.Ing. John Krogstie

IS-4 CV for John Krogstie

John Krogstie has a PhD in Information Systems from 1995 with the title 'Conceptual modelling for information systems support in Organisations'. He received his MSc in Information Systems in 1991, graduating with honours. He is currently a senior research scientist at SINTEF, and a group leader for the Group for Cooperative Information Systems, focusing on enterprise modelling, workflow systems and knowledge management. He is also a (part-time) associate professor at NTNU, where he is responsible for a course on advanced modelling techniques for graduate students. He has recently been judged qualified for an appointment in a professor position in the area of process and enterprise modelling by an international committee. He was employed as a manager in Andersen Consulting 1991-2000 (now Accenture), where he worked extensively with methodology development, customisation, deployment and improvement both for a multitude of Andersen Consulting clients and internally. John Krogstie is the Norwegian Representative for IFIP TC8 and a member of IFIP WG 8.1, where he is the initiator and leader of the task group for Mobile Information Systems, and a member of the task group for UML. He has published around 30 refereed papers in journals, books and archival proceedings since 1991. For full CV see http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~krogstie/

IS-4 Publication list for John Krogstie

Selected publications from the past 8 years:

(1) R. Gjersvik, J Krogstie and A. Følstad. Participatory Development of Enterprise Process Models accepted at EMMSAD'01.

(2) J. Krogstie. Requirements Specification for Mobile Information Systems. Accepted at REFSQ'01

(3) J. Krogstie. Using a Semiotic Framework to Evaluate UML for the Development of Models of High Quality. In K. Siau and T. Halpin, editors, Unified Modeling Language: Systems Analysis, Design, and Development Issues. Idea Group Publishing, 2001

(4) J.Krogstie, K. Siau, T. Halpin editors Proceedings of the Sixth CAiSE/IFIP8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD'01) 'Modelling Methods and Methodologies in the Mobile Millenium' Interlaken Switzerland, June 4-5 2000

(5) J. Krogstie. Using a Semiotic Framework to Evaluate UML for the Development of Models of High Quality. In K. Siau and T. Halpin, editors, Unified Modeling Language: Systems Analysis, Design, and Development Issues. Idea Group Publishing, 2000

(6) K. K. Holgeid, J. Krogstie and D.I.K. Sjøberg. A study of development and maintenance in Norway: Assessing the efficiency of information systems support using functional maintenance. Information and Software Technology, July 2000.

(7) H. D. Jørgensen and J. Krogstie Active Models for Cooperative Information Systems Submitted for publication.

(8) J. Krogstie. Using Quality Function Deployment in Software Requirements Specification In A. L. Opdahl, K. Pohl and E. Dubois, editors, Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundations for Software Quality (REFSQ'99), Heidelberg, Germany, June 14-15 1999.

(9) Carlsen, S., Krogstie, J., Sølvberg, A. and Lindland, O. I., "Evaluating Flexible Workflow Systems," Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-30), Maui, Hawaii, 1997

(10) J. Krogstie and G. Sindre. Utilizing deontic operators in information systems specifications. Requirement Engineering, Volume 1 pp 210-237, 1996.


http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~krogstie/

(11) J. Krogstie. Use of methods and CASE-tools in Norway: Results from a survey. Journal of Automated Software Engineering, 3:347-367, 1996.

(12) Krogstie J., Sølvberg A.: "A classification of methodological frameworks for computerised information systems support in organisations", in Proc. IFIP 8.1/8.2 Conf. Method Engineering: Principles of Method Construction and Tool Support, August 1996, Atlanta, USA, Chapman&Hall, 1996

(13) J. Krogstie. On the distinction between functional development and functional maintenance Journal of Software Maintenance, 7:383-403, 1995

(14) J. Krogstie, O. I. Lindland, and G. Sindre. Defining quality aspects for conceptual models. In E. D. Falkenberg, W. Hesse, and A. Olivé, editors, Proceedings of the IFIP8.1 working conference on Information Systems Concepts (ISCO3): Towards a Consolidation of Views, pages 216-231, Marburg, Germany, March 28-30 1995. Chapman & Hall.

(15) O. I. Lindland and J. Krogstie. Validating conceptual models by transformational prototyping. In C. Rolland, F. Bodart, and C. Cauvet, editors, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'93), pages 165-183, Paris, France, June 8-11 1993. Springer Verlag.

IS-4 Five selected publications for John Krogstie

a. K. K. Holgeid, J. Krogstie and D. I. K. Sjøberg. A study of development and maintenance in Norway: Assessing the efficiencyof information systems support using functional maintenance. Information and Software Technology 42(2000) pp.687-700, 2000.

b. J. Krogstie and G. Sindre.

Utilizing deontic operators in information systems specifications. Requirement Engineering, Volume 1 pp.210-237, 1996.

c. J. Krogstie. Use of methods and CASE-tools in Norway: Results from a survey. Journal of Automated Software Engineering, Volume 3 pp.347-367, 1996.

d. J. Krogstie. On the distinction between functional development and functional maintenanceJournal of Software Maintenance, Volume 7 pp.383-403, 1995.

e. J. Krogstie. Using a Semiotic Framework to Evaluate UML for the Development of Models ofHigh Quality. In K. Siau and T. Halpin, editors, Unified Modeling Language: SystemsAnalysis, Design, and Development Issues. Idea Group Publising, 2001.

IS-4 Personal statement by John Krogstie This description gives an overall presentation of the academic work of John Krogstie. The mentioned articles are selected to illustrate both the depth and the breadth of the research, with a focus on the work within the area of the position. The paper numbers referenced below correspond to the publication list on my on-line CV at http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~krogstie/ .


http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~krogstie/

The title of my doctoral thesis ‘Conceptual Modeling for Computerized Information Systems Support in Organizations’ [70] describes my main scientific interest area, the use of conceptual modeling languages for information systems specification, development, use, and maintenance. Paper [21] gives a broader perspective on the information systems field than this, and contains a classification framework for IS-methodologies. To get a better impression on the status and trends within the current use of methodologies, and perceived problems within the information systems field, we have conducted two survey investigations among Norwegian organizations, one in 1993 and a follow-up study in 1998. The original survey was planned, designed, and conducted by me [72]. The work in connection to the second survey was partly performed by a master student under my guidance. Different aspects and results from these surveys are presented in several journal papers [1,4,5]. Paper [30] singles out from all the data the theme of maintenance. Although treating the topic in a traditional way, the paper was well received by the scientific community and received the ‘Best Paper Award’ at ICSM’94, the major international conference on software maintenance. Based on the same data, paper d) makes the at that time novel distinction between functional development and functional maintenance. This distinction is further investigated in paper a). Paper c) singles out the topic of use of methodology and system development/CASE-tools.

My other main work deals more specifically with conceptual modeling. Paper [23] deals with the problem of quality of conceptual models. Given that some models are better than others, how may these differences be evaluated? The framework outlined in paper [23] has been specialized in several directions, specifically regarding models created as part of requirement specification [4, 12,15] and paper e). Further details on the framework is found in [70] and [42] which is a draft of a book that has been used in the courses 45161 and 78052 System Engineering II at NTNU for several years. Now it is used in the Courses SIF8060 and SIF80AM Modelling of information systems. The book is organized according to the main parts of the framework. In addition to being used to evaluate models, it is here illustrated how to use it for evaluating modeling languages and approaches. Other published examples of this, is the evaluation of UML [8], workflow modeling systems [18] and QFD for requirement specification [15,17]. What one is able to assess in such an evaluation is the potential for a modeling approach to support the creation of models of high quality. Heuristics for the practical application of the framework in a modeling methodology has been described in [24].

Paper [33] contains early work on conceptual modeling languages, indicating how to combine information, process, and rule modeling in a way that enables specifications that can be used as an outset for prototype code generation. In [31], this work was extended to illustrate how the requirements to a system can be validated through an executable prototype. The mechanisms behind the prototype-generation are discussed in more detail in [32]. The development and demonstration of the code-generator played an important role in the ESPRIT-III project Tempora [77] to increase the credibility of the chosen set of modeling languages by showing how they could be interconnected, and that it was possible to generate code from the specification developed with such languages. The requirements are formulated in a fairly formal language. Whereas the interface to the system presented in paper [31] and [33] resembles a debugger more than a realistic system, extensions of this approach are presented in [28] showing how to integrate the languages presented with a formal description of the user interface, thus being able to generate realistic prototypes based on the specifications.

Work on extending and integrating existing modeling languages are presented in paper b), where the rule-language originally developed in Tempora is extended with deontic operators and actor/roles to which the rules apply. These language constructs enable the modeling of relations between rules, and of actors’ responsibilities. They also support the distinction of facts


from requirements, and they allow for robust exception handling. The use of deontic relations between rules is discussed in more detail in [29,70]. The modeling of actors and roles, and their relationship to process and speech-act modeling found in workflow modeling is discussed in more detail in paper [19]. Both goal modeling and actor modeling have been used successfully in practice. This work together with the work done on quality of models and modeling languages also influences the EU-project EXTERNAL, in which I am currently involved, and where we are extending techniques for process modeling [10,45,36,49,83].

Finally, paper [43] presents the way software engineering students are exposed to real world conditions in projects as part of their education at NTNU. I was at the time of writing the article the coordinator of the course, and the article is primarily written by me, with the support from Guttorm Sindre. The additional authors have contributed a lot in developing the course throughout the years. I presented the article at the CSEE7 conference, which is one of the main international conferences on software engineering education. The paper was well received.


IS-5 Adjunct Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Harald Rønneberg

IS-5 CV for Harald Rønneberg

Harald Rønneberg has a PhD in Information Systems from 1997, with a study about modelling ofmilitary command and control systems. He has worked in industry as a project manager before andafter his PhD work. He is now with Statoil and is the leader of Statoil IT division’s project manager forum. He is “discipline advicer” in ”IT project culture”, that is, Statoil IT’s expert on project management. His teaching responsibilities comprise leadership of the major student project course in the 4th year of study.

IS-5 Publication list for Harald RønnebergNot provided

IS-5 Five selected publications for Harald RønnebergNot provided

IS-5 Personal statement by Harald Rønneberg

My other interests include semantics and pragmatics in natural language processing, planning and plan recognition, programming languages and compiler construction, program interpretation and synthesis, information visualization.


Appendix 6: Knowledge Systems Group (KS)

The KS group has the following faculty members: KS-1 Jan Komorowski, PhD, professor, from 1990 KS-2 Mihhail Matskin, PhD, professor, from 1995 KS-3 Tore Amble, associate professor, from 1971 KS-4 Torulf Mollestad, dr.ing., adjunct associate professor, from 1998In addition comes university teacher Amund Tveit (from Aug. 2001, for one year).

The group has eight Ph.D. students: Torgeir Hvidsten, Waclaw Kusnierczyk (NFR-supported Bioinformatics project), Per Kristian Lehre (researcher school), Herman Midelfart, Sobah A. Petersen (on leave), Jinghai Rao, Rune Sætre (researcher school), and Amund Tveit (ElComAg, on leave). In addition, two Ph.D. candidates are on extended leave of absence (Agata Wrzos-Kaminska and Jacek Wrzos-Kaminski).

In 1996-2000 the group has produced four dr.ing. candidates:- Torulf Mollestad: “A Rough Set Approach to Data Mining: Extracting a Logic of Default

Rules from Data”, 1997, advisor: J. Komorowski.- Staal Vinterbo: “Predictive Models in Medicine: Some Methods for Construction and

Adaptation”, 2000, advisor: J. Komorowski.- Vidar Sørhus: “Auxotonic Loading of the Cardiac Muscle: Experiments and Model

Simulations”, 2000, co-advisor: J. Komorowski.- Aleksander Øhrn: “Discernibility and Rough Sets in Medicine: Tools and Applications”

(nominated for the Best European PhD Thesis in Artificial Intelligence in 2000 award), 2000, advisor: J. Komorowski.

The group teaches the following courses: SIF8015 Logic, SIF8041 Operating Systems, SIF8070 Natural Language Interfaces, SIF8072 Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents, four theory depth courses (SIF80BC Logic for understanding of natural language, SIF80BD Constraint Logic, SIF80BE Logic for Planning, SIF80BF Reasoning about change, SIF80BG Advanced Data mining and Knowledge Discovery in Molecular Biomedicine), and DIF8909 Logics for Computer Science.


KS-1 Professor Jan Komorowski, Ph.D.

KS-1 CV for Jan Komorowski

Biographic Data: married, two daughters, Swedish citizen.

Education Docent/Habilitation: Dept. of Computer and Information Sc., Linköping U., Sweden, 1987. Ph. D.: in Computer Science, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Linköping U., 1981. M. Sc.: in Computer Science, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Warsaw U., 1976.

Professional ExperienceMajor positions held Professor of Computer Science: IDI, Computational Biology Laboratory, Director, 1990 – present. Visiting Professor: Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Linköping U., Fall 2000. Visiting Professor: Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, 1997–98.Other positions held Adjunct Professor: Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, 1998 – 2001. President, Cognitor AS, owner, company specializing in data mining and knowledge discovery.Membership in Honorary and Professional Societies and Groups The Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences (DKNVS): member since January 2001 The Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA): member since 1992 IFIP: Norway’s representative in TC 12 Artificial Intelligence ACM, IEEE, AAAI, Polish Society of Logic, SocBiN: member

Major Research Interests Computational Biology – Computational Functional Genomics; Approximate Reasoning for Modeling and Adaptive Decision Support; Diagnosis in Complex Systems.Current Major Research Proposals and Contracts PrediGene Predictive Computational Model Synthesis if Nutrient Effects on Plants, (Atle Bones, Botany and

Jan Komorowski, CSc, pi’s) Funding: Norsk Hydro and NFR (3 MNOK/year, 3 years) ArrayNet National Network for the DNA Microarray expression-based Functional Genomics Research (with

Radium Hospitalet, Oslo, and University of Bergen), co-pi; Funding: NFR – 5.6 MNOK, equipment in 2001 for three institutions; 350 K in technical support 2001 and 2002/year to NTNU.

CompBiol Strategic University Program in Computational Biology and Botany, co-pi; Funding: NFR – 2.4 MNOK/year, 5 years.

Current International Research Partners Prof. A. Skowron, Logic Section, Warsaw University, Poland. Dr. K. Fidelis, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Protein Structure Prediction Center, USA. Prof. L. Ohno-Machado, Decision Systems Group, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA. Dr. A. Brazmas, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.Invited Speaker and Lecturer (selected)Microarray Week, NorFA (Nordic Research Academy), Kuopio, Finland, January 2002.Supervised Learning of Gene Function from Gene Expresions and Gene Ontology, EBI Workshop on the analysis of microarray data, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK Dec 3-5, 2001.Modelling of complex biological systems with inductive learning, Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Trondheim, October 15, 2001.Approximate Reasoning Methods in Molecular Biomedicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sept, 2001.18th Machine Intelligence Workshop, York University, September 19-21, 2001, York, UK.Text in Biology: Biological Research with Information Extraction and Open-Access Publications (BRIE and OAP) 2001, a satellite event at the ISMB’01 conferenceAlexis Carrel Conference on Chronic Transplant Dysfunction, ”Micro-arrays or disarrays – making sense of complex data with supervised learning”, Riksgränsen, Sweden, June 2001.Computational Biology helping in a transition from data-poor to data-driven molecular biology, Norwegian Biochemical Society, March 21, Winter Meeting 2001, Oppdal, Norway.


AI Approaches to Functional Genomics, Scandin. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Denmark, Feb 2001.Data Mining of c-DNA micro-array data, Oncology Meeting, May 2000, Växjö, Sweden.Computational Biology – A Synthesis of Biology and Computer Science, “Future developments in Computing” seminar series, Linköping University, Sweden, March 2000.Knowledge Discovery for Functional Genomics, The Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences, Trondheim, March 2000.Workshop on The Future of Bio-informatics, Voksenåsen, Norwegian Research Council, Norway, September 1999.European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, ESSLLI’99, Utrecht, August 1999.A Tutorial on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, ECAI’98, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Brighton, August 1998.Logic, Algebra, Computer Science – Mini-semester devoted to the memory of Professor Rasiowa, Warsaw, December 1996A Tutorial on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Graduate School in Computer Science, Turku, Finland, August 1996.Advanced Computer Science Course: Adaptive Decision Support, Europace 2000, European School In Advanced Computer Science, video course, September 1995.Nordic Graduate Course on Partial Semantics and Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Knowledge Representation, Linköping, May 1992, lecturer.Professional Functions - Computer Science (selected)PC member, The First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), Chicago, April 2001.PC member, The Second International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC’2000), CanadaProgram Co-chair, PKDD2000, Lyon, France, 2000.IJCAI’99 – Scientific Advisory Group: member.The Datawarehousing Institute of Norway, Member of the Board, 1999–2000.PC member, PKDD’98 – 2nd European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Nantes, September 1998.Chairman and Organizer, Session on Rough Sets in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, EUFIT’98, The European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing, Aachen, September 1998.Chairman and Organizer, ECAI’98 Workshop on Synthesis of Intelligent Agents from Experimental Data, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 1998, Brighton, United Kingdom.PC member, RSCTC’98 – First International Conference On Rough Sets And Current Trends In Computing, Warsaw, June 1998.PC member, ASE’97 – Automated Software Engineering conference, (formerly Knowledge-Based Software Engineering), Lake Tahoe, Nevada, November 1997.PC member SCAI’97 – 6th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Helsinki, August 1997.Co-Chairman, PKDD’97 – 1st European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Trondheim, June 1997.Co-Chairman, SCAI’95 – 5th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Trondheim, June 1995.PC member, Abstract Intelligent Agents’94, Rome, February 1994.PC member, META-94 Conference, Pisa, June 1994.Co-Chairman, 7th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Trondheim, June 1993.IFIP, Norway’s representative in TC 12, Artificial Intelligence, 1992 – present.PC member, ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Partial Evaluation and Semantics-based Program Manipulation, Yale University, New Haven, June 1991.Professional Functions - Computational Biology and Medical InformaticsWorkshop on Data Mining For Genomics, The First SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, April 7, 2001, Midland Hotel, Chicago, Workshop Co-chair.Member of the Advisory Board for Center of Excellence in Functional Genomics, NTNU, 2000–.Knowledge Discovery in Molecular Biology, Workshop Chair at PKDD’2000, Lyon, 2000.Faculty of Medicine, NTNU – consultant in adaptive decision support methods, 1995 – present.Other Professional Experience and ConsultingPh. D. thesis reviewer (opponent), 5 times.Reviewer for tenure appointments (full and associate professorships) in Europe and USA. (extern medlem av tjänsteförslagsnämnder,).Reviewer for “docent/habilitation” appointments.Reviewer for several national funding agencies in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, the European Union (ESPRIT and 4th Framework projects), USA and Canada.


Springer Verlag: advisor on the development of new journal and book series in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, current.Advisor to telecommunication companies (GTE Waltham, Massachusetts, L. M. Ericsson, Stockholm, and Norwegian Telecommunication Research Institute, Oslo).Various tutorials on knowledge representation and problem solving given for industrial and academic audiences in Europe and USA.Reviewer for Journal of Bioinformatics, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Zentralblatt fü r Mathematik edited by Heidelberger Akademi der Wissenschaften und Fachinformationszentrum, National Science Foundation and other funding agencies, Computational Intelligence, Theoretical Computer Science, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Communications of the ACM, Intelligent Information Systems and several other journals, conferences and publishing houses.

KS-1 Publication list for Jan KomorowskiComputer Science (refereed publications only)

Edited Books:1. Rough Set Data Analysis in Bio-medicine and Public Health, Editor of a collection of articles to appear in

2001, Springer Physica Verlag.

Chapters in Books:2. Discovery of Gene Function from Expression Data, (J. Komorowski, T. Hvidsten, A. K. Sandvik and A.

Lægreid), to be published in the Annual Proceedings of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA), to appear in 2001.

3. Rosetta Rough Set Software System, (J.Komorowski, A. Skowron, A. hrn), to appear in Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, (W. Klö sgen, J. Zytkow, Eds.), Oxford University Press, 2001.

4. A Rough Set Perspective on Data and Knowledge, (A. Skowron, J. Komorowski, Z. Pawlak, L. Polkowski), to appear in Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, (W.Klö sgen, J. Zytkow, Eds.), Oxford University Press, 2000.

5. Rough Sets: A Tutorial, (J. Komorowski, Z. Pawlak, L.Polkowski, A. Skowron), in Rough-Fuzzy Hybridization – A New Trend in Decision Making, (S. K. Pal and A. Skowron, Eds.), pp.3–98, Springer-Verlag Singapore Pte Ltd, 1999.

6. A Rough Set Framework for Propositional Default Rules Data Mining, (T. Mollestad and J. Komorowski), in Rough-Fuzzy Hybridization – A New Trend in Decision Making, (S. K.Pal and A. Skowron, Eds.), pp. 233–263, Springer-Verlag Singapore Pte Ltd, 1999.

7. The Design and Implementation of a Knowledge Discovery Toolkit Based on Rough Sets – The Rosetta System, (A. hrn, J. Komorowski, A. Skowron, P. Synak), in: Rough Sets in Knowledge Discovery, (A. Skowron, L. Polkowski, Eds.), pp. 376–399, Springer Verlag, 1998.

8. Constructing Logic Programs, J. M. Jacquet, Ed., Chapter: On Data-type Centered, Correctness-oriented Design, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 97–111, 1993.

9. Automating Software Design, M. Lowry and R. McCartney, Eds, Chapter: Synthesis of Programs in the Partial Deduction Framework, AAAI and MIT Press, 1991.

Journal papers (see also publ. in Computational Biology and Medical Informatics):10. A Rough Set Approach to Learning in a Directed Acyclic Graph, (H. Midelfart, A. Lægreid, J.

Komorowski), 22 pp.to appear, Fundamenta Informaticae.11. Hybrid methods for finding small high performance rule sets (T. Aagotnes and J. Komorowski), 25 pp. to

appear.12. Finding Associations between Patterns of Gene Expression and Gene Function (T. R. Hvidsten and J.

Komorowski), 18 pp. to appear in Special Issue of Letters on Pattern Matching, Elsevier.13. Rough Modeling - A Bottom-up approach to model construction (T. Lken and J. Komorowski), Special

Issue of the Int. J. Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, invited paper, pp. 1–21, to appear in 2001.

14. Modelling Prognostic Power of Cardiac Tests Using Rough Sets (J. Komorowski and A. Øhrn), invited paper, Special Issue on Intelligent Prognostic Methods in Medicine, J. of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (1999) Vol. 15:2, pp. 167–191, Elsevier Science.

15. Partial Structural Synthesis of Programs (M. Matskin and J. Komorowski), Fundamenta Informaticae 30 (1997) pp. 23–41, IOS Press.


16. CardiAssist: Developing a Support Platform for 3D Ultrasound, (N. Bruining, T. Berlage, G. Grunst, H. J. Alkar, B. Mumm, B. Angelsen, J. Komorowski, D. A. Redel, F. Pinto, J. R. T. C. Roelandt), Computers in Cardiology (1997), Vol. 24, pp. 557–560.

17. Towards a Rough Mereology-based Logic for Approximate Solution Synthesis – Part I (J. Komorowski, L. Polkowski, A.Skowron), Special Issue on Logics with Incomplete Information, Studia Logica (1997) Vol. 58:1, pp. 143–184.

18. A Prolegomenon to Partial Deduction, Fundamenta Informaticae (1993) 18:1, pp. 41–64, IOS Press.

Editorial Experience:

Journal issues:19. Special Issue in memory of Cecylia Rauszer, (with Z. W. Ras), Preface, pp. 107–108, Fundamenta

Informaticae Journal, IOS Press, Vol 32, No 2, November 1997, pp. 107–191.20. Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Special Issue, (with Z. W. Ras), Preface, pp. 161–162,

Fundamenta Informaticae Journal, IOS Press, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1994, pp. 161–253.21. Special Issue on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, (with Z. W. Ras), Preface, pp. 205–206, Journal

of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1993, pp. 205–304.22. Special Issue on Partial Deduction of the Journal of Logic Programming, Preface, pp. 1–3. Vol. 16, No 1

and 2, May 1993, pp. 1–189, Elsevier.

Conference Proceedings:23. Proc. of the 4th European Conference on Principles of Data Mining and Knowlegde Discovery, (D.

Zighed, J. Komorowski and J.Zytkow), PKDD’2000, Lyon, France, September 2000, Springer Verlag, LN in AI, No. 1910.

24. Proc. of the session Rough Sets in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, EUFIT’98, Aachen, Germany, 1998, 50pp.

25. Proc. of the ECAI’98 Workshop Synthesis of Intelligent Agent Systems from Experimental Data (J. Komorowski, A. Skowron, I. Dü ntsch), 54pp.

26. Proc. of the 1st European Symposium on Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (with J. Zytkow), Trondheim, Norway, June 1997, Springer Verlag, LN in AI, No. 1263.

27. Proc. of the 5th Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (with A. Aamodt) Trondheim, June 1995, IOS Press, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Vol 28.

28. Proc. of the 7th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, (with Z. W. Ras) Trondheim, June 1993, Springer Verlag, LN in AI, No. 689.

Conference papers (refereed papers only, see also under Computational Biology and Medical Informatics):

29. A Rough Set Approach to Inductive Logic Programming, (H. Midelfart and J. Komorowski), in the Proc. of the The Second International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing, RSCTC’2000, October 16-19, 2000, Banff, Canada, LNCS, Vol. NN, 12 pp. Springer Verlag.

30. Towards Knowledge Discovery from cDNA Microarray Gene Expression Data, (J. Komorowski, T. R. Hvidsten, T-K. Jenssen, D. Tjeldvoll, E. Hovig, A. K. Sandvik and A. Lægreid), in the Proc. of the 4th PKDD’2000, Lyon, September 2000, LNCS, Vol.1910, pp. 470–475, Springer Verlag.

31. Diagnosing Acute Appendicitis with Very Simple Classification Rules, (J. Komorowski and A. hrn), in the Proc. of PKDD’99, Prague, September 1999, LNCS, Vol. 1704, pp.462–467, Springer Verlag.

32. Taming Large Rule Models in Rough Set Approaches, (T. Ågotnes, J. Komorowski and T. Lken), in the Proc. of PKDD’99, Prague, September 1999, LNCS, Vol. 1704, pp.193–203, Springer Verlag.

33. Knowledge Extraction From Process Data: A Rough Set Approach To Data Mining On Time Series, (C. Skourup and J.Komorowski), in the Proc. of EUFIT’99, (CD-ROM), 5pp. Aachen, September 1999.

34. Analysis of Ovarian Tumor Data: Extended Summary, (D. Tjeldvoll and J. Komorowski), in the Proc. of EUFIT’99, (CD-ROM), (CD-ROM), 5 pp. Aachen, September 1999.

35. Finding Small High Performance Subsets of Induced Rule Sets: Extended Summary, (with T. Ågotnes, J. Komorowski and A. hrn), Proc. of EUFIT’99, 7 pp. Aachen, September 1999.

36. Rough Data Modelling and Rough Sets, (T.Lken and J. Komorowski), in the Proc. of EUFIT’99, (CD-ROM), 8 pp. Aachen, September 1999.

37. Fault Diagnosis in Rotating Machinery using Rough Sets and Rosetta, (T. R. Hvidsten, M. S. Bjanger, J. Komorowski, M. F. White and B. Guanglai), in the Proc. of EUFIT’99, (CD-ROM), 5 pp. Aachen, September 1999.


38. Diagnosing Rotating Machinery using Rough Sets (J.Komorowski, T. Lken, M. F. White and M. Jecmenica), in the Proc. of the VIIIth Intern. Symp. on Intelligent Information Systems, pp. 137–145, Polish Academy of Sciences, June 1999, Ustro, Poland.

39. Rough Set Analysis of Medical Datasets in a Case of Patients with Suspected Acute Appendicitis (U. Carlin, J.Komorowski and A. hrn), in the Proc. ECAI’98 Workshop on Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP’98), pp. 18–28, August 1998, Brighton, UK.

40. Improving Mollestad’s Algorithm for Default Knowledge Discovery (T.-K. Jenssen, J. Komorowski and A. hrn), in the Proc. of 1st International Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing, June 22-26, 1998 Warsaw, Poland, Springer Verlag, LNCS 1424, pp. 373–380.

41. Rough Set Analysis with Suspected Acute Appendicitis (with U. Carlin, J. Komorowski and A. hrn), in the Proc. of IPMU’98, The Seventh Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, July 6 - 10, 1998, Université de La Sorbonne Paris, France.

42. Analyzing Prognostic Power of Cardiac Tests Using Rough Sets and Rosetta, (J. Komorowski and A. hrn), Proc. of the Second IMACS Multi-conference on Computational Engineering in Systems Applications, Tunisia, April 1-4 1998.

43. Practical Applications of Genetic Algorithms for Efficient Reduct Computation (A. Bjorvand and J. Komorowski), Proc. of 15th IMACS World Congress on Scientific Computation, Modelling and Applied Mathematics, Achim Sydow, Ed. Berlin, Aug 24 - 29 1997, Vol 4, pp. 601–606.

44. Rosetta – A Rough Set Toolkit for Analysis of Data (A. hrn and J. Komorowski), Proc of RSSC’97, 5th International Workshop on Rough Sets and Soft Computing, pp. 403–407, ISBN 0-9643456-6-8, North Carolina, March 1997.

45. Learning Tolerance Relations by Boolean Descriptors: Automatic Feature Extraction from Data Tables, (A. Skowron, L.Polkowski and J. Komorowski), Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets and Machine Discovery, pp. 1–17, ISBN 4-947717-01-7, University of Tokyo, November 1996.

46. Partial Deduction in the Framework of Structural Synthesis of Programs, (M. Matskin, J. Komorowski and J.Krogstie), (J. Gallagher, Ed.), Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR’96, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1996, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1207, Springer-Verlag., 1997, pp. 239-254.

47. Induction, Deduction and Abduction for Program Design and Maintenance An Extended Summary, (A. Guessoum and J.Komorowski), Proc. of the Inter. Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS’96, Poster Session, pp. 206–217, 1996.

48. Approximate Case-Based Reasoning: A Rough Mereological Approach, (with L. Polkowski, A. Skowron and J. Komorowski) In: H. D. Burkhard, and M. Lenz (Eds.), Proc. of the Fourth German Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, System Development and Evaluation, Informatik Berichte 55, Humboldt University, Berlin, pp. 144-15, 1996.

49. Reactive Scheduling Using Constraint Logic Programming - Investigating Constraint models of the Pirelli Tyre Scheduling Problem, (G. Hasle, O. H. Wiig and J. Komorowski), Proc. KBRS’95 - The Third IFIP WG5.7 Workshop on Knowledge-Based Reactive Scheduling, Seattle, WA, September 1995.

50. -perfect Semantics for Inductive Synthesis, Refinement Calculus and Update of Logic Programs, (R. Klausen and J. Komorowski), Proc. of the 2nd World Congress on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 181–192, Angkor, Paris 1995.

51. Towards Refinement of Definite Logic Programs, (J.Komorowski and S. Trcek), Proc. of the 8th Intern. Symp. on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, pp. 315–325, Springer Verlag, LN in AI 869, 1994.

52. Reasoning and Synthesis in an Object-Oriented System, (M. Matskin and and J. Komorowski), Proc. of The IIIrd Symposium on Intelligent Information Systems, Poland, June, 1994, 16 p, Polish Academy of Sciences.

53. Program Synthesis and Transformations in an Object-Oriented Environment, (M. Matskin and and J.Komorowski), Proc. of the ERCIM Workshop on Development and Transformation of Programs, INRIA, France, 1993, pp. 131-140.

54. Towards Refinement of Logic Programs, (J. Komorowski and S. Trcek), Proc. of the 5th Nordic Workshop on Program Correctness, Åbo Akademi, Dept of C. Sc.; also in: Proc. of the Norwegian Informatics Conference, Halden, Norway, 1993.

55. Inductive Synthesis From Conditional Examples – An Extended Summary, pp. 199–208, Proc. of the 4th Nordic Workshop on Program Correctness, Bergen, November 1992.

56. Advanced Tutorial on Partial Deduction in Proc. of the International Workshop on Metaprogramming, Uppsala, June 1992, A.Pettorossi, Ed., Springer Verlag 1992.

Computational Biology – refereed publications:57. Classification of Gene Expression Data in an Ontology H. Midelfart, A. Lægreid and J. Komorowski in

the Proc. of the 2nd International Symposium on Medical Data Analysis (ISMDA-2001), Springer Verlag, LNAI 2199, pages 186—194.


58. Rough Set Based Learning Methods Used to Predict Biological Function of 196 Unknown Genes, (A. K. Sandvik, T. R.Hvidsten, H. Midelfart, J. Komorowski and A. Lægreid), submitted for publication in a high-impact journal.

59. A literature network of human genes for high-throughput gene-expression analysis, (T.-K. Jenssen, A. Lægreid, J.Komorowski and E. Hovig), Nature Genetics, Vol 28,pp. 21–28, May 2001.

60. DNA mikroarray – vindu mot tusentals gen (A.Lægreid, J. Komorowski, A. Sandvik, V. Beisvåg, K.Nrsett, O. Stren, E. Hovig and O. Myklebust) in Norwegian the Journal of Norwegian Biochemical Society (English title: DNA microarray – a window to thousands of genes), 2001.

61. Mot kunnkskapsoppdagelse fra DNA mikromatrise (mikroarray) genuttrykksdata, (J. Komorowski, T. R. Hvidsten, T-K. Jenssen, D. Tjeldvoll, E. Hovig, A. Lægreid and A. K.Sandvik) in Norwegian, Tidskrift for den norske legeforeningen, (Towards Knowledge Discovery from DNA-microarray Gene Expression Data, the Journal of The Norwegian Medical Association), 2001.

62. Methods For Large-Scale Mining of Networks of Human Genes (T.-K. Jenssen, L. M. J. Ö berg, M. L. Andersson and J.Komorowski, Proc. of the First SIAM Conference on Datamining, 16 pp. Chicago, April 2001.

63. A framework for learning gene functions from microarray data (T. R. Hvidsten, J. Komorowski, A. K. Sandvik and A.Lægreid), selected for presentation, Winter Meeting of the Norwegian Biochemical Society, January 2001, Geilo, Norway.

64. Predicting Gene Function From Gene Expressions and Gene Ontologies (T. R. Hvidsten, J. Komorowski, A. K. Sandvik and A. Lægreid), Proc. of the Pacific Symposium on Bio-computing, pp. 299–310, Hawaii, January 2001.

65. Classification of Gene Expression Data in an Ontology, (H. Midelfart, A. Lægreid, A. K. Sandvik and J.Komorowski), 1st Swedish National Workshop on Bioinformatics, contribution selected for presentation, Uppsala, November 2000.

66. Improving gene expression classifiers by use of feature synthesis (T. R. Hvidsten, A. Lægreid, A. K. Sandvik and J.Komorowski), 1st Swedish National Workshop on Bioinformatics, contribution selected for presentation, Uppsala, November 2000.

67. Template-based gene expression analysis, (with T. R. Hvidsten, T.-K. Jenssen, A. Lægreid, A. K. Sandvik and D.Tjeldvoll), in "Currents in Computational Molecular Biology – RECOMB 2000", edited by S. Miyano, R. Shamir and T. Takagi, pp. 10–11, ISBN 4-946443-61-4, Universal Academy Press, Inc, April 8-11, 2000, Tokyo, Japan.

68. Pubgen: Discovering and visualising gene-gene relations, (with T.-K. Jenssen, A. Lægreid and E. Hovig), in "Currents in Computational Molecular Biology – RECOMB 2000", edited by S. Miyano, R. Shamir and T. Takagi, pp. 48–49, ISBN 4-946443-61-4, Universal Academy Press, Inc, April 8-11, 2000, Tokyo, Japan.

Computational Biology – non-refereed publications:69. The Norwegian Microarray Datawarehouse – Creating A National Repository for Microarray

Experiment Data, (D. K. Rognlien, A.Lµgreid, A. K. Sandvik and J. Komorowski), Winter Meeting of the Norwegian Biochemical Society, January 2001, Beilo, Norway.

70. Semi-automatic annotation of genes (with D.Tjeldvoll, A. Lægreid, T. R. Hvidsten, T.-K. Jenssen and A. K. Sandvik), poster presentation, Bioinformatics 2000, Denmark.

71. A methodology and tools for knowledge discovery from gene expressions, (with A. Lægreid, T. R. Hvidsten, T.-K. Jenssen, A. K. Sandvik and D. Tjeldvoll), poster presentation, Bioinformatics 2000, Denmark.

72. Boolean reasoning in the clustering of gene expression data, (with T. R. Hvidsten, T.-K. Jenssen, A. Lægreid and A. hrn), poster at the Data Mining for Bioinformatics - Towards In Silico Biology meeting, November 10-12, 1999 EBI - Wellcome Trust Genome Campus - Hinxton - Cambridge, UK.

73. (Re-)Discovering gene-gene relations from textual data, (with T.-K. Jenssen, A. Lægreid and E. Hovig), poster at the Data Mining for Bioinformatics - Towards In Silico Biology meeting, November 10-12, 1999 EBI - Wellcome Trust Genome Campus - Hinxton - Cambridge, UK.

Medical Informatics (refereed publications only):74. Rough Set Analysis of Medical Datasets and A Case of Patients with Suspected Acute Appendicitis, (U.

S.Carlin, J. Komorowski, A. hrn), Proc. of the IDAMAP’98 Workshop, ECAI’98, Brighton, United Kingdom, 11pp.

75. CardiAssist: Developing a Support Platform for 3D Ultrasound, (N. Bruining, T. Berlage, G. Grunst, H. J. Alkar, B. Mumm, B. Angelsen, J. Komorowski, D. A. Redel, F. Pinto and J. R. T. C. Roelandt)), IEEE Computers in Cardiology, pp. 557–560, 1997 Vol 24.


76. Modelling Cardiac Patient Set Residuals Using Rough Sets, (A. hrn, S. Vinterbo, P. Szymaski, and J.Komorowski), Proc. of the 1997 AMIA Annual Fall Symposium (formerly SCAMC), Nashville, TN, USA, October 25-29, 5 pages.

National publications:77. Partial Deduction for Structural Synthesis of Programs (M. Matskin, J. Komorowski and J. Krogstie),

Proc. NIK’96 Norsk Informatikkonferense, Alta, pp. 235–246, November 1996.78. Induction, Deduction and Abduction for Program Design and Maintenance, (A. Guessoum and J.

Komorowski), Proc. NIK’95 Norsk Informatikkonferense, pp. 7–18, 1995.79. Synthesis via Induction, Deduction and Abduction, (R. Klausen and J. Komorowski), Proc. NIK’94 Norsk

Informatikkonferense, pp. 21–32, 1994.

Popular Science Publications and Activities:80. The Genomic Research Classifier Project, interview for the popular science TV program “Schroedinger

katt” on the National Norwegian TV, September 5, 2000.

KS-1 Five Selected publications by Jan Komorowski

Paper a) or #14: Modelling Prognostic Power of Cardiac Tests Using Rough Sets (J. Komorowski and A Øhrn), invited paper, Special Issue on Intelligent Prognostic Methods in Medicine, J. of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (1999) Vol. 15:2, pp. 167–191, Elsevier Science.

This work sets up a rough set framework for investigating prognostic tasks and applied it to the prognosis of cardiac events in a set of patients with chest pain. Geleijnse et al. analyzed earlier this set of patients with logistic regression and found that the single most important independent predictor for future hard cardiac events (cardiac death or non-fatal myocardial infarction) was an abnormal scintigraphic scan pattern. However, performing a scintigraphic scan is a relatively expensive procedure, and may for some patients not really be fully necessary as knowledge of the outcome of the scan may be redundant with respect to making prognosis. Using our rough set framework, this paper explored how a patient group in need of a scintgraphic scan can be identified for subsequent modeling. Identification of such patients may potentially contribute to lowering the cost of medical care and improve its quality since, virtually without loss of information, fewer patients may be referred to for this procedure.

Paper b) or #64: Predicting Gene Function From Gene Expressions and Gene Ontologies (T. R. Hvidsten, J. Komorowski, A. K. Sandvik and A. Lægreid), Proc. of the Pacific Symposium on Bio-computing, pp. 299–310, Hawaii, January 2001.

This is our first Functional Genomics publication that was obtained as a result of a close cooperation with molecular biologists and medical researchers. This work received an international attention and was referred in Reviews on Structural Biology as a pointing into an interesting direction in Functional Genomics. The method is under patent application.

In this work we introduced a methodology for inducing predictive rule models for functional classification of gene expressions from microarray hybridisation experiments. The basic learning method is the rough set framework for rule induction. The methodology is different from the commonly used unsupervised clustering approaches in that it exploits background knowledge of gene function in a supervised manner. Genes are annotated using Ashburner's Gene Ontology and the functional classes used for learning are mined from these annotations. From the original expression data, we extract a set of biologically meaningful features that are used for learning. A rule model is induced from the data described in terms of these features. Its predictive quality is fine-tuned via cross-validation on subsets of the known genes prior


to classification of unknown genes. The predictive and descriptive quality of such a rule model is demonstrated on the fibroblast serum response data previously analysed by Iyer et. al. Our analysis shows that the rules are capable of representing the complex relationship between gene expressions and function, and that it is possible to put forward high quality hypotheses about the function of unknown genes

Paper c) or # 3: ROSETTA Rough Set Software System, (J.Komorowski, A. Skowron, A. Øhrn), to appear in Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, (W. Klösgen, J. Zytkow, Eds.), Oxford University Press, 2001.

ROSETTA is a cooperative effort between researchers at NTNU in Norway and Warsaw University in Poland, and is publicly available at (http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~aleks/rosetta/). The system runs under Windows NT/98/95/2000. This toolkit has been our major international success. It is used by over 2700 researchers worldwide. The Handbook publishes only one article on rough set systems.

The research in Pawlak’s rough sets have resulted in a number of software tools for data mining and knowledge discovery from databases (KDD). Among many of these tools the ROSETTA system is probably one of the most complete software environment for rough set operations. In ROSETTA the experimental nature of inducing classifiers from data is explicitly maintained by organizing the workspace in a tree structure that displays how input and output data relate to each other. ROSETTA supports the KDD process: from browsing and pre-processing of the data, to reduct computation and rule synthesis, to validation and analysis of the generated rules. Learning may be both supervised (resulting in if-then rules) or unsupervised (resulting in general patterns), and input data may be both categorical and non-categorical. ROSETTA is not tied up to any particular application domain, and has been put to use for a variety of tasks.

Paper d) or #59: A literature network of human genes for high-throughput gene-expression analysis, (T.-K. Jenssen, A. Lægreid, J.Komorowski and E. Hovig), Nature Genetics, Vol 28, pp. 21–28, May 2001.

This work is a result of a co-operation between two Norwegian research institutions: NTNU and The Norwegian Cancer Hospital in Oslo. The basic idea was due to E. Hovig and the implementation of the system was done by the then my PhD student T.K. Jenssen. The tool is publicly available from http://www.pubgene.org/

We have performed automated extraction of explicit and implicit biomedical knowledge from publicly available gene and text databases to create a gene-to-gene co-citation network for 13,712 named human genes by automated analysis of titles and abstracts in over 10 million MEDLINE records. The associations between genes have been annotated by linking genes to terms from the MeSH index and terms from the GO gene ontology. The extracted database and accompanying web-tools for gene-expression analysis have collectively been named PubGene. We validated the extracted networks by three large-scale experiments showing that co-occurrence reflects biologically meaningful relationships, thus providing an approach to extract and structure known biology. We validated the applicability of the tools by analysing two publicly available microarray data sets.

Paper e) -- no paper no: Supervised Learning used to Predict Biological Functions of 196 Human Genes, (A. K. Sandvik, T. R.Hvidsten, H. Midelfart, J. Komorowski and A. Lægreid), submitted for publication in a high-impact journal.

This work is important in at least two ways. One, the approach we defined in the PSB’2001 paper (see below) is validated on real, publicly available microarray data. Two, our work has major implications for biological research. We answered positively to the question whether function similarity corresponds to expression similarity despite the fact that functionally co-related genes may be expression-wise dissimilar (e.g. anti-coregulated) and despite the fact that genes usually have multiple function. We were further able to obtain clusters of biologically related genes (which is not necessarily the case with other methods in use by the biological community). We could also build (rough set) models that classify unknown genes to functional classes, that are human legible, and that do that with a known quality. And, finally, we showed that it is possible to re-use some of the existing biological knowledge expressed in, e.g., Gene Ontology.


KS-1 Personal Statement from Jan Komorowski

Modern biology is undergoing a revolutionary change. Until recently, molecular biologists have been searching for the genetic and biochemical mechanisms that support multi-cellular organisms, using experiments that produce only a minimal amount of information in relation to the huge systems under investigation. These approaches use a very limited number of parameters to represent factors affecting the system. However, it is known that the fundamental mechanisms are affected by a very large number of inter-related factors. The advent of high throughput screening, e.g. the so-called DNA microarray technology opens up for large-scale data acquisition from biological system experiments. New computational theories, methods and tools are therefore required to support data extraction from these large information pools and co-relating them with information in large databases. New approaches are needed to help analyze the extracted data so as to increase biological understanding about, for example, gene expression and gene sequence variation, or to allow modeling of complex regulatory intra- and inter-cellular mechanisms. Until now computational biology (i.e. bioinformatics) has been mostly the domain of biologists who have some training in programming. I believe that it needs a stronger involvement of computer scientists, if we are to succeed in these endeavors. In cooperation with my colleagues at our Division of Intelligent Systems (e.g. K. Downing) and P. Haddow at Computer Architecture and Design Group, we offer a broad approach to a variety of issues in computational biology.

My own research methodology has been always applied but based on theories that have strong mathematical foundations. In the past, I worked with logic programming. In my PhD thesis I created the first Abstract Prolog Machine and then formulated the notion of partial evaluation in logic programs. My work started a subfield in logic programming, which I later dubbed partial deduction. It was an interesting research area. I concluded it in 1993 by guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Logic Programming. Since early 1990’s, I have researched complex diagnostic problems using approximate reasoning for uncertain and incomplete data. Eventually, rough set theory of Pawlak which is based on Boolean reasoning, satisfied my requirements. I was attracted by the elegance of the approach and the power of the mechanism; although it is propositional it nevertheless allows learning concept definitions that, surprisingly, are richer than propositional.

The results of research done in my group, especially the implementation of the ROSETTA toolkit (http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~aleks/rosetta/), and the experience in analyzing medical data and complex machinery data allowed us to quickly enter the field of computational biology. Although we barely scratched a top of a volcano of problems, our results have been noticed internationally. This is indicated by a large amount of invited talks that I had a privilege to hold recently. These successes have been helped by high quality publications that came from my group. We have defined and successfully applied supervised learning to classify unknown genes using their expression profiles and Gene Ontology annotations. This is one of the first if not the first application of this type in the area of Functional Genomics. At the same time, we have made innovative contributions to computer science with our approach to learning. In addition to publications, our methods are now under patent applications. In cooperation with Norwegian Cancer Hospital, a particularly successful tool (http://www.pubgene.org/) was designed and implemented. This lead to a Nature Genetics publication, the second Norwegian publication ever in this high impact journal.

As a researcher and instructor I stress the need of a principled approach to computer science where logic, and algebra and, to a degree mathematical analysis, provide the training and foundations for future applied research. In the area of programming languages I have had a lot


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of success teaching the MIT Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming and then Semantics of Programming Languages. Our course on data mining for molecular biomedicine is a successful experiment where teams of engineering students work and study together with biology students.

As an advisor I show to my students goals and expect them to know more than I do in short time. I hope that I help them develop an independent scientific career. We have developed a strategy of publishing that starts with workshops and smaller conferences and ends up with high-quality journal publications. It appears that I have a knack of attracting particularly talented researchers. For instance, Aleksander Øhrn’s PhD thesis was nominated for the European award of a best thesis in Artificial Intelligence in year 2000, while Staal Vinterbo is the first ever Norwegian who was entirely educated in Norway to become a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Torulf Mollestad has made a successful industrial career, and we were very happy to attract him back to our group as an adjunct associate professor.

In my research and teaching I am dependent very much on my past experience from Harvard and MIT, Åbo Akademi University, Linkøping University and Warsaw University. Working at NTNU is challenging but rewarding. We have built a good quality image at the university and find that the cooperation with the biomedical community (e.g. http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/KS-grp/GCR/) is mutually beneficial.


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KS-2 Professor Mihhail Matskin, Ph.D.

KS-2 CV for Mihhail Matskin

Personalia: Born 14.05.1956 in Odessa, Ukraina. Estonian citizen, married, one son.

Educational qualifications:1984: Ph.D., computer science, Institute of Cybernetics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn.1978: M.Sc., electrical engineering, Tallinn Technical University.

Summary of positions held:Since 2001: Professor at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Trondheim1995--2001: Associate professor at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology, Trondheim1993--1995: Leading researcher at the Institute of Cybernetics1988--1993: Head of artificial intelligence department of the Institute of Cybernetics of the Estonian Academy of

Sciences1985--1988: Head of instrumental programming systems department of the Soviet new generation computer

project START 1977--1984: Researcher and senior researcher at the Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn

1980-1983, PhD student - Institute of Cybernetics of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia1977-1984, engineer in software, senior engineer in software, researcher - Institute of Cybernetics of the Estonian

Academy of Sciences, Tallinn, Estonia, USSR

International visits: --Visiting researcher at the Institute of Technical Cybernetics, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (1983, 1984); --Visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science, the Aarhus University (1991);--Visiting researcher at the Department of Teleinformatics, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (1992,

1995); -- Visiting researcher - sabbatical year (2001-2002) to be spent in Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) and

in the Institute of Cybernetics (Tallinn, Estonia).

Relevant areas of competence: agent technology, multi-agent systems, intelligent telecommunication services, formal methods of software design, knowledge-based programming, e-commerce services

Publications: Since 1980 M. Matskin has 75 scientific papers (including 10 journal papers, 9 chapters in books and 34 papers in international conferences/symposiums/workshops).

Main projects: --ADIS – Adaptive Distributed Information Srevices (2002-2005, Project leader, IKT 2010 program, NFR –

Norwegian Research Foundation),--ElComAg – Electronic Commercial Agents (1999-2003, Project co-supervisor, DITS program, NFR), --CAGIS – Cooperative Agents in Global Information Space (1996-2000, Project co-supervisor, DITS program,

NFR), --Agent-Based Methods (1998, Project leader, Andersen Consulting Research Foundation), --Soviet New Generation Computer project (1985-1988, Project co-supervisor, Soviet Research Council)

Representative for NTNU in the AgentLink and AgentLinkII (Europe's ESPRIT-funded Network of Excellence for agent-based computing)

Recent invited lectures:2000: Invited talk "Agents in Telecommunication-Based Services" at Networking'2000

conference, Mini-Conference "IATE - Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Environments", Paris, May 16, 2000

2000: Invited lecture "Agent in e-commerce" at Program for DnB bank employees, Oslo, DnB education center, Oct. 2000

1999: Invited lecture "Agent technology" at NEXT 2000 Program for industrial participants (Oslo, the Norwegian School of Management)

1999: Invited mini-tutorial "Intelligent agents and Multi-Agent Systems" Høgskolen i Narvik


1999: Invited lecture "Agent Architectures for Electronic Assistance and Commerce" at Fenno-Ugric Symposium on Software Technology (FUSST'99), Tallinn, Estonia.

Reviewer in international periodicals and outside expert:- expert in the 1st ECLIP (Electronic Commerce Legal Issues Platform) Forum - a research project

financed under the Information Society Technologies (IST) program of the European Union.- reviewer in the "Data and Knowledge Engineering" journal and in the "Automated Software Engineering"

journal.

Recent Program Committees:2002: Member of Program Committee of the 2002 ACM Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information

Systems (ADBIS'2002), Bratislava, Slovakia2002: Member of Program Committee of the Fifth International Baltic Workshop on Databases and Information

Systems, Tallinn, Estonia.2001: Member of the Program Committee of International Workshop on Internet Bots: Systems and Applications,

September 3-7, 2001,Munich, Germany2001: Member of Program Committee of the 2001 ACM Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information

Systems (ADBIS'2001)2000: Member of Program Committee of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Automated Software

Engineering (ASE'00), Grenoble, France2000: Member of Program Committee of the Fourth International Baltic Workshop on Databases and Information

Systems, Vilnius, Lithuania1999: Member of Program Committee of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Automated Software

Engineering (ASE'99), Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA1998: Member of Program Committee of the Third International Baltic Workshop on Databases and Information

Systems, Riga, Latvia1997: Member of Program Committee of SCAI'97 conference1996: Member of Program Committee of Second International Baltic Workshop on Databases and Information

Systems, Tallinn, Estonia1995: Member of Program Committee of SCAI'95 conference1994: Member of Program Committee of IFIP WG 5.2 workshop on formal methods for CAD, Tallinn, 16-20 June

1993

Recent Pedagogical experience (1992-2001)2001 (spring) “Knowledge-Based Software Design” at NTNU2000 (spring) "Operating Systems and Databases" course (Operating Systems part) at NTNU2000, 1999, 1998 (fall) "Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents" course at NTNU 1999 (spring) Coordinator of common project for 4 courses: Software Engineering, Logic, Databases and

Telematics Services at NTNU;2000, 1998 (spring) "Knowledge-Based Software Design" course for PhD students at NTNU;1997, 1996, 1995 (fall)"Operating Systems" course at NTNU1998, 1997 (spring) Projects coordinator in the "Programming Methods" course at NTNU;1996 (spring) Partial lecturer in the "IT-intro" course at NTNU (introduction to Pascal);1995 (spring): "Logic Programming" course at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Stockholm 1994: Part-time lecturer, Tallinn Technical University, Faculty of Electroautomatics, Tallinn, Estonia (course on

"Automatic programming");1994, 1992: Visiting lecturer, the University of Trondheim, the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Division of

Computer Systems and Telematics (course on "Program Synthesis" for PhD students);1992: Part-time lecturer, Tallinn Technical University, Faculty of Informatics, Tallinn, Estonia (course on

"Artificial Intelligence");

KS-2 Publication list for Mihhail Matskin

Publications in Refereed Journals:1. M. Matskin. Agents in Telecommunication-Based Services. Accepted for publication in the Networking

and Information Systems Journal, 2001.

2. M. Matskin and E. Tyugu. Structural Synthesis of Programs and Its Extensions. Computer and Informatics Journal, v. 20, 2001, pp. 1-25.


3. M. Matskin and A. Tveit. Mobile Commerce Agents in WAP-Based Services. Journal of Database Management, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2001, pp. 27-35.

4. S. Petersen, M. Divitini, M. Matskin. An Agent-based Approach to Modeling Virtual Enterprises. International Journal of Production Planning and Control, Vol. 12, No. 3, Issue Apr 2001, pp. 224-233.

5. M. Matskin, J. Komorowski, ``Partial Structural Synthesis of Programs'', Fundamenta Informaticae, IOS Press, 31(1997) pp. 125-144.

Chapters in Books:6. M. Matskin, O. J. Kirkeluten, S. B. Krossnes and Ø. Sæle. Agora: An Infrastructure for Cooperative Work

Support in Multi-Agent Systems. T. Wagner, O. Rana (eds.) Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agents, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems. Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1887, 2001.

7. M. Matskin and D. Montesi, ``Visual Rule Language for Active Database Modeling'', (P.-J. Charell, H. Jaakkola, H Kangassalo, E. Kawaguchi eds). Information Modeling and Knowledge Bases IX. IOS Press, pp. 160-175, 1998 (Serie: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)

8. M. Matskin and H.-M. Haav, `À Deductive Object-Oriented Approach to Information System Modelling'', J. Eder and L. Kalinichenko (Eds.), `Àdvances in Databases and Information Systems'', Workshops in Computing Series, Springer, p. 459-478, 1995.

9. H-M. Haav, M. Matskin, `Ùsing partial deduction for automatic propagation of changes in OODB'', `Ìnformation Modeling and Knowledge Bases: Foundations, Theory and Applications'', IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1993, p. 339-353.

10. M. Matskin, `Òbject-Oriented Programming'', In D. Morris, B. Tamm (Eds.): Concise Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, Pergamon Press, 1993, p. 213-216.

11. M. Matskin, ``Programming, object-oriented''. In: System and Control Encyclopedia, Supplementary Volume 2, Pergamon Press, 1992, pp. 881-885.

International Conferences, Workshops and Symposiums:12. M. Matskin. Intelligent Agents for Mobile Commerce Services. To appear in Proceedings of the Second

Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2001), Maebashi Terrsa, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23-26, 2001.

13. M. Matskin. Collaborative Advertising over Internet with Agents. Proceedings of the 12-th International Workshop on Data and Expert Systems Applications, Munich, Germany, September 3-7, 2001, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 509-513

14. M. Matskin and E. Tyugu. Declarative Reflection Support in Multi-Agent Systems. Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence IC-AI'2001, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28, 2001, CSREA Press.

15. M. Matskin, R. Bell. Agents for Support of WAP-based Services. In: H. R. van As (ed.) Telecommunication Network Intelligence, The Sixth IFIP Conference on Intelligence in Networks - SmartNet 2000, September 18-22, Vienna, Austria, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, pp. 267-281

16. M. Matskin, O. J. Kirkeluten, S. B. Krossnes and Øystein Sæle. Agora: An Infrastructure for Cooperative Work Support in Multi-Agent Systems. Autonomous Agents 2000 Workshop on Infrastructure for Scalable Multi-agent Systems, Barcelona, Spain, June 3-7, 2000, pp. 22-28

17. M. Matskin, O. J. Kirkeluten, S. B. Krossnes and Øystein Sæle. Agora: A Multi-Agent Platform and its Implementation. H. Arabnia (ed.) Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'2000), June 26-29, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, CSREA Press, vol. II, 2000, pp. 549-555

18. M. Matskin. Agents in Telecommunication-Based Services. In. D. Gaiti and O. Martikainen (eds.). Proceedings of Networking'2000 conference, Mini-Conference "IATE - Intelligent Agents for Telecommunication Environments", Paris, May, 2000, pp.109-121


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19. M. Matskin, Multi-Agent Support for Modeling Co-operative Work. In: T. Yongchareon, F. A. Aagesen, V. Wuwongse (Eds.) Intelligence in Networks. The Fifth International Conference SMARTNET'99, 22-26 November 1999, Thailand, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 419-432.

20. E. Tyugu, M. Matskin, J. Penjam. Applications of Structural Synthesis of Programs. In: J. Wing, J. Woodcock, J. Davies (Eds.) FM´99 - Formal Methods. World Congress on Formal Methods in the Development of Computing Systems, Toulouse, France, Sept. 1999. Proc. vol. I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) No. 1708, Springer, 1999, p. 551 - 569.

21. M. Matskin and E. Tyugu. Agent Architectures for Electronic Assistance and Commerce. Proceedings of Fenno-Ugric Symposium on Software Technology (FUSST'99), Invited talk, Estonia, 19-21 August, 1999, Institute of Cybernetics, Report CS 104/99, Tallinn, 1999, pp. 163-177.

22. S. Petersen, M. Divitini, M. Matskin. ``Supporting Extended Enterprises: Using enterprise modelling for specialising AGORA''. IFIP International Enterprise Modelling Conference IEMC '99, Verdal, Norway - June 14th to 16th, 1999, 10 p.

23. H.-M. Haav and M. Matskin. ``Discovery of Object-Oriented Schema and Schema Conflicts''. (W. Litwin, T. Morzy, G. Vossen eds). Advances in Databases and Information Systems, Second East-European Symposium, ADBIS'98, Poznan (Poland), September, 1998, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1475, Springer-Verlag., 1998, pp. 154-156.

24. M. Matskin, M. Divitini, S. Petersen. ``An Architecture for Multi-Agent Support in a Distributed Information Technology Application''. International Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Information and Process Management on the 22nd German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Bremen (KI-98), TZI-Bericht Nr. 9, Germany, September 15-17, 1998, pp. 47-58.

25. M. Matskin and E. Tyugu. ``Strategies of Structural Synthesis of Programs'' , Proc. The Twelfth IEEE International Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE'97), Incline Village, Nevada, Nov. 3-5, 1997, pp. 305-306.

26. M. Matskin and D. Montesi, ``Visual Rule Language for Active Database Modelling'', H. Kangassalo and P.-J. Charrel eds. Proc. The Seventh European-Japanese Conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases. Toulouse, France, T. 2, 1997, pp. 252-267.

27. M. Matskin, J. Komorowski, J. Krogstie, ``Partial Deduction in the Framework of Structural Synthesis of Programs'', (J. Gallagher eds.) Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation, 6th International Workshop, LOPSTR'96, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1996, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1207, Springer-Verlag., 1997, pp. 239-254.

28. J. Komorowski and M. Matskin, ``Reasoning and Synthesis in an Object-Oriented System'', Proc. Symposium on Intelligent Information Systems, Poland, June, 1994, 16 p.

29. E. Tyugu and M. Matskin, ``The Use of Reflective Systems to Support High-Level Network Configuration Management'', Proc. IEEE 1994 Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS'94), Orlando, Poster papers, 10 p.

30. M. Matskin and J. Komorowski, ``Program Synthesis and Transformations in an Object-Oriented Environment'', Proc. ERCIM Workshop on Development and Transformation of Programs, INRIA, France, 1993, p. 131-140.

31. M. Matskin, J. Komorowski, ``Partial Deduction and Manipulation with Classes and Objects in an Object-Oriented Environment'', Proc. First COMPULOG-NETWORK Workshop on Programming Languages in Computational Logic, Pisa, Italy, April 6-7, 1992, p. 47-49.

32. M. Matskin, ``Automatic synthesis of methods in the NUT programming system'', Proc. of the First COMPULOG-NETWORK Workshop on Programming Languages in Computational Logic, Pisa, Italy, April 6-7, 1992, pp. 37-39.

National Conferences:33. S. Petersen, M. Divitini, M. Matskin. Virtual Enterprises: An Agent-Based Modeling Apporach. Norsk

Informatikkonferanse, NIK'99, Trondehim, November, 1999, Tapir, pp. 211-221.


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34. M. Matskin, M. Divitini, S. Petersen. `ÀGORA: a Multi-Agent Support for Distributed Information Technology Applications''. Norsk Informatikkonferanse, NIK'98, Tapir, 23-25 november, 1998, pp. 281-292.

35. M. Matskin, J. Komorowski, J. Krogstie, `` Partial Deduction for Structural Synthesis of Programs''. Norsk Informatikkonferanse NIK'96, 18-20 November, Alta, Norway, 1996, pp.235-46.

Technical Reports:36. M. Matskin and E. Tyugu. Structural Synthesis of Programs and Its Extensions. Technical report, Royal

Institute of Technilogy, TRITA-IT/R 99:03, ISSN 1103-534X, Stockholm, March 1999, 22 p.

37. M. Matskin and E. Tyugu. Shells for Multi-Agent Applications (An Architecture for Agents and Agoras). Technical report, NTNU, IDI-nr. 4/99, ISSN-NO: 0802-6394, February 1999, 43 p.

38. H.-M.Haav, M.Matskin, Discovery of Object-Oriented Schema and Schema Conflicts. Technical report CS 94/97, Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia, 15 p.

39. M. Matskin and D. Montesi, ``Visual Active Rule Language''. NTNU, Institutt for Datateknikk, Teknisk notat 6/96, ISSN-nr. 0802-6394, December 1996, 29 p.

40. M. Matskin and S. Tupailo, `À Note on Completeness of Partial Deduction. Research Report CS 83/95, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 5 p., 1995.

41. J Krogstie and M. Matskin, `Ìncorporating partial deduction in structural synthesis of program. Technical report 0802-6397-5/94, The Norvegian Institute of technology, Department of Computer Systems and Telematics, 21 p, 1994.

42. T. Uustalu, U. Kopra, V. Kotkas, M. Matskin and E. Tyugu, "The NUT Language Report", The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), TRITA-IT R 94:14, 51 p., 1994.

43. M. Matskin,`Àutomatic Programming'', Research Report CS 76/94, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 89p., 1994 (in Estonian).

44. M. Matskin, H-M. Haav, `Àn object-oriented environment based on multi-layer application design.'', Research Report CS 60/93, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 20p., 1993.

45. M. Matskin, E.Tuygu, "The NUT Language", Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, "TRITA-TCS-SE-9212-TR", 35 p., 1992.

46. M. Matskin, H.-M. Haav, A. Kalja., R. Rukshenas, H. Perkmann, `Òbject-oriented data models and methods of computations'', (abstract), Research Report CS 47/92, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonian Academy of Sciences, 14 p., 1992.

KS-2 Five selected publications for Mihhail Matskin1. M. Matskin and E. Tyugu. Structural Synthesis of Programs and Its Extensions.

Computer and Informatics Journal, v. 20, 2001, pp. 1-25

2. M. Matskin and A. Tveit. Mobile Commerce Agents in WAP-Based Services. Journal of Database Management, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2001, pp. 27-35

3. S. Petersen, M. Divitini, M. Matskin. An Agent-based Approach to Modeling Virtual Enterprises. International Journal of Production Planning and Control, Vol. 12, No. 3, Issue Apr 2001, pp. 224-233

4. M. Matskin, J. Komorowski, ``Partial Structural Synthesis of Programs'', Fundamenta Informaticae, IOS Press, 31(1997) pp. 125-144.

5. M. Matskin, O. J. Kirkeluten, S. B. Krossnes and Ø. Sæle. Agora: An Infrastructure for Cooperative Work Support in Multi-Agent Systems. T. Wagner, O. Rana (eds.)


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KS-2 Personal statement by Mihhail Matskin

Mihhail Matskin carries out research in the following areas: agent technology, multi-agent systems, intelligent telecommunication services, formal methods of software design, knowledge-based programming, information systems and mobile commerce services. His main scientific achievements can be grouped as follows:

Agent technology, multi-agent systems, telecommunication and mobile services

Leading work on Agora platform for development of distributed software systems (see [1,4,13,16,17,37] in the list of recent publications). Basic idea is providing an infrastructure which enables creating distributed decentralized applications. The platform utilizes software agents and multi-agent systems approach and allows creating of autonomous, pro-active and cooperative software systems. Current work is going on application of the platform to developing adaptive information services (in particular, service provision and service selection via coordination and negotiation among involved parties), telecommunication services development, e-commerce services and virtual enterprise modelling.

Developing models, architecture and systems for support of intelligent telecommunication WAP-based services (see [3,12,15,18,21] in the list of recent publications). Basic idea of this work is providing an infrastructure for personal autonomous (possibly mobile) agents who represent customers and service providers in the network. General benefit of such approach is in high level of personalization, adaptivity, and pro-activity of services (mobility is also considered as useful development). Application of the infrastructure to creation of a wide spectrum of information services available via WAP-based devices is in progress.

Developing a concept of Agora and a multi-agent system architecture for cooperative work specification and support in distributed software systems (see [4,19,22,24,33] in the list of recent publications). Agora is a cooperative node and facilitator of cooperative work in a multi-agent environment. Users, software components, heterogeneous devices and other computer resources can be presented by their software agents to whom tasks and goals are delegated. The agents serve as mediators of cooperative work and Agora provides a support for such cooperative work between agents allowing specification, accumulation and re-use of components of distributed systems. The concept of Agora was further utilized in the Agora platform (see above).

Developing declarative reflection approach for agents and Agoras (see [14,37] in the list of recent publications). Basic idea is usage of logical meta-specification language for presenting changes in the environment and agents themselves. Then generation of action plans for agents and Agora is considered as a problem of program synthesis from the meta- specifications. As an example of declarative reflection implementation Structural Synthesis of Programs (SSP) method is used.

Knowledge-based and formal methods and tools for software specification and design


One of the authors of a language for software specification and synthesis where logic-based methods and object-oriented programming are combined (see [2,32,42,45] in the list of recent publications). The basic original idea of the language is combining Object-Oriented (OO) features with ability to automatic program synthesis from specifications. The combination is based on dual semantics of classes in an OO system: a) class has a traditional meaning as a description of variables and methods to be invoked and b) class is a specification to be transformed into a logical (intuitionistic propositional logic) calculus. Such dual semantics allows (when it is appropriate) automatic synthesis of a code for methods instead of its manual writing.

Took part in developing component-based software development environments with automatic program synthesis. Participated or was a head of project for developing several software development tools where object-oriented programming and automatic program synthesis were implemented. In particular he designed a general architecture and implemented language processor, declarative language compiler, object memory management, graphical interface and interactive graphics components. The paper [20] in the list of recent publications presents several applications of the above-mentioned software development environments (he participated in developing some of the applications).

Work on development of foundations of the structural synthesis of programs method (see [2,5,25,27,31,35,36] in the list of recent publications). In particular he applied a notion of partial deduction to Structural Synthesis of Programs. As a strong theoretical result of this application an equivalence of deductive power of proposed transformation rules with Structural Synthesis of Programs inference rules has been proven. The proposed transformation (partial deduction) rules can be more suitable than deductive inference rules in the case of incomplete goals. Earlier important results are related to showing a logical power of the PRIZ system program synthesizer and extension of SSP in the NUT system with an automatic synthesis of loops.

Information systems design

Developing a visual language for a human interaction with active rules databases/systems (see [7,26,39] in the list of recent publications). Basic idea is to allow user insertion of information pieces in a graphical form (as constructions of proposed visual language), these pieces are further automatically combined and then visualized in (possibly another) graphical form allowing to follow execution of active rule system.

Developing a deductive object-oriented approach to information system modelling (see [8,44] in the list of recent publications). Main idea is combining Object-Oriented and logical views in information systems. Different kinds of information can be expressed in different views (selecting more suitable view for presentation of particular information) and then views can communicate to each other in solving problems.

Developing a method for automatic propagation of changes in Object-Oriented Data Bases (OODB) using partial deduction (see [9,31] in the list of recent publications). Basic idea is usage of partial deduction (partial evaluation of logic programs) as a way of propagation changes in OO databases.

Developing a method for discovery of OO schema and schema conflicts based on Galois lattices (see [23,38] in the list of recent publications).


KS-3 Associate Professor Tore Amble

KS-3 CV for Tore Amble

Name: Tore AmbleBorn: 21/4-1945Citizenship: NorwegianPosition: Associate Professor

Employer: Department of Computer and Information Science (IDI) The Norwegian University of Science of Technology (NTNU)

Education: MSc (cand. real) 1969, University of Oslo, Department of Mathematics (and Computer Science) Thesis in Computer Science

Professional career:1990 - Assoc. Professor NTH, full position1986 - 1990 Assoc. Professor NTH , shared position Research Scientist, SINTEF DELAB, (shared).1978 - 1986 Research Scientist, SINTEF RUNIT (DELAB)1972 - 1978 Assistant Professor, NTH1970 - 1972 Research Scientist, SINTEF RUNIT1969 - 1970 Programming Manager, Norsk Data

Teaching experience:Teaching courses in computer science at NTNU, mainly Symbol Manipulation 1987 - 1992 Expert systems 1990 - 1992 Knowledge Based Systems 1993 - 2001 Compiler Construction 1993 - 1999 Natural language interfaces 2001 –

Articles on refereed international conferences:

1. Amble, T: BusTUC - A natural language bus route oracle. AANLP-NAACL 2000, Applied Natural lamguage conference 2000, Seattle, May 2000

2. Amble, T: BusTUC - A natural language route advisor in Prolog, NODALIDA - Nordiske Datalingvistikk Dager, Trondheim, Nov 1999

Other Int’l Publications:

3. Amble, T: Domain Modelling and Autmated Natural language interfaces, Invited paper, Topics in Knowledge-based NLP systems, November 1994. Samfundslitteratur, DK 1970 Fredriksberg

4. Amble, Knudsen, Lehtola, Ljungberg, Ravnholt: Naturlig språk & grafikk -- nya vägar in i databaser. Rapport om HSQL, ett kunnskapsbaserad hjälpsystem för SQL. Statskontoret 1989.

Articles in national conferences:

5. Amble,T: BusTUC - A natural language route advisor in Prolog. Norsk Informatikk KonferanseTrondheim, 1999

6. Amble, T: Logic, events and natural language understanding. Norsk Informatikk Konferanse. Kristiansand, 1998


7. Amble, T: Automatic Solving of Problems stated in Natural Language. Norsk Informatikk Konferanse, Trondheim, 1995

8. Amble, T, Mollestad, T: Mechanising Temporal Reasoning in a Montague Framework. Norsk Informatikk Konferanse, Tromsø , 1992.

KS-3 Five selected publications for Tore Amble

a) Amble, T: BusTUC - A natural language bus route oracle, AANLP-NAACL 2000. Applied Natural language conference 2000, Seattle, May 2000

b) Amble, T: Logic, events and natural language understanding. Norsk Informatikk Konferanse, Kristiansand, 1998

c) Amble, T: Automatic Solving of Problems stated in Natural Language. Norsk Informatikk Konferanse, Trondheim, 1995

d) Amble, T: Domain Modelling and Automated Natural language interfaces. Invited paper Topics in Knowledge-based NLP systems, November 1994, Samfundslitteratur, DK 1970 Fredriksberg.

e) Amble, T, Mollestad,T: Mechanising Temporal Reasoning in a Montague Framework. Norsk Informatikk Konferanse Tromsø, 1992.

KS-3 Personal statement by Tore Amble

My research interests have been in the two areas: Computational logic and Natural language understanding.

Already in 1974 I was able to make an interpreter for the programming language Prolog, which was the predominant language for computational logic. I have also used logic programming as the main language for teaching AI-subjects. This later turned into a textbook “Logic Programming and Knowledge Engineering”, (Addison-Wesley, 1989).

The other field, natural language understanding is connected to computational logic, because semantics is naturally expressed in logic, and that Prolog itself is very well adapted to process language texts.

This all led to the participation in a joint Nordic research project (HSQL, 1989) which produced a running multimedia database interface with natural language in the three Scandinavian languages.

Later, a continuation of this effort was continued in 1990 in an internal project TUC- The Understanding Computer. TUC takes as its basis a logical semantics of natural language, and turns this into intelligent knowledge based understanding of the text. So far, the research has contributed to practical natural language understanding systems. Most prominent is a natural language bus route oracle (BusTUC), available on the Internet, which has been in daily use in Trondheim since 1998. As far as we know, a system like this is unique in the world.

Other ongoing research efforts on the same base, not yet documented include knowledge-based search in text databases of articles on Biomedicine and natural language interface to encyclopedia.


KS-4 Adjunct Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Torulf Mollestad

KS-4 CV for Torulf Mollestad

Torulf Mollestad, Adjunct Associate Professor Date of Birth: 12.06.64Position: Product manager and Enterprise Miner, SAS Institute AS, 2000-Position IDI: Adjunct Associate Professor 1998-Academic Degree: Dr.Ing/PhD (1997)

Positions: Adjunct Associate Professor, Knowledge Systems Group, NTNU Product manager and Senior consultant in Data Mining, SAS Institute AS

Email: [email protected]: +66 80 53 80, Home: +23 19 72 49, Mob: +907 24867, Fax: +66 80 07 03

Address: SAS Institute AS, p.o. box 713, 1411 Kolbotn, Trollåsvn. 4, Mastemyr .

Present situation: Involved in various data mining and advanced analytical projects with diverse customers in Norway and internationally. Part of the SAS Institute international Data Mining community. Research activities within fields of interest.

Previous work experience: Computas AS, 1997-2000 Scholarship NTNU 1993-1997

Teaching experience: Knowledge based systems Logic Programming Compiler construction Programming languages Data Mining

Research Interests: Data mining, statistics, Knowledge based systems, reasoning under uncertainty, natural language processing, semantics and pragmatics.

Phd thesis: Torulf Mollestad, A Rough set approach to Data Mining: Extracting a logic of default rules from data, Phd thesis, 1997, NTNU :1997:7

KS-4 Publication list for Torulf Mollestad

International refereed papers:1. T. Mollestad and J. Komorowski. A Rough Set Framework for Propositional Default Rules Data Mining, (),

in Rough-Fuzzy Hybridization - A New Trend in Decision Making, (S.K. Pal and A. Skowron, Eds.), pp. 233-263, Springer-Verlag Singapore Pte Ltd, 1999.

2. C. Skourup and T. Mollestad. Decision Support in Process Plants: Reuse of Experiences. 1999 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'99, 1999.

3. Mollestad T., Skowron A., 1996. A Rough Set Framework for Data Mining of Propositional Default Rules. Proc. ISMIS-96. 1996.

4. Ahmed Guessoum and Torulf Mollestad. A Knowledge-Based Approach to Goal Recognition, Computational Logic for Natural Language Processing (CLNLP-95), 1995


http://www.elsnet.org/publications/clnlp95/Guessoum_Mollestad.ps.gz

5. T. Mollestad. Learning Propositional Default Rules using the Rough Set Approach. In A. Aamodt and J. Komorowski, editors, Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 208--219, Trondheim, Norway, May 1995. IOS Press.

PhD thesis:6. T. Mollestad. A Rough set approach to Data Mining: Extracting a logic of default rules from data, PhD

thesis, 1997, NTNU :1997:7.

National papers:7. A. Guessoum and T. Mollestad. Towards a Logical Reconstruction of Plan Recognition. Technical report,

Dept. of Computer Systems and Telematics, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, March 1994, revised April 1994.

8. T. Amble and T. Mollestad. Mechanising Temporal Reasoning in a Montague Framework. In A. Maus, editor, NIK'92, pages 219--230. Norsk Informatikk Konferanse, Tapir, 1992.

KS-4 Five selected publications for Torulf Mollestad

a) T. Mollestad and J. Komorowski. A Rough Set Framework for Propositional Default Rules Data Mining, (), in Rough-Fuzzy Hybridization - A New Trend in Decision Making, (S.K. Pal and A. Skowron, Eds.), pp. 233-263, Springer-Verlag Singapore Pte Ltd, 1999.

b) C. Skourup and T. Mollestad. Decision Support in Process Plants: Reuse of Experiences. 1999 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'99, 1999.

c) T. Mollestad. Learning Propositional Default Rules using the Rough Set Approach. In A. Aamodt and J. Komorowski, editors, Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 208--219, Trondheim, Norway, May 1995. IOS Press.

d) Mollestad T., Skowron A., 1996. A Rough Set Framework for Data Mining of Propositional Default Rules. Proc. ISMIS-96. 1996.

e) Ahmed Guessoum and Torulf Mollestad, A Knowledge-Based Approach to Goal Recognition, (Computational Logic for Natural Language Processing (CLNLP-95), 1995.

KS-4 Personal statement by Torulf Mollestad

In my present job at the SAS Institute, I am responsible for data mining (DM) and advanced analytics activities going on in SAS Institute Norway. SAS Institute is a world market leader in analytics in data mining, and as members of the SAS international forum for DM activities we are part of an active research community, and thus able to influence the forthcoming development of the tools and methods. At present I am working within different projects and prospect involving different DM methodologies, such as supervised and unsupervised methods, event series, time series analysis, text mining, association analysis, information visualisation etc.I am interested in the general issue of uncertainty and representation of uncertainty in DM topics. I am presently engaged in work with other members in the KS group on learning in ontologies, which for me represents a natural further development of my PhD work. Applications are foreseen within the medical/genetic field, a research direction that is being actively pursued by the KS group.




Appendix 7: Software Engineering Group (SU)

The SU group has the following faculty members: SU-1 Reidar Conradi, dr.ing., professor, since 1975, group leader SU-2 Tor Stålhane, dr.ing., professor from Oct. 2000, at SINTEF before SU-3 Letizia Jaccheri, PhD, associate professor from April 1997 SU-4 Monica Divitini, PhD, associate professor from Dec. 1999 (in IF 1999-2001) SU-5 Alf Inge Wang, dr.ing., postdoc on MOWAHS from March 2001 SU-6 Marco Torchiano, PhD, postdoc on INCO from May 2001

The group has five local PhD students: Carl-Fredrik Sørensen (MOWAHS), Parastoo Mohagheghi (INCO, at Ericsson in Grimstad), Roxana E. Diaconescu (CSE), Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland (CAGIS-II) and Torgeir Dingsøyr (SPIQ), and one remote: Tore Dybå (SPIQ, researcher at SINTEF). There are at least two university PhD fellowships and two on industrial projects vacant. Other registered PhD students: Per H. Westby, Bjørn Gulla, and Jens-Otto Larsen – all in local companies.

In 1996-2000, the group has produced seven dr.ing. graduates:- Lars Sivert Sørumgård: “Verification of Process Conformance in Empirical Studies of

Software Development'', Feb. 1997, 252 p. Advisors: Conradi/Sindre. - Eirik Tryggeseth: “Support for Understanding in Software Maintenance'', Feb. 1997, 347 p.

Advisor: Nytrø.- Geir Magne Høydalsvik: “Experiences in Software Process Modelling and Enactment'',

March 1997, 237 p. Advisors: Conradi/Sindre. - Minh Ngoc Nguyen: “Framework and Approach for Managing Software Process Evolution

in EPOS'', May 1997, 297 p. Advisor: Conradi. - Terje Totland: “Enterprise modelling as a means to support human sense-making and

communication in organizations'', Aug. 1997, 252 p. Advisors: Conradi / Tor G. Syvertsen (Construction Engineering.).

- Sigurd Thunem: “Process Modeling for Process Improvement - A Process Conformance Approach Conformance'', Sept. 1997, 328 p. Advisors: Conradi/Sindre.

- Bjarte Mayanja Østvold: “Synthesis of Recursive Functional Programs from Examples'', Oct. 1999, 118 p. Advisor: Nytrø.

So far in 2001:- Alf Inge Wang: "Using a Mobile, Agent-based Environment to Support Cooperation in

Software Processes", Feb. 2001, 407 p. Advisor: Conradi.In addition comes four dr.ing. graduates in 1992-1995, two in 1990, and two expected in Dec. 2001- Feb. 2002 (Tore Dybå and Torgeir Dingsøyr).

Other involved NTNU persons in SU-group, 1992-2000:- Assoc. Prof. Guttorm Sindre (1992-1995): worked also w/ IS-group where he now is –

conceptual modelling, software reuse.- Assoc. Prof. Øystein Nytrø (1992-2000): worked mostly w/AIL-group where now he is –

software maintenance, program synthesis.- Assoc. Prof. Lars Sivert Sørumgård (June 1997-June 1999): now at Telenor R&D –

software quality, software reuse.


- Adjunct Teacher Tor M. Didriksen (1997-1999): now at Clustra – database technology, programming languages.

- Adjunct Teacher Stig F. Mjølsnes (1999-2000): now at Stavanger College – computer security and mobile solutions.

On average: two faculty persons doing SU-related research the past 10 years.

Guests in SU-group, 1992-2001:- Prof. dr. Chunnian Liu, Beijing Polytechnic Univ.: one month per year 1993-2000 -

process modelling and agents.- Dr. Algirdas Pakstas, Univ. Vilnius: postdoc 1991-1993 - distributed systems, SCM.- Dr. Bernhard Westfechtel, Aachen: half year in 1995, later shorter stays – SCM and

software architecture.- Dr. Patricia Lago, Torino: half year stay in 1994, with later stays – process support.- Prof.s Vincenzo Ambriola, Pisa and Alfonso Fuggetta, Milano: Aug.1994, later stays –

process support and SPI.- Prof. Noureddine Belkhatir, Grenoble: one month in 1994 - SCM, cooperative transactions. And many researchers from other European universities on shorter stays.

Number of produced MSc theses 1992-2001: ca. 150.

The group teaches eight MSc-level courses: SIF8018 System development (Stålhane, 2nd year), SIF8080 Customer-driven project (Conradi and others, 4th), SIF0101 Experts in Team - project (Conradi and others, 4th), SIF0056 Software Architecture (Jaccheri, 4-5th), SIF8054 Software quality and process improvement (Stålhane, 4-5th), MNFIT385 Information and knowledge management (Divitini), SIF8094 depth/prediploma projects with two method subjects (Jaccheri, Stålhane,

Conradi, 5th), and diploma theses (w/ 15-20 per year, 5th).

There are also two PhD courses: DIF8901 Object-oriented system development (Conradi) and DIF8914 Distributed Information Systems (Conradi).

Publication summary in 1992-2001: the group has produced (disregarding mutual duplicates) 49 journal papers, 18 book chapters, 6 edited books and 3 other international books with a large SU contribution (see later), 255 refereed conference/workshop papers, and 85 miscellaneous and Norwegian publications – totally 413 publication entries. In 1999-2001 our publications have a sizable representation of foreign co-authors (25% of the papers) and some with industrial co-authors (7%). Our share of papers based on empirical studies is about 50% in that period. All in all, we have had a good publication gradient over the last decade, e.g. three papers in Journal of Empirical Software Engineering since 1997. A small success story is worth mentioning: Dr. Bernhard Westfechtel from RWTH in Aachen, being on a six-month postdoc leave in 1995, contributed the human resources to generalize some of our SCM work since 1986. This ongoing cooperation has so far resulted in 7 papers, including 2 journal articles.

A separate publication list for “other” SU members (1/3 of the total) is found at the end, representing past and present PhD students and previous faculty and guests. See also www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/su/publ/INT-PUBL.html, www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/su/publ/NAT-PUBL.html.


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SU-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Reidar Conradi

SU-1 CV for Reidar Conradi, NTNU

Personalia: REIDAR CONRADI, born 23 July 1946, Oslo. Norwegian citizen.

Home address: Skule Bårdsons gate 11, N-7052 Trondheim, Norway. Phone +47 73.935862.

Education: M.Sc. (1970), Ph.D. (1976) – both from NTH (now NTNU), Trondheim. Four courses in informatics at U.Oslo 1970-71, courses in Didactics and Technical writing, 1972-1985.

Present job and work address: Professor at Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI) Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) NO-7491Trondheim, Norway. Phone +47 73 593444, Fax +47 73 594466, Email [email protected].

Leads software engineering group of 12 people at IDI.

Language skills: Fluent in Norwegian and English, good in German, passable in French, some Italian from summer courses in Perugia 1992-94.

Scientific profile:Programming languages, software engineering, configuration management, software process modelling, software process improvement, software quality, object-orientation and reuse, component-based development, architecture of distributed, agent-based software systems.150.000 source lines written in Algol, Fortran, Simula, Pascal, Mary, Bliss, Ada, Chill, C/C++, and Java.Per Sept. 2001: ca. 150 int'l published papers, 40 nat'l ones, 3 textbooks and 13 booklets, over 20 compendia and over 100 technical reports. Jobs held and stays abroad: 1972–75 Research scientist at SINTEF, Trondheim. 1975–79 Assistant professor at NTH, Trondheim. 1979–85 Associate professor at NTH. 1980–81 Visiting scientist at CMU, Pittsburgh. (1981–83 Partly sick due to a back problem.) 1985- Full professor at NTH. 1985–87 Head of new Dept. of Computer Systems and Telematics (IDT), NTH. 1990 Guest researcher at U. of Pisa and at ENSIMAG, May-June 1990. 1997–98 Head of new Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI), NTNU. 1999-2000 Sabbatical at U. of Maryland (Vic Basili) and Politecnico di Milano (Alfonso Fuggetta).

Professional responsibilities: 1976- Member of IFIP WG2.4 on Programming Technology (previous Systems Prog. Languages). 1984–86 Work to initiate Norway's IT-program in 1987–90. 1985–99 Representative in the Norwegian Informatics Council. 1986 Organiser of International Workshop on Advanced Programming Environments, Trondheim, 16-18 June 1986. 1988–90 Program chair for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Norwegian Informatics Conf. 1990–93, 95-96 Chair for Norwegian Informatics Council. 1991 Conf. chair 3rd Int'l SCM Workshop, Trondheim,12-14 June 1991. 1991 Co-arranger of 1st European SW Process Workshop, Milan, 30-31 May 1991. 1992 General chair for 2nd European SW Process Workshop, Trondheim, 7–8 Sept. 1992. 1997 Program chair for SCM'7 in Boston, May 1997. 1997– Member of ISERN, Software Experimentation research network, coord. by U. Kaiserslautern. 1998–99 Nat'l NAWUS educational network for System Dev., w/ prof. Dag Sjøberg, Univ. Oslo. 1999-01 Member of NFR committee to plan new IKT2010 program, and of IKTForum.

2000 Program chair for EWSPT'7 in Salzburg, Feb. 2000. 2001-2 Program co-chair for European Conference on Software Quality, June 2002, Helsinki.



In last 10 years: in five professoral committees (three abroad), six PhD committees, in three evaluation committees for research (Sweden, Ireland, Finland).PC member of many workshops/conferences, e.g. the series SCM, EWSPT, SSR, PROFES, LSO, partly ICSE, SIGSOFT and ESEC – usually 4–5 memberships per year. Also in many university and nat'l committees, active in the national IT-political debate.

Projects etc. 1972–2001 Textbooks and teaching. Tutored 200 M.Sc. and 14 Ph.D. students. Responsible for 2 MSc courses and 2 PhD courses. 1972–78 MARY programming language and its operating system. 1980–81 Production Quality Compiler-Compiler (PQCC), and SPICE at CMU. 1983–85 Nat’l FORTRAN VERIFIER:error diagnosis and docum. of F-77 prog.s, NTNF, w/ InfoTron. 1986–91 Nat’l EPOS project on process support and CM, with DnV/Norsk Data, NTNF, project leader. 1990–92 Bilateral Norwegian-French ACM project on SCM, NTH and LGI-ENSIMAG. 1991–94 Nat’l REBOOT Strategic Technology Program on reuse, NTNF, program leader. 1990–95 ESPRIT projects REBOOT, SER, PROTEUS, PROMOTER BRA and ASSET. 1996–99 ESPRIT projects PROMOTER2, CMEX, AMEX, and RENAISSANCE. 1997–2000 Nat'l CAGIS basic R&D project on distributed information systems, NFR, coordinator. 1996–99 Nat'l SPIQ pre-project and main project on software process improvement, NFR, initiator. 1998–2002 Nat'l CSE-project (a “SUP”) on supercomputing, w/ OO aspects, NFR, PhD advisor. 1998-99 Nat’l NAWUS on education web-network for System Development., with UiO (as coord.). 1999–2002 Nat'l KVALIS-project on quality of medical journal systems, NFR, initiator and co-worker. 2001-2004 Nat'l INCO project on Incremental and Comp.-Based dev., NFR, with UiO (as coord.). 2001-2004 Nat'l MOWAHS project on MObile Work Across Heterogeneous Systems, NFR, coord.

2000-2002 Nat'l PROFIT project (SPIQ successor) on SW process improvement, NFR, co-worker. 2001-2003 INTER-PROFIT extension, co-worker. 2001-2010 Simula Research Lab., a Nat’l Center of Excellence at IT-Fornebu, subcenter in Sw. Eng., NFR, w/ UiO (as coord.). 2001-2003 ESERNET thematic network of sw.eng.. experimentation, coord. by Fraunhofer/IESE.

Contacts: Especially with U. Karlsruhe, RWTH Aachen, U. Manchester, U. Linkøping, U. Lund, U. Grenoble, U. Pisa, P. di Milano, CMU, U. Maryland, U. Southern California, and BPU in Beijing by guest researchers and students. Also good contact with int'l companies, e.g. Bull, Siemens, Cap, Q-labs, and Intecs. Many Norwegian industrial contacts in SPIQ/PROFIT projects.

SU-1 Publication list for Reidar Conradi

Journal papers:

1. Reidar Conradi and Alfonso Fuggetta: “Software Process Improvement: What can be Improved?”, Accepted Oct. 2001 for publication in IEEE Software in 2002, 11 p.

2. Bernhard Westfechtel, Bjørn P. Munch, and Reidar Conradi: “A Layered Architecture for Software Configuration Management'', Accepted for IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering, to appear in Oct. 2001, final version of Oct. 2000, 24 p. SU-report 4/2001.

3. Christian Prinzell Halvorsen and Reidar Conradi: "A Taxonomy to Compare SPI Frameworks", Accepted in Software Quality Professional Journal, American Association for Quality, Dec. 2001, 10 p. (Adapted from EWSPT'2001 paper). SU-report 19/2001.

4. Reidar Conradi: ”Report from SEKE'99 panel on From Software Experience Databases to Learning Organizations”, Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Aug. 2000), 4 p. SU-report 4/2000.

5. Magne Jørgensen, Reidar Conradi, and Dag Sjøberg: “Reuse of software development experiences - a case study'', Telektronikk 1/99 (special issue on Software Quality in Telecommunication), Vol. 95, 1999, p. 48-53. SU-report 12/99.


6. Reidar Conradi, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, and Chunnian Liu: ”Planning Support to Software Process Evolution”, Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (with best papers from SEKE’98), Vol. 10, No. 1 (Feb.2000), p. 31-47. SU-report 6/99.

7. Reidar Conradi and Bernhard Westfechtel: ”Version Models for Software Configuration Management”, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 30, Number 2, July 1998, p. 232–282. SU-report 17/97.

8. Vincenzo Ambriola, Reidar Conradi, and Alfonso Fuggetta: ”Assessing Process-centered Software Engineering Environments (OIKOS, EPOS and SPADE)”, ACM Trans. on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM), Vol. 6, No. 3 (July 1997), p. 282-328. SU-report 14/97.

9. Bjørn P. Munch, Reidar Conradi, Jens-Otto Larsen, Nguyen Ngoc Minh, and Per H. Westby: “Integrated Product and Process Management in EPOS'', Journal of Integrated CAE 3(1), Jan. 1996 (special issue on Integrated Product and Process Modeling). EPOS TR 222, NTH, May 31 994, 30 p. SU-report 25/95.

10. Noureddine Belkhatir and Reidar Conradi: "SCOOP: A Model for Cooperative Transactions in Software Process Environments", In Journal of Computing and Information, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996. Special Issue with Proc. 8th Int'l Conf. on Computing and Information (ICCI'96), 19-22 June, 1996, Waterloo, Canada.

11. Reidar Conradi, Marianne Hagaseth, and Chunnian Liu: ”Planning Support for Cooperating Transactions in EPOS”, Information Systems (special issue with best papers from CAISE’94), Vol. 20, No. 4 (June 1995), p. 317-336. SU-report 15/95.

12. Guttorm Sindre, Reidar Conradi, and Even-André Karlsson: ”The REBOOT Approach to Software Reuse”, Journal of Systems and Software – special issue on software reuse, Vol. 30, No. 3, Sept. 1995, p. 201–212. SU-report 22/95.

13. M. Letizia Jaccheri and Reidar Conradi: ”Techniques for Process Model Evolution in EPOS”, IEEE Trans. on Software Engineering (special issue on Software Process Model Evolution), Dec. 1993, p. 1145-1156. Politecnico di Torino and NTH in Trondheim, 5 May 1993, 18 p. Also as EPOS TR 188.

Journal papers without formal review:14. Reidar Conradi (scribe): ”Summary from the 7th European Software Process Workshop (EWSPT'7),

Kaprun near Salzburg, 21-25 Feb. 2000”, ACM Software Engineering Notes, May 2000, p. 23. SU-report 6/2000.

15. Reidar Conradi and Håvard Hegna: “Large Computer Error in Parliamentary Election, Oslo, Sept. 1993'', ACM Software Engineering Notes, Jan. 1994 (Vol. 19, No. 1), Section on Computer RISKS to the Public, p. 5-6 (1 p.). SU-report 4/94.

16. Reidar Conradi, Christer Fernstrøm, and Alfonso Fuggetta: ”A Conceptual Framework for Evolving Software Processes”, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Newsletter, Oct. 1993 (Vol. 18, No. 4), p. 26–34. Also as EPOS TR 187, NTH, 9 Nov. 1992, 26 p., Trondheim.

Some papers under work/submission:

Torgeir Dingsøyr and Reidar Conradi: ”A systematic study of knowledge bases for software engineering”, under submission for Journal of Software and Knowledge Engineering, Oct. 2001, 20 p.

Parastoo Mohagheghi and Reidar Conradi: “Effects of Development with COTS Components in Requirement Engineering”, submitted for ECBS’2002, 15 Oct. 2001, 4 p.

Bernhard Westfechtel and Reidar Conradi: “Managing product evolution: software architectures vs. software configuration management'', under submission for Systems and Software, Nov. 2001, 12 p.

Reidar Conradi and Stein Krogdahl: “An Study of Encapsulation: Rewriting the Simula List Classes in C++ and Java'', under submission for Software Practice and Experience, Nov. 2001, 18 p.


Reidar Conradi, Tore Dybå, Dag Sjøberg et al.: “Reflections on SPI in Norwegian IT companies”, under work till Jan. 2002, for Empirical Software Engineering?. Reidar Conradi, Forrest Shull, Jeff Carver, Guilherme H. Travassos, and others: Two papers planned on Object-oriented Reading Techniques -- one on the techniques and one on the influence of context factors. To JOOP/OOPSLA and metrics/empirical conferences/journals.

Book chapters:

17. Reidar Conradi, Amarjit Singh Marjara, Øivind Hantho, Torbjørn Frotveit, and Børge Skåtevik: “A Study of Inspection and Test Data at Ericsson, Norway'' (last version 8 May 2001), Forthcoming in Industrial Software Inspections, Tom Gilb and Erik van Veenendaal (Eds.), Autumn 2001, 20 p. SU- report 3/2001.

18. Reidar Conradi and Torgeir Dingsøyr: “Knowledge Management Systems as a Feedback-Mechanism in Software Development Processes: A Search for Success Criteria'', Forthcoming Autumn 2001 in Nazim H. Madhavji and Manny M. Lehman (Eds.): "Papers from 4th International FEAST Workshop (FEAST'2000) (Feedback and Evolution in Software and Business Processes), Imperial College, London, 10-12 July 2000, 6 p. (Adapted from FEAST'4 paper). SU-report 20/2001.

19. Torgeir Dingsøyr and Reidar Conradi: ”Metoder for å høste og spre erfaringer” (in Norwegian), As ch. 5 in Tore Dybå (Ed.): ”SPIQ metodebok i prosessforbedring”, forthcoming on Tanum forlag, 2001, SU-report 20/99.

20. Reidar Conradi and Alf Inge Wang: ”Beskrivelse av programvareprosesser” (in Norwegian), As ch. 10 i Tore Dybå (Ed.): ”SPIQ metodebok i prosessforbedring”, forthcoming on Tanum forlag, 2001, IDI-rapport no. 2-2000, ISSN 0802-6394, SU-report 21/99.

21. Reidar Conradi: ”Terminologi” (in Norwegian), As Appendix A in Tore Dybå (Ed.): ”SPIQ metodebok i prosessforbedring”, forthcoming on Tanum forlag, 2001, IDI-rapport no. 2-2000, ISSN 0802-6394, SU-report 22/99.

22. Reidar Conradi and M. Letizia Jaccheri: ”Process Modelling Languages”, p. 27–52. In PROMOTER2 book: Jean-Claude Derniame, Badara Ali Kaba, David Wastell (Eds.): Software Process: Principles, Methodology, and Technology, Jan. 1999, Springer Verlag LNCS 1500, 307 p. SU-report 1/99.

23. Brian Warboys, Denis Avrillionis, Reidar Conradi, Pierre Yves-Cunin, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, and Ian Robertson: “Meta-Process”, p. 53-94. In PROMOTER2 book: Jean-Claude Derniame, Badara Ali Kaba, David Wastell (Eds.): Software Process: Principles, Methodology, and Technology, Jan. 1999, Springer Verlag LNCS 1500, 307 p. (No SU-report).

24. Reidar Conradi, Christer Fernström, Alfonso Fuggetta: “Concepts for Evolving Software Process'', In PROMOTER book: Anthony Finkelstein, Jeff Kramer and Bashar A. Nuseibeh (Eds.): Software Process Modelling and Technology, 1994, p. 9--32. Advanced Software Development Series, Research Studies Press Ltd. (John Wiley), ISBN 0-86380-169-2, 362 p. SU-report 5/94.

25. Reidar Conradi et al.: ”Object-Oriented and Cooperative Process Modelling in EPOS”, In PROMOTER book: Anthony Finkelstein, Jeff Kramer and Bashar A. Nuseibeh (Eds.): Software Process Modelling and Technology, 1994, p. 33–70. Advanced Software Development Series, Research Studies Press Ltd. (John Wiley), ISBN 0-86380-169-2, 362 p.

Books or edited proceedings:

26. Reidar Conradi (Ed.): ”Proc. 7th European Software Process Workshop on Software Process Technology” (EWSPT'7), Kaprun near Salzburg, Austria, 21-25 Feb. 2000, Springer Verlag LNCS 1780, Feb. 2000, 238 pages. SU-report 3/2000.

27. Reidar Conradi (Ed.): ”Software Configuration Management: Proceedings from SCM'7 workshop”, 18–19 May, 1997, Boston, USA. As Springer Verlag LNCS 1235, 234 p. ISBN 3-540-63014-7. SU-report 10/97.


28. Reidar Conradi (Ed.): ”Software Configuration Management, 7th International Workshop (SCM'7), Boston, USA, May 18–19, 1997. Supplementary Proceedings: additional full papers, all position papers, and address lists”, Issued by IDI, NTNU, Trondheim, 249 p. SU-report 11/97.

See also the two REBOOT books on software reuse (Karlsson and Paci/Hallsteinsen), PROMOTER-1 (Finkelstein/Kramer/Nuseibeh) and PROMOTER-2 (Derniame/Kaba/Wastell) books on software process modelling, RENAISSANCE book (Warren) on reengineering, and SPIQ book (Dybå -- in Norwegian) on software process improvement. The three REBOOT and SPIQ books stand later in the SU lists.

Papers at refereed international conferences and workshops:

29. Parastoo Mohagheghi and Reidar Conradi: "Experiences with certification of reusable components in the GSN project in Ericsson, Norway", In Judith Stafford et al. (Eds.): “Proc. 4th ICSE Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering: Component Certification and System Prediction, Toronto, May 14-15, 2001”, p. 27-31. SU-report 6/2001.

30. Christian Prinzell Halvorsen and Reidar Conradi: "A Taxonomy to Compare SPI Frameworks",In Vincenzo Ambriola (Ed.): “Proc. 8th European Software Process Workshop (EWSPT'2001), Witten (near Dortmund), 18-21 June, 2001”, Springer LNCS 2077, p. 217-235. SU-report 5/2001. (Adapted from NIK’2000 paper, see SU-report 19/2000).

31. Bernhard Westfechtel and Reidar Conradi: "Software Architecture and Software Configuration Management", In André van der Hoek (Ed.): “Proc. 10th International Workshop on Software Configuration Management: New Practices, New Challenges, and New Boundaries (SCM'10, before ICSE'2001), Toronto, May 14-15, 2001”, p. 19-25, SU-report 7/2001.

32. Reidar Conradi and Tore Dybå: “An Empirical study on the utility of formal routines to transfer knowledge and experience'', In Volker Gruhn (Ed.): “Proc. European Software Engineering Conference 2001 (ESEC'2001)”, Vienna, 10-14 Sept. 2001, ACM/IEEE CS Press, ACM order no. 594010, ISBN 1-58113-390-1, p. 268-276. SU-report 10/2001.

33. Jacky Estublier (Univ. Grenoble, editor), David Leblang (Clearcase, co-editor), Geoff Clemm (Clearcase), Reidar Conradi (NTNU, Norway), André Van der Hoek (Univ. California at Irvine), Walter Tichy (Univ. Karlsruhe), Darcy Wiborg-Weber (CCM, Irvine): “Impact of Software Configuration Management'', Invited, future impact paper to be presented at ICSE'2002, Draft of 15 May 2001, ca. 20 p. SU-report 21/2001.

34. M. Letizia Jaccheri, Reidar Conradi, Bård H. Dyrnes: ”Software Process Technology and Software Organisations”, In Reidar Conradi (Ed.): Proc. 7th European Software Process Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'7), Kaprun near Salzburg, Austria, 21-25 Feb. 2000. Springer Verlag LNCS 1780, p. 96-108. SU-report 2/2000.

35. Reidar Conradi, Mikael Lindvall, and Carolyn Seaman: ”Success Factors for Software Experience Bases: What We Need to Learn from Other Disciplines”, p. 113-119. In Janice Singer, Margaret-Anne Storey and Susan Elliott Sim (Eds.): Proc. ICSE'2000 Workshop on ”Beg, Borrow or Steal: Using Multidisciplinary Approaches in Empirical Software Engineering Research”, Limerick, Ireland, 5 June 2000. SU-report 8/2000.

36. Reidar Conradi and Torgeir Dingsøyr: ”Software Experience Bases: A Consolidated Evaluation and Status Report”, Frank Bomarius and Markku Oivo (Eds.): “Proc. Second Int'l Conf. on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES'2000), Oulu, Finland, 20-22 June 2000”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1840, p. 391-406. SU-report 10/2000.

37. Reidar Conradi and Torgeir Dingsøyr: “Software Experience Bases: Some Results and Recommendations'', In Manny Lehman et al. (Eds.): Proc. International FEAST 2000 Workshop (Feedback and Evolution in Software and Business Processes), Imperial College, London, 10-12 July 2000, p. 28-33. See http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mml/f2000. SU-report 13/2000.

38. Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi, and Chunnian Liu: “Integrating Workflow with Interacting Agents to support Cooperative Software Engineering'', Proc. "Fourth IASTED International Conference on


Software Engineering and Applications" (SEA'2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 6-9 November 2000, p.126-133. SU-report 18/2000.

39. Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi, Chunnian Liu: ”A Multi-Agent Architecture for Cooperative Software Engineering”, In Günther Ruhe (Ed.): ”Proc. Eleventh International Conference of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'99)”, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 16-19 June 1999, p. 162–169. Proc. printed by Knowledge Systems Institute, Skokie, IL. SU-report 3/99.

40. Reidar Conradi: ”From software experience databases to learning organizations (panel introduction)”, In Günther Ruhe (Ed.): ”Proc. Eleventh International Conference of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'99)”, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 16-19 June 1999, p. 204–206. Proc. printed by Knowledge Systems Institute, Skokie, IL. SU-report 4/99.

41. Reidar Conradi, Amarjit Singh Marjara, Børge Skåtevik: ”An Empirical Study of Inspection and Testing Data at Ericsson”, In Markku Oivo and Pasi Kuvaja: ”Proc. Int'l Conf. on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES'99)”, Oulu, Finland, 22-24 June 1999, p. 263–284. VTT symposium 195, VTT, Espoo, Finland, 666 p., ISBN 951-38-5270-9; 951-38-5271-7 (URL: http://www.inf.vtt.fi/pdf). SU-report 5/99.

42. Reidar Conradi, Bernhard Westfechtel: ”SCM: Status and Future Challenges”, In Jacky Estublier (Ed.): ”Proc. Int'l Workshop on Software Configuration Management (SCM'9)”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1675, ISBN 3-540-66484-X, Toulouse, 5-7 Sept. 1999, p. 228-231. SU-report 7/99.

43. Roxana Elena Diaconescu, Reidar Conradi: ”An Object-Oriented Approach to Numerical Calculation of Physical Entities”, Proc. EUROPRIME, Warsaw, Poland, 12–13 Sep. 1999, 11 p. SU-report 16/99.

44. Reidar Conradi, Amarjit Singh Marjara, Børge Skåtevik: ”An Empirical Study of Inspection and Testing Data at Ericsson, Norway”, Proc. 24th NASA Software Engineering Workshop, Greenbelt/Washington, USA, 1–2 Dec. 1999, 16 p. See http://sel.gsfc.nasa.gov/website/sew/1999/program.html. SU-report 18/99.

45. Christian P. Halvorsen, Reidar Conradi: ”A Taxonomy for SPI Frameworks”, Proc. 24th NASA Software Engineering Workshop, Greenbelt/Washington, USA, 1–2 Dec. 1999, 4 p. See http://sel.gsfc.nasa.gov/website/sew/1999/program.html. SU-report 19/99.

46. Reidar Conradi, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, Chunnian Liu: ”Planning Support to Software Process Evolution”, Proc. Eight International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'98), San Francisco, USA, 18–20 June 1998, 16 p. SU-report 1/98.

47. Reidar Conradi: ”Practical Software Experience Databases: Use the Web (position paper)”, 3 p. Proc. Eight International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’98), San Francisco, USA, 18–20 June 1998, SU-report 2/98.

48. Bernhard Westfechtel and Reidar Conradi: ”Software Configuration Management and Engineering Data Management: Differences and Similarities”, In Boris Magnusson (Ed.): ”Software Configuration Management”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1439, p. 95–106. ECOOP'98 SCM-8 Symposium, 20-21 June 1998, Brussels. SU-report 3/98.

49. Alf Inge Wang, Jens-Otto Larsen, Reidar Conradi, Bjørn Munch: ”Improving Cooperation Support in the EPOS CM System”, In Volker Gruhn (Ed.): ”Software Process Technology, 6th European Workshop, EWSPT'98, Weybridge, UK, 16-18. Sept. 1998”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1487, p. 75–91. SU-report 5/98.

50. Reidar Conradi, Alfonso Fuggetta, Maria Letizia Jaccheri: ”Six theses on Software Process Research”, In Volker Gruhn (Ed.): ”Software Process Technology, 6th European Workshop, EWSPT'98, Weybridge, UK, 16-18. Sept. 1998”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1487, p. 100–104. SU-report 6/98.

51. Chunnian Liu, Reidar Conradi: ”Process View of CSCW”, Proc. Int'l Symposium of Future Software Technologies (ISFST'98), Hangzhow, P.R. China, 28–30 Oct. 1998, 6 p. SU-report 11/98.


52. Magne Jørgensen, Reidar Conradi, Dag Sjøberg: “Reuse of software development experience at Telenor Telecom Software'', Proc. European Software Process Improvement Conference 1998 (EuroSPI'98), Session 10, 16-18 Nov. 1998, Gothenburg, Sweden, p. 10.19-10.31. SU-report 10/98. Also presented at NIK'98, 23-25 Nov 1998, Kristiansand, p. 7-18.

53. Minh N. Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi: ”Total Software Process Model Evolution in EPOS”, Proc. ICSE'97, 21–23 May 1997, Boston, USA, p. 390-399. ACM/IEEE-CS Press. SU-report 8/97.

54. Reidar Conradi, Bernhard Westfechtel: ”Towards a Uniform Version Model for Software Configuration Management”, In Reidar Conradi (Ed.): ”Software Configuration Management: Proceedings from SCM'7 workshop, Springer Verlag LNCS 1235”. 18–19 May, 1997, Boston, USA, p. 1–17. SU-report 9/97.

55. Reidar Conradi and Chunnian Liu: ”Revised PMLs and PSEEs for Industrial SPI”, p. 289-294, In Jan Bosch and S. Mitchell (Eds.): ”Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP'97 Workshop Reader”, 555 p., Springer Verlag LNCS 1357, 1997. ISBN 3-540-64039-8. From ECOOP'97 Workshop on Software Process Technology, 10-11 June 1997, Jyväskylä, Finland. SU-report 12/97.

1996:56. Reidar Conradi, Bernhard Westfechtel: ”Configuring Versioned Software Products”, In Ian

Sommerville (Ed.): ”Software Configuration Management, ICSE'96 SCM-6 Workshop, Berlin, Germany, March 1996 – Selected Papers”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1167, 1996, p. 88-109. SU-report 3/96.

57. Reidar Conradi, Noureddine Belkhatir: ”Support for Cooperative Transactions in Process-centered Software Engineering Environments”, Proc. Seventh Nordic Workshop on Programming Engineering Environments (NWPER'96), 29–31 May 1996, Aalborg, Denmark, 14 p. SU-report 8/96.

58. Reidar Conradi: ”Process Support for Reuse”, In Barry Boehm, Marc Kellner, Dewayne Perry (Eds.): ”Proc. 10th International Software Process Workshop (ISPW`10), 17–19 June 1996, Ventron, France”, p. 57-61, IEEE Press, IEEE CS Order Number PR07725. SU-report 9/96.

59. Noureddine Belkhatir, Reidar Conradi: ”SCOOP: A Unified Model for Cooperative Transactions in Software Engineering”, 8th Int'l Conf. on Computing and Information (ICCI'96), 19–22 June, 1996, Waterloo, Canada, 14 p. SU-report 10/96.

60. Reidar Conradi: ”Metrics – Introduction to Session 5”, In Carlo Montangero (Ed.): ”Software Process Technology – 5th European Workshop (EWSPT'96), Nancy, France, October, 1996”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1149, 1996, p. 144. SU-report 11/96.

61. Reidar Conradi: ”SPIQ: A Revised Agenda for Software Process Support”, In Carlo Montangero (Ed.): ”Software Process Technology – 5th European Workshop (EWSPT'96), Nancy, France, October, 1996”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1149, 1996, p. 35–41. SU-report 12/96.

62. Minh N. Nguyen, Reidar Conradi: ”Towards a Rigorous Approach for Managing Process Evolution”, In Carlo Montangero (Ed.): ”Software Process Technology – 5th European Workshop (EWSPT'96), Nancy, France, October, 1996”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1149, 1996, p. 18–35. SU-report 13/96.

63. Reidar Conradi: ”Session on Change and Meta-process (introduction)”, In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): ”Proc. 4th European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'95), 3–5 Apr. 1995, Leiden, The Netherlands”, Springer Verlag LNCS 913, 1995, ISBN 3-540-59205-9, p. 240-240. SU-report 5/95.

64. Terje Totland, Reidar Conradi: ”A Survey and Classification of Some Research Areas Relevant to Software Process Modeling”, In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): ”Proc. 4th European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'95), 3–5 Apr. 1995, Leiden, The Netherlands”, Springer Verlag LNCS 913, 1995, ISBN 3-540-59205-9, p. 65–69. Also as EPOS TR 232, NTH, Trondheim, Jan. 1995, 5 p. SU-report 6/95.

65. Reidar Conradi, Chunnian Liu: ”Process Modelling Languages: One or Many”, In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): ”Proc. 4th European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'95), 3–5 Apr. 1995,


Leiden, The Netherlands”, Springer Verlag LNCS 913, 1995, ISBN 3-540-59205-9, p. 98–118. Also as EPOS TR 231, NTH, Trondheim, Jan. 1995, 19 p. SU-report 7/95.

66. Eirik Tryggeseth, Bjørn Gulla, Reidar Conradi: ”Modelling Systems with Variability Using the PROTEUS Configuration Language”, In Jacky Estublier: ”Software Configuration Management – ICSE SCM-4 and SCM-5 Workshops, Selected Papers”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1005, p. 216–240. ISBN 3-540-60578-9. From SCM-5 workshop 24–25 April 1995 in Seattle. SU-report 12/95.

67. Patricia Lago, Reidar Conradi: ”Transaction Planning to support Coordination” (position paper), In Jacky Estublier: ”Software Configuration Management – ICSE SCM-4 and SCM-5 Workshops, Selected Papers”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1005, p. 145–151. ISBN 3-540-60578-9. SU-report 13/95.

68. Reidar Conradi: ”Introduction to Session on Version Models”, In Jacky Estublier: ”Software Configuration Management – ICSE SCM-4 and SCM-5 Workshops, Selected Papers”, Springer Verlag LNCS 1005, p. 80–80. ISBN 3-540-60578-9. SU-report 14/95.

69. Ben Whittle, Don S. Batory, Reidar Conradi, J. Moore, Will Tracz, and Bruce W. Weide: “Panel on Languages and Models for Reusable Components'', Proc. 3rd ACM Symposium on Software Reuse 1995 (SSR'95), 28--30 April, 1995, Seattle (co-located with ICSE'17), p. 19-20. (No SU-report).

70. Jens-Otto Larsen, Bjørn P. Munch, Reidar Conradi, Patricia Lago: ”Improving Cooperation Support in the EPOS CM System”, Proc. 8th ERCIM Database Research Group Workshop on Database Issues and Infrastructure in Cooperative Information Systems, p. 135–147. 23–25 Aug. 1995, NTH, Trondheim, Norway. ERCIM report 95-W002, SINTEF. SU-report 21/95.

71. Rudolf Andersen, Reidar Conradi, John Krogstie, Guttorm Sindre, Arne Sølvberg: “Project Courses at the NTH: 20 years of Experience'', In J.~L. Diaz-Herrera (ed.): “7th Conference on Software Engineering Education (CSEE'7), 5--7 Jan. 1994, San Antonio'', p. 177--188. Springer Verlag LNCS 750, 1994. SU-report 1/94.

72. Reidar Conradi, Geir Magne Høydalsvik, Guttorm Sindre: “A Comparison of Modelling Frameworks for Software Processes and Information Systems'', In Brian Warboys (Ed.):”Proc. 3rd European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'94), 7--9 Feb. 1994, Grenoble, France'', Springer Verlag LNCS, 1994, p. 254--260. Also as EPOS TR 194, NTH, Trondheim, July 1993, 14 p. (rev. Nov. 1993, 7 p.) SU-report 2/94.

73. Reidar Conradi: “Session on Meta-process / Methodology'' (introduction). In Brian Warboys (Ed.):”Proc. 3rd European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'94), 7--9 Feb. 1994, Grenoble, France'', Springer Verlag LNCS 772, 1994, p. 38--39. SU-report 3/94.

74. Reidar Conradi, Marianne Hagaseth, Chunnian Liu: “A Planner for Cooperating Transactions in EPOS'', Proc. ICSE-16 Workshop on SW Engineering and AI, May 1994, Sorrento. NTH, Trondheim, 1 Dec. 1993, 4 p. SU-report 9/94.

75. Reidar Conradi, Marianne Hagaseth, Chunnian Liu: “Planning Support for Cooperating Transactions in EPOS'', In Gerard Wijers, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Tony Wasserman (Eds.): “Advanced Information Systems Engineering -- 6th International Conference, CAiSE'94, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 6--8 June 1994''. Springer Verlag LNCS 811, p. 2--13. Also as EPOS TR 209. SU-report 11/94.

76. Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi: ”SPELL: A Logic Programming Language for Process Modelling”, 10 p. Proc. Workshop on Logic Programming in Software Engineering, 18 June 1994, Santa Margherita - Ligure, Genova, Italy (held after the ICLP conference). Also as EPOS TR 220.

77. Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi: ”Meta-process in a Process Support Environment”, 12 p. Proc. 6th Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research (NWPER'94), Lund, Sweden, 1–3 June 1994. Also as EPOS TR 221.

78. Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi: ”The Software Meta-process: Taxonomy and Assessment”, p. 167–175, Proc. 3rd Int'l Conference on Software Process (ICSP'3), IEEE-CS Press, 10-11 Oct. 1994 Washington. Also as EPOS TR 208.


79. Noureddine Belkhatir, Reidar Conradi: ”The Relationship between Software Processes and CSCW”, Workshop on Links between CSCW and Software Process, October 22, 1994 (held before CSCW'94), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, 2 p. (position paper).

80. Reidar Conradi, M. Letizia Jaccheri, Cristina Mazzi: ”Variability of Process Models and Processes, and the EPOS Solution”, In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): Proc. 8th International Software Process Workshop (ISPW'8), p. 43–46, 2–5 March 1993, Dagstuhl, FRG, IEEE-CS Press. Also as EPOS TR 176, NTH, Trondheim, 27. Sept. 1992, 5 p.

81. Reidar Conradi: “Resume from Session on Process Change'', In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): Proc. 8th International Software Process Workshop (ISPW'8), p. 15--17, 2--5 March 1993, Dagstuhl, FRG, IEEE-CS Press. SU-report 3/93.

82. Jens-Otto Larsen, Bjørn P. Munch, Bjørn Gulla, and Reidar Conradi: “Change Oriented Versioning and the EPOS Software Engineering Database'', Proc. 4th ERCIM Database Research Group Workshop, 3--5 May 1993, Crete, Greece. Also as EPOS TR 189, NTH, Trondheim, 12 April 1993, 17 p. SU-report 7/93.

83. Minh Ngoc Nguyen and Reidar Conradi: “Cooperating Transactions in a Versioned Database'', Proc. International Conference on Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems (ICICIS--93), Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 12--14, 1993, p. 342--348. Also as EPOS TR 165, NTH, Trondheim, 27 April 1992, 7 p. SU-report 8/93.

84. Bjørn P. Munch, Jens-Otto Larsen, Bjørn Gulla, Reidar Conradi, and Even-André Karlsson: “Uniform Versioning: The Change-Oriented Model'', Preliminary Proc. 4th International Workshop of Software Configuration Management (SCM--4), Baltimore, 21--22 May 1993, ACM Press, p. 188--196. Also as EPOS TR 184, NTH, Trondheim, April 1993, 9 p. SU-report 9/93.

85. Eirik Tryggeseth, Reidar Conradi, and Björn Gulla: “Software Configuration Management in PROTEUS'', Preliminary Proc. 4th International Workshop of Software Configuration Management (SCM--4), Baltimore, 21--22 May 1993, ACM Press, p. 232--240. Also EPOS TR 185, NTH, Trondheim, April 1993, 9 p. SU-report 10/93.

86. Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Reidar Conradi: ”Workspace Management: Supporting Cooperative Work”, Proc. International Conference for Young Computer Scientists (ICYCS-93),15–17 July 1993, Beijing, 4 p. Also as EPOS TR 186, NTH, Trondheim, 25 April 1993.

87. Reidar Conradi, M. Letizia Jaccheri: ”Customization and Evolution of Process Models in EPOS”, p. 23–39. In N. Prakash, C. Rolland, B. Pernici (Eds.): ”Proc. IFIP 8.1 Working Conference on Information System Development Process (ISDP'93), Como, Italia, 1–3 Sept. 1993”, North-Holland Publ., Amsterdam, 337 p. Also as EPOS TR 174, NTH, Trondheim, 30 April 1993 (rev.), 12 p.

88. Chunnian Liu, Reidar Conradi: “Automatic Replanning of Task Networks for Support Process Model Evolution in EPOS'', In Ian Sommerville and Manfred Paul (Eds.): “Proc. European Software Engineering Conference'93 ESEC'93), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, FRG, 13--17 Sept. 1993'', p. 434--450, Springer LNCS 717. Also as EPOS TR 183, NTH, Trondheim, 23 Nov. 1992,17 p. (rev. 23 April 1993). SU-report 21/93.

89. Reidar Conradi, Letizia Jaccheri, Jens-Otto Larsen: “Representing the Software Process Model and Meta-Model in EPOS'', Proc. ERCIM Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Knowledge Representation, Pisa, Italy, May 21--22, 1992. Also as EPOS TR 153, NTH, 27 April 1992, 4 p.

90. Letizia Jaccheri, Jens-Otto Larsen, Reidar Conradi: “Software Process Modeling and Evolution in EPOS'', Proc. Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), Capri, Italy, 17--19 June 1992. Also as EPOS TR 159, NTH, Trondheim, 31 Jan. 1992, 13 p.

91. Reidar Conradi, Christer Fernström, Alfonso Fuggetta, and Bob Snowdon: “Towards a Reference Framework for Fundamental (Software) Process Concepts''. In J.-C. Derniame (ed.): “Proc. from EWSPT'92, Sept. 7--8 1992, Trondheim, Norway'', Springer Verlag LNCS 635, p. 3--17.Also as EPOS TR 158, NTH, Trondheim, April 1992, 12 p.


92. Reidar Conradi, M. Letizia Jaccheri, Cristina Mazzi, Nguyen Ngoc Minh, Amund Aarsten: “Design, Use, and Implementation of SPELL, A Language for Software Process Modeling and Evolution''. In J.-C. Derniame (ed.): “Proc. from EWSPT'92, Sept. 7--8 1992, Trondheim, Norway'', Springer Verlag LNCS 635, p. 167--177. Also as EPOS TR 164, NTH, Trondheim, 27 April 1992, 14 p.

93. Jens-Otto Larsen, Reidar Conradi, Bjørn P. Munch: “Cooperating Transactions in the EPOS software engineering database'', 3rd ERCIM Database Research Group Workshop on Updates and Constraints Handling in Advanced Database Systems, 28--30 Sept. 1992, Pisa, Italy, p. 169--172. Also as EPOS TR 157, NTH, Trondheim, 31 March 1992, 6 p.

Some other international publications and presentations:

94. Reidar Conradi, Victor R. Basili, Jeff Carver, Forrest Shull, and Guilherme H. Travassos: “A Pragmatic Documents Standard for an Experience Library: Roles, Documents, Contents and Structure'', University of Maryland Technical Report CS-TR-4235, April 2001, 50 p. See http://www.cs.umd.edu/Library/TRs/. Also report no. ISERN-01-03 at Univ. Kaiserslautern. (No SU-report).

95. Bernhard Westfechtel and Reidar Conradi: “Software Architecture and SCM, INCO project and Component-Based Development”, Presented at IFIP WG2.4 meeting, San Miniato (Pisa), Italy, 28.5-1.6, 2001. Slide presentation (extended from SCM'10), 60 p. (No SU report).

96. Reidar Conradi: “Corporate Experience Bases and their relation to continuing education and virtual organization'', Panel introduction in CORONET Panel (Dietmar Pfahl, chair), 22 June 2000, Second Int'l Conf. on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES'2000), Oulu, Finland, 20-22 June 2000, 8 foils. (No SU-report.)

97. Reidar Conradi: “Software Process Research in Europe -- A Summary'', Session introduction at 4th International FEAST Workshop, Imperial College, London, 10-12 July 2000, 13 foils. (No SU-report.)

98. Reidar Conradi: “SPI Methods and Their Research Methods'', ISERN meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 8-10 Oct. 2000, 4 foils. SU-report 26/2000.

99. Reidar Conradi: “NTNU OORT Experiment, March 2000 -- Some qualitative observations'', ISERN meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, 8-10 Oct. 2000, 5 foils. SU-report 27/2000.

100.Reidar Conradi, Jens-Otto Larsen, Nguyen Ngoc Minh, Alf Inge Wang, Chunnian Liu: “Transaction Models for Software Engineering Database'', Dagstuhl workshop on Software Engineering Databases, 17--21 March 1997, FRG, 51 p. (slides).

101.Reidar Conradi and Alf Inge Wang: “Process Modelling Languages: Needs, coverage, alternatives, evaluation. PML exercises (three separate ones)'', PROMOTER/RENOIR Summer School on Software Process Technology, 30 June - 4 July 1997, Grenoble, France, 51 p. (slides) + 21 p. exercises.

102.Reidar Conradi: “SPI frameworks: TQM, CMM, SPICE, ISO 9001, QIP. Experiences and trends. Norwegian SPIQ project.'', PROMOTER/RENOIR Summer School on Software Process Technology, 30 June -- 4 July 1997, Grenoble, France, 74 p. (slides).

103.Reidar Conradi et al.: ”PSEE Architecture: EPOS process models and tools” (foils), Alfonso Fuggetta (Ed.): Proc. Workshop on Process-centered Software Engineering Environment Architecture, 20–23 March 1995, Politecnico di Milano, 61 foils. SU-report 3/95.

National papers and presentations:

104.Reidar Conradi and Tore Dybå: “An Empirical study on the attitudes towards formal routines to transfer knowledge and experience'', In Weihai Yu (red.): “Proc. Norsk Informatikk-konferanse 2001 (NIK’2001)”, Tromsø, 26-28 Nov. 2001, Tapir forlag, Trondheim, 2001. SU-report 23/2001 (slightly reworked from ESEC’2001 paper, see SU-report 10/2001).


105.Christian P. Halvorsen and Reidar Conradi: “A Taxiomatic Attempt at Comparing SPI frameworks'', p. 101-116. In Terje Fallmyr (red.): “Proc. Norsk Informatikk konferanse '2000 (NIK'2000), 20-22 Nov. 2000, Bodø, Norway”, Tapir forlag, Trondheim, 234 p. SU-report 19/2000.

106.Reidar Conradi: “Statusrapport for IDI, NTNU -- Norsk fagråd for informatikk, Bodø, 20 Nov. 2000'', Innlegg på årsmøtet i fagrådet 20.11 og som panelintroduksjon 21.11 om informatikk-undervisning og -pensum, Norsk Informatikk konferanse '2000 (NIK'2000), 20-22 Nov. 2000, Bodø, 7 foiler. (No SU-report)

107.Reidar Conradi (keynote speaker): “Recent trends and activities around Software Process Improvement'', Annual IT-PRO seminar arranged by IKT-Norge/ITF, Park hotell, Sandefjord, 22-23 Nov. 2000, 40 slides, SU-report 26/2000.

108.Reidar Conradi: “Kommentar til UMLs nye Object Constraint Language (OCL)'', DND/Østlandet seminar om UML og komponentbasert utvikling, Geilo, 19-20 April 1999, 44 foiler. SU-report 11/99.

109.Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi, and Chunnian Liu: “A Multi-Agent Architecture for Cooperative Software Engineering'', Proc. Norsk Informatikk konferanse '99 (NIK'99), Trondheim, 16-17 Nov. 1999, p. 235-246. SU-report 29/99. Revision of paper presented at SEKE'99, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 16-19 June 1999, p. 162-169 – see SU-report 3/99.

110.Magne Jørgensen, Dag Sjøberg, Reidar Conradi: “Reuse of Software Development Experience at Telenor Telecom Software'', In Sverre Storøy (Ed.): “Proc. Norsk Informatikk-Konferanse 1998 (NIK'98)'', Kristiansand, 23-25 nov. 1998, Tapir forlag, p. 7-18. (See SPI'98 og SU-report 10/98).

111.Alf Inge Wang, Jens-Otto Larsen, Reidar Conradi, Bjørn P. Munch: “Improving Cooperation Support in the EPOS CM System'', In Sverre Storøy (Ed.): “Proc. Norsk Informatikk-Konferanse 1998 (NIK'98)'', Kristiansand, 23-25 nov. 1998, Tapir forlag, p. 67--78. (See EWSPT'98 og SU-report 5/98). (See also EWSPT’98)

112.Reidar Conradi: “Software Process Improvement: Why we need SPIQ'', In Stein Krogdahl et al. (eds.): “Proc. from Norwegian Informatics Conference 1996 (NIK'96), 18-20 Nov. 1996, Alta'', Tapir, Trondheim, p. 43--48. SU-report 17/96. (See also EWSPT’96)

113.Reidar Conradi: “REBOOT Follow-up: Process Improvement through Reuse'', PROFF-seminar om Rasjonell programvareutvikling, 6 March 1995, Oslo, 12 p.

114.Reidar Conradi: “Software Process Modeling (PM): A Survey and Assessment'', DND--OPS Seminar, Geilo, 13--14 March 1995, 90 p.

115.Reidar Conradi, Tor Stålhane, Karlheinz Kautz:”Bedre programvareprosess gir bedre programvarekvalitet'', ComputerWorld Norge, Aug. 1995, 1 s. SU-report 27/95.

116.Reidar Conradi, Svein O. Hallsteinsen: “Gjenbruk av programvare og REBOOT-prosjektet'', DND-Infotech'94, Oslo, 1. Nov. 1994, 6 p. (in Norwegian)

117.Reidar Conradi, Jacky Estublier: “The Major Software Process Categories: Taxonomy and Technology Assessment'', Proc. “Norwegian Informatics Conference 1994 (NIK'94), 14--16 Nov. 1994, Molde'', Tapir, Trondheim, p. 53--66. SU-report 21/94.

118.Reidar Conradi, Christer Fernström, and Alfonso Fuggetta: “Concepts for (Software) Process Evolution'', In Magne Haveraaen (Ed.): “Proc. from Norwegian Informatics Conference 1993 (NIK'93), 15.--17. Nov. 1993, Halden'', Tapir, Trondheim, Nov. 1993, p. 113-127.Also as EPOS TR 197, NTH, Trondheim, 30 Sept. 1993, 15 p. and as SU-report 35/93.

119.Reidar Conradi, Arne Sølvberg: “Dataingeniører får jobb'', Teknisk Ukeblad, Oslo, Sept. 1992, 1 p.


SU-1 Five selected papers from Conradi: paper # 1, 8, 9, 12, 32

a) Paper 1: Reidar Conradi and Alfonso Fuggetta: “Software Process Improvement: What can be Improved?”, Accepted Oct. 2001 for publication in IEEE Software in 2002, 11 p.Summarizes our SPI work the last five years, mainly from the SPIQ project.

b) Paper 8: Reidar Conradi and Bernhard Westfechtel: ”Version Models for Software Configuration Management”, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 30, Number 2, July 1998, p. 232–282. SU-report 17/97.A survey of version models for SCM, a mature view after 10 years of research.

c) Paper 9: Vincenzo Ambriola, Reidar Conradi, and Alfonso Fuggetta: ”Assessing Process-centered Software Engineering Environments (OIKOS, EPOS and SPADE)”, ACM Trans. on Software Engineering Methodology (TOSEM), Vol. 6, No. 3 (July 1997), p. 282-328. SU-report 14/97.

A comparison of three PMLs and PSEEs, based on five years of research. d) Paper 12: Guttorm Sindre, Reidar Conradi, and Even-André Karlsson: ”The REBOOT Approach to

Software Reuse”, Journal of Systems and Software – special issue on software reuse, Vol. 30, No. 3, Sept. 1995, p. 201–212. SU-report 22/95.

The main aspects of the REBOOT method for software reuse, see also REBOOT book.

e) Paper 32: Reidar Conradi and Tore Dybå: “An Empirical study on the utility of formal routines to transfer knowledge and experience'', In Volker Gruhn (Ed.): “Proc. European Software Engineering Conference 2001 (ESEC'2001)”, Vienna, 10-14 Sept. 2001, ACM/IEEE CS Press, ACM order no. 594010, ISBN 1-58113-390-1, p. 268-276. SU-report 10/2001.An investigation of attitudes to quality systems, based on an industrial survey.

SU-1 Personal statement from Reidar Conradi, NTNU

I will first make an annotated history of my professional career:

1972-1979: Work at the SINTEF research foundation and at NTH (precursor for NTNU) on the MARY system implementation language and a related operating system (part of my PhD in 1976). I was elected member of IFIP WG2.4, now on Programming Technology, in 1976.

1980 and 3 months in 1981: Sabattical at CMU with Prof. William Wulf as host, working on inter-procedural optimization in the Production-Quality Compiler Compiler and on SPICE workstations.

1981-1983: severe health problems (discus prolapse). 1983-1985: the FORTVER project on inter-procedural error diagnosis of

FORTRAN77-programs, with industrial partner Infotron. This evolved into an interest for software engineering environments.

1986-1991(96): EPOS project, first on SCM and later on process support, supported by the NTNF research council and with Norsk Data and Veritas Software as industrial partners. Taking initiative to the IFIP-WG2.4 APE’86-workshop in Trondheim, June 1986. The first PhD students were hired, and I gradually could start a normal scientific career. Contacts with Univ. Grenoble, e.g. in a ACM Norwegian-French project. Work on versioned databases and process modelling.

1990-1995: The contact with Grenoble evolves into the REBOOT and SER ESPRIT project on software reuse. The projects were amplified by extra funding and cooperation with three software companies in Norway in the REBOOT-STP and NSR national projects, with extra support for PhD students. This work resulted in a highly acclaimed REBOOT textbook and experience book. Also SCM’3 (1991) workshops and EWSPT’92 in Trondheim; lots of European cooperation.

1992-1999: More ESPRIT projects, e.g. PROTEUS on software evolution, the PROMOTER / PROMOTER-2 research working groups on software process modelling


and resulting in two textbooks, RENAISSANCE on reengineering also with a textbook, and two smaller ESSI projects, CMEX and AMEX on SCM introduction.

1996-2001: CAGIS basic research project on distributed work (our first basic one), together with 3 other research groups at IDI. The SU focus was process support in a distributed (web) environment.

1995-2003: From the mid-90s we put much more efforts on empirical studies, and became member of the ISERN community. We initiated the SPIQ and PROFIT national projects on software process improvement for SMEs, and wrote a textbook (in Norwegian) on this. These two projects were and are carried out in cooperation with SINTEF, Univ. Oslo and 10-15 companies, and lead by Fjellanger-Widerøe and later Telenor/Bravida, both in Trondheim.

1998-99: NAWUS national project with Univ. Oslo to make a national web-base for software engineering teaching material.

1985-87, 1997-98: head of department, on both occasions with major organizational changes.

1999-2002: KVALIS project on quality of medical journal systems in hospitals, with SA group (Eric Monteiro coord.), Medicine and Sociology.

1998-2002: CSE strategic university project on Computational Science and Engineering, with Mathematics (coord.), Marine Eng. and Construction Eng.

1999/2000: Sabattical at Univ. Maryland (prof. Vic Basili), working on software experience bases and on object-oriented inspections, the latter with repeated student experiments (still under analysis). Also 3 months at Politecnico di Milano (prof. Alfonso Fuggetta), systematizing SPI experiences.

2001-2010: The good cooperation with Univ. Oslo (prof. Dag Sjøberg’s group) is extended into a subcenter for software engineering as part of the new Simula Research Laboratory at the IT-Fornebu technology park outside Oslo. Budget: about 1 mill. USD per year, and ca. 20% of the funds shall be used in Trondheim. Initial focus: OO/CBSE, OO estimation, SPI/QA, and empirical research methods.

2001-2004: MOWAHS project on support for mobile work across heterogeneous systems (together with DB group), a CAGIS spin-off.

2001-2004: INCO project on incremental and component-based development, with Univ. Oslo as coordinator.

Whole period: much administrative and IT-political work, see CV.

So, I have gone a long way from programming languages, compilers and operating systems in the 1970s, via inter-procedural analysis, versioned databases and process modelling in the 1980s, to software reuse in the early 1990s, and to distributed/mobile systems, software process improvement, component-based development and empirical studies in the late 1990s – i.e. from “hard” to “soft” issues. It also reflects a shift from building tool prototypes with too little resources to finish and assess (the EPOS prototype had 70,000 source lines) to making and annotating more general methods and studying how modern software technologies are being used in practise.

I have also gone from having a marginal research existence in 1972-1986, to ample research funds in 1986-1994, to a squeeze in the mid-90s, and a possible restart since 1998. As a side-effect of the increased publication visibility around 1990, we were invited in many European projects, and have later exchanged personnel with many universities especially in central Europe. Indeed, “normal” scientific life on my part started around 1990. However, most of our research money has been linked to applied research, as the long list of external projects demonstrate. Although such projects involve relevant and exciting cooperation and exchange with industrial partners, we lack funds for more basic research activities.


In terms of scientific impact the last ten years, I will emphasize joint and own work on: Software configuration management: change-oriented versioning, study of version

models (EPOS, PROTEUS, SCM workshop series, CMEX), cf. ICSE impact paper. See paper b/8.

Process modelling: OO models with planning and evolution capabilities (EPOS, PROMOTER, EWSPT workshop series). See paper c/9.

Reuse: a holistic perspective as described in the two REBOOT books, and recently for component-based development (RENAISSANCE, INCO). See paper d/12.

Cooperation support: software agents around workspaces, cooperating transactions (EPOS, CAGIS, MOWAHS). See paper 11.

Software process improvement and experience bases, especially for SMEs and with many case studies (SPIQ/PROFIT, ISERN, ESERNET). See papers a/1 and e/32.

In all these topics we have been very active internationally, and have managed to publish more and more papers based on empirical studies. Future efforts will focus on SPI, component-based development, and agent-based solutions for mobile work.

A final comment: the SU-group now comprises 4 faculty members, 2 postdocs and 6 active PhD students (with four vacant PhD fellowships). But recruitment is very tough on all levels (e.g. our PhD student on the RENAISSANCE project quit after one year). University funding has become easier in the last 3-4 years, but the IDI department is still understaffed by a factor 3. However, I still hope to complete my university career with only 60-hour weeks!


SU-2 Professor Dr.Ing. Tor Stålhane

CV for Tor Stålhane, NTNU

Name: Tor Stålhane. Norwegian citizen.

Place and year of birth: Skien in Norway, 1944.

Positions: Principal Research Scientist, SINTEF Telecom and Informatics – 1969 – 2000. Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Stavanger College since January 1997. Professor at IDI, NTNU since October 2000.

Education: M.Sc. Technical University of Norway, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Group for Physical Electronics,

1969. Ph.D. Technical University of Norway, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Group for Mathematical

Statistics, 1988. Basic training in Quality Audits, Norwegian Association for Quality (NFK), 1992.

Main fields of competence:

Software Process Improvement:My work in this area includes participation in ESPRIT projects - PERFECT and Telmet plus improvement projects for several Norwegian companies, such as Norsonic, NFT-Ericsson, Kongsberg Aerospace and Alcatel Telecom. The work has been focused on software measurement. Its practical applications have been process description, definition of improvement experiments, data collection, statistical data analysis and process improvement proposals.

Software Safety and Reliability:My work in this area includes work for several Scandinavian companies in the area of safety and reliability assessment and estimation. The systems have mainly been transport control systems for road, railway and air traffic. The work related to safety has included modeling fault tree analysis, failure mode and effect analysis and HazOp analysis of software intensive systems. The work related to reliability has included testing, test plans and reliability estimation based on test results and system analysis.

Research interests:Improvement of the software development process, Software Reliability Analysis and Estimation, Risk Assessments for Software Intensive Systems, Testing, Debugging, Validation, Software Certification, Quality Assurance in software development and maintenance, Investment problems in software development and use.

Professional memberships: Member of IEEE, Reliability; Member of Society of Reliability Engineers (SRE); Member of Norwegian Statistical Society; Member of the editorial board for ”The Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability”; Member of the board for ITUF - The Information Technology Development Forum 1990 - 1996; Referee for IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering; Referee for the Scandinavia Journal of Statistics; Referee for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK; Member of the organizing committee and technical committee for the EuroSPI conf. from 1997 to 2000.

Experience: 2000-2002: SPI for Norwegian industry - PROFIT, PROcess improvement For IT industry.2000: Software process improvement for DnB – major Norwegian bank.1999-2000: Use of case-based reasoning (CBR) in process improvement.1999: Use of UML for describing and analyzing a safety critical system.1999: Validation of Functional Safety for Systems with COTS components, for Nordtest (proj. leader).1999-2000: Procedure for developing IEC 61508 conform component for Siemens Oil and Gas Division.1998-2000: QiS – Quality in Scandinavia: ESPINODE for project exper. in Norway/Sweden (proj.leader).


1998: KPB-92 – Technical advice in law suite.1998: Guidelines for Validation of Functional Safety wrt. IEC 61508 for the Nordtest organization.1998: Basic Test methods for Safety Control Systems for the Nordtest organization.1997-1999: Safety assessment for the SLS-system, a GPS based landing system for NAVIA AVIATION.1997-1999: Software process improvement for Norwegian industry - SPIQ.1997-1998: ESSI software process improvement for MaXware - QARI.1997-1998: ESSI software process improvement for NAVIA AVIATION - AMPIC.1996-1998: Process improvement at Nera Tele Scada (Bergen) - TELMET.1997: Methods/standards for safety assessment of railway signaling systems - the ACRUDA project.1997: Safety assessment for an ILS system.1997: Process improvement through root cause analysis for Kongsberg Aerospace.1996: Collection and statistical analysis of software metrics for ESA.1996: Safety assessment of changes in train radio system for NSB.1995-1996: SISU - Handbook for integrated software development, including process improvement.1995-1996: Development of Quality Assurance Manual and course material, for subcontractor Securitech.1995-1996: Process improvement for Norsonic.1994-1996: PROFF - project focusing on certifying sw quality for customer needs and preferences.1995: Process improvement for NFT-Ericsson.1995: Safety assessment for an ILS system.

SU-2 Publication list for Tor Stålhane, NTNU

Journal articles:1. Tor Stålhane: ”The role of measurement in software and software development”, Telektronikk 1/99, Vol.

95 (special issue on Software Quality in Telecommunication), 1999. SU-report 30/99.2. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”Modification of Safety Critical Systems – An Evaluation of three

Approaches”, Microprocessors and Microsystems 21, 1998 (reworked from ENCRESS’97 paper).3. Tor Stålhane, Kjell Arnesen and Per Christian Borgersen: ”In Search of the Customer's Quality View”,

Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 38, 1997, p. 85-93 (reworked from AQUIS'96 paper).4. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”The Quest for Reliability - A Case Study”, Journal of Systems and

Software, vol. 26, no. 1, July 1994, p. 69-76.

Chapters in books5. Tor Stålhane: ”Process Improvement and Software Metrics”, chapter in TIMe Electronic Textbook,

Richard Sanders (Ed.), SINTEF, 1996.6. Tor Ståhane and Magnus Ahlgren: ”Measuring the Effect of Reuse”, In Even-André Karlsson (Ed.):

Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach, Chapter 4 (p. 113–180), ISBN 0 471-95489, John Wiley & Sons., 1995. SU-report 10/95.

Articles in refereed international conferences and workshops:7. M. Letizia Jaccheri and Tor Stålhane: “Evaluation of the E3 Process modelling language and tool for the

purpose of model creation'', In Frank Bomarius and Seija Komi-Sirviö (Eds.): “Proc. 3rd Int’l Conf. on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES’2001), Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 10-13, 2001”, Springer LNCS 2188, p. 271-281. SU-report 11/2001.

8. Tor Stålhane, Torgeir Dingsøyr, Geir K. Hanssen and Nils Brede Moe: “Post Mortem - An Assessment of Two Approaches", Accepted for European Software Process Improvement Conference (EuroSPI'2001), 10-12 October 2001, Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland. SU-report 15/2001.

9. Letizia Jaccheri, Tor Stålhane, and Marco Torchiano: "Lessons learnt from developing and changing an educational three tier system", Accepted for OOPSLA workshop #23 on "The Three-Tier Architecture Pattern", 15 Oct. 2001, Seattle., 3 p. SU-report 17/2001.

10. Tor Stålhane and Geir K. Hanssen: “Improving the Software Cost Estimation Process”. Accepted for European Quality Week, Brussels, November 2001.

11. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”Safety Validation with Focus on Testing”, Proc. International Conference on Software Testing (ICSTEST’2000), April 5–7, 2000, Bonn, Germany. SU-report 21/2000.


12. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”The use of experts in metrics interpretation and analyses”, Proc. combined 11th European Software Control and Metrics conference (ESCOM) and 3rd SCOPE conference on Software Product Quality, April 18–20, 2000, München, Germany. SU-report 22/2000.

13. Jørgen Bøgh, Mads Christiansen, Ebba Pora Hvannberg, and Tor Stålhane: “The benefits of networking'' (on Scandinavian ESPINODE, QiS), Proc. Second Int'l Conf. on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES'2000), Oulu, Finland, 20-22 June 2000, Springer Verlag LNCS 1840, p.193-204. SU-report 23/2000.

14. Tor Stålhane: “Quality Metrics and the Kano Model”, EuroSPI 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 7 – 9, 2000.

15. Hans Jørgen Lied and Tor Stålhane: ”Experience from process improvement in an SME”, EuroSPI'99, Pori, Finland, October 26–27, 1999. SU-report 24/99.

16. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”SPI – Why isn't it more used”, EuroSPI'99, Pori, Finland, October 26–27, 1999. SU-report 25/99.

17. Bjørn Haugrud, Tor Stålhane and Inger Venås: ”The Effect of Using Object-Oriented Methods in Specification and Design”, AQUiS'98 –3rd International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, Venezia, Italy March 30 – April 2, 1998.

18. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”Practical experience with the application of HazOp to a software intensive system”, Joint ESCOM and ENCRESS Conference, Roma, Italy, May 27-29, 1998.

19. Tor Stålhane, Kari Juul Wedde and Tore Dybå: ”Data Driven Improvement for SMEs”, EuroSPI'98, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 17-18, 1998.

20. Tore Dybå, Tor Stålhane and Reidar Palmstrøm: ”Experience of Goal-Oriented Measurement using ami and GQM”, Proc. 8th European Software Control and Metrics Conference (ESCOM’97), Berlin, Germany, May 26-28, 1997.

21. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”Modification of Safety Critical Systems – An Evaluation of three Approaches”, ENCRESS'97, Athens, Greece, May 29-30, 1997.

22. Tor Stålhane, Tore Dybå and Reidar Palmstrøm: ”Experience of Introducing Goal-Oriented Measurement”, Proc. 8th European Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP'97), London, UK, July 15 - 18, 1997.

23. Tor Stålhane, Kjell Arnesen and Per Christian Borgersen: ”In Search of the Customer's Quality View”, AQUiS'96 - 2nd International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, Florence, Italy, Jan. 24-26, 1996.

24. Kari Juul Wedde, Tor Stålhane, and Inge Nordbø: ”Case Study of a Maintenance Support System”, International Conference on Software Maintenance, IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering, Opio (Nice), France, Oct. 17-20, 1995.

25. Tor Stålhane: ”Development of a Model for Reusability Assessment”, Objective Quality’95, 29–31 May 1995, Firenze, Italy.

26. Tor Stålhane, Eldfrid Ø. Øvstedal: ”Safety Assessment for a Positioning System”, NSDCS'94, Lyngby, Denmark, August 24-26, 1994.

27. Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”The Quest for Reliability - A Case Study”, AQUiS'93 - 2nd International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, Venice, Italy, October 18-20, 1993.

28. M. van der Meulen (NL), Tor Stålhane (N), and R. Cole (UK): ”Programmable Electronic System Analysis Technique in Safety Critical Applications”, Safecomp'93, Poznan-Kiekrz, Poland, 27-29 October 1993.

29. Tor Stålhane (N), M. van der Meulen (NL), and R. Cole (UK): ”Reliability assessment for programmable electronic systems using subjective and objective categorical data”, PCPI'93, Düsseldorf, Germany, March 29-31, 1993

30. Tor Stålhane, Alejandro de Mora, and Alfredo Cosculluela: ”Certification of Reusable Components”, Second International Workshop on Software Reusability, Pisa, Italy, March 24 - 26, 1993.

31. Tor Stålhane and Johan Fredrik Lindeberg: "Practical Experience with Safety Assessment for a System for Automatic Train Control", SAFECOMP'92, Zurich, Switzerland, October 28-30, 1992.

32. Tor Stålhane, Guttorm Sindre and Even-Andre Karlsson: "Software Reuse in an Educational Perspective 6th SEI Conference on Software Engineering Education", San Diego, California, October 5-7, 1992. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 44, NTH, Trondheim, May 1992, 14 p.


33. Tor Stålhane: "The REBOOT Quality Model and Some Extensions", The ERCIM Workshop on "Software Quality Principles and Techniques" in Pisa, Italy, May 21-22, 1992.

Other international presentations:34. Nils Brede Moe and Tor Stålhane: “Tutorial T5: Post-Mortem Analysis - Harvesting Experience -

Identifying Improvement Opportunities", Accepted for European Software Process Improvement Conference (EuroSPI'2001), 10-12 October 2001, Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland. SU-report 14/2001.

Some national publications and presentations: 1. Tor Stålhane (invited speaker): ”PROFIT -- grunnlag og metoder for forskning'', Annual IT-PRO seminar

arranged by IKT-Norge/ITF, Park hotell, Sandefjord, 22-23 Nov. 2000, ca. 30 slides. SU-report 27/2000.2. Tor Stålhane: “Measurement Methods for Quality”. Infotech’93, Oslo, Norway, November 8 – 12, 1993.3. Tor Stålhane, Thor Breien, Svein L. Andersen, Knut Jonassesn, Joan F. Urstad: “Methods for Estimation

and Progress Measurement in Development Projects” (in Norwegian), Industriens Utviklingsforum, ITUF R-29, March 1992.

4. Tor Stålhane and Asgeir Langen: "Software Reuse - the REBOOT Approach", Ada in Norway seminar, Oslo, November 5, 1992.

5. Tor Stålhane: "Software Metrics - Current Trends and Future Development", Norwegian Information Science Conference 92 (NIK'92), Tromsø, November 16-18, 1992.

SU-2 Five most important papers of Tor Stålhane, NTNU

a) Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”The Quest for Reliability - A Case Study”, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 26, no. 1, July 1994, p. 69-76.

b) Tor Stålhane, Kjell Arnesen, and Per Christian Borgersen: ”In Search of the Customer's Quality View”, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 38, 1997, p. 85-93 (reworked from AQUIS'96 paper).

c) Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”Modification of Safety Critical Systems – An Evaluation of three Approaches”, Microprocessors and Microsystems 21, 1998 (reworked from ENCRESS’97 paper).

d) Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”SPI – Why isn't it more used”, EuroSPI'99, Pori, Finland, October 26–27, 1999. SU-report 25/99.

e) Tor Stålhane and Kari Juul Wedde: ”Safety Validation with Focus on Testing”, Proc. International Conference on Software Testing (ICSTEST’2000), April 5–7, 2000, Bonn, Germany. SU-report 21/2000.

SU-2 Personal statement by Tor Stålhane, NTNU

Scientific Work

As is shown by my publications list, my research started while I was still a research scientist and consultant at SINTEF’s department for software and telecommunication. The work was based on experiences collected during industrial projects. Thus, the scientific work focused on the two areas where I have done most of my industrial work, i.e.: Software quality assurance and process improvement Software reliability and safety, where I also did my Ph.D. work. Since the scientific work was done as a part of my usual work, the focus in the research was guided rather strongly by which industrial projects I was working on.

Software reliability and safetyThe work in this area started with reliability and the use of test records and software metrics as a basis for reliability estimation. Since the industry’s interest for software reliability was weak,


I moved on to software safety. At that time, many in the area of software engineering equated safety with reliability. Several persons with a basis in traditional engineering had, however, already training in other methods such as HazOp, fault tree analysis and FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis). It was thus natural for me to try to adapt these methods to software intensive systems. This resulted in a period of fruitful interaction between applied research and consultancy as can be seen from the publication list.

The work on software safety is an on-going activity and together with professors Rausand I am working to get system’s safety as a separate study at NTNU. Together with professor Skramstad I am now building up a “laboratory” for the study of software safety evaluation.

My early work on software reliability did – as did many others’ – conclude that the traditional models used for software reliability were too simplistic. The most important fact is that the reliability experienced must be a function of the way the system is built and the way the system is used. Since it is difficult to model the development process as a set of metrics, this lead to several models based on Bayesian statistics. Unfortunately, such models are much too complex to be of any practical use. New hope in this area has risen with the use of Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) but my own work in this area is still in the start-up phase.

Software quality assurance and proven improvementThe work on software quality assurance was a spin-off of work on reliability and safety for Norwegian industry. The reason for this is that several customers buying safety critical software required that the development company had an ISO 9000 certificate. While working in this area, I was exposed to the ideas, methods and techniques of Total Quality Management (TQM) which implies a much more active attitude towards product quality than the “Best Practice” approach which was – and unfortunately still is - in vogue in large parts of the software community.

Software metrics has been one of my chief interests for several years. It turned out, however, that it was difficult to get the industry interested. During the ESPRIT project PERFECT I learned bout and was able to practice the GQM method, which was easier to sell to the industry. The concept also fitted quite well with the TQM ideas of developer participation in the measurement and improvement process, for instance through the GQM feedback sessions.

A golden opportunity to test the TQM ideas in practice arose when the European Commission started the ESSI program. Together with a SINTEF colleague I started working on process improvement projects for a Norwegian telecom company – Nera. From this activity SINTEF, together with NTNU, was able to get funding for two Norwegian research program on SPI – SPIQ and PROFIT, both running for three years. Here I was able to further develop the concepts of TQM and GQM, for instance by changing the GQM process to fit better with the TQM focus on group processes. In addition, my experiences as a statistician has helped me to further elaborate on the analysis and interpretation part of GQM by considering it as risk reducing processes.

In the PROFIT project I introduced a simple PMA – Post Mortem Analysis – fitted for SMEs. I soon found that PMA was able to handle some of the problems that arose from using GQM in the SPIQ process. I am at the present working on a way of combining the strong sides of GQM and PMA in order to get a practical and flexible tool for data collection, analysis and interpretation.


SU-3 Associate Professor Maria Letizia Jaccheri, Ph.D.

SU-3 CV for Maria Letizia Jaccheri

Personalia: Maria Letizia Jaccheri, born 24 February 1965, Pisa. Italian citizen. Married with two small children.

Home address: Osloveien 6, NO-7018 Trondheim, Norway. Phone +47 73.537573.

Education: -- Master thesis: "Software Development Environment: A Conceptual Model Representing Software Systems" University of Pisa, Italy, Department of Computer Science, February 1988, supervisor Prof. Vincenzo Ambriola. -- PhD thesis: "Software Process Modeling and Evolution", Politecnico di Torino, Italy, supervisor Prof. Silvano Gai, January 1994.

Present job and work address: Associate Professor at Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491 Trondheim, Norway, Phone +47 73 593469, Fax +47 73 594466, Email [email protected].

Language skills: Italian mother tongue, Norwegian and English proficiency.

Scientific profile: Software Engineering and particularly in software process modeling, and Software engineering education. Ca. 40 internationally refereed publications.

Jobs held: -- Last position (from January 1993 to June 1997): Assistant Prof. Politecnico di Torino, Italy (tenure from 1.1.1996). -- From 1988 to 1989: programmer and designer at Tecsiel S.P.A., Pisa Italy.

Projects: -- EPOS (1989-92): Software Process Modeling and Execution Environment based rule-base techniques. At NTH, Trondheim, Prof. Reidar Conradi.-- E3 (1992-98): Software Process Modeling Environment based on object-oriented modeling, at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. -- Italian National Project ex 40% (1994-98): Methodologies for Verification and Validation of Software Product and Process. -- Process Promoter ESPRIT BRA 7082 (1992-95): Promoter ESPRIT Working Group "European Research Working Group on Software Process Technology" (1996-2000). -- ACTS AC003 VITAL: Validation of Integrated Telecommunication Architectures for the Long term (1995-98), on validating the TINA (Telecommunication Information Network Architecture) architecture.-- Nat'l NAWUS educational network for System Dev., w/ prof. Dag Sjøberg, Univ. Oslo (1998–99)-- Norwegian national project SPIQ (Software Project Improvement for better Quality) (1997-99), participant.-- Norwegian national project INCO (Incremental and component-based development) (2001-04), participant.

SU-3 Publication list for Maria Letizia Jaccheri, NTNUJournal papers:

1. M.L. Jaccheri, A software quality and software process improvement course based on interaction with the local software industry, accepted Aug. 2001 for publication in the Tutorial section of Computer Applications in Engineering Education Journal, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 23 p.

2. T. Dingsøyr, M.L. Jaccheri, A.I. Wang, Teaching Software Process Improvement Through a Case Study, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Volume 8, number 3 and 4, 2000, pp. 229-234.

3. Fuggetta, M. L. Jaccheri, "Dynamic partitioning of complex process models", 2000, Journal of Information and Software Technology 42 (2000), pp. 281-291.

4. M.L. Jaccheri, P. Lago, G.P. Picco, Eliciting Software Process Models with the E3 Language, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 7(4), October 1998, pp. 368-410.


5. M.L. Jaccheri and R. Conradi, "Techniques for Process Model Evolution in EPOS'', IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 19(12), December 1993, special issue on Software Process Evolution, pp. 1145-1156.

6. P. Lago, M.L. Jaccheri, "La cooperazione nei modelli di processo software", Sinergie, numero monografico nella sezione "Ricerche e Studi", curato da Luigi Colazzo e Enrico Zaninotto (In Italian), Rapporto di Ricerca no. 3, June 1997.

Book chapters:

7. R. Conradi and M.L. Jaccheri, "Process Modelling Languages", in Software Process: Principles, Methodology, and Technology, Ed. Jean-Claude Derniame, Badara Ali Kaba, D. Wastell, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1500, Springer Verlag, 1998.

8. M. Baldi, S. Gai, M.L. Jaccheri, P. Lago, "Object Oriented Software Process Model Design in E3, in Software Process Modeling and Technology, Ed. A. Finkelstein, J. Kramer, B. Nuseibeh, Research Study Press, 1994, pages 279-292.

9. R. Conradi, M. Hagaseth, J. Larsen, M.N. Nguyen, B.P. Munch, P.H. Westby, W. Zhu, M.L. Jaccheri, C. Liu, "EPOS: Object Oriented Cooperative Process Modeling'', in Software Process Modeling and Technology, Ed. A. Finkelstein, J. Kramer, B. Nuseibeh, Research Study Press, 1994, pages 33-70.

Refereed conference/workshop papers:10. Letizia Jaccheri, Tor Stålhane, and Marco Torchiano: "Lessons learnt from developing and changing an

educational three tier system". Accepted for OOPSLA workshop #23 on "The Three-Tier Architecture Pattern", 15 Oct. 2001, Seattle, 3 p. SU-report ?/2001.

11. M.L. Jaccheri, T. Stålhane, Evaluation of the E3 Process modelling language and tool for the purpose of model creation, PROFES 2001, 3rd International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 10-13, 2001.

12. M.L. Jaccheri, Software architecture project course, Forum for Advancing Software engineering Education (FASE), Volume 11 Number 06 (137th Issue) - June 15, 2001, 3 p.

13. M.L. Jaccheri, R. Conradi, B. Dyrnes, Software Process Technology and Software Organisations, EWSPT'00, Seventh European Workshop on Software Process Technology, Kaprun, Austria, 22-25 Feb. 2000, Springer Verlag LNCS 1780, p. 96-108.

14. T. Dingsøyr, M.L. Jaccheri, A.I. Wang, Teaching Software Process Improvement Through a Case Study, presented at ICECE'99, International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 9-12, 1999. Also presented at NIK'99 Norsk Informatikk Konferanse, November 1999.

15. M.L. Jaccheri, M. Baldi, Monica Divitini, Evaluating the requirements for software process modeling languages and systems, presented at WORLD MULTICONFERENCE SCI/ISAS'99, International Workshop on Process support for Distributed Team-based Software Development (PDTSD'99), Orlando, USA, from 31st July - 4th August, 1999.

16. M.L. Jaccheri, A Software Quality and a Software Process Improvement course, Forum for Advancing Software engineering Education (FASE), Volume 9 Number 05 (112th Issue) - May 15, 1999.

17. M.L. Jaccheri, P. Lago, How Project-based Courses face the Challenge of educating Software Engineers, Proc. Joint World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'98) and the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS'98), Orlando, USA, July 1998.

18. R. Conradi, A. Fuggetta, M.L. Jaccheri, Six Theses on Software Process Research, European Workshop of Software Process Technology, London, September 1998.

19. M.L. Jaccheri and P. Lago, Metrics aspects of a software engineering course project, September 1997, Proc. Inspire II, 2nd International Conference on Software Process Improvement - Research into Education & Training, Sweden.

20. M.L. Jaccheri and P. Lago, "Applying Software Process Modeling and Improvement in Academic Setting", April 1997, Proc. 10th ACMIEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Virginia Beach.


21. M.L. Jaccheri and P. Lago, "Teaching Process Improvement in an Industry Oriented Course", Proc. British Computer Society Quality SIG International Conference on Software Process Improvement-Research into Education &Training, INSPIRE'96, September 1996.

22. M.L. Jaccheri, "Reusing Software Process Models in E3", In Barry Boehm, Marc Kellner, Dewayne Perry (Eds.): ”Proc. 10th International Software Process Workshop (ISPW`10), 17–19 June 1996, Ventron, France”, IEEE Press, IEEE CS Order Number PR07725.

23. V. Ambriola, M.L. Jaccheri, "Modeling and measuring a software engineering course software process", ISCA 95 Workshop on Undergraduate Computer Architecture Education, Giugno 1995, Santa Margherita - Ligure.

24. M. Baldi, M.L. Jaccheri, “E5: A distributed object based system for process model enaction, in 10th International Conference on Control System and Computer Science, May '95, Bucharest.

25. M. Baldi, M.L. Jaccheri, “Software Process Model Specification'', in First IFIP/SQI International Conference on Software Quality and Productivity (ICSQP '94), Ed. M. Lee, B. Barta, P. Juliff, Chapman & Hall, Hong Kong, 5-7 Dicembre 1994, pp. 149-155.

26. M. Baldi, S. Gai, M.L. Jaccheri, P. Lago, "Searching for PMIPS: Process Model Instructions Per Second", Proc. Third European Workshop on Software Process Technology, Ed. B. C. Warboys, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 772, Grenoble (France), 7-8 Febbraio 1994, pp. 35-37.

27. Maria Letizia Jaccheri: "Software Process Modeling and Evolution", PhD thesis, supervisor Prof. Silvano Gai, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, January 1994.

28. R. Conradi, M.L. Jaccheri, “Customization and Evolution of Process Models in EPOS'', Proc. IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on Information System Development Process, Ed. N. Prakash, C. Rolland, B. Pernici, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland), Como, Italy, 1-3 Settembre, 1993, pp. 23-39.

29. R. Conradi, M.L. Jaccheri, C. Mazzi, “Variability of Process Models and the EPOS Solution'', Proc. 8th International Software Process Workshop (ISPW`8), Ed. W. Schäfer, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2-5 Marzo 1993, Dagstuhl, pp. 43-46.

30. M.L. Jaccheri, S. Gai, "Initial requirements for E3: an Environment for Experimenting and Evolving software processes", Proc. Second European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'92), Ed. J.-C. Derniame, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 635, Trondheim, Norway, Settembre 1992, pp. 99-101.

31. R. Conradi, M. L. Jaccheri, C. Mazzi, A. Aarsten, M. Nguyen, “Design, Use, and Implementation of SPELL, A Language for Software Process Modeling and Evolution", Proc. Second European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'92), Ed. J.-C. Derniame, Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 635, Trondheim, Norway, Settembre 1992, pp. 167-177.

32. M.L. Jaccheri, J. Larsen, R. Conradi, “Software Process Modeling and Evolution in EPOS'', Proc. Fourth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Ed. G. Tortora, IEEE Computer Society Press, Giugno 1992, Capri, Italy, pp. 574-581.

33. Reidar Conradi, Letizia Jaccheri, Jens-Otto Larsen, “Representing the Software Process Model and Meta-Model in EPOS'', Proc. ERCIM Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Knowledge Representation, Pisa, Italy, 21-22 Maggio, 1992, pp. 169-172.

34. M.Letizia Jaccheri, “Process Modeling: Concepts, Paradigms, and the EPOS Solution'', Proc. 5th Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research NWPER'92, 8-10 Gennaio 1992, Tampere, Finland, pp. 1-14.

National papers:35. P. Lago, M.L. Jaccheri., "Meccanismi di base per la gestione della cooperazione nel processo software",

TIF Workshop (Tecnologie dell’Informazione e Flessibilita` dei Mercati e nell’Organizzazione), Trento, Ottobre 1995 (in Italian).

36. M. Baldi, M.L. Jaccheri, "An exercise in modeling a real software process", Conferenza Italiana AICA, Agosto 1995, pp. 47-54.

37. V. Ambriola, M.L. Jaccheri, “Un approccio orientato agli oggetti per la modellazione del processo software'', Congresso Annuale AICA, 22-24 Settembre 1993, pp. 813-827.


SU-3 Five most important papers of M. Letizia Jaccheri

a) Fuggetta, M. L. Jaccheri, "Dynamic partitioning of complex process models", 2000, Journal of Information and Software Technology 42 (2000), pp. 281-291.

b) M.L. Jaccheri, P. Lago, G.P. Picco, Eliciting Software Process Models with the E3 Language, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 7 (4), October 1998, pp. 368-410.

c) M.L. Jaccheri and R. Conradi, "Techniques for Process Model Evolution in EPOS'', IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering 19(12), December 1993, special issue on Software Process Evolution, pp. 1145-1156.

d) M.L. Jaccheri and P. Lago, "Applying Software Process Modeling and Improvement in Academic Setting", April 1997, Proc. 10th ACMIEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Virginia Beach.

e) M.L. Jaccheri, A software quality and software process improvement course based on interaction with the local software industry, accepted Aug. 2001 for publication in the Tutorial section of Computer Applications in Engineering Education Journal, John Wiley and Sons, 23 p.

SU-3 Personal statement by M. Letizia Jaccheri

I received my Masters degree from the University of Pisa in 1988, one of the oldest and most famous universities in Europe both generally and in the field of theoretical computer science. I received my PhD from Turin Politecnico (in 1994), being a strong engineering school. I started my co-operation with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, in the late ’80, and I have been working at NTNU as an associated professor at NTNU since 1997. The list of co-authors in my publication list, as well as the kinds of projects I have been working with, reflects the fact that I have belonged and I belong to different cultures, both geographically and scientifically. I have been working both with theoretical oriented aspects of computer science, with engineering techniques, and with empirical methods. I have a wide network of Italian, Norwegian and International researchers. I have been working with software process modeling, object orientation, software engineering education, and software architectures. I work actively as a reviewer for international journals and conferences. I have published approximately fifty refereed International papers, which include important publications in journals such as IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering and ACM Transaction on software engineering methodologies. My main challenges at present are in the coupling of software technologies and software architecture and in the software engineering education field.


SU-4 Associate Professor Monica Divitini, Ph.D.

SU-4 CV for Monica Divitini

Personalia:Monica Divitini, born 21 September 1964, Tirano, Sondrio, Italy. Italian citizen.Home address:Balders veg, 5B-11, N-7033 Trondheim, Norway. Education:

M.Sc. in Information Science from University of Milano, Italy (1991), Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Aalborg, Denmark (1999).

Present job and work address:Associate Professor at Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI)Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.Phone +47 73 594462, Fax +47 73 594466, Email [email protected] Scientific interests:Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), adaptive workflow systems, communityware, Computer Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL), application of software agents in groupware.Jobs held and stays abroad:

From March 2000-: associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, NTNU. From June 2001 associated to the Software Engineering Group.

December 2000 – August 2001: maternity leave. March 2000- August 2000: on partial leave from IDI, NTNU (30% with teaching

duties). Associate researcher on the EU funded project CAMPIELLO at the University of Milano Bicocca, Italy.

March 1999-March 2000: assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science, NTNU.

March 1997-February 1999: senior researcher at the Department of Computer Science, NTNU, Norway on the CAGIS Project.

March 1996 - February 1997: associate researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Torino, Italy, working on COMIC EU project.

October 1995- March 1996: visiting researcher at Risø National Laboratory, Denmark, also on COMIC EU project.

September 1991- September 1995: associate researcher working on the CHAOS project at the Cooperation Technologies Laboratory (University of Milano), Italy.

Courses & supervision Supervisor for Ph.D. student Ekaterina Prasolova on “Systems for supporting

collaboration in education” (funded by CAGIS II). Supervisor for various diploma and project students at IDI, NTNU on topics related to

CSCW, knowledge management, and agent coordination. Course MNFIT385 - Information and Knowledge Management (3 vekttall). Course MNFIT383 - Digitalt Bibliotek, held in Spring 1999, (3 vekttall). Design of one-week module on collaborative technology for industry course “IT for

bibliotekarer” (organized by NTNU).

Projects:


CAGIS II: Extension of CAGIS financed by the Norwegian Research Councils (2000-2003: 1896 KNOK).

CAMPIELLO, one of the CI (Connected Community and Inhabited Information Spaces) projects of i3 research programme funded by EU. From February to August 2000 as post-doc researcher.

Cooperating Agent in the Global Information Space (CAGIS): involving 4 research groups at NTNU. Financed by the Norwegian Research Councils (1997-2001: 6096 KNOK). Senior researcher.

Ambienti di supporto alla progettazione di sistemi informativi (Environments for supporting design of Information Systems): projects involving various Italian Institutions coordinated by Prof. M.G. Fugini, Politecnico of Milano, Italy. Financed by the Italian Research Council (CNR) (1995 and 96).

COMIC: a multi-site multidisciplinary project involving 12 European research institutions. Financed by the European Commission’s ESPRIT Programme (from September 1992 to August 1995). The COMIC Project is one of the European Commission's 101 Success Stories from ESPRIT. I have been involved in COMIC since January, 1994 within Strand 3 "Notations for Mechanisms of Interaction in CSCW”.

Commitment Handling Active Office System (CHAOS): involving various computer science researchers at the University of Milano, Italy. Financed by the Italian Research Council (CNR) within the framework of National Project "Information Systems and Parallel Computing, SICP-7:GROUPWARE” (1990-1995). Associate researcher.

Professional responsibilities: Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal “Internet Research”, published by MCB University

Press (http://www.mcb.co.uk/cgi-bin/journal1/intr). Co-organizer of the Second International Workshop on Innovative Internet Information Systems (IIIS-98),

held in conjunction with the 7th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS'99), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1999.

Co-organizer of the workshop Internet based GROupware for user participation in product development (IGROUP), to be held in conjunction with the ACM International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'98), Seattle, WA, November 1998

Co-organizer of the First International Workshop on Innovative Internet Information Systems (IIIS-98), held in conjunction with the 10th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE98), Pisa, Italy, June 1998.

Program Committee Member of the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP'99), held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in November 1999.

Program Committee Member of the third IFCIS conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'98), to be held in New York in August 1998.

Program Committee Member of the international workshop on Coordination Technologies for Information Systems (CTIS'98), in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'98), held in Vienna, August 1998.

Member of the organizational committee of the third European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW'93).

Referee for various conferences in the area of CSCW and Information System.

SU-4 Publication list for Monica Divitini

The shaded areas represent papers written while in the IF group, March 1999 – June 2001.Journal articles:

1. Divitini, M. & C. Simone: "A computational model of communication for reducing linguistic opacity based on the Language-Action perspective", Information and Organization (was AMIT -Accounting, Management and Information Technologies), Pergamon - Elsevier Science, Vol.11, No. 3, 2001, 157 – 186

2. Petersen, S. A., M. Divitini & M. Matskin: "An agent-based approach to modelling Virtual Enterprises", International Journal of Production, Planning & Control, special issue on Enterprise Modeling, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 12, No. 3, Issue Apr 2001, pp. 224-233.

3. Divitini, M. & C. Simone: "Supporting different dimensions of workflow adaptability", Computer Supported Cooperative Work, The Journal of Collaborative Computing, special issues on Adaptive Workflow. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Vol. 9:3, 2000, 365-397.


4. Simone, C., M. Divitini: "Integrating contexts for supporting cooperation: the CHAOS Project", International Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Kluwer Academic Publishers, vol. 8, no.3, 1999, pp. 239-283.

5. Farshchian, Babak A. and Monica Divitini: “Using Email and WWW in a Distributed Participatory Design Project”, SIGGROUP Bulletin 20(1), 1999, pp. 10-15 (reworked from IGROUP’98 paper).

6. Simone, C., M. Divitini: "Ariadne: Supporting Coordination through a Flexible Use of the Knowledge on Work Process", J.UCS, Springer Verlag, vol. 3, no. 8, August 1997, pp. 865-898.

Edited books7. Schwartz, D. G., M. Divitini, and T. Brasethvik (Eds.): “Internet-based Knowledge Management and

Organizational Memories”. Hershey, USA: IDEA GROUP PUBLISHING, January 2000. (See http://www.idea-group.com/Internet_Based_Organizational_Memory_and_Knowledge_Management.htm)

8. Schwartz, David, Monica Divitini & Terje Brasethvik (Eds.): "Proc. First International Workshop on Innovative Internet Information Systems", in conjunction with CaiSE’98, IDI-report no. 5/98, IDI - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1998.

9. M. Divitini, B. A. Farshchian, T. Tuikka (Eds.): "Proc. Workshop on Internet Based Groupware for User Involvement in product design (IGROUP98)", Working Papers Series B 56, Oulu University Press, 1998.

Chapters in books10. Divitini, M., Hanachi, C. & Sibertin-Blanc, C.: “Inter-organizational Workflow for Enterprise

Coordination”, in Omicini, A., Zambonelli, F., Klusch, M. & Tolksdorf, R. (eds.) “Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies, and Applications”, Springer – 369-398, 2001.

11. Schwartz, D. G., M. Divitini, and T. Brasethvik: “On Knowledge Management in the Internet Age”. In Internet-based Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories, ed. D. G. Schwartz, M. Divitini, and T. Brasethvik. Hershey, USA: IDEA GROUP PUBLISHING. January 2000. (See http://www.idea-group.com/PDFs/schwartz.pdf)

12. Simone, C., M. Divitini: "Ariadne: Supporting Coordination through a Flexible Use of the Knowledge on Work Process", in Information Technology for Knowledge Management, eds. U.M. Borghoff and R. Pareschi. Berlin- Heidelberg: Springer, 1998, pp. 121-148 (reworked version from J.UCS, Springer Verlag, vol. 3, no. 8, August 1997, pp. 865-898).

Articles in refereed conferences/workshops13. Agostini A., Divitini M.: “Communityware goes to school: Impacts on learning communities”. Proc.

International conference on Computer Support Collaborative Learning, CSCL 2002, January 7-11 2002, Boulder, Colorado, USA. Short Paper session (to appear 2002).

14. Agostini, A, G. De Michelis, & M. Divitini: “Ubiquitous access to community knowledge via multiple interfaces: design and experiences”, Proc. First International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interactions, New Orleans, LA, USA, August 2001.

15. Divitini, M., B. A. Farshchian, & T. Tuikka: "Internet Based Groupware for User Participation in Product Development, a CSCW98/PDC98 workshop", SIGCHI Bulletin, vol. 32, no.1, January 2000.

16. Agostini, A., M. Divitini: “Contextualized Traces for Multiple Purposes in Campiello”, presented at the CSCW2000 workshop on “Dealing With Community Data”, Philadelphia, USA, December 2000.

17. Farshchian, Babak A., Monica Divitini: “A Product Centered Approach to support Learning Communities”, Proc. I3 workshop on “Supporting Learning Communities”, Athens, March 2000.

18. Divitini, Monica: Supporting Coordination: A Multi-agent Approach. In Jiming Liu and Ning Zhong (eds.) Proc. 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Systems, Methodologies, and Tools, IAT. World Scientific, 1999, pp. 467--471 (A longer version appeared in the Proc. NIK’99, pp. 371-382).)

19. Divitini, M., Babak A. Farshchian: “Collaboration and Coordination through Basic Internet Tools: a case study”. Proc. WORLD MULTICONFERENCE SCI/ISAS'99, Orlando, Florida. 1999, pp. 550-554.

20. Jaccheri, M.L., M. Baldi & M. Divitini: “Evaluating the requirements for process modeling languages and systems”. Proc. WORLD MULTICONFERENCE SCI/ISAS'99, Orlando, Florida, 1999, 570-577.


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21. Ramampiaro, H., M. Divitini & S. A. Petersen: “Agent-based groupware: Challenges for cooperative transaction models”, International Process Technology Workshop (IPTW), Grenoble, France, September 1999 - (available at http://www-adele.imag.fr/IPTW).

22. Petersen, S. A., M. Divitini & M. Matskin: “An Agent-based approach to modeling Virtual Enterprises”, in the Proc. IFIP International Enterprise Modelling Conference (IEMC ’99), Verdal, Norway, June 1999.

23. Mihhail Matskin, Monica Divitini & Sobah Abbas Petersen: "An Architecture for Multi-Agent Support in a Distributed Information Technology Application", in Holsten, A., Joeris, G. Klauck, C., Klush, M., Muller, H.-J. &J.P. Muller (eds.), Proc. Workshop on Intelligent Agents in Information and Process Management, KI'98, TZI-Bericht no.9-1998, pp. 47-58 (also in Proc. NIK98 Conference, November, 1998).

24. Farshchian, Babak A., Monica Divitini: “Using Email and WWW in a Distributed Participatory Design Project”, Proc. IGROUP’98, see (Divitini, Farshchian and Tuikka, 1998).

25. Simone, C., M. Divitini: "LAP-based mechanisms for Maintaining the Context of Cooperation", in the Proc. Second International Workshop on Communication Modeling (LAP'97), Veldhoven, The Netherlands, June 9-10, 1997.

26. Farshchian, B. A., M. Divitini: “ICE: A highly tailorable system for building collaboration spaces on the WWW'', presented at the workshop on "Tailorable Groupware: Issues, Methods, and Architectures", in conjunction with Group 97, November 16-19, 1997 Phoenix, Arizona, USA

27. Divitini, M., C. Simone and K. Schmidt: "ABACO: Coordination Mechanisms in a Multi-agent Perspective", in COOP Group (ed.) Proc. 2nd International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Juan-les-Pins, France, June 12-14, 1996, INRIA, 1996, 103-122.

28. Divitini, M., T. Tuikka: "Steps for Developing Coordination Support", in F. L. B. Dahlbom, U. Nuldén, K. Simon, C. Sørensen & J. Stage (eds.) Proc. IRIS 19, Lokeberg, Sweden, August 10-13, 1996, Gothenburg Studies in Informatics, 1996, vol. 2, 823-840.

29. Divitini, M.: "ABACO: an agent based architecture for realizing flexible CSCW systems", in F. L. B. Dahlbom, U. Nuldén, K. Simon, C. Sørensen & J. Stage (eds.) Proc. IRIS 19, Lokeberg, Sweden, August 10-13, 1996, Gothenburg Studies in Informatics, 1996, vol. 1, 213-230.

30. Divitini, M., C. Simone: "Ariadne: a framework to construct flexible workflow systems", Workshop on "Adaptive Workflows", PAKM'96, First International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, Basel, Switzerland, October 1996.

31. Divitini, M., C. Simone: "Learning, memory and technology: some initial considerations" ACM SIGOIS Bulletin, vol. 17, no. 3, December 1996. (Presented as position paper at the workshop "CSCW and Organizational Learning", in conjunction with CSCW'96, Boston, MA, November 1996)

32. Simone, C., M. Divitini, and K. Schmidt: "A notation for malleable and interoperable mechanisms of interaction for CSCW systems", Proc. COOCS'95. Conference on Organizational Computing Systems, Milpitas, CA, 13-16 August 1995, 44-54.

33. Divitini, M., C. Simone and K. Schmidt: "Ariadne: a multi-agent approach to Coordination Mechanisms", In ECSCW'95 - Conference Supplement, Stockholm, Sweden, 1995.

34. Divitini, M., C. Simone, K. Schmidt and P. Carstensen: "A multi-agent approach to the design of coordination mechanisms", in V. Lesser (ed.) Proc. First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, San Francisco, CA, June 12-14, 1995.

35. Divitini, M. and C. Simone: "A Prototype for Providing Users with the Contexts of Cooperation", Proc. Seventh European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Bonn, Germany, September 1994, GMD-Studien nr.233, 253-270.

36. Divitini, M. and C. Simone: "Adaptivity in a system supporting cooperation". Proc. Fourth International Conference on User Modeling, Hyannis, MA, August, 1994, User Modeling Inc., 59-64

37. Divitini, M., G. Omodei Sale', A. Pozzoli and C.Simone: "Supporting the Dynamics of Knowledge Sharing within Organizations", Proc. Conference on Organizational Computing Systems, Milpitas, CA, USA, November 1993, 178-183.

38. Divitini, M., C. Simone, R. Tinini: "Representing inconsistent and dynamic knowledge for supporting communication within cooperative groups", Third International Colloquium on Cognitive Science, San Sebastian, Spain, 1993.

Other international publications


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39. Agostini, A, M. Divitini & A. Munro: “Evaluation of the Campiello Project: methodology, experiment, and results”, Deliverable 1.4, Campiello Project, September 2000.

40. Schwartz, D. G., M. Divitini, and T. Brasethvik: “IIIS-99, workshop report”, Library Hi Tech News, MCB University Press Publication, vol. 17, no.2, pp. 6-10, 1999.

41. Monica Divitini: "Coordinating Cooperative Work: A framework for the design of flexible computer-based support", Ph.D. thesis defended 20 Dec. 1999, Dept. Computer Science, Aalborg University, Publication No. 3, ISSN no. 1399-8145, 206 p.

42. Simone, Carla, Kjeld Schmidt, Peter Carstensen, and Monica Divitini: Ariadne: Towards a technology of coordination, Risø National Laboratory, P.O. Box 49, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, 1996. [Risø-R-943(EN)]

43. Divitini, M., C. Simone and C. Vogliotti Quaranta: "Coordination Mechanisms in a multi-agent perspective", in L. Navarro (ed.) Demonstrator prototypes of Computational Mechanisms of Interaction, COMIC, Esprit Basic Research Project 6225. Lancaster, U.K.: Computing Department, Lancaster University. - [COMIC Deliverable 3.4.], 1996.

44. Schmidt, K., C. Simone, M. Divitini, P. Carstensen, and C. Sørensen: "A `contrat sociale' for CSCW systems: Supporting interoperability of computational coordination mechanisms", Working Papers in Cognitive Science and HCI, Roskilde University, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, 1995 [WPCS-95-7].

45. Divitini, M., C. Simone, K. Schmidt and P. Carstensen: "A `multi-agent approach to the design of coordination mechanisms", Working Papers in Cognitive Science and HCI, Roskilde University, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark, 1995. [WPCS-95-5].

46. Simone, C., M. Divitini and A. Pozzoli: "Towards an Architecture based on a three Level Notation for Mechanisms of Interaction", in Simone, C. and K. Schmidt (eds.) A Notation for Computational Mechanisms of Interaction, COMIC, Esprit Basic Research Project 6225. Lancaster, U.K.: Computing Department, Lancaster University, 1995. - [COMIC Deliverable 3.3.].

Other national publications47. Divitini, M., C. Simone: "ABACO in the design of cooperative systems", Workshop on "Agents: theories,

languages, architectures and applications" - AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence), Napoli, Italy, September 1996.

48. Divitini, M., O. Gentile, G. Omodei Salè, C. Simone and A. Zanetti: "CHAOS: User Reference Manual (v.2.1)", CNR Technical Report n°7/135, 1994.

49. Divitini, M., C. Simone: "Ontological Levels for Dynamic User Models in Collaborative Dialogs", Workshop "Intelligenza Artificiale Distribuita", AI*IA, Bari, Italy, 1993.

50. Divitini, M., C. Simone and R. Tinnii: "Modelli e Profili d'Utente in Chaos", CNR Technical Report - n.7/94, 1992.

51. Divitini, M. and R. Tinnii: "Analisi di messaggi in linguaggio naturale in un sistema di supporto alla comunicazione". Proc. 31° A.I.C.A. Congress, Torino, Italy, October 1992, 683- 696.

52. Divitini, M., C. Simone and R. Tinini: "User Models and Profiles in the communication system Chaos", Workshop "Interazione adattiva uomo-macchina", AI*IA , Roma, Italy, 1992.

SU-4 Five most important papers of Monica Divitini

a) Divitini, M. & C. Simone "A computational model of communication for reducing linguistic opacity based on the Language-Action perspective", Information and Organization (was AMIT -Accounting, Management and Information Technologies), Pergamon - Elsevier Science, Vol.11, No. 3, 2001, pp. 157-186.

b) Divitini, M. & C. Simone "Supporting different dimensions of workflow adaptability", Computer Supported Cooperative Work, The Journal of Collaborative Computing, special issues on Adaptive Workflow. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Vol. 9:3, 2000, pp. 365-397

c) Simone, C., M. Divitini "Integrating contexts for supporting cooperation: the CHAOS Project", International Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Kluwer Academic Publishers, vol. 8, no.3, 1999, pp. 239-283.


d) Divitini, M., Hanachi, C. & Sibertin-Blanc, C. “Inter-organizational Workflow for Enterprise Coordination”, in Omicini, A., Zambonelli, F., Klusch, M. & Tolksdorf, R. (eds.) “Coordination of Internet Agents: Models, Technologies, and Applications”, Springer, pp. 369-398, 2001.

e) Agostini, A, G. De Michelis, & M. Divitini “Ubiquitous access to community knowledge via multiple interfaces: design and experiences”, Proc. First International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interactions, New Orleans, LA, USA, August 2001.

SU-4 Personal comments by Monica Divitini

My main research area is Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), a multidisciplinary field whose goal is to understand and support people working together. One of the main focuses of my research has been, and partly still is, on the development of systems supporting coordination in highly dynamic settings, as reported in my Ph.D. dissertation. My interest in this field started with my Master thesis, where I studied the development of a natural language interface for CHAOS, a pioneering project for supporting cooperation. After this, I got involved in COMIC, a multi-disciplinary long-term project that allowed bringing together researchers with different perspectives and focuses. (The COMIC Project is one of the European Commission's 101 Success Stories from ESPRIT.) In the context of this project I have been working with a Danish team of sociologists and computer scientists. After COMIC was over, I was invited to join the group as visiting research. In Denmark I also took my Ph.D. at the University of Aalborg. My staying in Denmark has allowed opening my horizon on what doing research was all about. Coming from a mainly theoretical school, the encounter with the Scandinavian tradition has been a cultural shock, a very beneficial one! I have learned to look at problems from a completely different perspective, at the same time taking advantage of my previous background. Since then my research has always tried to build bridges between theoretical and empirical approaches to research.Moving to Norway I met yet another context, where my “soft” computer science background met with the engineering tradition. The encounter was again very beneficial, so much that I decided later on to accept a position as Associate professor at the department. The Software Engineering group has proved for me to be a positive environment, with research interests and methods sometimes in line, sometimes complementary to mine, creating a creative context for research. It is worth also to mention that the Software Engineering group has very strong industrial contact. This is very important for me because my experience with industry is poor and I am deeply interested at working more with this aspect. The starting collaboration with Telenor in the context of learning and mobility is a first step in this direction.Last year I also took a period of leave during which I have been involved in the Campiello project, one of the CI (Connected Community and Inhabited Information Spaces) projects of i3 research programme, funded by EU. This experience, mainly connected with the experimentation and evaluation of a community-ware tool, has allowed an interesting widening of my research interests; one that I consider very important in the context of my CSCW interests since communities are gaining more and more attention in this field. Lately, I have started to apply and extend my experience in CSCW to the context of community memories and learning. In this context, research, educational institutions, and industry alike seem to recognize the need for more support to cooperation.


SU-5 Post.Doc. Dr.Ing. Alf Inge Wang

SU-5 CV for Alf Inge Wang

Personalia:Alf Inge Wang, born 10 April 1970, Levanger, Norway. Norwegian Citizen.Married with Inger Synnøve and has two children.

Home address:Jonsvannsv. 87A, N-7050 Trondheim, Norway

Education: Military officer school (Heimevernet), Kongsvinger, Norway 1989-1990 B.Sc. in Micro Electronics, Trondheim Ingeniør-Høgskole (TIH), Norway (1993) M.Sc. in Computer Science, Norges Tekniske Høyskole (NTH), Norway (1995) Ph.D. in Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway (march

2001)

Present job and work address:

Postdoc at Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI)Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway.Phone +47 73 594485, Fax +47 73 594466, Email [email protected]

Scientific interests:

Software process, Workflow, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Software agents, and Web-based systems.

Jobs held and stays abroad:

Summer 1994, TIH: Developing systems using Novell network and Masterflex. Autumn 1994, TIH: Teaching starting course in Computer Science (MSDos, Windows, Network) Summer 1995, NTH: Developing cooperative and GUI support in a Configuration Management system

(EPOS) running on Unix. Summer 1995: Heimevernet (Military unit), Instructor and teaching supervisor in inital course for

military leadership. 1996-1997, NTH: Researcher involved in the projects EPOS and ESPIRIT. In EPOS the main focus was

on development of GUI, management of process changes, a product recognizer tool (X-files) and integration of a process modeling system and a configuration management system. The Renaissance project was an ESPRIT-project (European) focusing on re-engineering of legacy systems.

1/3-1/9 1999, University of Manchester (UK): Stayed in the Information Process Group (IPG) for 6 months experimenting with IPG’s own workflow prototype ProcessWeb, and developed own workflow prototype CAGIS Simple Process.

Projects:

EPOS: Expert system for system development, 1995-1997 Renaissance: Re-engineering of legacy systems, (ESPRIT), 1996-1998 CAGIS: Cooperative Agents in Global Information Space, 1997-2001 MOWAHS: MObile Work Across Heterogeneous Systems, 2001-2004


SU-5 Publications for Alf Inge Wang Journal papers:

1. Torgeir Dingsøyr, Letizia M. Jaccheri, and Alf Inge Wang: "Teaching Software Process Improvement through a Case Study" (long version), In Journal Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Special Issue: Contributions from the International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education, Editor Magdy F. Iskander, Volume 8, number 3 and 4, 2000, pages 229-234.

2. Reidar Conradi, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, and Chunnian Liu: "Planning Support to Software Process Evolution" (long version), In "International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Special Issue: Best papers from SEKE'98", Guest editors Mark Gerken and Yi Deng, Volume 10, Number 1, February 2000.

Book chapters:3. Alf Inge Wang: "Using a Mobile, Agent-based Environment to Support Cooperative Software Processes",

IDI-rapport 2001:2, NTNU PhD thesis 2001:11, ISBN 82-7984-172-5, ISSN 0802-6394, Feb. 5 2001, 407 p. Su-report 2/2001.

4. Reidar Conradi and Alf Inge Wang: “Kapittel 10: Beskrivelse av programvareprosesser” (in Norwegian), In Tore Dybå (Ed.): “Software Process Improvement for better Quality (SPIQ)”, SPIQ Metodehåndbok.

International conference/workshop papers:5. Alf Inge Wang and Chunnian Liu: "Process Support for Mobile Work across Heterogeneous Systems", In

Vincenzo Ambriola (Ed.): “Proc. Eight European Workshop in Software Process Technology (EWSPT'8)”, Witten (near Dortmund), Germany, 19-21 June 2001, Springer LNCS 2077, p. 117-129.

6. Alf Inge Wang: "Using software agents to support evolution of distributed workflow models", Proc. "International ICSC Symposium on INTERACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING (ICC'2000)" at International ICSC Congress on INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS (ISA'2000), Wollongong (near Sydney), Australia, December 12-15, 2000. 7 p.

7. Heri Ramampiaro, Alf Inge Wang, and Terje Brasethvik: "Supporting Distributed Cooperative Work in CAGIS", Proc. "Fourth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications" (SEA'2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 6-9 November 2000. 10 p.

8. Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi, and Chunnian Liu: "Integrating Workflow with Interacting Agents to support Cooperative Software Engineering", Proc. ”Fourth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications" (SEA'2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 6-9 November 2000. 8 p.

9. Alf Inge Wang, Anders Aas Hanssen, and Bård Smidsrød Nymoen: "Design Principles for a Mobile, Multi-Agent Architecture for Cooperative Software Engineering", Proc. “Fourth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications" (SEA'2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 6-9 November 2000. 6 p.

10. Alf Inge Wang: "Experience paper: Implementing a Multi-Agent Architecture for Cooperative Software Engineering", Proc. Twelfth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering" (SEKE'2000), 15 pages, Chicago, USA, July 6-8, 2000.

11. Alf Inge Wang: "Support for Mobile Software Processes in CAGIS", Proc. "Seventh European Workshop on Software Process Technology" (EWSPT'2000), 16 pages, Kaprun, Austria, February 22-25, 2000.

12. Alf Inge Wang: "Experience paper: Using XML to implement a workflow tool", Proc. "3rd Annual IASTED International Conference Software Engineering and Applications" (SEA'99), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, October 6-8, 1999. 15 p.

13. Torgeir Dingsøyr, Letizia M. Jaccheri, and Alf Inge Wang: "Teaching Software Process Improvement through a Case Study", "International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education 99 (ICECE'99)", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 11-14 1999.


14. Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi, and Chunnian Liu: "A Multi-Agent Architecture for Cooperative Software Engineering", Proc. “Eleventh International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering" (SEKE`99), Kaiserslautern, Germany, 17-19 June 1999. 8 p.

15. Alf Inge Wang, Jens-Otto Larsen, Reidar Conradi, and Bjørn P. Munch: "Improving Cooperative Support in the EPOS CM system", Proc. “Sixth European Workshop in Software Process Technology", Springer, Weybridge, UK, September 16-18, 1998. page 75-91.

16. Reidar Conradi, Minh Ngoc Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, and Chunnian Liu: "Planning Support to Software Process Evolution", "Eight International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE)", San Francisco, USA, 18-20 June 1998, 16 p. SU-report 1/98.

17. Minh N. Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, and Reidar Conradi: "Total Software Process Model Evolution in EPOS", Proc. ICSE'97, 21-23 May 1997, Boston, USA, p. 390-399. ACM/IEEE-CS Press. SU-report 8/97.

National conference/workshop papers:

18. Alf Inge Wang, Jens-Otto Larsen, Reidar Conradi, and Bjørn P. Munch: "Improving Cooperative Support in the EPOS CM system" (NIK-version), Proc. "Norsk Informatikkonferanse 1998” (NIK’98), Høgskolen i Agder, 23-25 November 1998, p. 67-78.

19. Torgeir Dingsøyr, Letizia M. Jaccheri, and Alf Inge Wang: "Teaching Software Process Improvement through a Case Study" (NIK-version), Proc. "Norsk Informatikkonferanse 1999” (NIK’99), Trondheim, November 1999.

20. Heri Ramampiaro, Alf Inge Wang, and Terje Brasethvik: "Supporting Distributed Cooperative Work in CAGIS" (NIK-version), Proc. “Norsk Informatikkonferanse 2000”, Bodø, 20-22 November, 2000.

Publications in progress

21. Alf Inge Wang and Reidar Conradi: “An evaluation of a Cooperative Process Support Environment”, 10 p., Submitted to ICSE’2002 in Sept. 2001.

22. Alf Inge Wang: “Using JavaSpaces to implement a mobile multi-agent system” To be submitted to SEA’2002.

Other written material:

23. Alf Inge Wang: Evaluation of a Cooperative Process Support Environment, IDI-report 9/00, ISSN-NO 0802-6394, Dec. 5 2000, 73 p.

24. Alf Inge Wang: “State-of-the-art of distributed database systems”, Technical report about distributed database systems, 28 April 1998.

25. Alf Inge Wang: “Use of Object Orientation in Process Modeling Languages”, Technical report about OO-technology in PMLs, 28 May 1998.

26. Reidar Conradi, Jens-Otto Larsen, Minh Nguyen, Alf Inge Wang, and Chunnian Liu: "Transaction models for software engineering database", Proc. "Dagstuhl Workshop on Software Engineering Databases", Germany, March 1997, 51 p. (slides).

27. Alf Inge Wang: "Exercise in process modeling", Proc. "PROMOTER/RENOIR Summer School on Software Process Technology", Grenoble, France, July 1997, 18 p. (slides).

28. Alf Inge Wang: “Presentation of EPOS” (in Norwegian), 1996.

SU-5 Five most important papers of Alf Inge Wanga) Alf Inge Wang: "Support for Mobile Software Processes in CAGIS", Proc. "Seventh European

Workshop on Software Process Technology" (EWSPT'2000), 16 pages, Kaprun, Austria, February 22-25, 2000.


b) Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi, and Chunnian Liu: "A Multi-Agent Architecture for Cooperative Software Engineering", Proc. "Eleventh International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering" (SEKE`99), Kaiserslautern, Germany, 17-19 June 1999. 8 p.

c) Alf Inge Wang, Reidar Conradi, and Chunnian Liu: "Integrating Workflow with Interacting Agents to support Cooperative Software Engineering", Proc. "Fourth IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications" (SEA'2000), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 6-9 November 2000. 8 p.

d) Alf Inge Wang, Jens-Otto Larsen, Reidar Conradi, and Bjørn P. Munch: "Improving Cooperative Support in the EPOS CM system", Proc. “Sixth European Workshop in Software Process Technology", Springer, Weybridge, UK, September 16-18, 1998. page 75-91.

e) Torgeir Dingsøyr, Letizia M. Jaccheri, and Alf Inge Wang: "Teaching Software Process Improvement through a Case Study" (long version), In Journal Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Special Issue: Contributions from the International Conference on Engineering and Computer Education, Editor Magdy F. Iskander, Volume 8, number 3 and 4, 2000, pages 229-234.

SU-5 Personal statement by Alf Inge Wang

My introduction to computer science research was the EPOS project, where my focus was on how to provide cooperative user support to solve access conflicts where users tried to change the same files. This work resulted in a list of functionality a Configuration Management (CM) system should have to deal conflicts due to sharing of files in a cooperative way. The functionality was also implemented in the EPOS CM system and we reported experiences from using this cooperative support (paper d above). At the same time I was involved in an ESPRIT project called RENAISSANCE where the objective was to provide a framework for re-engineering of legacy systems. My effort in the project was mainly on middleware for migrating legacy systems to be useful in a modern context (GUI, data migration, system wrapping etc). I also started to work on another part of the EPOS project where the main focus was on how to provide a flexible support for modeling and execution of software processes. An important part of this work was to add functionality to the EPOS system to enable the process models to change dynamically.

My involvement in the EPOS project was a starting point for my next project: Cooperative Agents in the Global Information Space (CAGIS). In the CAGIS project, my responsibility was to create models and tools for supporting distributed, cooperative working processes. The result of this work is a framework, called CAGIS Process Centered Environment (PCE), divided into three main parts: 1) A simple workflow model and tool to support individual activities (paper a). 2) A multi-agent architecture to support cooperative activities involving two or more roles (paper b). 3) A process middleware model and tool to integrate the workflow tool and the multi-agent system (paper c). Later experimentation with the CAGIS PCE showed that the most important part of the framework is the process middleware allowing different workflow and agent systems to federate and providing a flexible way of dealing with process changes.

Most of my research has focused on implementation of systems that have later on been applied to some scenarios. I have also been working with case studies involving students. Paper e describes such a case study where students have been investigating how some software companies relate to issues like software quality and software process.

Today my research focuses on how to provide process support for people working in heterogeneous, mobile environments. The results of this work will be a framework for characterizing mobile work, and models and tools to support mobile work using various electronic devices (laptops, palmtops, mobile phones etc.).


SU-6 Post.Doc Marco Torchiano, Ph.D.

SU-6 CV for Marco Torchiano

Personalia: Marco TORCHIANO, born 6 May 1971, Asti, Italy. Italian citizen.

Education2000, January: Ph.D. in Computer and System Engineering from Politecnico di Torino.1997, January: passed State Professional Engineer exam.1996, May: M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. Final mark: 110/110.

Present job and work addressPost Doc. at Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI)Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)N-7491 Trondheim NorwayPhone: +47 735 94489, eMail: [email protected]

Languages: Italian mother tongue, English fluent, French school level.

Scientific profile

Programming languages (C, C++, Java, Pascal, Fortran), database (SQL), data mining, operating systems, object-oriented analysis and design (UML), web-based systems, compilers, discrete event simulation, software-based hardware fault-tolerance.

Member of IEEE Computer SocietyAs of September 2001: authored 22 international papers.

Teaching

Teacher of courses in C++ programming and database systems at Politecnico di Torino.Teaching assistant of C++, Java, compilers and software engineering courses at Politecnico di Torino.

Jobs heldMarch 1996 to September 1996: Consulting at Mizar.June 1996 to December 1996: Stage at Marelli Ricambi.May 2000 to April 2001: Researcher under contract at Politecnico di Torino.

SU-6 Publication list for Marco Torchiano

Journal and Magazine papers:1. Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno and Marco Torchiano: “An Operational Approach to the Design of

Workflow Systems”. Information and Software Technology 42(8), pages 547-555, Elsevier Science, May 2000.

2. Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: “Making CIMOSA Operational: the experience with the PrimeObjects Tool”. Computers in Industry 40(2-3), pages 279-291, Elsevier Science, November 1999.

3. Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno and Marco Torchiano: “Developing Operational Models using O3ML”. Computer Science and Informatics, 27(2), pages 1-11, Computer Society of India, June 1997.

4. Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno and Marco Torchiano. “Static, dynamic and run-time modeling of compound classes”, ACM SIGPLAN Notices 31(11), pages 49-55, ACM Press, November 1996.

Book chapters:5. Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: "Process Enabled Information Systems". In B. Sharp, J. Filipe, J. Cordeiro

editors “Enterprise Information Systems II”, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ISBN 0-7923-7177-1, July, 2001.



Papers at conferences and workshops:6. Maurizio Morisio and Marco Torchiano: "Definition and classification of COTS: a proposal”, Accepted at

Int’l Conf. on COTS Based Software Systems (ICCBSS), Orlando, Florida, USA, 4-6 Feb. 2002, 10 p. SU-report 1/2002.

7. Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: "Model Based Web Applications". Accepted for 4th Int’l Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2001), Gopalpur-on-Sea, India, December 20 - 22, 2001.

8. Maurizio Rebaudengo, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Massimo Violate, and Marco Torchiano: "A source-to-source compiler for generating dependable software". Accepted for IEEE Int'l Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM'2001), Florence, Italy, 10 Nov. 2001, 10 p. SU-report 16/2001.

9. Letizia Jaccheri, Tor Stålhane, and Marco Torchiano: "Lessons learnt from developing and changing an educational three tier system", Accepted for OOPSLA workshop #23 on "The Three-Tier Architecture Pattern", 15 Oct. 2001, Seattle., 3 p. SU-report 17/2001

10. Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: "Object Model for Model Based Applications". Proc. 3rd Int’l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2001), Sétubal, Portugal, July 7-10, 2001, pp. 104-109.

11. Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: "Developing Instance Model Based Applications". Proc. 8th IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems. Washington, D.C., USA, April 17-20, 2001, pp. 214-221.

12. G. Bruno, M. Torchiano, R. Agarwal: “Instance modeling - beyond object-oriented modeling”. Proc. 3rd Int’l Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2000). Bhubaneswar, India, December 21-23, 2000.

13. R. Agarwal, G. Bruno and M. Torchiano. “Enterprise modeling using class models and instance models”. To Appear Proc. IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2000). Singapore, December 3-5, 2000, pp. 336-343.

14. M. Rebaudengo, M. Sonza Reorda, M. Torchiano, M. Violante. “An experimental evaluation of the effectiveness of automatic rule-based transformations for safety-critical applications”. IEEE Int’l Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT2000), Yamanashi, Japan, October 25-27, 2000, pp. 257-265.

15. G. Bruno, M. Torchiano: ”Process Enabled Information Systems”. Proc. 2nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2000), pages 32-37, Stafford, UK, July 4-7, 2000, pp. 32-37.

16. R. Agarwal, G. Bruno and M. Torchiano: “Modeling Complex Systems: Class models and instance models”. Proc. International Conference on Information Technology (CIT'99), Bhubaneswar, India, December 20-22, 1999.

17. M. Rebaudengo, M. Sonza Reorda, M. Torchiano, M. Violante: “Soft-error detection through software fault-tolerance techniques”. Proc. 1999 IEEE Int’l Symp. on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT'99), Albuquerque, USA, November 1-3, 1999, pp. 210-218.

18. Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno and Marco Torchiano: “Object-Oriented architectural support for developing complex systems”. Proc. 23rd Int’l Annual Computer Software and Application Conference (COMPSAC'99), Phoenix, USA, October 27-29, 1999, pp. 259-264.

19. Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno and Marco Torchiano: “Modeling of Distributed Workflow Systems”. In Rabi N. Mahapatra editor, Proc. Int’l Conf. on Information Technology, pages 143-148, Bhubaneswar, December 21-23, 1998.

20. Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno and Marco Torchiano: “Making Informational Models Operational”. In K. Siau editor, Proc. Third CAiSE/IFIP8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in System Analysis and Design, Pisa, Italy, June 8-9, 1998.

21. Giorgio Bruno, Carla Reyneri and Marco Torchiano: “Enterprise Integration: operational models of business processes and workflow systems”. In Enterprise Engineering and Integration: Building International Consensus: Proc. ICEIMT'97, Torino, Italy, October 28-30, 1997, K. Kosanke and J. G. Nell editors, pages 408-419, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1997.

22. Giorgio Bruno, Rakesh Agarwal, Marco Torchiano: “Simulating Object-Oriented Models”, Proc. 8th European Simulation Symposium ESS96 vol II, pp. 354-358, SCS publication, October 1996, Genova Italy.

Theses (in Italian):23. M. Torchiano. Modellazione e progettazione ad oggetti di sistemi software distribuiti. PhD Thesis, Dip.

Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, January 2000.


24. M. Torchiano. Modellazione operazionale di architetture ad oggetti. MSc Thesis, Dip. Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, May 1996.

SU-6 Five most important papers of Marco Torchiano

a) Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: "An Operational Approach to the Design of Workflow Systems" In Information and Software Technology, 42(8), Elsevier Science, May, 2000, pp. 547-555.

b) Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: "Making CIMOSA Operational: the experience with the PrimeObjects Tool". In Computers in Industry, 40(2-3), Elsevier Science, November, 1999, pp. 279-291.

c) Maurizio Morisio, Marco Torchiano: "Definition and Classification of COTS: a proposal". Accepted for International Conference on COTS Based Software Systems (ICCBBS), Orlando (FL), February 4-6, 2002, 10 p., SU-report 1/2002.

d) Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: "Enterprise modeling using class models and instance models", Proc. IEEE 7th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2000). Singapore, December 3-5, 2000, pp. 336-343.

e) Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: "Process Enabled Information Systems" Proc. 2nd Int’l Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2000), Stafford, UK, July 4-7, 2000, pp. 32-37.

SU-6 Personal statement by Marco Torchiano

I can divide my scientific career into two phases: the first a Politecnico di Torino, and the second at IDI-NTNU. They are two very different environments both from a scientific and social point of view. The first phase of my research was devoted to model-based development of computer-based system, in particular enterprise information systems. Such period has been mostly oriented to innovative software technology, giving me an in depth practical knowledge of how software system are built. This former phase was mainly conducted using an engineering approach to research: given a problem build a system that solves the problem, evaluate it and improve it. Research was devoted to OO enterprise modeling; applying a software technique in a business context posed several conceptual and methodological problems. Some original contributions emerged from my research on the OO methodology. In the second and current phase of my career the focus has moved to empirical methods. But the influence of the methodological approach is still visible. Currently I’m working on a framework to understand and systematize knowledge on off-the-shelf software products. Recently I got interested in software architecture and my plan for future research is to make converge the product framework, empirical methods and software architecture.


SU-X Publications from other SU members in 1992-2001Note: IDI was named IDB in 1972-1986, and IDT in 1987-1996.NTNU was named NTH in 1995 and before.

Journal papers:

1. Tore Dybå: “Improvisation in Small Software Organizations'', IEEE Software, Vol. 17, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2000, pp. 82-87. SU-report 24/2000.

2. Tore Dybå: “An Instrument for Measuring the Key Factors of Success in Software Process Improvement'', Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, Dec. 2000, p. 357-390. SU-report 25/2000.

3. Tore Dybå: “Assessment-Based Software Process Improvement'', Telektronikk 1/99 (special issue on Software Quality in Telecommunication), Vol. 95, 1999, p. 37-47. SU-report 31/99.

4. Tore Dybå and Øystein Skogstad: “Measurement-Based Software Process Improvement'', Telektronikk, Vol. 93, 1/97, 1997.

5. Eirik Tryggeseth: “Report from an Experiment: Impact of Paper Documentation on Maintenance'', Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, 2(2):201-207, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997. SU-report 26/97.

6. Victor R. Basili, Scott Green, Oliver Laitenberger, Filippo Lanubile, Forrest Shull, Sivert Sørumgård, and Marvin Zelkowitz: “The Empirical Investigation of Perspective-Based Reading'', Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 133--164, 1996. SU-report 15/97.

7. Andreas L. Opdahl and Guttorm Sindre: “Real-World Modelling'', In James G. Williams (Ed.): “Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology'', vol. 37, suppl. 22, p. 307-321, Marcel Dekker, N.Y., August 1997. Also to appear in Allen Kent (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Marcel Dekker, New York. SU-report 1/97.

8. Andreas L. Opdahl and Guttorm Sindre: “Facet Modelling: an Approach to Flexible and Integrated Conceptual Modelling'', Information Systems 22(5):291-323, Pergamon Press, 1997. SU-report 2/97.

9. John Krogstie and Guttorm Sindre: “Utilizing Deontic Operators in Information Systems Specification'', Requirements Engineering Journal, 1:210-237, December 1996. SU-report 7/97.

10. Even-André Karlsson, Guttorm Sindre: “Industrial Applications of the REBOOT Methodology'', International Journal of Applied Software Technology (special issue on software reuse), 1(3/4):203-218, Dec. 1995, SU-report 1/96.

11. Odd Ivar Lindland, Guttorm Sindre, Arne Sølvberg: “Understanding quality in conceptual modelling'', IEEE Software, March 1994, pp. 42-49. SU-report 7/94.

12. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: “A taxonomy for real-world modelling'', Information Systems, Vol. 19, No. 3 (April 1994), p. 229-241. SU-report 8/94.

13. Pakstas, Algirdas and Pakstiene, Sonata: “Networking in Baltic Countries: Past, Present and Future'', IEEE Computer, September 1993, p. 25. Previous version in: Pakstas, Algirdas and Pakstiene, Sonata: “Networking in Baltic Countries: Growing Matrix'', 11 p. Matrix News, April, 1993.

14. Algirdas Pakstas, Sonata Pakstiene: “Networking in Baltic Countries: Past Present and Future (attempt of review)'', 12 p., 1992. In Bajt, Prague, Czechoslovakia (in Czech).

15. Algirdas Pakstas and Sonata Pakstiene: “IT in the Baltic States'', p. 18-20. The Computer Bulletin, Vol.4, Part 3, June/July 1992.


Chapters in books:16. Tore Dybå: “Planlegging av forbedringsprogrammer'', som kap. 3 i T. Dybå (red.): “SPIQ metodebok i

prosessforbedring'', NTNU, IDI-rapport no. 2-2000, ISSN 0802-6394, 14 Jan. 2000. (No SU-report.)

17. Tore Dybå: “Planlegging av pilotprosjekter'' og “Gjennomføring av pilotprosjekter'',Som kap. 6 og 7 i T. Dybå (red.): “SPIQ metodebok i prosessforbedring'', NTNU, IDI-rapport no. 2-2000, ISSN 0802-6394, 14 Jan. 2000. (No SU-report.)

18. Eirik Tryggeseth et al.: “Chapter 5: Architectural Modeling for Evolution'', p. 63-83, In Ian Warren: The Renaissance of Legacy Systems: Method Support for Software System Evolution'' (The Method Book from the RENAISSANCE ESPRIT Project in 1996-98, project no. 22010), Springer Practitioner Series, 1999, 182 p. SU-report 2/99.

19. Guttorm Sindre, Sivert Sørumgård, and Even-André Karlsson: “Managing a repository'', In Even-André Karlsson (Ed.): Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach, Chapter 3 (p. 79-112), ISBN 0 471-95489, John Wiley & Sons., 1995. SU-report 9/95.

20. Tor Stålhane and Magnus Ahlgren: “Measuring the effect of reuse'', In Even-André Karlsson (Ed.): Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach, Chapter 4 (p. 113-180), ISBN 0 471-95489, John Wiley & Sons., 1995. SU-report 10/95.

21. Sigurd Thunem: “Object-oriented development for reuse'', In Even-André Karlsson (Ed.): Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach, Chapter 9 (p. 287-342), ISBN 0 471-95489, John Wiley & Sons., 1995. SU-report 11/95.

Books and edited proceedings:

22. Tore Dybå (Ed.): “Software Process Improvement for better Quality (SPIQ): Methodology Handbook (in Norwegian)”, versjon 3.0, NTNU, IDI-rapport no. 2-2000, ISSN 0802-6394, 14 Jan. 2000. SU-report 20/99.

23. M. Paci and S. Hallsteinsen: “Experiences in Software Evolution and Reuse'', ESPRIT Research Reports, Volume 1, Springer Verlag, 1997, 146 p. (Case studies from 15 European Software Reuse Projects, done in ESPRIT Project 9809, Software Evolution and Reuse (SER): Bull SA, ATC, EP-Frameworks, Q-Labs, Sema-Group sae, Sintef, TTB, and TXT Ingegneria.)

24. Even-André Karlsson (Ed.): “Software Reuse: A Holistic Approach'', ISBN 0 471-95489, John Wiley & Sons., 1995, 510 p. SINTEF/NTH responsible for Chs. 2 (Development FOR reuse), 3 (Library Organization) and 4 (Metrics).

Papers at refereed international conferences and workshops:25. Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland: "Distance learning and multimedia: Overview and some design issues”,

Accepted at PCHCI’2001, Dec. 2001, Patras, Greece, 6 p.

26. Torgeir Dingsøyr: "Using Groupware to learn Software Process Improvement", Accepted for International Conference on Engineering Education, Oslo, 6-8 August, 2001. SU-report 9/2001.

27. Torgeir Dingsøyr, Nils Brede Moe, and Øystein Nytrø: "Augmenting Experience Reports with Lightweight Postmortem Reviews", Later in Frank Bomarius and Seija Komi-Sirviø (Eds.): “Proc. 3rd Int'l Conf. on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES'2001), Kaiserslautern, September 10-13, 2001'', Springer LNCS 2188, p. 167-181. SU-report 12/2001.

28. Torgeir Dingsøyr and Emil Røyrvik: "Skills Management as Knowledge Technology in a Software Consultancy Company", Proc. Learning Software Organizations Workshop (LSO'2001), Kaiserslautern, 12-13 Sept. 2001, Springer LNCS 2176, p. 96-107. SU-report 13/2001.

29. Roxana Diaconescu: “An Object-Oriented Framework for Distributed Numerical Computations'', Accepted at OOPSLA'2001 doctoral symposium and poster session, Tampa, USA, 14-18 Oct. 2001, 3 p. SU-report 22/2001.


http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/projects/renaissance

30. Torgeir Dingsøyr: “Focus for Planned Research: Knowledge Management for Software Process Improvement'', 4 p., Proc. Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research (NWPER'2000), Lillehammer, Norway, 28-30 May, 2000, ISBN 82-7368-231-5, ISSN 0806-3036. SU-report 7/2000.

31. Torgeir Dingsøyr: “An Evaluation of Research on Experience Factory'', In Klaus-Dieter Althoff and Wolfgang Müller (Eds.): Proc. Second Int'l Conf. on Learning Software Organization (before PROFES'2000), Oulu, Finland, 20 June 2000. Technical Report, IESE Kaiserslautern, Germany, p. 55-66. SU-report 11/2000.

32. Torgeir Dingsøyr: “An Analysis of Process Support in Knowledge Management Tools for Software Engineering'', 5 p., Notes from Workshop on "Flexible strategies for maintaining knowledge containers" at the 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, 20-25 Aug. 2000. SU-report 15/2000.

33. Roxana Elena Diaconescu: “Designing Software for Simulating Incompressible Fluid Flow'',Proc. First SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 21-24 Sept. 2000, Washington D.C., abstract p64, 10 p. SU-report 16/2000.

34. Torgeir Dingsøyr: “A lifecycle process for experience databases'', In Sasha Schmitt and Ivo Vollrath (Eds.): Challenges for Case-Based Reasoning: Proc. International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR'99), Seeon, Germany, 27-30 July 1999, p. 9-13. Centre for Learning Systems and Applications, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Report #99-03E. SU-report 15/99.

35. Bjarte M. Østvold: “Synthesis of Recursive Functional Programs from Examples'', IDI-rapport 99:12, NTNU PhD thesis 1999:109, Oct. 1999, 118 p. SU-report 23/99.

36. Tore Dybå and Nils Brede Moe: “Rethinking the Concept of Software Process Assessment'', Proc. European Software Process Improvement Conference (EuroSPI’99), Pori, Finland, October 26--27, 1999, p. 7.11-7.23. SU-report 26/99.

37. Tore Dybå: “Popular Pitfalls of Data Analysis'', Workshop on Data Analysis at the European Software Process Improvement Conference (EuroSPI’99), Pori, Finland, October 26--27, 1999, p. 7.11-7.23. SU-report 27/99.

38. Jens-Otto Larsen, Helge Roald: “Introducing ClearCase as a Process Improvement Experiment'', In Boris Magnusson (Ed.): “Software Configuration Management'', Springer Verlag LNCS 1439, p. 1-12. ECOOP'98 SCM-8 Symposium, 20-21 June 1998, Brussels. SU-report 4/98.

39. Torgeir Dingsøyr: “Retrieval of Cases by using a Bayesian Network'', In David Aha and Jody Daniels (Eds.): “Case-Based Reasoning Integrations'', poster notes from the 1998 CBR Integrations Workshop at AAAI-98, AAI Press, ISBN 1-57735-068-5, p. 50-54. Madison, Wisconsin, July 1998. SU-report 7/98.

40. Lars Sivert Sørumgård: “Verification of Process Conformance in Empirical Studies of Software Development'', IDI-rapport 97:3, NTNU PhD thesis 1997:14, Feb. 1997, 252 p. SU-report 3/97.

41. Eirik Tryggeseth: “Support for Understanding in Software Maintenance'', IDI-rapport 97:4, NTNU PhD thesis 1997:13, 12 Feb. 1997, 347 p. SU-report 4/97.

42. Geir Magne Høydalsvik: “Experiences in Software Process Modelling and Enactment'', IDI-rapport 97:5, NTNU PhD thesis 1997:32, 9 March 1997, 237 p. SU-report 5/97.

43. Minh Ngoc Nguyen: “Framework and Approach for Managing Software Process Evolution in EPOS'', IDI-rapport 97:7, NTNU PhD thesis 1997:73, 22 May 1997, 297 p. SU-report 6/97.

44. Bjarte M. Østvold: “Inductive synthesis of recursive functional programs'', Poster presented at ACM International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP-97), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 1997, p. 323. SU-report 13/97.

45. Bjarte M. Østvold: “On inductive synthesis of declarative programs'', In Luc De Raedt and Stephen Muggleton (Eds.): Proc. IJCAI-97 Workshop on Frontiers of Inductive Logic Programming, Nagoya, Japan, August 1997, pp. 1-5. SU-report 16/97.


http://www.iese.fhg.de/LSOworkshop2000

46. Terje Totland: “Enterprise modelling as a means to support human sense-making and communication in organizations'', IDI-rapport 97:8, NTNU PhD thesis 1997:97, ISBN 82-471-0133-5, 29 Aug. 1997, 252 p. SU-report 18/97.

47. Sigurd Thunem: “Process Modeling for Process Improvement - A Process Conformance Approach Conformance'', IDI-rapport 97:9, NTNU PhD thesis 1997:101, ISBN 82-471-0138-6, 12 Sept. 1997, 328 p. SU-report 19/97.

48. Eirik Tryggeseth and Øystein Nytrø: “Dynamic Traceability Links Supported by a System Architecture Description'', Proc. International Conference on Software Maintenance, Bari, Italy, October 1-3, 1997, pp. 180-187. SU-report 25/97.

49. Andreas L. Opdahl and Guttorm Sindre: “Towards an Integrated, Simulative Framework for Real-World Modelling'', In Jay F. Nunamaker, jr. and Ralph H. Sprague, jr. (Eds.): “ Proc. Twenty-Ninth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICCS'29)'', Vol. III: “Information Systems - Collaboration Systems and Technology'', p. 515-524, Joint Minitrack on Business Process Re-engineering and the Dynamics of Organizations and Information Systems, Hawaii, USA., Jan.1996, ISBN 0-8186-7330-3, IEEE CS Press, 1996. SU-report 2/96.

50. Bjørn P. Munch: “HiCoV: Managing the Version Space'', In Ian Sommerville (Ed.): “Software Configuration Management, ICSE'96 SCM-6 Workshop, Berlin, Germany, March 1996 - Selected Papers'', Springer Verlag LNCS 1167, 1996, p. 110-126. Telenor R&D and NTNU, Trondheim. SU-report 4/96.

51. Joe Gorman, Bjørn Gulla: “Experiences with the use of a configuration language'', In Ian Sommerville (Ed.): “Software Configuration Management, ICSE'96 SCM-6 Workshop, Berlin, Germany, March 1996 - Selected Papers'', Springer Verlag LNCS 1167, 1996, p. 198-219. SU-report 5/96.

52. Jacqueline Floch, Bjørn Gulla: “Enabling Reuse with a Configuration Language'', Proc. 4th Int'l Conf. on Software Reuse, IEEE-CS/ACM, 23-26 April 1996, Orlando, FL, USA, 13 p. SU-report 6/96.

53. Catharina Lindheim, Terje Totland, Kristian M. Lien: “Enterprise Modeling - A New Task for Process Systems Engineers?'', Proc. ESCAPE6, Rhodes, Greece, May 1996, 6 p. SU-report 7/96.

54. Eirik Tryggeseth: “Report from an Experiment: Impact of Documentation on Maintenance'',Proc. 1st Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance. Held at last day of ICSM'96, Monterey, CA, 4-8 Nov. 1996, 5 p. IEEE-CS Press. SU-report 15/96.

55. Sivert Sørumgård: “An Empirical Study of Process Conformance'', 21st Software Engineering Workshop, Software Engineering Laboratory, 10 p., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 4-5 December 1996. SU-report 16/96.

56. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: “Representing real-world processes'', Proc. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'28), 3-6 Jan. 1995, USA. Vol. IV, p. 821-830, ACM Press. SU-report 1/95.

57. Erik Odberg: “Multiperspectives: Object Evolution and Schema Modification Management for Object-Oriented Databases'' (PhD thesis), PhD no. 1995:17 at NTH, IDT-report 1995:3, 10 Feb. 1995, 408 p. ISBN: 82-7119-760-6. SU-report 2/95.

58. John Krogstie, Odd Ivar Lindland, Guttorm Sindre: “Defining Quality Aspects for Conceptual Models'', Proc. IFIP WG 8.1 International Working Conference on Information System Concepts (ISCO'3), Marburg, Germany, 28-30 Mar 1995, 17 p. SU-report 4/95.

59. Jens-Otto Larsen, Patricia Lago: “Transaction Technology for Process Modeling'', In Wilhelm Schäfer (Ed.): “Proc. 4th European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT'95), 3-5 Apr. 1995, Leiden, The Netherlands'', Springer Verlag LNCS 913, 1995, ISBN 3-540-59205-9, p. 214-219. Also as EPOS TR 233, NTH, Trondheim, Jan. 1995, 6 p. SU-report 8/95.

60. Guttorm Sindre, John Krogstie: “Process Heuristics to Achieve Requirements Specifications of Feasible Quality'', Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'95), Jyväskylä, Finland, 12-13 Jun 1995, 12 p. SU-report 16/95.


61. John Krogstie, Odd Ivar Lindland, Guttorm Sindre: “Defining Quality Aspects for Conceptual Models'', Proc. 7th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'95), Jyväskylä, Finland, 14-16 June 1995, 14 p. SU-report 17/95.

62. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: “Facet Models for Problem Analysis'', Proc. 7th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'95), Jyväskylä, Finland, 14-16 June 1995, 14 p. SU-report 18/95.

63. Sivert Sørumgård, Guttorm Sindre: “Aspects of Process Quality'', In I.M. Marshall, W.B. Samson, D.G. Edgar-Nevill: “Proc. 4th Software Quality Conference, Dundee, Scotland, 4-5 July 1995'', p. 318-326, Univ. Abertay and Napier Univ., ISBN 1-899796-00-2. SU-report 19/95.

64. Dag R. Elvekrok, Brage W. Johansen, Tor G. Syvertsen, Terje Totland: “World Wide Web as a Coordination Technology for Knowledge Work'', Proc. Computers in Building Workshop “Modeling of Buildings through their Life-Cycle'', Stanford University, CA, 21-23 August 1995, 14 p. SU-report 20/95.

65. Lars Chr. Christensen, Brage W. Johansen, Nils Midjo, Jan Onarheim, Tor G. Syvertsen, Terje Totland: “Enterprise Modeling: Practices and Perspectives'', Proc. ASME Ninth Engineering Database Symposium, Boston, MA, September 1995. SU-report 23/95.

66. Bjørn Gulla, Joe Gorman: “Supporting Evolution of SDL-based Systems: Industrial Experience'', Proc. FORTE'95 (Formal Description Techniques for Distributed Systems and Communications Protocols), IFIP WG6.1, Montreal, Canada, 17-20 Oct., 1995, 16 p., Chapman & Hall, London. SU-report 24/95.

67. O. Laitenberger, F. Shull, S. Sørumgård, M. Zelkowitz: “The Empirical Investigation of Perspective-Based Reading'', 20th Annual Software Engineering Workshop, NASA/Goddard Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL), 29-30 Nov. 1995. SU-report 26/95 (see update in SU-report 15/97).

68. Jens Otto Larsen: “A Transaction Model for Cooperating Transactions'', Proc. ICSE-16 Workshop on SW Engineering and Databases, May 1994, Sorrento. SU-report 10/94, NTH, Trondheim, 1 Dec. 1993, 4 p.

69. Erik Odberg: “Category Classes: Flexible Classification and Evolution in Object-Oriented Databases'', In Gerard Wijers, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Tony Wasserman (Eds.): “Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 6th International Conference, CAiSE'94, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 6-8 June 1994''. Springer Verlag LNCS 811, p. 406-420. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 124. SU-report 12/94.

70. Erik Odberg: “Schema Modification Management for Object-Oriented Databases'', Doctoral Consortium, CAiSE'94, Utrecht, The Netherlands. June 1994. 2 p., SU-report 13/94.

71. John Krogstie, Guttorm Sindre: “Extending a Temporal Rule Language with Deontic Operators'', Proc. Sixth International Conference in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'94), Jurmala, Latvia, 21-23 June 1994, 8 p. SU-report 16/94.

72. Erik Odberg: “MultiPerspectives: The Classification Dimension of Schema Modification Management for Object-Oriented Databases'', TOOLS-USA, Santa Barbara, 1-5 Aug. 1994, 17 p. SU-report 17/94.

73. Erik Odberg: “A Global Perspective of Schema Modification Management for Object-Oriented Databases'', POS (6th International Workshop on Persistent Object Systems), Tarascon, Provence, France, 5-9 Sept. 1994. SU-report 18/94.

74. Geir Magne Høydalsvik, Guttorm Sindre: “Object-Oriented Role Modeling for the Analysis and Design of Organizational Information Systems'', 26th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'26), 5-8 Jan. 1993, USA, 10 p. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 77, NTH, Trondheim, July 1992, 26 p. SU-report 1/93.

75. Andreas Lothe Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre, Vidar Vetland: “Performance Considerations in Object-Oriented Reuse'', 2nd Int'l Conference on Software Reuse, REUSE'93, 24-26 March 1993, Lucca, Italia. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 83, NTH, Trondheim, Sept. 1992, 10 p. SU-report 4/93.

76. Lars Sivert Sørumgård, Guttorm Sindre, Frode Stokke: “Experiences from the Application of a Faceted Classification Scheme'', 2nd Int'l Conference on Software Reuse, REUSE'93, 24-26 March 1993, Lucca, Italia. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 82, NTH, Trondheim, Sept. 1992, 10 p. SU-report 5/93.


77. Bjørn Gulla: “The constraint diagram: An approach to visualizing the version space'', Preliminary Proc. 4th International Workshop of Software Configuration Management (SCM-4), Baltimore, 21-22 May 1993, ACM Press, p. 112-122. Also as EPOS TR 192, NTH, Trondheim, April 1993, 11 p. SU-report 11/93.

78. Uwe Hohenstein, Erik Odberg: “A C++ Database Interface Based on the ER Approach'', In M. Warboys and A.F. Grundy (Eds.): “Proc. 11th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD'93)'', Springer Verlag LNCS 696, July 1993, 18 p. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 110. SU-report 13/93.

79. Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: “Concepts for Real-World Modelling'', Proc. 5th International Conference on Advance Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'93), Paris, France, Jun 8-11 1993, 10 p. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 108. SU-report 14/93.

80. John Krogstie, Guttorm Sindre: “Introducing social and ethical concerns in the CS curriculum: why and how?'', Proc. 16th Conference on Informatics Research In Scandinavia (IRIS'16), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 7-10 1993. SU-report 16/93.

81. Rolf Lunheim, Guttorm Sindre: “Computing and privacy: a cultural perspective'', In Sizer et al.: “Security and Control of Information Technology in Society'', Proc. IFIP 9.6 working conference, M/S Ilich (Stockholm-St.Petersburg t/r), 12-17 August 1993. SU-report 17/93.

82. Guttorm Sindre, Lars Sivert Sørumgård: “Terminology evolution in reuse libraries'', Proc. 3rd International Congress in Terminology and Knowledge Engineering (TKE'93), 24-26 August 1993, Köln, 10 p. SU-report 18/93.

83. Guttorm Sindre, Bjørn Gulla, Hakon Jokstad: “Onion graphs: aesthetics and layout'', Proc. 1993 IEEE/CS Symposium on Visual Languages (VL'93), Bergen, Aug 24-27, 1993, 5 p. SU-report 19/93.

84. Geir Magne Høydalsvik, Guttorm Sindre: “On the Purpose of Object-Oriented Analysis'', Proc. Eight Annual Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'93), 26.Sep. - 1.Oct., 1993, Washington DC, USA. As special issue of ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Oct. 1993 (No. 10, Vol. 28), p. 240-255. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 100, 16 p. SU-report 22/93.

85. Geir Høydalsvik and Jon Harald Holm: “Dynamic Modeling in OOram'', Proc. OOPSLA'93 Workshop on “Specification of Behavioral Semantics in OO Information Modeling''. In Workshop at Eight Annual Conf. on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA'93), 26.Sep. - 1.Oct., 1993, Washington DC, USA, 4 p. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 112. SU-report 23/93.

86. Erik Odberg: “Schema Versioning and Class Hierarchy Modifications in Object-Oriented Databases'', Presented at OOPSLA'93 Workshop on “Supporting the Evolution of Class Definitions''. SU-report 24/93.

87. Marianne Hagaseth: “Conflicting Access in Cooperating Transactions'', Proc. International Symposium on Next Generation Database Systems and Their Applications, 28-30 Sept. 1993, Japan, Also as EPOS TR 193, NTH, Trondheim, July 1993, 8 p. SU-report 25/93.

88. Didier Bert, Rachid Echahed, Bjarte Mayanja Østvold: “Abstract Rewriting'', In Patrick Cousot, Moreno Falaschi, Gilberto File, Antoine Rauzy (Eds.): “Proc. Third International Workshop on Static Analysis, Padova, Italy, September 22-24, 1993'', Springer Verlag LNCS 724, 1993. SU-report 26/93.

89. Svein Erik Bratsberg: “Evolution and Integration of Classes in Object-Oriented Databases'' (PhD thesis), IDT-report 1993:2, NTH, June 1993, 225 p. SU-report 27/93.

90. Arne-Jørgen Berre: “An Object-Oriented Framework for Systems Integration and Interoperability'' (PhD thesis), IDT-report 1993:3, NTH, July 1993, 370 p. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 106. SU-report 28/93.

91. Bjørn P. Munch: “Versioning in a Software Engineering Database: the Change Oriented Way'' (PhD thesis), IDT-report 1993:4, NTH, 30 Aug. 1993, 265 p. SU-report 29/93.

92. Øystein Nytrø: “Structural complexity of Horn clause programs as a fundament for software design'', Proc. Workshop on Structural complexity and recursion-theoretic methods in logic programming, Vancouver, Nov. 1993, Canada. SU-report 32/93.


93. Pakstas, Algirdas and Pakstiene, Sonata: “Networking in Baltic Countries: Current Developments'', p. 461-467. Proc. 12th IEEE International Phoenix Conference on Computers and Communications (IPCCC'93), March 24-26, 1993, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, IEEE Communication Society Press.

94. Pakstas, Algirdas and Pakstiene, Sonata: “Computer Networks in Baltic Countries: Basis for New Education Technologies'', 5 p. Proc. 10th International Conference on Technology and Education (ICTE'93), March 21-25, 1993, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, MIT Press.

95. Pakstas, Algirdas and Pakstiene, Sonata: “Message Simulation by ALADDIN/OOB CAD Tools'', 12 p. Proc. 3rd International Conference on CAD and Computer Graphics (CAD/Graphics'93), August 23-26, 1993, Beijing, China, International Academic Publishers.

96. Pakstas, Algirdas and Tamkevicius, Arturas and Dzeveckiene, Danute: “Towards Quality of OCCAM Programs'', 10 p. Proc. 3rd Software Quality Workshop, July 5-6, 1993, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, Cambridge University Press.

97. Pakstas, Algirdas and Pakstiene, Sonata and Tamkevicius, Arturas and Dzeveckiene, Danute: “Tools for OCCAM-Oriented Environment'', 20 p. Proc. 3rd Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing, May 4-7, 1993, Sofia, Bulgaria, North-Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

98. Algirdas Pakstas, Arturas Tamkevicius og Danute Dzeveckiene: “Towards Quality of OCCAM Programs'', Proc. 3rd Software Quality Workshop, Edinburgh, UK, 5-6 July 1993.

99. Svein Erik Bratsberg and Erik Odberg: “Relation Refinement in Object-Relation Data Models'', Proc. 5th Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research - NWPER'92, 8-10 Jan. 1992, Tampere, Finland, 10 p. Also as EPOS TR 146.

100.Bjørn Gulla: “Meta-type Extensions in the EPOS Software Engineering Database'', Proc. 5th Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research - NWPER'92, 8-10 Jan. 1992, Tampere, Finland, 11 p. Also as EPOS TR 147.

101.Geir Magne Høydalsvik, Even-André Karlsson, Lars Sivert Sørumgård, Sigurd Thunem, Eirik Tryggeseth: “Object-Oriented Development with and for Reuse'', Proc. 5th Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research -- NWPER'92, 8--10 Jan. 1992, Tampere, Finland, 11 p. Also in Proc. Norwegian Informatics Conference -- NIK'91, Trondheim, 19--20 Nov. 1991, p. 85--95. Also presented at DND InfoTech'91, Oslo, 14 Nov. 1991. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 31.

102.Even-André Karlsson, Sivert Sørumgård, Eirik Tryggeseth: “Classification of Object-Oriented Components for Reuse'', NTH, Oct. 1991, 13 p. Proc. TOOLS-EUROPE'92 - Seventh International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, Dortmund, Germany, 30 Mar-2 Apr. 1992. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 48.

103.Arne-Jørgen Berre: “Experiences from Systems Integration through an Object-Oriented Software Bus'', 13 p. Proc. TOOLS-EUROPE'92 - Seventh International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, Dortmund, Germany, 30 Mar-2 Apr. 1992. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 49.

104.Arne-Jørgen Berre: “COOP: An Object-Oriented Framework for Systems Integration'', 13 p. Proc. Second International Conference on Systems Integration, Morristown, New Jersey, USA, 15-18 Jun. 1992. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 50.

105.Bjørn Gulla: “A Browser for a Versioned Entity-Relationship Database'', Proc. Int'l Workshop on Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS'92), Glasgow, Scotland, 1-3 July 1992. As a Springer Verlag LNCS. Also as EPOS TR 151, NTH, Trondheim, 31 Jan. 1992, 11 p.

106.Erik Odberg: “What “What'' is and Isn't: On Query Languages for Oriented Databases or Closing the Gap - Again'', Proc. TOOLS USA'92, 3-6 Aug., 1992, Santa Barbara, CA. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 45, NTH, Trondheim, 7 March 1992, 12 p.

107.Guttorm Sindre, Even-André Karlsson, Patricia Paul: “Heuristics for Maintaining Term Structures for Relaxed Search'', Proc. DEXA'92 - Int'l Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, Sept. 2-4 1992, Valencia, Spain. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 37, NTH, Trondheim, Feb. 1992, 12 p.


108.Erik Odberg: “A Framework for Managing Schema Versioning in Object Oriented Databases'', Proc. DEXA'92, 2-4 Sept. 1992, Valencia, Spain. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 39, NTH, Trondheim, 17 Feb. 1992, 12 p.

109.Svein Erik Bratsberg: “Integrating Independently Developed Classes'', In M.T. Ozsu, U. Dayal, and P. Valduriez (Eds.): “Proc. Int'l Workshop on Distributed Object Management'', Aug. 19-21, 1992, Edmonton, Canada, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992. Also as EPOS TR 155, NTH, Trondheim, 30 March 1992, 9 p.

110.Arne Jørgen Berre: “COOM - An Object Model for an Object-Oriented System Integration Framework'', In M.T. Ozsu, U. Dayal, and P. Valduriez (Eds.): “Proc. Int'l Workshop on Distributed Object Management'', Aug. 19-21, 1992, Edmonton, Canada. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1992.

111.Svein Erik Bratsberg: “Unified Class Evolution by Object-Oriented Views'', Proc. 11th Int'l Conf. on the Entity-Relationship Approach, 7-9 Oct. 1992, Karlsruhe, Germany. As a Springer-Verlag LNCS. EPOS TR 154, 30 March 1992, 11 p.

112.Guttorm Sindre, Jean Faget, Even-André Karlsson: “Organizational Aspects of Software Reuse'', Proc. Singapore Computer Society Silver Jubilee Conference, 12-14 October 1992, Singapore. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 81, NTH, Trondheim, July 1992, 13 p.

113.Sigurd Thunem, Guttorm Sindre: “Development with and for Reuse: Guidelines from the REBOOT Project'', 15p. Proc. ERCIM Workshop on Methods and Tools for Software Reuse, Oct 29-30 1992, Heraklion, Greece. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 75, Trondheim, Sept. 1992, 15 p.

114.Lars Sivert Sørumgård, Guttorm Sindre, Frode Stokke: “Experiences in Reusable Components Classification'', 14 p. Proc. ERCIM Workshop on Methods and Tools for Software Reuse, Oct 29-30 1992, Heraklion, Greece. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 78, Trondheim, NTH.

115.Even-André Karlsson, Guttorm Sindre, Sivert Sørumgård, Eirik Tryggeseth: “Weighted Term Spaces for Relaxed Search'', First International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Nov. 8-11 1992, Baltimore, USA. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 35, NTH, Trondheim, Sept. 1992, 12 p.

116.Bjørn Gulla: “Improved Maintenance Support by Multi-Version Visualizations'', IEEE Conf. on Software Maintenance (CSM'92), 9-12 Nov. 1992, Orlando, FL, USA. Also as EPOS TR 156, NTH, Trondheim, 1 April 1992, 9 p.

117.Guttorm Sindre, Sigurd Thunem, Even-André Karlsson, Jean Faget, Björn Grönquist: “A Life-Cycle Approach to Software Reuse'', Proc. TOULOUSE'92, 7-12 Dec. 1992, Toulouse, France. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 80, Trondheim.

118.Øystein Nytrø: “Aspects of structure in Horn clause programs'' (PhD thesis), IDT-report 1992:4, NTH, Nov. 1992, 176 p.

119.Algirdas Pakstas, Arturas Tamkevicius: “OSE: OCCAM-Oriented Structure Editor'', Proc. 5th Nordic Workshop on Programming Environment Research - NWPER'92, 8-10 Jan. 1992, Tampere, Finland, 14 p. Also as EPOS TR 148.

120.Algirdas Pakstas, Danute Paketuraite, Sonata Pakstiene, Georgij Stradalov and Arturas Tamkevicius: “Methods and Tools for Distributed Software Configurations Creation, Analysis and Building'', 10 p. (DECSYM'92 Turkey “Latest Trends in Computing'', First International DECUS At-Large Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, 24-27 March 1992, Side, Antalya, Turkey)

121.Algirdas Pakstas, Danute Paketuraite and Sonata Pakstiene: “Tools for Analysis and Simulation of Distributed Computer Control System in Object-Oriented Software Development Environment ALADDIN/OOB'', 5 p. (9th IEEE Workshop on Real-time Operating Systems and Software, 13-14 May, 1992, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

122.Algirdas Pakstas and Danute Paketuraite: “Structure Extraction and Visualization for Deadlocks Analysis and Reverse Engineering of Transputer Software'', 7 p. Proc. ICCI'92: 4th International Conference on Computing and Information, May 28-30, 1992, Toronto, Canada)


123.Algirdas Pakstas and Danute Paketuraite: “On Static Transputer-Based DCCS Software Reliability Increasing: Static Deadlocks Analysis and Elimination'', p. 319-326. (Proc. Nordic Seminar on Dependable Computing Systems August 19-21, 1992, Trondheim, Norway)

124.Algirdas Pakstas, Danute Paketuraite, Sonata Pakstiene, Georgij Stradalov and Arturas Tamkevicius: “Development, Analysis and Building of Distributed Software Configurations'', abstract 1 p. Proc. 6th Annual INEL Computing Symposium, Idaho Falls, Sept. 21-24, 1992, Idaho, USA.

125.Algirdas Pakstas, Danute Paketuraite and Sonata Pakstiene: “Simulation and Analysis Tools in Object-Oriented Software Development Environment ALADDIN/OOB'', 20 p. Proc. System Science XI: International Conference on Systems Science, September 22-25, 1992, Wroclaw, Poland.

126.Algirdas Pakstas, Danute Paketuraite, Sonata Pakstiene, Georgij Stradalov and Arturas Tamkevicius: “User-Oriented Environment for Development and Analysis of Distributed Software Configurations'', 5 p. Proc. ACMBUL'92: International Conference on Computer Applications, Oct. 4-8, 1992, Varna, Bulgaria.

127.Algirdas Pakstas, Danute Paketuraite: “On Static Analysis of Deadlocks in Transputer Networks'', 6 p. (Proc. SAFECOMP'92: An International Conference on Safety, Security and Reliability of Computers, October 28-30, 1992, Mövenpick Hotel, Zurich-Airport, Switzerland, Publishing by Pergamon Press, 1992.)

128.Algirdas Pakstas, Sonata Pakstiene: “On Networking in Baltic Countries'', 12 p. Proc. NSC'92: Network Services Conference, Nov. 3-5, 1992, Pisa, Italy.

129.Algirdas Pakstas, Danute Paketuraite and Arturas Tamkevicius: “OCCAM-Oriented Extension of ALADDIN/LAMP Software Tools'', 6 p. Proc. TAPA-92: Transputer and Parallel Applications Conference, Nov. 4-5, Melbourne, Australia. IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in the “Series on Transputer and OCCAM Conference books''.

130.Algirdas Pakstas, Danute Paketuraite and Arturas Tamkevicius: “OCCAM-Oriented Software Tools'', 15 p. Proc. IV Brasilian Symposium in Computer Architectures “High Performance Computing'', Nov. 2326, 1992, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

131.Algirdas Pakstas, Sonata Pakstiene: “Real Time Message Passing Simulation in ALADDIN/OOB: Approach and Tools'', abstract 3 p. Proc. IMACS International Symposium on Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, Dec. 7-11, 1992, Bangalore, India. Published by IMACS, 1992.

Other international presentations and miscellaneous (incomplete list):

132. Tore Dybå: “IT-Enabled Organizational Learning'', Norconsult Telematics IT Seminar, Riyadh Marriott Hotel, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 9, 1999. SU-report 28/99.

133. Torgeir Dingsøyr: “Postmortem Reviews - a technique to elicit experience from completed software engineering projects”, Guest lecture at Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, March 30, 2001.


134. Tore Dybå: “Software measurement -- process and product'', Software'99, Info-Rama, Sandvika, 2-5 Feb. 1999. SU-report 32/99.

135.Torgeir Dingsøyr: “Retrieval of Cases by using a Bayesian Network'', In Sverre Storøy (Ed.): “Proc. Norsk Informatikk-Konferanse 1998 (NIK'98)'', Kristiansand, 23-25 nov. 1998, Tapir forlag, p. 153-160. SU-report 12/98. (Based on his diploma thesis from Feb. 1999.)

136.Emil Røyrvik, Torgeir Dingsøyr: “Virkelig kunstig liv?'', Parabel, tidsskrift for filosofi og vitenskapsteori, 2/1998. ISBN 82-519-1509-0/ISSN 0808-1514.

137.Andreas Lothe Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: “Integrative Models of Concrete Problem Domains'', In Stein Krogdahl et al. (eds.): “Proc. from Norwegian Informatics Conference 1996 (NIK'96), 18-20 Nov. 1996, Alta'', Tapir, Trondheim, p. 63-76. SU-report 18/96.


138.Øystein Nytrø: “Et nytt frustrasjonsbasert programmeringskurs'', In Stein Krogdahl et al. (eds.): “Proc. from Norwegian Informatics Conference 1996 (NIK'96), 18-20 Nov. 1996, Alta'', Tapir, Trondheim, p. 181-184. SU-report 19/96.

139.Svein Hallsteinsen: “Erfaringer med gjenbruk i SISU'', Presented at DND-Infotech'94, Oslo, 1. Nov. 1994 and at SISU-Forum, 3. Nov. 1994, 13 p. (in Norwegian).

140.Jens-Otto Larsen, Frank Eliassen, Randi Karlsen, Weihai Yu: “Application of Partition Serializability in Software Engineering Databases'', Proc. “Norwegian Informatics Conference 1994 (NIK'94), 14-16 Nov. 1994, Molde'', Tapir, Trondheim, p. 105-118. SU-report 22/94.

141.Svein Erik Bratsberg: “Transparent Evolution and Integration of Classes in Object-Oriented Databases'', In Magne Haveraaen et al. (Eds.): “Proc. from Norwegian Informatics Conference 1993 (NIK'93), 15.-17. Nov. 1993, Halden'', Tapir, Trondheim, Nov. 1993, p. 13-24. Also as EPOS TR 197, NTH, Trondheim, Sept. 1993, 10 p. and as SU-report 33/93.

142.Andreas L. Opdahl, Guttorm Sindre: “A Framework for Real-World Modelling'', In Magne Haveraaen et al. (Eds.): “Proc. from Norwegian Informatics Conference 1993 (NIK'93), 15.-17. Nov. 1993, Halden'', Tapir, Trondheim, Nov. 1993, p. 41-57. Also as REBOOT-STP TR 108 and SU-report 34/93.

143.Bjørn Gulla: “Multi-Version Visualizations'', Norwegian Informatics Conference 1992 (NIK'92), p. 69-78. Nov. 17-18 1992, Tromsø, Norway. Also as EPOS TR 173, NTH, Trondheim, Sept. 1992, 10 p.

144.Algirdas Pakstas, Sonata Pakstiene: “Computer Technologies in Baltic Countries'', p. 29, Teknisk Ukeblad, Norway, 1992.

Some popular articles (incomplete list):

145.Torgeir Dingsøyr: ”Fra data til kunnskap”, Klassekampen, Oslo, 15.11 1997.

146.Torgeir Dingsøyr: ”Livet som det kunne ha vært”, Klassekampen, Oslo, 05.09, 1998.

147.Torgeir Dingsøyr: ”Samling, organisering og søk etter informasjon”, Klassekampen, Oslo, 24.04 1999.

148.Torgeir Dingsøyr: ”Mindre handlerom for ny undervisningsstrategi”, Universitetsavisa, Trondheim, 23.03 2000.

149.Torgeir Dingsøyr: ”Hvorfor går så mange IT-prosjekter galt?”, Klassekampen, Oslo, 27.02 2001.


Appendix 8: HCI and Systems Development Group (SA)

The SA group has the following faculty members: SA-1 Torbjørn Skramstad, dr.ing., professor SA-2 Eric Monteiro, dr.scient., professor SA-3 Dag Svanæs, dr.phil., associate professor (80% leave in Italy till June 2003) SA-4 Terje Rydland, assistant professor

The group has three local PhD students: Gunnar Ellingsen (KVALIS project), Gry Seland, and Erlend Stav (fellowship expired). In addition the following seven PhD students are tutored by group members, but affiliated with other institutions: Knut Rolland (Monteiro), Gisle Hannemyr (Monteiro), Kåre Lines (Monteiro), Irene L. Hepsø (Monteiro), Dagfinn Hertzberg (Monteiro), Jostein Vik (Monteiro), and Khaled Khan (Skramstad).

In 1996-2000, the group has produced two doctoral candidates: - Bjørn Magnus Sæther: ”Improved Estimation of Subsurface Magnetic Properties Using

Minimum Mean-Square Error Methods”, dr.scient. 1998, advisor: T. Skramstad.- Dag Svanæs: “Understanding Interactivity. Steps to a Phenomenology of Human-

Computer Interaction”, dr.phil., 2000, no advisor.- One more doctoral candidate in 1993: Oddbjørn Bergen.

The group teaches eight courses at various levels: MNFIT162 Software Engineering I, MNFIT163 ICT, Culture and society; MNFIT232 Pedagogical Software; MNFIT263 Software Engineering II; MNFIT342 User Interface Design; SIF8040 Human-Computer Interaction and Graphics; MNFIT364 System development, work and organizations; and MNFIT365 Software metrics and software reliability.

Some of these courses are adapted for remote learning.

SA publication survey 1992-2001: In 1992-2001 the group has produced 20 journal papers, 6 chapters in books, 49 referred papers at conferences or workshops, and 11 other and national publications– totally 87 publications. (This only counts publications by our faculty members, and is not a complete account of all the publications in the group.) The number of publications is not very high. This is due to several issues. The group was a part of the Lade section of IDI until summer 2001. Previous to that, from 1987-1997 the Lade section was the Department of Informatics (IFI), at the University of Trondheim. The Lade section (and IDI) has had very high teaching load, and had before 1997 very few scolarships for PhD students, our biggest resource for research and paper writing.

Guests, 1992-2001:Professor Lucy Suchman, Univ. of Lancaster, May 1998 and June 2001.Professor Bo Dahlbom, University of Gothenburg, April 1999.Professor Geoff Walsham, University of Cambridge, June 1999.

Number of cand. scient.-thesis produced 1992-2001: Circa 70.


SA-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Torbjørn Skramstad

SA-1 CV Torbjørn Skramstad

Date of Birth: 1st November 1944

Nationality: Norwegian

Status: Married, three children

Education: M.Sc. Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1968 in PhysicsPhD, Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1980 in computer science

Work Experience: Research Assistant, Norwegian University of technology, 1968-69Research Assistant, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, 1969-1970.Software developer, Computas (now Cap Gemini), 1970-1976PhD student at Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1977-1980Senior Consultant, Computas (now Cap Gemini), 1980-1987Professor in informatics, University of Trondheim, 1987-Adjunct researcher (part time), DNV, 1987-

Teaching: Undergraduate, graduate and PhD courses, Univ. of Trondheim/NTNU 1987-Taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Hedmark College, Rena 1994-97

Tutoring: Tutored 35 MSc students to final degree (cand. scient.) 1987-2000.Currently tutoring 4 MSc students.Tutored 3 PhD students to final degreeCurrently tutoring 2 PhD students (Chandini Merkesvik, Erlend Stav)

Projects:MEDSAC: The overall objective is to develop a software evaluation scheme for the certification of

Medical Devices containing software. Funded by French Norwegian Foundation. Cooperation with ISOSCOPE, Toulouse, France. Project period 2000-2002. I am Project Leader.

GALILEO: The purpose of this study is to develop guidelines for the development and certification of software for the next generation of European Position Satellites. Funded by ESTEC. Partners: DNV (N), ISOSCOPE (F), Astrium Space (F), LAAS (F), Airbus (F), Certification Services, (USA). Project Period 1999-2002. I am project participant.

SAFE-KBS: The overall objective of Safe-KBS was to demonstrate the feasibility of extending Knowledge-Based Systems to safety critical systems, by providing means for developing the KB components of safety critical systems and for guaranteeing the quality of theses KB components, as required for the certification of these systems. Funded from the European union under the fifth framework. Parners DNV (N), Sextant/Thomson (F), Techatom (E), ENEA (I). Project period 1996-1999. I was project participant.

ENCRESS: Project funded by the European Union. Purpose of project was to build a European Network for the dissemination of knowledge within Software Reliability and Safety. The project included partners from universities and research institutions in most European countries. Funding was for the period 1995-1998. The ENCRESS Network arranged international conferences, as well as national meetings about reliability and safety. I was project co-ordinator for the Norwegian part of the network. The European project was headed by prof. Tom Anderson at CSR, University of Necwastle.

PASCON: A number of Work Orders perfomed for the European Space Agency 1995-1998 in the area of software quality, safety and reliability. I was project member. The consortium consisted of DNV (N), Intecs (I), Iber Espacio (E), SynSpace (CH), and Matra Space (F). These projects also included co-operations with Centre of Software Reliability at City University, London (prof. Strigini), Adelard


(Dr.Bishop), University of Washington (prof. Leveson) and European Software Institute in Spain (Dr. Dorling).

Related experience: Member of PhD committees for Attila Gunhan, University of Bergen, Bjørn Braathen, University of Tromsø, Guttorm Sindre, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Lars Sivert Sørumgård, Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH).

Professor evaluation committees: Member of national commitee 1995-98; Committees University of Bergen, University of Lund Sweden, Molde College, University of Tromsø, Østfold College. Several internal Committees at NTNU.

Deputy head of faculty (prodekan) and chair of Faculty Research Board, Faculty of Physics, Informatics, Mathemetics (FIM), NTNU, 1996-1998.Member of Facuilty Research Board, Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, Univ. of Trondheim 1987-1996.Member of Faculty Board (fakultetsstyre) and Faculty Councel (fakultetsråd), Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, Univ. of Trondheim 1987-1996Sub-project manager in the Orgut project 1997-99. Orgut was an NTNU project with the scope of performing a BPR of the NTNU organisation in order to make it more efficient. I was project manager for a sub project focusing on ICT, standardisation and technical infrastructure.

Reviewer, Programming and Computer Software, a Kluever journalProgram Committee member ENCRESS 1997Program Committee member Safecomp 1998-2000Program Committee member Software Quality week Europe, 1998-Program Committee member 7th European Conference on Software Quality, 2002.

Research period: September 2000 – June 2001, partly with LAAS and Isoscope in Toulouse.

Selectd Contacts: Isoscope, Toulouse, FranceAstrium Space (previously Matra Space), Toulouse FranceAirbus, Toulouse, FranceLAAS, Toulouse, FranceIntecs, Pisa, ItaliaQ-labs, Sweden, USA and GermanyDep. Of Computing Science, CSR, Univ. of Newcastle, UKCentre of software Reliability, City University, London, UKUniversity of Western Sydney, AustraliaMassey University, Auckland, New ZealandHalden College, HaldenIFE, HaldenDNV, Oslo

SA-1 Publication list for Torbjørn Skramstad

Journal Papers

(1) T. Skramstad, K. Khan: Data Structures for extracting and preserving low-level program information, Malaysia Journal of Computer Science 1995, vol. 8 No. 2, pp 66-79.

(2) K. Khan, B. Lo, T. Skramstad: Tasks and Methods for Software Maintenance : Ap Process Oriented Framework, Australian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2001, pp 51-60.

Papers in refereed international conferences

(3) T. Skramstad, K. Khan, Assessment of Reverse Engineering Tools: A MECCA Approach. Proc. Int. Conf. On Assessment of Software Development Tools, New Orleans, 1992, pp.120-128


(4) T.Skramstad; K. Khan: A Redefined Software Life Cycle model for Improved Maintenance, Proc. Int. Conf. On Software Maintenance, Orlando, 1992, pp 193-198.

(5) T. Skramstad; The Role of Coverage Testing, statistical user testing, verification and validation on obtaining high reliablity and safety. Proc. Of 45th Congress of the international astronautical federation, Symposium on Reliability, Jerusalem, Oct. 1994 pp103-111.

(6) T. Skramstad, Nina Tronstad: An executable system Engineering Process Model Template used to reduce Development Risks. Proceedings of 45th Congress of the international astronautical federation, Symposium of Reliability, Jerusalem, october 1994. In Space Safety and Rescue 1994 vol. 88, ed. G.L. Heath, pp135-146.

(7) T. Skramstad, C. Løken: Experiences from ISO9001 certification of IT-companies in Europe. Proc. First World Congress on Software Quality, San Fransisco 1995, pp 48-59..

(8) T. Skramstad: A Software Risk Management Model. 48th Int. Astronautical Congress, Beijing 1996, In Space and Rescue 1996 vol 95. Ed. G-L. Heath, pp 135-144

(9) P. Panaroni, T. Skramstad: A Quality Model for Space Software, Int. Product Assurance and Software Product Assurance Workshop, ESTEC 1997.

(10) K. Khan, T. Skramstad: Software Clinic – a different view of Software Maintenance Process, Conférance Internat. en Informatique ’99, Algerie nov. 1999.

(11) T. Skramstad, K. Khan, A. Rashid: Constructing Commercial Off-the shelf from Legacy systems: A conceptual Framework, 10th Australasian Conf. On Inf. Systems, Wellington 1999, pp 798-805.

(12) T. Skramstad, K. Khan: Software Clinic: A Different view on Software Maintenance Process, Proc. 4th World Multiconf. On Systems, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, 2000, vol. 2, pp. 508-513.

(13) F. Høgberg, T. Skramstad, K. Strømseng, P. Wieland; Enhancements in Software Project Risk Management, Proc. 5th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Potsdam, Germany, June 2000

(14) K. Khan, B.W.N. Lo, T. Skramstad, S.M. Khan: Software Maintenance Process: tasks and Methods, Proc. 11th Australasian Conference on Inf. Systems, Brisbane Dec. 2000.

(15) J-P. Blanquart, G. Bulsa, P. Robert, T. Skramstad, J.L. Terrailon: Certification Aspects related to Software of Galileo, Proc. 5th Int. Symposium on GNSS-2, Sevilla, May 2001

International project reports

(16) P. Robert, T. Skramstad: Tailoring of Software Standards for GNSS-”/Galileo System, ESTEC Technical Note, Noordwijk, March 2001.

(17) F. Høgberg, T. Skramstad: Study og GNSS-2/Galileo System Software Certification – Galileo Software Certification Planning Giudeline, ESTEC Technical Report, Noordwijk, February 2001.

(18) F. Hugonnet, P. Robert, T. Skramstad: Medical Device Software Evaluation for Certification: Study of Normative Requirements, ISOSCOPE Technical Report, Toulouse, February 2001.

(19) T. Skramstad: Study og GNSS-2/Galileo System Software Certification – Software Process requirements and Maturity levels versus Combination of criticality and software product types. ESTEC Technical Report, Noordwijk, March 2001.

(20) T. Skramstad, O. Sannes: Study og GNSS-2/Galileo System Software Certification – Final Report Phase 1, ESTEC Technical Report, Noordwijk, May 2001.


SA-1 Five selected publications for Torbjørn Skramstad

a. T. Skramstad, K. Khan: Data Structures for extracting and preserving low-level program information, Malaysia Journal of Computer Science 1995, vol. 8 No. 2, pp 66-79.

b. K. Khan, B. Lo, T. Skramstad: Tasks and Methods for Software Maintenance: Ap Process Oriented Framework, Australian Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2001, pp 51-60.

c. J-P. Blanquart, G. Bulsa, P. Robert, T. Skramstad, J.L. Terrailon: Certification Aspects related to Software of Galileo, Proc. 5th Int. Symposium on GNSS-2, Sevilla, May 2001

d. T. Skramstad, K. Khan, A. Rashid: Constructing Commercial Off-the shelf from Legacy systems: A conceptual Framework, 10th Australasian Conf. On Inf. Systems, Wellington 1999, pp 798-805.

e. T. Skramstad, Nina Tronstad: An executable system Engineering Process Model Template used to reduce Development Risks. Proceedings of 45th Congress of the international astronautical federation, Symposium of Reliability, Jerusalem, October 1994. In Space Safety and Rescue 1994 vol. 88, ed. G.L. Heath, pp135-146.

SA-1 Personal statement by Torbjørn SkramstadBackground T. Skramstad

When joining the university in Trondheim, in 1987, I had the responsibility to build up the new Department of Informatics at College of science and Art (AVH). As the only full professor, I had a lot of heavy administrative burdens such as participating in the faculty board, the faculty assembly the faculty research board In addition I had to serve as a member of several evaluation committees for evaluating applicants to positions at our department.

My research interests when joining the university was in the area of image analysis, image processing. We built up a full study direction in image analysis/image processing with 4 special subjects at undergraduate, graduate and PhD level. We also tutored several MSc and two PhD candidates.Since then my research interests have gradually moved towards software development methodolgy, software processes, and with focus on software quality, reliability and safety, and software testing.

During my sabbatical (2000-2001) I participated in an a study of certification aspects of software aspects of Galileo a study performed for the European Space Agency (ESA). This gave me more insight into the complex world of safety critical software, and a significant network of professionals in France and USA. My current research interests are now strongly in the area of safety critical software, within testability, fault tolerance etc.


SA-2 Professor Eric Monteiro, Ph.D.

SA-2 CV for Eric Monteiro

Date of birth 25. May 1961, Norwegian citizen

Status Cohabiting, three children

Position Professor Dept. of computer and information science (IDI), Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (NTNU), chair in Systems development and human-computer interaction.

Adjunct Professor Dept. of Informatics (IFI), Univ. of Oslo

Education M. Sc. Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), in computer science, 1987

PhD Univ. of Oslo in informatics, 1992

Work experience Researcher Norsk Regnesentral 1987 - 1992. Part time 1993 - 1994

Assoc. Professor NTNU 1992 - 1998

Professor NTNU 1998 -

Adjunct Professor Univ. of Oslo 1997 -

Teaching Undergratuate and graduate courses, Humanities Faculty Univ. of Oslo, 1991-92

Undergraduate, graduate and PhD courses, NTNU 1992 -

Graduate and PhD courses Univ. of Oslo 1997 -

Tutoring Tutoring 6 PhD students in informatics and the social sciences.

Tutored 11 MSc students.

Research project

KVALIS – electronic patient record systems in hospitals. Partners are faculties of medicine, the social sciences and the natural sciences at NTNU. Budget $500.000 during 1999 - 2002 financed by The Norwegian research council. I am project leader.

Knowledge networks – budget $8.000.000 during 1999 – 2002 financed by NTNU’s strategic funding. Partners include the faculties of humanities, the social sciences, the natural sciences and 5 internationally oriented but Norwegian based enterprises. I am one of two project leaders.

Companies in networks – subproject of the larger P2005 financed by The Norwegian research council. Parners include the The Noregian School of Management (Handelshøyskolen BI) and 3 major industrial companies. I am project participant.

InfraGlob – ”the dynamics of global infrastructre”. Partners were from the universities of Bologna, Gothenburg, Oslo together with 6 international companies. Partially funded through a grant within the


Norwegian research council’s programme on social and human aspects of ICT. Budget $250.00 1997 – 1998. I was project participant while Claudio Ciborra, London School of Economics, was project leader.

”BPR in Europe” – financed by EU’s Targeted socio-economical research (TSER). Partners include univ. of Edingurg, Copenhagen, San Sebastian and Lusanne. Budget $100.000 during 1999 - 2002. I am project participant.

“The Internet-project” – financed through the Swedish research council with budget $700.000 during 1995 – 2000. Partners were Univ. of Gothenburg and Oslo together with 4 companies. I was project participant..

Kunne2 – a PhD programme financed by the Norwegian Research Council 1999 – 2003 aimed at knowledge management. In total 5 PhDs. Partners are consultancies and research institutions: Tieto Enator, Computas, Geelmeyden.Kiese, Sinftef Technology Management. I’m project leader.

Globally dispersed teams – financed by the Norwegian Research Council 2000 – 2003. Partners are NTNU and MIT Sloan School of Management together with Norsk Hydro, Intel and Visteon. I am project participant.

Related experience

Editor-in-chief for the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems.

Reviewer for the journals: Accounting, Management and Information Technologies, Information Systems Research (ISR), Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS)

Member of PhD commities (Kai Jakobs, Univ. of Edinburg; Ola Hendfridson, Univ. i UmeåTerje; Nina Ljungberg, Univ. of Gothenburg; Terje Totland, NTNU)

PhD students: Jonny Holmstrøm (Graduated Univ. of Umeå) and 5 under way

Program chair for conferences (IRIS ’20 in 1997, Standardisation and innovation in IT (SIIT) ’99, ECIS 2002 and IFIP WG 9.4 2000).

Professorship evaluation: Swedish national commitee for docent evaluation; Høgskolen i Agder (HiA);

SA-2 Publication list for Eric Monteiro

Journals

(1) (Rolland and Monteiro, 2002) Balancing the local and the global in infrastructural information systems, The Information Society, 2002 (In press).

(2) (Ellingsen and Monteiro, 2002) A patchwork planet. Integration and cooperation in hospitals, Computer supported cooperative work, (Accepted for publication)

(3) (Monteiro, 2001a) Integrating health information systems, Methods of Information in Medicine, (Accepted for publication)

(4) (Monteiro, 2001b). Rationalizing medical work, The Information Society (In press)

(5) (Monteiro 1999) Living with technology, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 10(1&2), 1998:249 -254.


(6) (Monteiro 1998) Eric Monteiro, Scaling information information infrastructure: the case of the next generation IP in Internet, The Information Society, 14(3):229 – 246. (Special issue on the history of Internet)

(7) (Hanseth and Monteiro 1997) Eric Monteiro og Ole Hanseth, Inscribing behaviour in information infrastructure, Accounting, Management and Information Technology, 7(4):183 – 211

(8) (Hanseth, Monteiro and Hatling 1996) O. Hanseth, E. Monteiro and M. Hatling. Developing information infrastructure standards: the tension between standardisation and flexibility. Science, Technology & Human Values, 21(4):407-426.

(9) (Hanseth and Monteiro 1996) Eric Monteiro and Ole Hanseth, Navigating the future of ISD research, Accounting, Management and Information Technology, 6(1/2):77-86.

(10) (Braa, Monteiro and Reinert 1995) Jørn Braa, Eric Monteiro and Erik Reinert, Technology transfer vs. technological learning: IT-infrastructure and health care in developing countries, IT for Development, 6(1):15 – 23.

(11) (Hanseth and Monteiro 1994) Ole Hanseth and Eric Monteiro, Modelling and the representation of reality: some implications of philosophy on practical systems development, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 6(April):25-46.

Antologies, books

(12) (Monteiro 2000) Eric Monteiro , ANT and infrastructure, In: C. Ciborra (ed.), From control to drift, The dynamics of corportate information infrastructure, Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 71 - 83

(13) (Monteiro and Hepsø 2000) Eric Monteiro and Vidar Hepsø, Infrastructure strategy formation: seize the day. In: C. Ciborra (ed.), From control to drift, The dynamics of corportate information infrastructure, Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 148 - 171,

(14) (Monteiro 1999) E. Monteiro, Monsters, In: K. Braa, B. Dahlbom and C. Sørsensen, Planet Internet, Studentlitteratur, Lund.

(15) (Hanseth and Monteiro 1998) O. Hanseth and E. Monteiro. Participative standardization of information infrastructure. In: S. Katsikides and G. Orange (eds.), International perspectives on information systems, Ashgate, pp. 171 - 188

(16) (Braa and Monteiro 1996) Jørn Braa and Eric Monteiro. Health care, infrastructure and market forces: the case of Mongolia. E.M. Roche and M.J. Blaine, (eds.) , Information technology, development and policy. Theoretical perspectives and practical challenges, Avebury , pp. 171 - 188.

(17) (Monteiro and Hanseth 1995) Eric Monteiro and Ole Hanseth, Social shaping of information infrastructure: on being specific about the technology, Information technology and changes in organisational work, Chapman & Hall, Wanda Orlikowski, Geoff Walsham, Matthew R. Jones and Janice I. DeGross (eds.), pp. 325 – 343.

International, peer-reviewed conferences

(18) (Ellingsen and Monteiro, 2000) Big is beatiful: history of EPR in Norway, In Proc. IRIS 2000, Uddevalla, Sweden. (revised version subm. for reviewing)

(19) (Hanseth and Monteiro 1999) Eric Monteiro and Ole Hanseth. Developing corporate infrastructure: implications for international standardization. In: Kai Jakobs and Robin Williams (eds.). Proc. from


Standardisation and innovation in information technology (SIIT '99), IEEE, ISBN 0 7803 9935 8, pp. 75 - 79.

(20) (Hanseth and Monteiro 1998) O. Hanseth and E. Monteiro. Changing irreversible networks. Institutionalation and infrastructure. Proc. ECIS 1998, Provence, June 1998. (Earlier version presented at the workshop "ANT and after", Keele Univ. and 20th IRIS, Hankø Fjordhotell, 1997)

(21) (Monteiro and Hepsø 1998) Eric Monteiro and Vidar Hepsø, Diffusion of infrastructure: improvisation and mobilisation, Proc. IFIP WG 8.2 & 8.6, Helsinki, 1998. Also presented at the 21th IRIS, N. Buch et al. (eds.), Aalborg Univ. 1998

(22) (Hatling, Monteiro and Sørensen 1997) M. Hatling, E. Monteiro and K. H. Sørensen. Coping with interdisciplinarity in systems design: an empirical study, Presented at 20th IRIS, Hankø Fjordhotell, 1997.

(23) (Monteiro, Hanseth and Hatling 1995) Eric Monteiro, Ole Hanseth, and Morten Hatling. Standardisation of information infrastructure: where is the flexibility? Technical report, STS--arbeidsnotat no. 18/94, Univ. of Trondheim, 1994. Presented at 4S, New Orleans, 1994 and PICT, London 1995.

National conferences

(24) (Hepsø, Monteiro and Schiefloe, 2000). Multi-site ERP implementation: decentralization and centralization revisted, In Proc. Nokobit 2000, Bodø. (revised version subm. for reviewing)

(25) (Monteiro, Hanseth and Perdersen 1994) E. Monteiro, O. Hanseth and M.--L. Pedersen. Participatory standardization and social shaping of information highways. In Norsk informatikk konferanse (NIK) '94, M. Havneraaen et al. (eds.), Tapir pp. 305--317.

(26) (Monteiro og Svanæs 1993) Eric Monteiro and Dag Svanæs, The role of empirical evidence in software engineering , Proc. NIK '93, M. Havneraan m.fl. (reds.), Tapir, 1993

Other publications

(27) (Hanseth and Monteiro 1999) Eric Monteiro and Ole Hanseth, Understanding information infrastructure, unpublished manuscript for a research book (www.ifi.uio.no/~oleha/ Publications/bok.html)

(28) (Monteiro and Hepsø 2000) Eric Monteiro and Vidar Hepsø, Purity and danger of information infrastructure, (Subm. for reviewing)

SA-2 Five selected publications for Eric Monteiro

a. (Rolland and Monteiro, 2002) Balancing the local and the global in infrastructural information systems, The Information Society, 2002 (In press).

b. (Ellingsen and Monteiro, 2002) A patchwork planet. Integration and cooperation in hospitals, Computer supported cooperative work, (Accepted for publication)

c. Monteiro 1998) Eric Monteiro, Scaling information information infrastructure: the case of the next generation IP in Internet, The Information Society, 14(3):229 – 246. (Special issue on the history of Internet)


d. (Hanseth and Monteiro 1997) Eric Monteiro og Ole Hanseth, Inscribing behaviour in information infrastructure, Accounting, Management and Information Technology, 7(4):183 – 211

e. (Monteiro and Hepsø 2000) Eric Monteiro and Vidar Hepsø, Infrastructure strategy formation: seize the day. In: C. Ciborra (ed.), From control to drift, The dynamics of corportate information infrastructure, Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 148 - 171,

SA-2 Personal statement for Eric Monteiro

My work addresses the socio-technical interplay of development, use and subsequent uptake of information systems in organisations. I’m broadly focused around a study of the conditions and mechanisms of designing collaborative systems users.

More specifically, my research has focused around the following set of issues:

Standardisation: a prerequisite for large-scale information systems or infrastructures. My interests have emphasised grasping standards come into being, i.e. the process through which they are negotiated

Collaboration: studying and designing solutions for collaborative, collective work. Infrastructure: studying the growing class of large, complex, tightly integrated and

communicative information systems. How are such systems designed and changed? Theoretical framework: elaborating theoretical frameworks that are useful in

conceptualising the socio-technical dynamics of technology in-the-making


SA-3 Accociate Professor Dag Svanæs, Ph.D.

SA-3 CV for Dag Svanæs

PERSONAL DETAILS

Born: 20 February 1959, Fredrikstad, Norway.

Current address: Via Cesare Battisti 7,10123 Torino (TO),Italy

Phone Italy: +39 3351347821Mobile Norway: +47 92607601

Current positions: Prof, Director of teaching programme, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea,Via Montenavale 1, 10015 Ivrea (TO), Italy

Adjunct Ass. Prof (tenured, currently 20%), Dept. of Computer and Info. Science,Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway

Phone work: +47 73591842 , Fax work: +47 73591733, E-mails: [email protected], [email protected] pages: http://dag.idi.ntnu.no/ , http://www.interaction-ivrea.it

EDUCATION

1982 Master of Science in Electronics. Thesis on software tools for VLSI design. Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

1982-84 Three semesters of Social Anthropology at University of Trondheim and University of Oslo.

2000 Ph.D. in Computer Science ("Doctor Philos."). Cross-disciplinary thesis on interactivity.

In addition to numerous courses and seminars over the years.

EMPLOYMENT

1983-84 Software Researcher, The Computing Center at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Worked with the development and evaluation of a compiler and run-time system for the CHILL programming language.

1984-86 Higher Executive Officer ("Førstekonsulent"), Norwegian Ministry of Education, Oslo, Norway. Part of the task force on introduction of computers to the Norwegian Schools system. Responsible for the development of a user-interface design tool that enabled teachers to construct educational software (see [1] and[2] on the MOSAIKK project).

1986-present Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Responsible for the development of a curriculum in Interaction Design, advisor to M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, broad teaching experience, elected representative to department and school boards, industry contacts. Over the last five years teaching and research has been done in close cooperation with the Department of Product Design at NTNU.

1990-95 Consulted for Nordic Council and SINTEF Research, Oslo on the design of user interfaces for disabled users. Responsible for the first implementation of the interface design tool COMSPEC (see [9], [10] and [11]). This is currently a large EU project in the TIDE program.



1995 One semester sabbatical leave as guest researcher at Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA. Did research on object-oriented design tools (SK8) and educational software (KidSim, now stagecast.com).

1998 One semester sabbatical leave as paid guest lecturer at Stanford University, Computer Science Department. Was responsible for Professor Terry Winograd's philosophy course, and helped in on Verplank's interaction design studio. At the same time consulted for Interval Research on Tangible Interaction (see [17]).

1996-2000 Part-time Professor, Mid-Sweden University, Østersund, Sweden. Responsible for teaching courses on object-oriented systems and HCI.

1997-2001 Lecturer, Mogul.com, Oslo, Norway. Teaching courses in interaction design to professionals in the software industry.

2001-Present Professor, Director of teaching programme, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy. Position at NTNU reduced to 20%.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AT UNIVERISITY LEVEL

Programming language courses: BASIC and Assembler, FORTRAN, PROLOG, SMALLTALK, C/C++, JAVA and Rational Rose, PASCAL/DELPHI.

Computer Science: Introduction to IT, Algorithms and Data Structures, Computer Graphics, Educational Software, Object-oriented analysis and design, Human-Computer Interaction,User-Interface Design, Research Methodology in Computer Science.

Philosophy: The History of Science, Philosophy of Science, The Phenomenological Foundations of Computer Science

In addition advisor to project courses.

TUTORINGSince 1991, Svanæs has been tutor to 22 cand.scient students and 2 PhD students.

SOME RESEARCH PROJECTS

1984-86: MosaikkIn 1984, Svanæs came up with the idea of building a software tool to enable teachers with little or no programming experience to construct educational software. He later was hired by the Ministry of Education in Norway to design and oversee the implementation of the tool. The resulting program, MOSAIKK, was used by approx. 1000 teachers over a period of five years in all Scandinavian countries (see [1] and [2]). The tool had strong similarities with the tool HyperCard that arrived on the Macintosh computers two years later.

1990-95: ComspecPartly as a result of the MOSAIKK project, Svanæs was in 1990 invited by a Swedish research center working for the Nordic Council to consult on the design of a similar tool to enable teachers and therapists to construct user interfaces for disabled users. He worked with a team of researchers from all Europe, and eventually developed the first working version of the resulting COMSPEC system (see [9], [10], [11]). The COMSPEC project is currently a project in the EU-TIDE program.

1995-96: KidSimIn cooperation with Apple R&D, Svanæs is testing out the educational software tool KidSim in a Norwegian school. The project results in a master thesis, and 2 minutes on national television.

1998-2000: Tangible InterfacesConsulting for Interval Research, Palo Alto, CA, Svanæs does basic research on tangible interaction.

1998-99: iButtons as tokens


Inspired by, and from discussions with, the Tangible Media Group at MIT MediaLab, Svanæs and three Master students re-implemented two versions on Brygg Ullmer's MediaBlocks project using iButtons. The implementations were tested with users.

1993-2000: Understanding InteractivityIn parallel with other activities Svanæs runs his own project on the philosophy of interactivity. As part of this project he implements test material for psychological experiments, and 16 versions of an interface builder (in Smalltalk). As part of the project he also designs, runs, and interprets three psychological experiments. The work results in a monograph and a multi-disciplinary Ph.D. Can be downloaded from http://dag.idi.ntnu.no/interactivity.pdf .

2000: PulseFor the official 100th anniversary of the University in Trondheim, Svanæs got funding to design, implement and produce 3000 interactive badges for the guests. The project was a cooperation with the Product Design Department. The guests included the Norwegian King. The project gave valuable insight into the co-production of electronics (surface mount PCB), software (micro-controllers), and exterior design (Polycarbonate). See: http://www.puls.ntnu.no/ .

2001: Mobile ITIn cooperation with Telenor R&D, Svanæs is starting up a research project on mobile IT, context-aware systems, and tangible interaction. The project is a cooperation with Department of Product Design, Department of Computer Science and Telenor R&D. The project will in 2001 involve 8-10 students, 2-3 faculty, and will (hopefully) result in ideas for new products and services for the next generations mobile networks (UMTS). See: http://p2p.idi.ntnu.no/ .

SA-3 Publication list for Dag Svanæs

Journal Papers

(1) Svanæs,D. Context-Aware Technology: A Phenomenological Perspective, to appear in HCI Journal, special issue on context-aware computing, (Dourish, P., Moran,T. eds.), Elsevier Press, 2001.

International refereed conferences

(2) Svanæs, D. Interaction is Orthogonal to Graphical Form. Short paper INTERCHI’93, Adjunct Proceedings. ACM 1993.

(3) Svanæs, D. Research Summary: (De)Constructing Interaction. Position paper for Research Symposium, INTERCHI’93, ACM 1993.

(4) Svanæs, D. The Perception of Interaction. Position paper for Workshop on spatial metaphors, INTERCHI’93, ACM 1993.

(5) Svanæs, D., Lundälv, M, and Poon, P. The specification of a versatile communication and writing tool. ECKART´2 conference proceedings, Stockholm 1993.

(6) Svanæs, D., Lundälv, M. Comspec - Towards a Modular Software Architecture and Protocol for AAC Devices. 1st TIDE Congress proceedings, IOS Press, Amsterdam 1993.

(7) Svanæs, D. COMSPEC: a Software architecture for users with special needs. Short paper INTERCHI’93, Adjunct Proceedings. ACM 1993.

(8) Svanæs, D. An Experimental Comparison Of Three Design Methodologies. Position paper for Research Symposium, CHI’94, . ACM 1994.

(9) Svanæs, D. Participatory Design of End-User Programming Tools in a Micro World, Proceedings of Conf. Participatory Design '94, ACM 1994.

(10) Svanæs, D. Kinaesthetic Thinking: The Tacit Dimension of Interaction Design, Computers in Human Behavior, 13 (4), pp. 443-463, Elsevier, 1997.


http://p2p.idi.ntnu.no/

http://www.puls.ntnu.no/

http://dag.idi.ntnu.no/interactivity.pdf

(11) Svanæs, D., Verplank, W. In Search of Metaphors for Tangible User Interfaces, DARE'2000, ACM, 2000.

National papers

(12) Svanæs, D. Seeing and Doing: A Case Study of the Interplay between Theory and Practice. IRIS´92 working conference, University of Oslo, 1992.

(13) Svanæs, D., Monteiro, E., The role of empirical evidence in software engineering, Norwegian Informatics Conference 1993, University of Oslo, 1993.

Reports etc.

(14) Svanæs, D. What is Interactivity?, In proceedings of Dagstuhl seminar on Informatics and Semiotics, Report 135, Schloss Dagstuhl, 1996.

(15) Svanæs, D. Understanding Interactivity: Steps to a Phenomenology of Human-Computer Interaction, Monograph, Computer Science Department, ISBN 82-471-5201-0, NTNU, Trondheim, 2000. Dr. philos. thesis.

SA-3 Five selected publications for Dag Svanæs

a. Svanæs,D. Context-Aware Technology: A Phenomenological Perspective, to appear in HCI Journal, special issue on context-aware computing, (Dourish, P., Moran,T. eds.), Elsevier Press, 2001.

b. Svanæs, D., Verplank, W. In Search of Metaphors for Tangible User Interfaces, in DARE'2000 Proceedings, ACM, 2000.

c. Svanæs, D. Kinaesthetic Thinking: The Tacit Dimension of Interaction Design, Computers in Human Behavior, 13 (4), pp. 443-463, Elsevier, 1997.

d. Svanæs, D. Interaction is Orthogonal to Graphical Form. Short paper INTERCHI’93, Adjunct Proceedings. ACM 1993.

e. Svanæs, D. COMSPEC: a Software architecture for users with special needs. Short paper INTERCHI’93, Adjunct Proceedings. ACM 1993.

SA-3 Personal statement by Dag Svanæs

In ACM terms, my research belongs within the broad category Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Over the last 15 years I have moved from a focus on software technology, to a focus on designing computer-based systems starting from the users’ needs. This has brought me in close cooperation with researchers in design, psychology and philosophy.

My main interests are currently: the philosophical foundation of human-computer interaction, user-centred design methodologies, participatory design, mobile computing, context-aware and tangible computing, end-user programming, and user-interface design tools.


SA-4 Assistant Professor Terje Rydland

SA-4 CV for Terje Rydland

Date of birth

06. February 1953, Norwegian citizen

Status

Married, 2 children

Position

Tenured assistant Professor, Dept. of computer and information science (IDI), Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology (NTNU), chair in Systems development and human-computer interaction.

Education

M. Sc. University of Trondheim, in chemistry, 1981

Work experience

Teacher at Ytre Namdal v.g.skole 1981-1983

Teacher at Strinda v.g.skole 1983-1984

Teacher at Ringve v.g.skole 1984-1986

Assistant Professor NTNU 1986 -

Teaching

Undergraduate and graduate courses, Dept. of Informatics, Tromsø, 1992-1994 (visiting)

Undergratuate and graduate courses, IDI, NTNU, 1986 -

Currently (2001) teaching:

MNFIT100 Informatikk basisfag (Basic ICT)

MNFIT131 Datastøttet læring (Computer aided learning)

MNFIT231 IKT fagdidaktikk (Computer science didactics)

MNFIT232 Pedagogisk programvare (Development of pedagogical software)

Tutoring

Tutored 10 MSc students.

Administration

Head of IFI (Institutt for Informatikk) at UNIT (Universitetet i Trondheim) 6 years (1989-1995)

Deputy head of IFI at UNIT 3 years (1986-1989)

Deputy head of IDI at NTNU 3 years (1998-2001)

Research periods

Sabbatical at Ultralab, Anglia Polytechnic University August-December 1995

Sabbatical at Ultralab, Anglia Polytechnic University May-December 1996

Research projects

éTui – development of robots to let children better understand the learning processes. Partners were


Ultralab at Anglia Polytechnic University, England, Apple Computer and Universita Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. The project ended in 2000

SA-4 Publication list for Terje Rydland

Educational Publications Kompendium i Datastøttet læring (1992- revised every year since - new version 2000)Kompendium i Pedagogisk programvare (1990)Kompendium i IKT basisfag (1999)

SA-4 Personal Statement Terje Rydland

My interests are in the use of technology in learning. This includes all aspects of this field from distance learning via classroom infrastructure and software as learning aides. Other fields of interest as a consequence of my main interest are user interfaces, CSCW and children as developers.During the last 3 years my main research activity has been focused around an EU-funded project on using children to design robots to enhance the childrens understanding of learning processes (the éTui-project in the i3-initiative). The report from this project is being written now. At the moment I am writing a new proposal for a project on developing software to "enlarge the classroom" into also allowing students not present in the classroom to participate in the activities going on there.

I have spent a lot of my time on teaching and on administrative duties during the last 5 years, doing double duty on teaching and acting as deputy head of the department for the last 3 years.

More specifically, my research is now focused around the following set of issues:Collaboration: how can we use IT to let students participate in the activities going on at

school without being physically presentSocial structures: how can you build social relationships on the internet?Infrastructure: how can we build an infrastructure to let students use IT effectively in a

learning environment?


Appendix 9: Artificial Intelligence and Learning Group (AIL)

The AIL group has the following faculty members: AIL-1 Agnar Aamodt, dr.ing., professor, Case-Based Reasoning AIL-2 Keith Downing, PhD, professor, Artificial Life AIL-3 Arvid Holme, assistant professor, Intelligent Learning Systems AIL-4 Asbjørn Thomassen, assistant professor, Human-Computer Interaction AIL-5 Ketil Bø, dr.ing., adjunct associate professor, Image Processing AIL-6 Øystein Nytrø, dr.ing., adjunct associate professor (50%), Machine Learning AIL-7 Pinar Öztürk, dr.scient., adjunct associate professor, Case-Based Reasoning AIL-8 Arvid Staupe, assistant professor (“undervisningsleder”), Intelligent Learning System (p.t. in another group) The group has seven PhD students: Elisabeth Bayegan (electronic journals in primary health care), Ole André Brevik (on leave), Jörg Cassens, Diego Federici, Pavel Petrovic, Inger Dybdahl Sørby, and Frode Sørmo.

In 1996-2000 the group has produced the following two dr.scient candidates: - Elisabeth Bayegan: “Electronic Journals in Primary Health Case (Nytrø)- Morten Grimnes: “ImageCreek: A Knowledge Level Approach to Case-Based Image

Interpretation”, 1998, advisor: A. Aamodt.- Pinar Öztürk: “A Knowledge Level Model of Context and Context Use in Diagnostic

Domains”, 2000, advisor: A. Aamodt.

A common theme that captures all group members' activities - albeit in varying degrees - is "learning in humans and machines". AIL researchers share an interest in computational methods for machine learning, experience reuse, adaptive systems, and self-organising systems, as well as applications of AI systems to various kinds of education- and learning-support for humans. The research and development activities span a range from computer-assisted learning systems (with a small or only planned AI component) to machine learning methods, where the human component is not always obvious.

Learning is chosen as a focus also because AI systems for human support have traditionally been focused only on the decision-support part and neglected the learning aspects. While the group members, too, are well experienced and internationally positioned in the tradition of AI methods for problem -solving and decision support, the emphasis on learning represents a redirection from this past heritage. It is a strong view within the group that learning and problem solving should not be separated, but rather viewed as two tightly integrated parts that are both necessary for intelligent behaviour, whether in humans or machines, and whether deliberate or reactive.

At a high level, a scientific goal of our research is the increased understanding of intelligent systems. This combines with the engineering goal of developing methods that make computer systems better partners for human beings.

AIL research is roughly divided into three main areas, with significant overlap among them: case-based reasoning, intelligent learning systems, and artificial life.


The group teaches the following courses: Courses recently taught by AIL members:

MNFIT-111 Introduction to Programming (Arvid Holme)MNFIT-167 Database Systems (Arvid Holme)MNFIT-222 Operating Systems (Arvid Staupe)MNFIT-215 Functional Programming in Lisp (Keith Downing)MNFIT-272 Artificial Intelligence (Agnar Aamodt)MNFIT-281 Information Retrieval (Arvid Holme)MNFIT-341 Human-Computer Interaction (Asbjørn Thomassen)MNFIT-374 Machine Learning (Agnar Aamodt)MNFIT-376 Knowledge Representation (Pinar Ozturk)MNFIT-378 Sub-symbolic AI Methods (Keith Downing)MNFIT-379 Intelligent User Interfaces (Asbjørn Thomassen)

SIF-8028 Programming Languages (Øystein Nytro)DIF-8916 Computer-Science Topics/Doctoral Seminar (Keith Downing)HF-MV-203 Photography, Digitalization and Image Processing (Ketil Bø)


AIL-1 Professor Dr.Ing. Agnar Aamodt

AIL-1 Curriculum Vitae for Agnar Aamodt

General Information

Born: 1950Position: Full ProfessorAcad .degree: Dr. ing. (Ph.D.)

Currently (year 2001-2002) on leave in Institut d'Investigació en Intel·ligència Artificial, IIIA/CSIC, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, SPAIN.

Previous Computer-Science Positions

1994 - Full professor at NTNU, Department of Informatics (now IDI), Head of Artificial Intelligence and Learning Group from 1995. Scientific advisor at Sintef.

1992 – 94 Grant position at NTNU, Department of Informatics (now IDI)1980 – 92 Researcher at Sintef, Information System and Library Automation groups1978 – 79 Scholarship in Library Automation at Norwegian Document Data1974 – 77 Information Scientist and University Librarian, University of Trondheim

Teaching Experience

Course MNFIT 272 Artificial Intelligence 1994 – Course MNFIT 374 Machine Learning and Case-Based Reasoning 1995 – Course MNFIT 376 Knowledge Representation 1996 – 1999

Shorter courses and guest seminar series (1-4 weeks) at: University of Kaiserslautern (1993), University of Freiburg (1994), University of Sao Paulo at San Carlos (1996), University of Leipzig (1997), University of Girona (2001).

Supervising Experience

Grad students supervised: 2 Ph.D., 12 Masters, 2 Siv.ing.Grad students currently under supervision: 5 Ph.D., 5 Masters. Assistant advisor of additional 4 Ph.Ds, in different departments at NTNU (Dep. of Philosophy, Dep. of Mathematical Sciences, Dep. of Industrial Economics and Technology Management, Dep. of Petroleum Engineering).

Graduated Ph.D.s’ theses:Morten J. F. Grimnes (1998): "Image Creek: A Knowledge Level Approach to Case-based Image Interpretation".Pinar Özturk (2000): “A Knowledge Level Model of Context and Context Use in Diagnostic Domains”.

Visiting Research Positions2001 – 2002Visiting Professor in the Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Spanish Research Council, UAB Campus (see official name above). Contacts: Dr. Enric Plaza and Professor Ramon Lopez de Mantaras.

1991 – 1992Research Scientist in the Free University of Brussels (VUB), Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Contact: Professor Bruce Porter.

1987 – 1988Visiting Scholar in the University of Texas at Austin, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Contacts: Dr. Walter Van de Velde and Professor Luc Steels.


Other international scientific activities (1992 – 2001)

Member of 5 qualification assessment committees for professorships (Carnegie Mellon Univ., Georgia Inst. of Tech., George Mason Univ., Stockholm Univ.)

Member of 10 doctoral and habilitation committees (Germany, France, Spain, UK, Sweden).

Board member of Cognitive Science Quarterly (1998-), Computational Intelligence and Applications (1998-), AI Communications (1994-98).

Co-chaired the Program Committee of the First International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (1995), the Scandinavian Conference of Artificial Intelligence (1995), and workshops at IJCAI (main int. AI conf.), ECML (European Machine Learning conf., ICCBR. Appointed Conference Chair (organisation) of ICCBR-03.

Program Committee member of 20 conference PCs (including IJCAI, ECAI, ICML, ECML, ICCBR, ECCBR, ...) and 5 workshop PCs.

Member of Working Group for definition of EU 4th Framework Program on Emerging Software Technologies. Reviewer of several EU projects, and of grant proposals.

AIL-1 International Publications for Agnar Aamodt

Journal articles(1) Ketil Bø, Agnar Aamodt

A new approach to applicable memory-based reasoning. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11, 1999. pp 479-496.

(2) Pinar Öztürk, Agnar AamodtA context model for knowledge-intensive case-based reasoning. International Journal of Human Computer Studies. Vol. 48, 1998. Academic Press. pp 331-355.

(3) Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Agnar AamodtRelating case-based problem solving and learning methods to task and domain characteristics; towards an analytic framework. AI Communications - The European Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 9 (3) 1996, pp 109-116.

(4) Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Agnar AamodtZur Analyse fallbasierter Problemlöse- und Lernmethode in Abhängigkeit von Charakteristika gegebener Aufgabenstellungen und Anwendungsdomänen. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), nr. 1 (März) 1966, pp 10-15. (German version of above paper)]

(5) Agnar Aamodt, Mads NygårdDifferent roles and mutual dependencies of data, information, and knowledge - an AI perspective on their integration. Data and Knowledge Engineering 16 (1995), pp 191-222.

(6) Agnar Aamodt , Enric PlazaCase-based reasoning; Foundational issues, methodological variations, and system approaches, AI Communications, March 1994, pp 1-21.


(7) Ingeborg Sølvberg, Inge Nordbø, Agnar AamodtKnowledge-Based Information Retrieval. Future Generation Computer Systems, 7(1991/92) 379-390. 1992.

Books and edited books/proceedings(8) Sarab Singh Anand, Agnar Aamodt, David W. Aha (eds.)Automating the Construction of Case Based Reasoners. Proceedings of Workshop ML-5 at the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Stockholm, 1999. IJCAI, 1999, 82 pgs.

(9) Manuela Veloso, Agnar Aamodt (eds.)Case-based reasoning research and development. Proceedings of ICCBR-95, First International Conference on Case-based Reasoning, Sesimbra, Portugal, October 23-26 1995. (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1010, series eds.: J. G. Carbonell, J. Siekmann). Springer Verlag, 1995. x+576 pgs.

(10) Agnar Aamodt, Jan Komorowski (eds.)SCAI'95: Fifth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Trondheim May 29-31 1995. IOS Press, 1995. ix+484 pgs.

Chapters in books(11) Agnar Aamodt

Knowledge Acquisition and Learning from Experience - The Role of Case-Specific Knowledge, In Gheorge Tecuci and Yves Kodratoff (eds.): Machine learning and knowledge acquisition; Integrated approaches, Academic Press, 1995, Chapter 8, pp 197-245.

Articles in refereed international conferences and workshops(12) Agnar Aamodt

Modeling the knowledge contents of CBR systems. Proceedings of the Workshop Program at the Fourth International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning 2001, (Cristina Weber and Christiane von Wangenheim, eds). Vancouver, Canada, July 2001. Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, Tecnical Note AIC-01-003. Washington DC, pp ?.

(13) Paal Skalle, Jostein Sveen, Agnar AamodtImproved efficiency of oil well drilling through case-based reasoning. Proceedings of PRICAI 2000, The Sixth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne August-September 2000. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2000. pp 713-723.

(14) Helge Langseth, Agnar Aamodt, Ole Martin WinnemLearning retrieval knowledge from data. In Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop ML-5, Automating the Construction of Case-Based Reasoners. Stockholm 1999. Sarabjot Singh Anand, Agnar Aamodt, David W. Aha (eds.). pp. 77-82.

(15) Frode Sørmo, Agnar AamodtKnowledge elaboration for improved CBR. In Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop ML-5, Automating the Construction of Case-Based Reasoners. Stockholm 1999. Sarabjot Singh Anand, Agnar Aamodt, David W. Aha (eds.). pp. 39-43.

(16) Agnar Aamodt, Helge LangsethIntegrating Bayesian Networks into Knowledge-Intensive CBR. In American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Case-based reasoning integrations; Papers from the AAAI workshop. David Aha, Jody J.


Daniels (eds.). Technical Report WS-98-15. AAAI Press, Menlo Park, 1998. ISBN 1-57735-068-5. pp 1-6.

(17) Pål Skalle, Agnar AamodtCase-based reasoning – a method for gaining experience and giving advise on how to avoid and how to free stuck drill strings. Proceedings of IADC Middle East Drilling Conference, Dubai, Nov. 1998.

(18) Agnar Aamodt, Helge A. Sandtorv, Ole M. WinnemCombining Case Based Reasoning and Data Mining - A way of revealing and reusing RAMS experience. In Lydersen, Hansen, Sandtorv (eds.),Safety and Reliability; Proceedings of ESREL ’98, Trondheim, June 16-19, 1998. Balkena, Rotterdam, 1998. ISBN 90-5410-966-1. pp 1345-1351.

(19) Pinar Özturk, Agnar AamodtTowards a model of context for case-based diagnostic problem solving. In Context-97; Proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference on modelling and using context. Rio de Janeiro, February 1997. pp 198-208.

(20) Morten Grimnes, Agnar AamodtA two layer case-based reasoning architecture for medical image understanding. In Smith, I., Faltings, B. (eds.). Advances in case-based reasoning, (Proceedings EWCBR-96), Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1168, 1996. pp 164-178.

(21) Agnar AamodtA knowledge representation system for integration of general and case-specific knowledge. In Proceedings from IEEE ICTAI-94, Sixth International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. New Orleans, November 5-12, 1994, pp 836-839.

(22) Agnar Aamodt Explanation-driven case-based reasoning, In S. Wess, K. Althoff, M. Richter (eds.):Topics in Case-based reasoning. Selected and revised papers from EWCBR-93: First European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning. Otzenhausen, November 1-5 1993. University of Kaiserslautern, SR-93-12. Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1993. Springer Verlag, 1994, pp 274-288.

(23) Mads Nygård, Agnar AamodtRoad transport Informatics; Conceptual framework and technological components. In: VNIS '93, 4th International Conference on Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems. Ottawa, Canada, October 12-15 1993.

(24) Agnar AamodtA case-based answer to some problems of knowledge-based systems. In E. Sandewal and C.G. Jansson (eds.): Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1993. IOS Press, 1993. pp. 168-182.

(25) Enric Plaza, Agnar Aamodt, Ashwin Ram, Walter van de Velde, Maarten van SomerenIntegrated learning architectures. In: Machine Learning: ECML-93, European Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, Austria, April 5-7 1993. Springer Verlag, 1993. pp 429-441.

Other international papers (invited talks etc.)


(26) “Knowledge-intensive case-based reasoning, some challenges and solutions”. Invited talk at the Fourth Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, Barcelona October 24-26 2001. Summary paper, IIIA/CSIC, Barcelona, 2001, 10pgs.

(27) “Case-based reasoning overview”. Invited seminar series at University of Girona, April-May 2001. Compiled seminar compendium, University of Girona, 2001.

(28) “Explanation-driven learning of case-specific knowledge”. Invited talk at ECML-97 (European Conference on Machine Learning), Workshop on Case representation – beyond feature vectors?, Praha, April 1997. NCARAI Technical Note AIC-97-005, pp 7-8.

(29) “CreekL – a representation language integrating general and case-specific knowledge.” Invited talk at Graduiertenkolleg Wissensrepräsentation. Summary paper in Graduiertenkolleg documents, edited by Gerhard Brewka. Universität Leipzig, Oct. 12, 1998.

(30) "An introduction to case-based reasoning”, Two-week invited seminar series at University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos campus, oktober-november 96. Compilation of seminar documents (A. Aamodt, ed.)

(31) "Case-Based Reasoning and Neural Networks - a Fruitful Breed?"Invited talk at SBRN´96 symposium. Abstract in Proceedings of IIIrd Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks, Recife, Brasil, Nov. 96.

(32) “Integrating CBR and data mining – the Noemie approach”. Invited talk at GMD, St. Augustin, October 1997. Talk based on following two documents:

(33) “Noemie - Technical evaluation.” The Noemie Consortium (co-author A. Aamodt). Deliverable Task 3.2. Esprit Project 22312. Noemie Report, 1997.

(34) “Noemie - Architecture & Specification”. The Noemie Consortium (co-author A. Aamodt). Deliverable Task 2.3+Annex 2.3A, 2.3B, 2.3C. Esprit Project 22312. Noemie Report, 1996.

(35) “Case-based reasoning – an introduction”. Invited talk at Unicom Seminar on Case-Based Reasoning, London, April 27th, 1995. Paper in Unicom Seminar Proceedings.

(36) "Case-based reasoning and learning". Invited tutorial series at "Summer School on Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition '94", organised by European Network of Excellence in Machine Learning. Dourdan, Frankrike, September 1994. MLNET, 1994.

(37) "Knowledge modelling and case-based reasoning", 3-day talk series at Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik und Gesellschaft, November-desember 1993. Based on the following three documents:

(38) Agnar Aamodt, Bart Benus, Cuno Duursma, Christine Tomlinsen, Ronald Schrooten, Walter Van De Velde: Task features and their use in CommonKADS. KADS-II Report, Deliverable D1.5, KADII/TI.5/VUB/TR/014/1.0. Free University of Brussels - VUB, 1992.

(39) Agnar Aamodt, Bert Bredeweg, Joost Breuker, Cuno Duursma, Christine Löckenhoff, Klas Orsvärn, Jan Top, Andre Valente, Walter Van De Velde

(40) The CommonKADS Library. KADS-II Report, Deliverable D1.3a, KADS-II/TI.3/VUB/TR/005/1.0. Free University of Brussels - VUB, May 1992.

(41) Walter Van de Velde, Agnar Aamodt Machine learning issues in CommonKADS. KADS-II Report, Deliverable D2.11, KADS- II/TII.4.3/TR/VUB/002/3.0, Free University of Brussels -VUB, January 1992.

(42) "Case-based reasoning", invited tutorial at EWCBR-93, First European Workshop on Case-based Reasoning, Otzenhausen, November 1993. EWCBR-93, Tutorial document.


AIL-1 Five Selected papers for Agnar Aamodt

a) Paper 5. Agnar Aamodt, Mads Nygård:Different roles and mutual dependencies of data, information, and knowledge - an AI perspective on their integration. Data and Knowledge Engineering 16 (1995), pp 191-222. This paper discusses the problems of earlier purely generalisation-based methods for interactive, situation-related user-support, as well as recent purely constructive, situated approaches to the same. It suggests a CBR view to information systems and knowledge-based systems. Co-author from IDI, Database Systems Group.

b. Paper 6. Agnar Aamodt, Enric Plaza:Case-based reasoning; Foundational issues, methodological variations, and system approaches, AI Communications, March 1994, pp 1-21.This is the frequently referenced overview and framework paper on CBR. Co-author is from the AI Research Institute (IIIA) in Barcelona.

c. Paper 12. Agnar Aamodt:Knowledge Acquisition and Learning from Experience - The Role of Case-Specific Knowledge, In Gheorge Tecuci and Yves Kodratoff (eds.): Machine learning and knowledge acquisition; Integrated approaches, Academic Press, 1995, Chapter 8, pp 197-245.This paper puts CBR in general, and knowledge-intensive CBR in particular, within a knowledge engineering as well as a machine learning perspective, and attempt a merge into an overall architecture.

d. Paper 14. Paal Skalle, Jostein Sveen, Agnar Aamodt:Improved efficiency of oil well drilling through case-based reasoning. Proceedings of PRICAI 2000, The Sixth Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Melbourne August-September 2000. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2000. pp 713-723.This paper summarises the results of the Noemie project on integrating CBR and data mining for industrial experience reuse. Co-authors are from Sintef Industrial Management and NTNU Dep. of Petroleum Eng.

e. Paper 23. Agnar Aamodt:Explanation-driven case-based reasoning, In S. Wess, K. Althoff, M. Richter (eds.): Topics in Case-based reasoning. Selected and revised papers from EWCBR-93: First European Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning. Otzenhausen, November 1-5 1993. University of Kaiserslautern, SR-93-12. Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1993. Springer Verlag, 1994, pp 274-288.This is the paper that presents and discusses the “Creek approach” to knowledge-intensive CBR.

AIL-1 Personal Statement for Agnar Aamodt

Professor Dr. Agnar Aamodt has worked full time in the area of computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) since 1984. He is also scientific advisor for Sintef Telecom and Informatics, and Sintef Industrial Management. His main interest and research area is the representation and utilisation of combined generalised knowledge, in the form of multi-relational concept models, and situation-specific


knowledge, in the form of past case experiences. Given the application goal of improved support for human decision-making and learning, the computational methods studied also borrow from principles derived from the studies of human reasoning and problem solving. This positions some of his work within the wider area of Cognitive Science.

The overall and continuos research goal is to understand how and to what degree intelligent behaviour in terms of interactive problem solving and learning skills can be modelled and realised in computer systems. Driven by a wish to study real-world problems rather than idealised ones, this research problem is constrained by focusing on the study of situation-specific knowledge types and reasoning methods. This, in turn, puts his research into the subarea of AI called case-based reasoning (CBR). But cases alone are insufficient, generalised knowledge is needed in addition, and the exploration of the method space involving both case-specific and generalised knowledge then becomes the context of the research. Three methodological levels are addressed in parallel: The representational and basic inferencing level, the reasoning method level, and the system level. Integration is a key research emphasis on all levels. At the representational and reasoning levels this means integration of general and case-specific knowledge representations, as well as the reasoning methods that work upon the representations. At the reasoning and system levels it means integration of computational problem solving and learning methods. Learning is crucial for any kind of intelligent behaviour, and hence machine learning for intelligent machines.

If a core term is selected to account for the particular viewpoint taken in this research, it is “Knowledge-intensive case-based reasoning”. The primary area is CBR, but unlike many other approaches to CBR, this approach is a combined one where the various research activities aim to explore different aspects of combined case-specific and generalisation-based reasoning. The primary role of general domain knowledge is to serve as explanatory support for the choices that the case-based reasoner has to make, but also to provide something to fall back on if CBR should fail (i.e. solving the problem “from scratch”, if an appropriate case is not found). For both of these outcomes, a new case should be learned.

The types of applications focused are intelligent decision support, computer-assisted learning/tutoring, and knowledge management. Particular application areas include medical decision support and oil well exploration.

Dr. Aamodt was among the first people in Europe who started research in the CBR area, which has contributed to giving him a central position in the European CBR community. One of his early CBR papers, co-authored with Enric Plaza in 1994, was claimed - at this year’s international CBR Conference (ICCBR-01) - to be the most cited CBR paper that exists. It is included among the 5 selected papers. In that paper a framework for CBR is suggested, which has been adopted by the community at large, and hence been influential for the way researchers in general think about CBR problems.

The Creek system and approach, initially specified as part of dr. Aamodt’s doctoral thesis, has been frequently studied by other researchers interested in combining cases with general domain knowledge. Several subsequent doctoral theses and other research have used it as a starting point, and analysed and compared it to their own goal and resulting method.

More recently, given the growth of databases and methods to extract knowledge from large bodies of data, a research line has been defined which aims not only to learn and utilise human-experienced knowledge, but also to provide methods that capture knowledge implicitly contained in databases. Hence, a “human perspective” based view of the world is complemented with a “data perspective” based view. Exploring


and comparing these two dimensions of the knowledge space have just started, and will be more intense in the years to come.

The main application area over the recent years has been oil well drilling, with medical diagnosis as number two. Through the EU project Noemie (finished in 1999), initial experiments in combining human-generated and data-extracted knowledge were undertaken. While Noemie was an example of a project with new computer methods as its focus, an ongoing Norwegian project, with the Norwegian oil company Norsk Hydro and two drilling companies as application partners, views improved computer methods just as one part of a totality. Here the aim is to develop improved ways of avoiding accidents and reducing drilling stops, by improving the planning of a drilling process, the organisation, the way people communicates, motivational factors, reporting, etc. Intelligent support for decisions and – even more – for human learning has a different and extended challenge here, and a type of challenge that will be called for more and more frequently in the years to come, when computers are getting to become integrated parts of organisations, not only tools to serve them. It is very exciting and stimulating to be able to study and test out the capturing and utilisation of combined situation-specific and generalised knowledge in such a context.


AIL-2 Professor Keith Downing, Ph.D.

AIL-2 Curriculum Vitae for Keith Downing

Name: Keith Linn Downing Birthdate: July 1, 1961 Nationality: United States Citizen Occupation: Professor of Computer Science Address: Department of Computer and Information Sciences

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) 7034 Trondheim Norway

Phone: +47 73 59 02 71Email: [email protected]

Education

Computer Science Ph.D. - The University of Oregon (1990) Mathematics B.A. (summa cum laude) - Bucknell University (1983)

Previous Computer Science Positions

SINTEF - IKU Environmental Modelling (Trondheim, Norway, 1993- 1995) - Research scientist. SINTEF Automatic Control (Trondheim, Norway, 1992-93) - Research scientist. Linkoping University (Linkoping, Sweden, 1990-92) - Postdoctoral researcher. The University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon, 1983-90) - Graduate teaching and research assistant. Xerox PARC (Palo Alto, California, 1987) - Summer intern. Hewlett Packard (Cupertino, California, 1984) - Summer intern

Teaching Experience

Evolutionary Computation and Neural Networks (NTNU, 1997-2001) Functional programming in LISP (NTNU, 1997-2001; Univ. of Oregon, 1989) Artificial Intelligence (NTNU, 2001) Software Project (NTNU, 1998-2000) Doctoral Seminar in Computer Science Research Methods (NTNU, 1998-2001) Introduction to Computer Programming (NTNU, 1996) Qualitative Modelling and Simulation (Linkoping, 1991-2)

Visiting Research Positions

Dept. of Computer Science (Kent State Univ., Summer 1999) Program for the Study of Complex Systems (Univ. of Michigan, Summer 1997) Complex Systems Summer School (Santa Fe Institute, Summer 1996)

Main Fields of Competence

Artificial life Evolutionary computation Artificial intelligence Modelling and simulation of natural systems

AIL-2 Publications for Keith Downing



Refereed Journals (First Author)

(1) Downing, K. (2001). The simulated emergence of distributed environmental control in evolving microcosms. Artificial Life (submitted).

(2) Downing, K. (2001). Reinforced genetic programming. Genetic Programming & Evolvable Machines (to appear).

(3) Downing, K. and P. Zvirinsky (1999). The simulated evolution of biochemical guilds: Reconciling gaia theory and natural selection. Artificial Life. Vol. 5(4), pp. 291-318.

(4) Downing, K. (1998). Using evolutionary computational techniques in environmental modelling. Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 13, Elsevier Publishers, pp. 519-528.

(5) Downing, K. (1997). EUZONE: Simulating the Evolution of Aquatic Ecosystems. Artificial Life. Vol. 3(4), pp. 307-333.

(6) Downing, K. and M. Reed (1996) Object-oriented migration modelling for biological impact assessment. Ecological Modelling, Elsevier Publishers, vol 93, pp. 203-219.

(7) Downing, K. (1993) Physiological applications of consistency-based diagnosis. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal. vol 5, pp. 65-82.

Refereed Journals (Contributing Author)

(8) Slagstad, D., Downing, K., Carlotti, F. and Hirche, H. (1999). Modelling the carbon export and air-sea flux of CO2 in the Greenland Sea. Deep Sea Research II, Perganon Press.

Book Chapters (First author)

(9) Downing, K. (2001). Gaia in the Machine: Artificial Life Approaches. Submitted to Scientists on Gaia, MIT Press.

(10) Downing, K. (1999). Applications of genetic algorithms to the classic job-shop scheduling problem: an introduction and survey of recent research. Intelligent design, manufacturing and management: Nordic-Baltic Summer School '98 Lecture Notes (eds. K. Wang and J. Grundspenkis). Riga University of Technology Publishers, Riga, Latvia.

(11) Downing, K. (1992) A qualitative teleological approach to cardiovascular physiology. Recent Advances in Qualitative Physics, (eds. P. Struss and B. Faltings), MIT Press.

Refereed Conferences & Workshops (First author)

(12) Downing, K. (2001) Modular Designer Chemistries for Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 3nd Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001) , San Francisco, California, pp. 845-852.

(13) Downing, K. (2001) Adaptive Genetic Programs via Reinforcement Learning. Proceedings of the 3nd Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2001) , San Francisco, California. pp. 19-26.

(14) Downing, K. (2000). Exploring Gaia Theory: Artificial Life on a Planetary Scale. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Life, Portland, Oregon.

(15) Downing, K. (1998). Combining genetic programming and genetic algorithms for ecological simulation. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Genetic Programming, Madison, Wisconsin. pp. 48 - 53.


(16) Downing, K. (1997) The emergence of insect protandry: a "natural" evolutionary computation application. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Indianapolis, Indiana, pp. 325-330.

(17) Downing, K. (1997) The emergence of emergence distributions: using genetic algorithms to test biological theories. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, East Lansing, Michigan.

(18) Downing, K. (1996) . A data-driven, object-oriented approach to migration modelling. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Kohala Coast, Hawaii.

(19) Downing, K. (1992). Analyzing genetic regulatory systems via focused envisionment. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Qualitative Reasoning Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland.

(20) Downing, K. (1992). Consistency-based diagnosis in physiological domains. Proceedings of the 10th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 558-563.

AIL-2 Annotated Bibliography of Recent Journal Papers for Keith Downing

a. Paper 2. Downing, K. (2001). Reinforced genetic programming. Genetic Programming & Evolvable Machines (to appear).

The benefits of combining evolution and learning, while largely theoretical in the biological sciences, have found solid empirical verification in the field of evolutionary computation (EC). When evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are supplemented with learning techniques, general adaptivity improves such that the learning EA finds solutions faster than the standard EA. This paper introduces the Reinforced Genetic Programming (RGP) system, which enhances standard tree-based genetic programming (GP) with reinforcement learning. This paves the way for evolutionary acceleration via both Baldwinian and Lamarckian mechanisms.

b. Paper 3. Downing, K. and P. Zvirinsky (1999). The Simulated Evolution of Biochemical Guilds: Reconciling Gaia Theory and Natural Selection. Artificial Life. Vol. 5(4), pp. 291-318.

This paper tackles a fundamental weakness in contemporary Gaia theory models: the inability to clearly reconcile the emergence of self-regulation in an ecosystem with natural selection. We developed the GUILD model of interacting populations of organisms, whose metabolisms were under genetic control (via a genetic algorithm). The results of this paper were very well received at the 2nd Chapman Conference on the Gaia Hypothesis in the summer of 2000 (where I was an invited speaker), and ecosystem modellers are now experimenting with GUILD and, in general, looking into the combinations of their approaches with evolutionary computational techniques.

c. Paper 4. Downing, K. (1998). Using evolutionary computational techniques in environmental modelling. Environmental Modelling and Software, vol. 13, Elsevier Publishers, pp. 519-528.

Essentially, this article serves as a comprehensive statement of purpose and motivation for my research, as well as a brief overview of my main research projects as of late 1998. In a nutshell, this statement of purpose is to investigate the emergence and


evolution of ecological phenomena using the tools of evolutionary computation (e.g. GA, GP and other related methods).

d. Paper 6. Downing, K. and M. Reed (1996) Object-oriented migration modelling for biological impact assessment. Ecological Modelling, Elsevier Publishers, vol 93, pp. 203-219.

This paper describes our migratory simulator, MIGMOD, which uses data about the daily and seasonal densities of various bird, bear and sea-mammal populations to generate migratory patterns for those animals. These patterns are then compared with the trajectories of simulated oil spills to help assess the potential biological consequences of acute environmental pollution. MIGMOD was tested on bird, bear and seal scenarios from the Barent's Sea.

e. Paper 7. Downing, K. (1993) Physiological applications of consistency-based diagnosis. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal. vol 5, pp. 65-82.

This article describes my main post-doctoral research during a 2-year stay in Linkoping, Sweden. Diagnosis and regulation are intimately related, since the regulators often lead to complex patterns of time-varying symptoms (by creating new symptoms will alleviating others), thus making diagnosis more difficult. To handle this problem, I extended ATMS-based diagnosis (De Kleer and Williams, 1986), which relied on static symptoms and faults, to a multiple-time-slice variant that used knowledge of regulatory activity to explain changes in symptoms and diagnosed causes over time. The resulting prototype was used to diagnose volume-loading hypertension and acid-base disorders.

AIL-2 Research Statement for Keith Downing

My primary research field is artificial life (alife), a multidisciplinary area that brings together biologists, physicists, chemists, mathematicians, computer scientists and others in the common pursuit of the general principles that govern living and lifelike systems, whether natural or artificial. In general, I have a deep interest in biologically-based computational methods for both problem-solving and for investigating the dynamics of living systems.

Over the past 5 years, my work has focused on the application of alife techniques to simulating the emergence and evolution of ecosystems. Additionally, many of these biologically-inspired tools, such as evolutionary computation (EC), artificial neural networks (ANNs), and ant-colony optimization (ACO), have considerable utility for a host of search and problem-solving tasks. As a contribution to the field of EC, I recently devised the Reinforced Genetic Program (RGP), which integrates reinforcement learning into genetic programming to permit problem-solving search with both learning and evolutionary aspects.

In my Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Lab (EVAL), my graduate students and I focus on the simulated emergence of complex adaptive phenomena, where adaptation stems from learning and/or evolution. Systems of interest include ecosystems, groups of cells, populations of software agents, robot colonies and even the brain itself. EVAL simulations are typically based on models from the natural and physical sciences, combined with the tools of


artificial life (AL) and evolutionary computation (EC), such as cellular automata, genetic algorithms and genetic programming.

The brunt of EVAL’s published work involves simulations of biological systems; the following phenomena have been explored: (a) the migratory movements of fish, birds and polar bears, (b) the evolution of protandry in insects, (c) the evolution of marine microcommunities, and (d) the emergence and evolution of distributed biotic control of the environment (i.e., gaia theory). A rather intense focus on gaia theory has yielded a general interest in the emergence of distributed control systems, both natural and artificial.

EVAL members have also begun to explore applications of AL and EC in robotics. The current focus is on incremental evolutionary algorithms to achieve adaptivity in mobile robots, while a longer-term goal is to investigate evolutionary designs for colonies of interacting robots.

In addition, EVAL’s masters students work in areas such as the application of EC to scheduling problems, time-series prediction and image processing. Others test general theories of the interactions between learning and evolution (e.g., the Baldwin effect) and work on simulations that combine machine-learning techniques with EC. New student directions include the use of ant colony algorithms (provenly effective AL optimization techniques) for solving network routing problems, and the use of human immune-system models as the basis for computer-virus detection.

Although EVAL projects are varied, its members are unified by a general interest in the use of biologically-inspired techniques in both problem-solving and in the investigation of emergent biological phenomena. In addition, AL’s bottom-up techniques, particularly neural networks and the possibilities for evolving them using EC, dovetail with our general AIL interest of understanding the nature and origins of human intelligence.

Motivated by common interests in biologically-based systems, EVAL and Pauline Haddow’s Evolutionary Hardware Lab have merged to form the Complex Adaptive Organically-Inspired Systems (CAOS) Lab. This combines our interests in the hardware and software sides of naturally-inspired problem solving. Our first formal cooperative effort is the organization of the International Conference on Evolving Systems (ICES) in Trondheim (March, 2003).

As both a hobby and research endeavor, I know of nothing more challenging and intellectually stimulating than the modelling and simulation of natural phenomena. To incorporate the essential mechanisms of a living system into a computer program and then watch virtual life unfold upon the screen is an experience that has made my professional career an exciting journey. To then unleash these same biological metaphors on problem-solving tasks and watch optimal solutions gradually take shape is truly gratifying. Together, these experiences (shared by thousands of researchers world-wide) convince me of the rich potential of multidisciplinary work between the natural and computational sciences.


AIL-3 Assistant Professor Arvid Holme

AIL-3 Curriculum Vitae for Arvid Holme

Name: Arvid Holme Born: 1941 Nationality: Norwegian Citizen Occupation: Assistant professor of Computer Science Address: Department of Computer and Information Sciences



Education Civil Engineering M.S. - NTH (1968)

Past positions1986- Assistant professor at NTNU

Teaching Experience

Course MNFIT 111 (Basic Programming) Course MNFIT 167 (Databases) Course MNFIT 281 (Information Retrieval)

Main Field of Competence Intelligent Tutoring

AIL-3 Publication list for Arvid Holme

AIL-3 Five selected papers for Arvid Holme

AIL-3 Research Statement for Arvid Holme

My main interest is the use of knowledge-based methods in teaching (learning). I am particularly interested in knowledge representation and the learning process (building of student models).

I have developed a Learning Management System, ILS4YOU, which is used by students on high school level and in industry.

The platform is and will be used as an environment for testing AI-methods in learning modules based on a constructive approach. The development is based on an iterative user centered design approach, driven by feedback from learners in various application domains (students at high school level and industry).

The projects are developed in cooperation with several companies and organizations (Norsk eLæring, ICG, STATOIL, NEO-Knowledge) and are partly financed by SND through FUNN.



AIL-4 Assistant Professor Asbjørn Thomassen

AIL-4 Curriculum Vitae for Asbjørn Thomassen

Name: Asbjørn Thomassen Birthdate: March 2, 1953Nationality: Norwegian Occupation: Assistant professor of Computer Science Address: Department of Computer and Information Sciences



Education

1978 : siv.ing computer science NTH1982-83: pedagogical seminar NTH

Previous Computer Science Positions

1978-89 : Research scientist SINTEF Computer graphics and image processing group

1990-1996: Assistant professor Department of informatics, University of Trondheim, College of Science and Arts (AVH)

1993-1995: Head of department of informatics, AVH1996-2001: Assistant professor IDI (Department of computer science and technology)

AIL group

Teaching Experience

MNFIT39/341 - Human Computer Interaction (1991-2001)MNFIT24 - Introduction to Prolog (1993-96)MNFIT51 - Image Processing (1991-1992)MNFIT291 - Computer science project (1998-1999)MNFIT379 - Intelligent User Interfaces (1997-2001)

Main Fields of Competence Computer graphics Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Artificial intelligence


AIL-4 Publications for Asbjørn Thomassen

Refereed Conferences & Workshops

1. Myrhaug, H., Thomassen A. (1998) Adaptive Agenthoods. Int. Workshop on Intelligent Agents on the Internet and Web, 4th World Congress on Expert Systems, pp. 11-22, March 1998.

National conferences:2. Fransplass, K.A. and Thomassen, A. A validation of GOMS through a useability evaluation of Windows and Finder. In NIK´94, 1994, pp. 175-184.

3. Myrhaug, H. I. and Thomassen, A. A New Taxanomi of Adaptive User Interface Systems. In NIK´97, 1997, pp. 243-254.

AIL-4 Research Statement for Asbjørn Thomassen

My primary research field is intelligent user interfaces (IUI) which is a multidisciplinary field between HCI and AI. Motivation is to make usable systems that really help humans in performing their tasks. Research focus is adaptive user interfaces, tools for design and evaluation of IUIs, multimedia interaction, and context sensitive help. Central is knowledge representation and reasoning on models of user, task, media, discourse, and tasks. The main application domain is knowledge management for internet learning systems in high-school, university and industry. I have recently developed a IUI framework based on a layered multiagent architecture inspired from cognitive psychology. Exploration of the agent framework is part of current research activities/projects like: user and task (extended GOMS) modeling as agents, user interface adaptation and course content selection from individual user models and media (mobile PDAs), 2D amd 3D visualization of knowledge, generation context-sensitive help based on extended GOMS-models, multimedia interaction agents, game playing as a learning tool.

The projects are done in cooperation with various industrial partners included STATOIL, Neo-Knowledge, and Norsk e-læring, and are partly funded by SND (FUNN).


AIL-5 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Ketil Bø

AIL-5 Curriculum Vitae for Ketil Bø

Born: 1940 Position: Associate Professor Acad .degree: Dr. ing. (Ph.D.)

Education: - Kristiansand Teacher Training College 1962 - Officers Training School, The Army Medical Service 1963 - The State College of Physical

Education, Oslo 1965 - M.Sc., Applied Mathematics,

University of Trondheim 1972 - Several voluntary exams in Data

Processing, Norwegian Technical University (NTH), Trondheim 1970-75 - Several exams in Computer Science,

SMU, Dallas, Texas 1977-78 - Dr.ing., Computer Science, NTH, Trondheim 1983

Special courses and seminars:

- Philosophy of Programming, Oslo 1971- Symposium uber Computer Graphics, Berlin 1971- Software requirements for Graphic Terminals, Kjeller (Oslo) 1972- Numeric Solution of Partial Differential

Equations, NATO Advanced Study Institute, Kjeller (Oslo) 1973

- NTNF's (The Royal Norwegian Counsel for Scientific and Industrial Research) Course for Project Leaders, 3 sessions 1974-75

- Innovation and Creativity, NTH 1975- Pattern Recognition, NTH 1976- Managing Software Projects in Government and Industry, Amsterdam 1980- SADT Course, SINTEF 1981- EEU-course: CAD-Electronics, NTH 1981- EEU-course: Continental Shelf Development. Studies in the Field,NTH 1982- IFIP (International Federation for

Information Processing) WG 5.2 Workshop: Knowledge Engineering in CAD, Budapest 1984

- IFIP WG 5.2 Workshop: Theory of Design, Tokyo 1985

- Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Fagernes 1992Past positions: - Officer in the United Nations (UN) Peace Forces, Congo 1963-64 - Teacher at Bjørnevatn Elementary School 1965-66 -Lecturer at Blussuvold College, Trondheim 1967-69 - Research Scientist at the Computing Centre of the University of Trondheim, (RUNIT) 1970-73 - Group Leader at RUNIT 1973-77


- Visiting Professor at The Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, Texas 1977-78 - Group Leader, RUNIT 1978-81 - CAD/CAM Co-ordinator, NTH-SINTEF 1981-82

- Manager of the Foundation of Industrial Development (SIU) 1982-85 - President Productivity Support A/S 1985-88

- President PS Partner AS 1988-91 - Associated professor, Institute for informatics, AVH, Trondheim 1991-93 - VP Technology, MRT micro ASA 1993-95 - Adm.dir. Dynamic Imaging AS 1995-99 - Associated professor II IDI, NTNU, Trondheim 1995- - VP Technology, Dynamic Imaging ASA 1999 - 2000 - Technical advisor Ceetron ASA 2000 - 2001

- President Trollhetta AS 2001-Consultant: - Texas Instruments, Dallas Texas 1978

- University Computing Centre, Boulder, Colorado 1978 - Oil Industry Services AS (OIS), Kristiansand 1982 - Norsk Data, Oslo 1983 - STATOIL, Trondheim 1984-85

- Norsk Hydro 1985 - The Regional Hospital of Trondheim 1985 - Gol Industrier, Gol, Norway 1985 - Norwegian Remote Education, Oslo 1986 - SFK, Bergen 1987 - NORIT (Nordic Institute for Information Technology) 1988 - A/S Norske Shell, Stavanger 1989

- Technical Advisor, Ceerton ASA 2000 - 2001Entrepreneur:

Entrepreneur/ Co-entrepreneur of the following high tech Companies: - ICAN A/S 1978

Product: ICAN Graphical Workstation

- PRODUCTIVITY SUPPORT AS 1984 Products: PS- CASS (Computer Aided Schematic System) PS-CADD (Computer Aided Drawing and Design) PS-INTAPT (Interactive APT) PS-FEMP (Finite Element Program) - CAMO AS 1984 Products: Unscrambler (Multivariant data analysis) - MRT micro ASA 1990 Products: VideoPort (Video digitizer on a PC card) Observer (Intelligent Video Camera) MS160 (Custom made processor for parallel search) - Dynamic Imaging AS 1995 Products: DynamicImager Dynamic Surveillance - VoxelVision AS 1997 Products: Terra Studio (3D Seismic Visualisation)

- Trollhetta AS 2001 Products:


TrollCreek (CBR system)

Project leader: - NTNF project: Computer Graphics 1974-80 - Initiative and project leader for the

German/Norwegian Co-operation Program APS (Advanced Production Systems) 1980-82

- NTNF project: CAD/CAM Framework 1983-84

Teaching experience: - Teacher at Bjørnevatn elementary school 1965-66 - Lecturer at Blussuvold College 1967-69 - Established and lectured subject 08955: "Computer Graphics" at The Institute of Computer Science, NTH 1975-81 - Visiting Professor SMU, Dallas, Texas 1977-78

teaching “Artificial Intelligence” and “Computer Graphics” - Lecturer at NTH on special topics 1979-80

- Lecturing on EUROPACE (European program for Advanced Continuing Education) 1988

- Associated Professor, IFI, NTNU, Trondheim 1991-93 teaching “Introduction to Computer Science” and “Computer Graphics” - Associated Professor II, IDI, NTNU, Trondheim 1995- teaching “Image Processing”

Grad. Students supervised:- Supervisor for more than 20 master and diploma

thesis at NTH/NTNU 1974-

Grad. students currently under supervision:- 1 Ph.D and 5 master students.

Academic committees:

- Member of the committee for appointment of professors in CAD at the Universities of Luleå and Linkjøping 1983, 1984, 1987 - Member of committee for appointment of professor at Narvik 1992 Courses:

- Organised and/or contributed as lecturer on several courses

in Norway, USA, and Germany 1974-

Exhibitions: - Co-organizer of the exhibition: Datateknikk-84 1984

Public committees:- NTNF: CAD/CAM Framework (Chairman) 1983-84

- NTNF: Strategy of CAD/CAM in Norway 1983-84 - MVL: CAD/CAM training of the workforce 1984-85 - NTNF: CAD/CAM in the Educational System 1985

Invited lecturer:- Invited lecturer in Norway, Sweden, Denmark,

Finland, Germany, France, Bulgaria, The Soviet Union, India, Japan, USA, and India 1974-


Invited Speaker: - Science Academy in Budapest, Hungary 1976

- University of Darmstadt, Germany 1979- University of Berlin, Germany 1979- The Technical University of Helsinki, Finland 1981- The 60 Anniversary of the Swedish Technical Scientific Society in Finland 1981

- University of Goa, India 1997 - The Statoil Research Summit 2000 2000

International Conferences:

- Contributed to international conferences as a member of Programme Committees, Organising Committees, as Chairman and Speaker, in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, France, USA, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, India, and Japan 1973-

International Committees:

- Member of IFIP WG 5.2 subcommittee on Methodology on Computer Graphics

(SAILLAC) 1976 - ACM SIGGRAPH: Member of the group working out: The Status Report of the Graphics Standards Planning Committee (CORE) 1977-78

- ISO/TC95/SC5/WG2 Computer Graphics: development of the ISO standard GKS 1978- 82- ISO/TC95/SC5/WG2: Co-chairman for the work on 3D Graphics: GKS-3D, PHIGS 1982-84- EUROPACE: member of PAG/AMT (Program

Advisory Board/Advanced Manufacturing Technology) 1988 - EUROPACE: member of ECC (Education

Co-ordinating Committee) 1988 - EUROGRAPHICS’94: Member of the Program

Committee and head of the “Best paper award Committee” 1994

- ISO/IEC 12087 PIKS: ISO standard committee for Image Processing 1999- - SCIA 2001, Chairman Organising Committee 2001

Membership of Professional Associations:

- NORSIGD (Norwegian Co-operation in Computer Graphics) Founder and Chairman 1975-78

- IFIP WG 5.2 CAD (Chairman from 1983-88) 1976- - Norwegian Petroleum Association 1977- - DND-CAD (Chairman) 1977-80 - ISO/TC97/SC5/WG2, GRAPHICS 1978- - EUROGRAPHICS (one of the Founders and member of the Executive Committee) 1979- - IEEE, Senior member 1982-

- The New York Academy of Science 1994- - NOBIM (Norwegian Society of Image Processing and Pattern Reqognition): Vice President 1999- Specialist Exchange:


- Hungary 1976- Italy 1978

Editorial board:- CAD/CAM DIGEST, England 1979-- Symbolic Computation, Springer, Germany 1983-

Guest Editor:- IEEE Computer, Special issue of Human/Computer Interaction 1982

AIL-5 Publication list for Ketil Bø up to the last 10 years Books and edited books/proceedings:

- Bø, Hov Moen: Grafisk Databehandling. Tapir 1975- Allan,J.J.,Bø,K.: Survey of Commercial Turnkey CAD/CAM SYSTEMS. PI Inc, Dallas, Texas 1978- Bø,K., Lillehagen,F.L.(Ed.): CAD Systems Framework. North-Holland Publishing Company 1983- Bø,K.,Tucker,H.(Ed.): EUROGRAPHICS'84. North-Holland Publishing Company 1984 - Bø,K.,Estensen,L.,Falster,P., and Warman,E.A.(Ed): Computer Application in Production and Engineering. North-Holland Publishing Company 1986

- CAD/CAM/CIM. Universitetsforlaget 1988

PublicationsI: - Published more than 20 papers in national and international Scientific icals 1975- 1991

Reports: - Written more than 50 reports in

Norwegian, English and German 1970- 1991

AIL-5 Publications the last 10 years

Journal publications: 1. R. Gimse, I.A. Bjørgen, C. Tjell, J.S. Tyssedal, K. Bø:

“Reduced Cognitive Functions in a Group of Whiplash Patients with Demonstrated turbances in Posture Control System.”Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. Vol. 19, No 1. 1997

2. K. Bø, A. Aamodt: “ A New Approach to Applicable Memory-Based Reasoning.”JETAI, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.

Vol 11 (1999) 479-496 1999

Conferences:

3. K. Bø: “MTIP (Multi Threaded Image Processing) – A VISUAL WINDOWS 95/NT BASED IMAGE PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT WITH AN ISO 12087 (PIKS) BASED MODULE LIBRARY.” Invited talk at the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC24 Computer Graphics and Image Processing meeting, New Mexico 1999.

4. A.H Torp, B.Olstad, T.E.Andersen, M. Kjeldahl, K.V. Skjersli, K.Bø:


“A PC Based Real-Time Image Processing Environment” SCIA’93, Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis 1993.


5. Ketil Bø: “ Leading Edge Norwegian Technology - Who will Catch the Opportunity?” Studiemøtet i Elektronikk og Data, Lillehammer 1995

6. Ketil Bø: “Interactive Classification and Visualisation in 3D Medical Imaging.”

Compendia:

7. Ketil Bø: “Introduction to Digital Imaging”, IDI, NTNU 2000

AIL-5 Five selected papers for Ketil Bø

The criteria of the selection of papers is mainly to show the breadth of my research areas:

a) K. Bø: “CERPOP – A simulation model for management of cervide herds”, Paper printed in “Production pastorale et societe”.

Area: Computer modelling of biological systems.

b) K. Bø: “Human/Computer Communication in Connection with Geometric Product Models”. Paper presented in CAMP’83 in Berlin.

Area: Human/Computer communication in the context of Geometric modelling.

c) K. Bø: “Advanced Production Systems (APS) – CAD/CAM-Systems f the future” Paper presented at IPK, Berlin. Area: CAD/CAM.

d) K. Bø: “MTIP (Multi Threaded Image Processing) – A VISUAL WINDOWS 95/NT BASED IMAGE PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT WITH AN ISO 12087 (PIKS) BASED MODULE LIBRARY”.

Invited talk at the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC24 Computer Graphics and Image Processing meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Area: Image Processing.

e) K. Bø, A. Aamodt: “A New Approach to Applicable Memory-Based Reasoning”, JETAI, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. Vol 11 (1999) 479-496. Area: Artificial Intelligence.

AIL-5 Research Statement for Ketil Bø

My primary research interest for the time being is Image Understanding using Aartificial Intelligence and Artificial Life methods for augmenting the image understanding process.

However, I have a broad experience in different areas of computer sciense including research, teaching, standardization and system development.


Over the past years, I have been involved in a wide variety of research topics where I have contributed with refereed scientific papers such as modeling of biological systems, HCI, Computer Graphics, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Image Processing and Artificial intelligence.

Senior member of IEEE, served as chairman on several professional international and national organizations such as IFIP WG 5.2 and NORSIGD, and worked on the ISO and IFIP standardization committees for Computer Graphics and Image Processing.

Used knowledge and research results in the area of computer science to start several high tech. companies developing and selling hardware and software products mainly in the area of CAD/CAM and Image Processing.

The problem with Image Analysis and Image Understanding is that at some point one hits the roof using pure mathematical and statistical methods, my students and myself are now pursuing methods for augmenting the mathematical processes by introducing artificial intelligence and artificial life methods for understanding images.


AIL-6 Associate Professor Dr.Ing. Øystein Nytrø

AIL-6 CV for Øystein Nytrø

Name: Øystein NytrøBirthdate: November 9, 1960 Nationality: NorwegianOccupation: Associate Professor of Computer Science 50%

Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Informatics Address: Department of Computer and Information Sciences


Phone: +47 73 59 44 59 or +47 73 59 29 63Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Education Computer Science Dr.ing. – Norwegian University of Science and Technology (1992) “Aspects of structure

in Horn Clause programs”. Computer Science Siv.ing. (summa cum laude) – Norwegian Institute of Technology (1983) Various courses in philosophy, medicine and administration. Previous Computer Science Positions and other work experience Norwegian Computing Centre (Norsk Regnesentral – Oslo, 1984 – 1987) - Research scientist. Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (Kjeller, Norway, 1983-84) - Research scientist. SINTEF Telecom and Informatics (Trondheim, Norway, 1999-present)- Senior research scientist. Summer internships at the New York Institute of Technology (NY, USA), Computas (Oslo), Scanvest,

University of Trondheim.Teaching Experience Symbolic computation, NTNU (1989) Compilers, NTNU (1992-1999) Programming languages, NTNU (1992-1999) Healthcare informatics, NTNU (1999-) Expert systems, Rogaland college of engineering (1994) Introduction to programming, NTNU (1992) Logic programming, various places (1990-) Introduction to object-oriented programming, NTNU (1994-) Machine learning, NTNU (2002)Visiting Research Positions

Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of New South Wales, 1998.Main Fields of Competence Machine learning, inductive logic programing Healthcare information systems Programming language and compilers Artificial intelligence Software process improvement. Telemedicine Distributed and mobile patient records. Decision support and guidelinesOther relevant work experience Chair of the board for the computer science engineering study, NTNU. Leader of the course program

committee of IDI, NTNU. Initial leader and responsible for the “girls and computer science”-project at NTNU.



AIL-6 Five Publications for Øystein Nytrø

a) Erik Tryggeseth and Øystein Nytrø: Dynamic trackability links supported by a system architecture description, International Conference on Software Maintenance, Bari, 1997.

b) Elisabeth Bayegan, Øystein Nytrø and Anders Grimsmo: Ranking of Information in the Computerised Problem-Oriented Patient Record, Medinfo 2001, London.

c) Vigdis Heimly and Øystein Nytrø: Regional Healthcare Network for Middle Norway, eHealth: a Futurescope, 3rd International Conference on Advances in the Delivery of Care, London, 2001.

d) Øystein Nytrø and Ståle Walderhaug: A Field Information System for Pre-hospital Collaboration, 1st International Conference and Exhibition Wireless Healthcare Applications & Technologies, Las Vegas, USA.

e) Torgeir Dingsøyr, Nils Brede Moe and Øystein Nytrø: Augmenting Experience reports with Lightweight Postmortem Reviews, PROFES 2001, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Older publications mainly within Logic Programming and Expert Systems. CV currently not available.

AIL-6 Research Statement for Øystein Nytø

My primary research field is machine learning and AI, with Healthcare Information Systems as application area. Medical Informatics as a university discipline is but emerging in Norway, maybe because computers and medical records are already heavily used in the healthcare system. The climate for doing applied and multidisciplinary research within intelligent user interfaces, knowledge representation, collaboration support, as well as more fundamental work in healthcare informatics is very good. Users and providers are experiencing the shortcomings of traditional information systems and infrastructure. Research in one of the largest, and fastest changing, economical sectors of Norway has the potential to produce both challenging science as well as to improve the quality and efficiency in a way that is important to the society at large.

My focus is on: procedure (guideline) representation and use in context-aware user interfaces for knowledge representation for relevance-ranking information presentation and navigation information analysis for discovery and comparison of workpatterns. induction and categorisation in the problem-oriented record.

In addition, I am involved in enabling research and development at SINTEF of the basic information infrastructure of healthcare such as healthnet architecture, service architectures, role-based access control systems, support for mobile care providers, common knowledge bases, remote care and diagnosis etc.Currently, I am advisor or co-advisor for five doctoral students, two employed by the medical faculty of NTNU, within the above areas.


AIL-7 Adjunct Associate Professor Dr.Scient. Pinar Öztürk

AIL-7 Curriculum Vitae for Pinar Öztürk

Name: Pinar ÖztürkBirthdate: March 21, 1959 Occupation: Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science Address: Department of Computer and Information Sciences



Education

B.Sc. Middle East Technical University, Electrical Engineering, 1982 B. Sc. University of Oslo, Computer Science, Norway,1987 M.Sc, University of Oslo, Computer Science, Norway,1991 Ph.D, NTNU, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Trondheim, Norway, Jan. 2000

Previous Computer Science Positions:

SINTEF Telecom and Informatics (Trondheim, Norway, 1997- ) Research Scientist NTNU-IDI (Trondheim, Norway 1993-1997), Research Assitant TUBITAK -Marmara Research Center, Dept of Artificial Intelligence (Gebze, Turkey , 1991-1993)

Research Scientist TESTAS (Ankara, Turtkey, 1983-1985) Assembly language programmer

Teaching Experience

Knowledge representation (NTNU, 2000-2001) LISP (NTNU, 1995-1996) Artificial Intelligence (NTNU, 1994) Machine learning (NTNU, 1995, as teaching assistant)

Main Fields of Competence and Interests

Knowledge analysis and modelling Context-sensitive reasoning Case-based reasoning Constructivist and situated learning and instruction

AIL-7 Publications for Pinar Öztürk

Refereed Journals (First Author)

1. özturk, P. (1999): Towards a knowledge-level model of context and context-use in diagnostic problems. International Journal of Applied Intelligence, vol. 10, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 123-137

2. özturk, P. and Aamodt, A. (1998): A context model for knowledge-intensive case-based reasoning. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol 48, Academic press, pp. 331-355



Refereed Conferences & Workshops (First author)

3. özturk, P. (1998): A context-sensitive, iterative approach to diagnostic problem solving. In J.M.A. Pasqual del Pobiland M.Ali (Eds): Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer, 345-357

4. özturk, P. and Aamodt, A. (1997): Towards a model of context for case-based diagnostic problem solving. Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context. Rio de Janeiro, 198-208

5. özturk, P. (1997): An AI criterion for an account of inference: how to realize a task. Peter Flach and Antonis Kakas (eds.): IJCAI '97 Workshop on Abduction and Induction in AI, Nagoya, Japan. http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach/IJCAI97/papers.html

AIL-7 Two selected papers for Pinar Öztürk

a. Paper 1. özturk, P. (1999): Towards a knowledge-level model of context and context-use in diagnostic problems. International Journal of Applied Intelligence, vol. 10, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 123-137

Diagnostic support systems that help solving problems in open and weak theory domains need to be context-sensitive in order to reveal flexible and efficient behaviour. This paper presents a task-oriented methodology for analysing and modeling contextual knowledge at the knowledge level. Context-sensitive diagnosis approach (ConSID) is presented which clarifies the connection between content and process knowledge of which the former embodies domain model, while the latter the task and method models. The paper presents a prototypical system, ConSID-Creek, that applies ConSID approach to the medical diagnostic domain. It also illustrates how the system integrates case- based and explanation-based reasoning paradigms when realising the abductive subtask of the overall diagnostic task.

b. Paper 2. özturk, P. and Aamodt, A. (1998): A context model for knowledge-intensive case-based reasoning. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol 48, Academic press, pp. 331-355

Decision-support systems need improved methods to ground their models in real world situations. Models that attempt to capture domain knowledge in terms of, e.g. rules or deeper relational networks, tend either to become too abstract to be efficient, or too brittle to handle new problems. In our research we study how the incorporation of case-specific, episodic, knowledge enables such systems to become more robust and to adapt to a changing environment by continuously retaining new problem solving cases as they occur during normal system operation. The research reported in this paper describes an extension that incorporates additional knowledge of the problem solving context into the architecture. The components of this context model is described, and related to the roles the components play in an abductive diagnostic process. Background studies are summarized, the context model is explained, and an example shows its integration into an existing knowledge-intensive CBR system.


http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach/IJCAI97/papers.html

AIL-7 Research Statement for Pinar Öztürk

My main research field, in which I have been engaged since 1993, is artificial intelligence with an emphasized link towards cognitive science.

My doctoral research involved the analysis and modeling of contextual knowledge within diagnostic domains. There I draw from both theoretical and experimental work conducted on memory and learning in cognitive psychology in order to guide the computational modeling of contextual knowledge. I have also studies methods for how to improve Case-Based reasoning (CBR) technique by using contextual knowledge. The results of this study has been published in international journals and refereed conference proceedings.

Case-based reasoning has since been an important subject in my research. I am currently interested in the ‘learning’ part of the CBR lifecycle. This includes both the development of methods on how to retain cases after a problem solving session and, related to this, how to manage the case bases.

Also, I am interested in development of methods and systems for intelligent human learning. My focus is on constructivism and how it can be implemented on computers. This relates the areas of learning psychology, instructional design and artificial intelligence. CBR constitutes and important technique for realizing problem based learning in my research.


AIL-8 Assistant Professor Arvid Staupe

AIL-8 CV for Arvid Staupe

Name: Arvid StaupeBorn: February 20, 1942

Education: M.Sc. Computer Science, The Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), 1977B.Sc. Computer Science, Trondheim Technical College, 1971

Present employer: NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology,Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI).

Present position: Assistant Professor (“undervisningsleder”) of Computer Science (Learning Technology)

Employment History:1956-1960 Fisherman on the Coast of Norway, full time – part time1963-1969 Officer in the Norwegian Air Force 1971-1979 Lecturer at Trondheim Technical College and Trondheim Economical College.

Different positions as Group Leader and Section Leader for The Department of Computer Science.

1980 – 1985 Principal (Rector) of Trondheim Technical College og Statens BergskoleIn this period:1981 –1984 Designed and gave the first courses in computer science at the College of Arts

and Science, Allmennvitenskapelige høgskolen, University of Trondheim. Project leader for developing recommendations regarding choice of computers and hardware to the schools.Project leader for writing and writher of White Paper to the Parliament, where the principles and valid guidelines for a Programme of Action were laid out ( St. meld. no 39) and where an extensive experiment with the use of computer technology in schools was recommended. It gives a broad survey of possible areas where computer technology may come into use, and what areas of use may be relevant in the future.

1985-1989 Director of The Ministerial Task Force, Ministry of Church and Education, to organise and coordinate the Programme of Action. Member of the Steering Committee in the Nordic Council for The Task Group for Introducing Computers in Schools in the Nordic countries. Member of The Governments Advisor Group, Datapolitisk råd. Advisor for The Word Bank. Member of the group writhing long-range budget/programme for the Government.

1987-1989 Section Leader in Norwegian Research Council (NTNF). Responsible for the analysis, planning, design, implementation and operation of ICT-strategy in Norway.

1989-1990 Associate Professor at The Department of Information Science at the College of Arts and Science, Allmennvitenskapelige høgskolen, University of Trondheim.

1987-1992 Project leader for developing Winix Network, an information handling system that allowed to share common data and software resources efficiently over local networks (LAN) and wide area networks (WAN) using Internet, TCP/IP, and ms-WINdows/unIX. A Winix workstations could also be connected to the server over a telphone network by asynchronous serial communication through a modem or over a PABX (Private Automatic Branch Exchange). Winix was based on SAA/CUA, System Application Architecture/Common User Access, an interface design standard introduced by IBM. The system offered the advantage of an MS Windows graphic user interface to both MS-Windows/DOS applications and the networking and computer power of a UNIX system. Winix also gave conference and mail services locally as well as to other LANs and remote Winix workstations. A powerful programmable emulator transformed personal computers into terminals to remote and local


computers and databases. Winix Toolkit, an easy to use high-level graphical language for MS Windows application programming, bridging to C and Pascal, useful for rapid prototyping and application development. Winix was designed as an open system. After considerable review and evaluation accepted as a product for penetration to the North American marked, May 1991. PC Professionell, Neues von der Comdex, August 1991; “ Da fur heterogene Systeme Interessanteste Produkt Winix.”

1990-1992 Director of Research and Developing Department for Computers in Education, Ministry of Education and Research.

1993- Assistant Professor (undervisningsleder) at The Department of Information Sciences at The University of Trondheim and IDI/NTNU. Partial incapacity for full employment, 50%, 1993–1999.

Corporate closely with external organization internationally through several EU-projects, JITOL (Just In Time Open Learning), MECPOL (Models for European Collaboration and Pedagogy in Open Learning, EONT (An Experiment in Open and Distance Learning Using New Information Technologies), DoODL (Dissemination of Open and Distance Learning), SHARP (Shareable Representation of Practice).

Corporate closely with external organization nationally specially through NITOL (Noregsnettet med IT for Open Læring, Norway net with IT for Open Learning), SMELL (A national project for upgrading staff in SME`s, MOFIBEL (A national project for training and upgrading teachers in using IT-based learning material and electronic networks (specially Internet)), SULDAL (A national project for introduction of ICT in local communities including teacher upgrading, in-service training etc), SIRNETT (A national project, the Classroom with no borders), Rørvik model (Establishing new industry and relevant new educational activities in a distant village), SLANK (Samarbeid om Lokale Arenaer for Næringsutvikling og kompetanseheving, Establishing new industry and relevant new educational activities in 22 cooperating distant villages). Leader for the steering committee for Research and Development Group (Faggruppa) and member of the Steering Committee for the project.

Corporate with members from several faculties inside NTNU in the area of research and developing the use of ICT as a teaching and learning. Distant learning is of great importance for regional planning and development. “Flexible Learning System for the Shipping Industry” is a user led research and development program sponsored by the participating companies and educational institutes, The Norwegian Shipowners Association and Research Council of Norway. Project period: 1998 – 2001.

Teaching experience: I have designed and been teaching many different courses in computer science; programming courses, information system design, databases, computer architecture, computer communication and operating systems. In the field of computers in education/computers as a learning tool; Computer as a tool in teaching sciences subjects (Flyum, Staupe), Pedagogic in Open Learning/ Net Based Learning (Ask, Haugen, Hjeltnes, Staupe, Vavik). I have redesigned the operating system course using multimedia/hyper-structures in Internet and structuring the course materiel in hyper-models. Professor Herman Maurer, at INSTITUTE for INFORAMTION processing and COMPUTER supported new MEDIA, at Graz university of Technology, went to the extent that he in 1997 claimed that there were no good attempts of developing a well-designed, pedagogical defensible hypermediasystem of a large scale which was for educational purposes for WWW. Therefore, he claimed that the operating system course was unique. This is a heavy assertion, however, today, 3 years later, it has proven to be true based on my current knowledge.

Professional responsibilities:

1978 – 1982 Secretary Norwegian Informatics Council (Norsk Informatikkråd)1980 – 1982 Leader of The Norwegian Computer Society/Trøndelag1980 – 1982 Member of Nordic Data Union, Nordic Conference, Sweden 1982


http://dataforeningen.no/ndu/

1983 – 1985 Member of Nordic Data Union, Nordic Conference, Denmark 19851980 – 1982 Representative Collegium of Principals for Norwegian Technical Colleges1981 – 1983 Chairman, Leader, Trondhjem Polytekniske Forening1982 – 1984 Leader of The Collegium of Principals for Norwegian Technical Colleges1985 – 1987 Chairman, Leader, of Nordic Data Union, Nordic Conference, Norway1984 – 1992 Representative of International Federation for Information

Processing (IFIP)/TC31985 – 1992 Representative of Nordic Council of Ministers - Group for use of Computers

in Schools (Dataprogramgruppa).1986 – 1988 Representative of Government Council for Information Technology1986 – 1988 Representative of the Norwegian Research Council (NTNF)/ Technical

Education1987 – 1987 Vice-president UNESCO, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural

Organization, Education Conference for Cabinet Ministers, Paris (conference every four year).

1984 – 1992 Representative of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/TC3

1986 – 1987 Representative of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/TC3 European Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland

1988 – 1990 Representative of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/TC3 Pre-Conference, New-Zealand. Main-Conference, Australia. Post-Conference Japan

1990 – 1991 Chairman, Leader, of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/TC3 WG 3.1 Informatics and ICT in Secondary Education, Norway

1990 – 1991 Chairman, Leader, of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/TC3 WG 3.5 Informatics in Elementary Education, Norway

1990 – 1992 Chairman, Leader, of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/TC3 Main-Conference, Norway

1994 - Member of Norway net with IT for Open Learning (NITOL).2000 – 2001 Member of The Norwegian Computer Society, Committee for Research and

University/College Education

AIL-8 Publication list for Arvid Staupe

Refereed International Conference Articles Staupe, Hernes; How to create a Learning Environment an the Internet, based on constructivism and

sociocoultural approaches? SITE 2000, San Diego California, AACE, Association of the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2000.

Staupe, Hernes; From teaching to project based learning by integration of ICT.The European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering (EAEEIE), Ulm, Tyskland, 2000.

Staupe; Experience from establishing new industry and relevant new educational activities in distant village, The Rørvik-model. EDEN, Stockholm, 2001.

Staupe; NITOL, a success story from individual distance learning on the Internet. EDEN, Stockholm, 2001-10-22.

Staupe; Creating a learning environment on the internet, WebNet 2001, Orlando, USA, 2001. Staupe, Johansen, Holme, Den elektroniske læringsarena, IFI/AVH/UNIT, 1992. Haugen, Goodyear, McConnell, Skordala, Ask, Hjeltnes, Staupe; Models for European Collaboration and

Pedagogy in Open Learning (MECPOL), 1998. Staupe; The Global Challenge (Den globale utfordring), 1998; ISBN 82-440-0011-1. Staupe; It Worked – from mediated teaching to active learning by using ICT, 2000,

ISBN 82-440-0013-9. Staupe; Report from a teacher – succeed “It Worked – from mediated teaching to active learning by using

ICT”, 2001; ISBN 82-440-0014-5.


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Misc. seminars and workshops: About 100 talks on behalf of the Government, mainly national - but also international; Sweden, Denmark,

GB, France, Soviet Union, Canada (1983-92)

Invited talks: Læring i et multimedia nettverksuniversitet med over 2000 studenter. Krever markedet en times

responstid 24 timer i døgnet? Opplæringskonferansen, Gol, Norway, 1999 Creating a learning en environment on the internet, Nordic Congress on Telemedicine, Copenhagen 13 –

16 sep. 2000 Making a live connect of Education and Industry. The Rørvik Model.

KVAP SEMINAR Knowledge-Based Value Added Productionand Entrepreneurship, Windhoek, Republik of Namibia, 2000

Classroms of the Future, High Speed Networks: Challenges and Future ResearchHigher Education in the Digital Age, University of California, Berkely, 2000

NITOL - from R & D Project to Knowledge Network and Networked University, Mapping the future of research – the universities` role, CRE and ESF, The Association of European Universities and The European Science Foundation, Trondheim, 2000

Creating a learning environment on the Internet.Nordic Congress on Telemedicine, Copenhagen, Denamark, 2000.

AIL-8 Five most important papers of Arvid Staupe, NTNU

a. White Paper to the Parliament, where the principles and valid guidelines for a Programme of Action were laid out (St. meld. no 39, Computers in Schools).

b. Staupe; The Global Challenge (Den globale utfordring), 1998; ISBN 82-440-0011-1

c. Staupe; It Worked – from mediated teaching to active learning by using ICT, 2000; ISBN 82-440-0013-9.

d. Staupe; Report from a teacher – succeed “It Worked – from mediated teaching to active learning by using ICT”, 2001; ISBN 82-440-0014-5.

e. Staupe; Creating a learning environment on the internet, WebNet 2001, Orlando, USA, 2001.

AIL-8 Personal statement from Arvid Staupe, NTNU

The ICT and Learning subgroup encompasses Arvid Holme and myself. The learning subgroup incorporates members from several faculties inside NTNU, and also e.g. Terje Rydland (SA) and recently Monica Divitini (SU) ay IDI. The subgroup focuses on the development of tools, technology and services to accelerate the process of learning and to support the management of knowledge as a fundamental corporate and community asset.

I have been concerned with the formalization and organisation of knowledge, development of technologies and the integration of technologies and methods to support an net / internet based learning environment, Learning Technology and the impact on society of the transition to the knowledge age.

I operates research project and activities along tightly coupled lines of enquiry:


- Net/Internet based Learning, and the development of advanced approaches to knowledge transfer.

- Implementation and development of advanced technology, as the development of new visual interfaces and application of visualization and simulation. Multimedia/Hypermedia in Internet, Groupware, computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL), collaborative work technology, computer mediated conferencing. Video in the Internet; streaming, video on demand, video conferencing.

In the fields, the emphasis is on professional run, practical research and the early development of technology-based tools and products to support the learning organizations.I corporate closely with external organization internationally through several EU-projects, JITOL (Just In Time Open Learning), MECPOL (Models for European Collaboration and Pedagogy in Open Learning, EONT (An Experiment in Open and Distance Learning Using New Information Technologies), DoODL (Dissemination of Open and Distance Learning), SHARP (Shareable Representation of Practice).

I corporate closely with external organization nationally specially through NITOL (Noregsnettet med IT for Open Læring, Norway net with IT for Open Learning), SMELL (A national project for upgrading staff in SME`s, MOFIBEL (A national project for training and upgrading teachers in using IT-based learning material and electronic networks (specially Internet)), SULDAL (A national project for introduction of ICT in local communities including teacher upgrading, in-service training etc), SIRNETT (A national project, the Classroom with no borders), Rørvik model (Establishing new industry and relevant new educational activities in a distant village), SLANK (Samarbeid om Lokale Arenaer for Næringsutvikling og kompetanseheving, Establishing new industry and relevant new educational activities in 22 cooperating distant villages).


Appendix 10: Information Management Group (IF)

The IF group has the following faculty members: IF-1 Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg, professor (Monica Divitini, PhD, associate professor, in 1999-2001) P.t. two vacant faculty positions.

The group has one PhD student: Trond Aalberg.

No graduated PhD candidates yet.

The group teaches the following courses:

MNFIT281 Information Retrieval, MNFIT282 Introduction to Digital Libraries, MNFIT383 Advanced Digital Libraries, and MNFIT385 Information and Knowledge Management.

Due to the current personnel situation in the IF-group persons from other IDI groups teach some of the IF- courses.


IF-1 Professor Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg

IF-1 CV for Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg

Name: Ingeborg Torvik SølvbergBorn: September 14, 1943

Education: M.Sc. Physics, The Norwegian Institute of Technology,(NTH), 1966

Present employer: NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology,Dept. of Computer and Information Science (IDI).

Present position: Professor of Information management

Employment History:1967-1969 Research assistant, Dept. of Physics, NTH1969-1996 Different positions as Principal Research Scientist, Research Scientist, Group

Leader, Section Leader, Programme Manager at SINTEF Communication and Informatics (prev. RUNIT, ELAB-RUNIT, DELAB). A Group/ Section Leader in SINTEF is responsible for strategic planning, project acquisitions, budgets, as well as personnel. (The current title for this position is Research Director.)

In this period:1969-1972 R&D, computerised systems for the information- and library

field1972-1985 Leader of BIBSYS; the on-line network for university and special libraries in

Norway. Responsible for the analysis, planning, design, implementation and operation of BIBSYS. Budgets, planning, organisation of committees for standardisation and cooperation internal and external of the BIBSYS group, development of the BIBSYS organisation, secretary for the Steering Committee.

Group Leader of the Information Systems Group, RUNIT.1981-1983 Programme Manager for Information Systems and Resources. Funded by the

Norwegian Research Council (NTNF).1984-1988 Group Leader of Knowledge Technology Group, RUNIT. This was the first

R&D group in Norway in this field. (Artificial Intelligence)Advisor for NORAD in strengthening the computer science education at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok. (1984)

1985-1989 Programme Manager for Knowledge Technology, a programme across SINTEF departments.

1988-1995 Section leader, Knowledge- and Image Processing, ELAB-RUNIT.Project leader for EU Esprit-projects (ACKnowledge) (Norwegian part), UNITE (Norwegian part), ESA-project (KNOWIT), NTNF-project (HYBRID).

1995-1996 Project leader for the Norwegian parts of projects INTERPORT and EUROBORDER in theEU Telematics programme, and DELOS (Digital Libraries) in the EU LTR programme.

1992-1996 Adjunct Professor (Professor II), Dept. of Informatics, UNIT (University of Trondheim).

The most important responsibility in this period, in addition to developing new courses, teaching and supervising, was the planning and implementation of a new curriculum for Knowledge Management. This was done in close contact and with support from the library sector as well as industry.

1996- Professor in Information Management, Dept. of Computer and Information

Science, NTNU. (IDI) Developing new courses. Teaching and research: Digital Libraries,

Knowledge Management. A special one-semester course in IT, 10 vt., has been given for persons working in the library community (1998 and 2000).

Research grants: NFR: Digital libraries


EU: DELOS (Working Group, Network of Excellence)

Visiting Scientist (with support from NFR)1976-77 Stanford University, California, 12 months.1981 University of Florida, Gainesville, 6 months.1988-89 Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 12 months.1998-99 University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 12 months.

Professional memberships / boards Member of ELAG: the European Library Automation Group (1980-85) Norwegian delegate to the Technical Information Panel (TIP) of AGARD (1983-85) Appointed member of the Council of National Office of Research and Special Libraries

(Riksbibliotektjenesten) (1984-90) Board member of the Norwegian Assoc. of Artificial Intelligence (1987-88). Board member of FOP (Forum of Petroleum / Off-shore Information an Documentation. (1991-1995). Management Board of DELOS NoE (1999 - ) Steering Committee of DELOS Summer School (2000 - ) Board Member of Information Technology in Medical Research, Norwegian Research Council of Science

and Humanities (NAVF) (1990-94) Board member of “IKT i medisin og helsetjenesten”, NFR (Information and communication technology

in medicine and health services, the Norwegian Research Council). (2001 - ) Steering Committee of ECDL (the European Conferences on research and technology for Digital

Libraries) (2001 - ) On the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Digital Libraries (JDL) (Springer Verlag), with

special responsibility “Advanced Applications”. (2001 - ) Member of several Conference Programme Committees. The last years: European Conferences on

research and technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001), IEEE ADL (1997, 1998,1999), JCDL 2002 (US Joint Conference on Digital Libraries), International Workshop on Information Retrieval (IR2001).

Member of several national and Scandinavian committees for evaluating applicants to academic positions (Professor and Assoc. Professor).

Member of various NTNU, FIM and IDI committees. Member of “Forum for IT-næringen”, Nærings- og Handelsdepartementet (1999 - ) Member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics (FIM) at NTNU.

(1999-2001)Recent responsibilities for conferences and workshops: PC co-Chair for ECDL2001, Darmstadt, Sept.2001 (The annual European Digital Library Conference) PC co-Chair (European Chair) for DELOS Workshop on “Evaluation and Metrics for Digital Libraries”,

Budapest, Spring 2002. Head of the Norwegian Workshop on Digital Libraries, Trondheim 1998, 2000, 2001. Member of Program Committee for the US Digital Library Conference 2002 (JCDL) Annual chair, ECDL 2003

IF-1 Publication list for Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg.

Journal articles

METAKREK: Knowledge Acquisition as Modeling. Inge Nordbø, Mette Vestli, Ingeborg Sølvberg. Expert Systems with Applications. Vol.3, pp. 269-251, 1991.

Knowledge-based information retrieval. Ingeborg Sølvberg, Inge Nordbø, Agnar Aamodt. Future generations Computer Systems 7 (1991/1992), pp.379-390.

Books and edited books/proceedings Panos Constantopoulos, Ingeborg T. Sølvberg (Eds.). Proc. 5th European Conference on Research and

Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2001). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.2163, Springer Verlag, 2001.

I. Sølvberg. (Ed.) Workshop on Storage and Retrieval of Multimedia Information. ERCIM. Røros, May 26-28 1993. ISBN 82-595-8164-7. STF40A93122.


Chapters in books Ingeborg T. Sølvberg. Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval. In Lectures on Information Retrieval.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.1980, Springer Verlag, 2001. pp.139-156.

Articles in refereed int’l conferences/workshops, and invited papers Norbert Fuhr, Preben Hansen, Michael Mabe, Andras Micsik, Ingeborg Sølvberg. Digital Libraries: A

generic classification and evaluation scheme. Proc. 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2001). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.2163, Springer Verlag, 2001. pp. 187-199.

How can we ensure that universities and researchers understand the new forms of services that librarians and information professionals can provide? NORDINFO publ. 45, Helsingfors 2000, pp46-48 (Invited)

Ingeborg Sølvberg. New approaches to improve the information retrieval process. CASLIN PEW IV Conference Libraries of the Future, Tsjekkia June 8-12 1997, pp121-133. (Invited paper)

I Nordbø, O.J. Mengshoel, I. Sølvberg. Development of complex applications – Integration support for time, uncertainty and incompleteness. Proc. of Second World Congress on Expert Systems, Lisboa, Jan. 1994.

O.J. Mengshoel, I. Sølvberg. Acquisition and Modelling of Uncertain, Incomplete and Time-varying Knowledge. Proc. 7th European Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-based Systems Workshop, (EKAW’93). Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence, no.723, Springer Verlag, 1993. pp300-319.

O.J.Mengshoel, I. Nordbø, I.Sølvberg. The Knowledge Engineering Workbench: experiences from building the knowledge base of a Helpdesk application. Proc. of twelfth International Scientific conference, Avignon, June 1992, pp.53-65.

Ingeborg Sølvberg. Improving the information retrieval process by using knowledge-based techniques. Proc. of European Library Automation Group Conference (ELAG), Ravenna, May 1992. (Invited paper)

International talks. (talks since 1995)

Digital Library initiatives in Norway. EU-DELOS Workshop on Harmonization of European and National Initiatives in Digital Libraries. Brussels, May 11 2001. (Invited)

Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval. ESSIR Summer School, Italy, Sept. 2000. (Invited) Undervisning og forskning i informasjonsforvaltning i en digital verden. NVBF nordisk konferanse

Referansearbeid i det elektroniske miljø. Reykjavik, 22-23 mai 2000. http://www.bokis.is/nvbf/Welcome.html (Invited)

Challenges for the traditional library communities in the world of digital libraries. Promising contributions. DELOS Workshop on Future Directions in the digital libraries domain. Pisa 25-26 Nov. 1999. (Invited )

Information Technology programme for further education of research library personell. Eleventh UK-Nordic Conference, York, 25-28 Sept. 1997. (Invited)

Articles on national conferences, publications Svein Arne Brygfjeld, Ole Husby, Ingeborg Sølvberg, Lars Vognild. Forskning på digitale bibliotek i

Norge. (Research on Digital Libraries in Norway). Nasjonalbiblioteket, mars, 2001. 21p. (The National Library, March, 2001). (NFR project)

Ingeborg Sølvberg. Informasjonsteknologien - nye utfordringer til dagens og morgendagens bibliotekarer. Proc. Informasjonsteknologi og kompetanseutvikling, Fagreferentseminar, 13-14 februar 1997. Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen, 1997. s1-9. (Invited paper)

Ingeborg Sølvberg. IT-utviklingen skaper endringer i samarbeidsmønstre. Informasjon-97, Sandnes, 29-30 mai 1997. (Proc.) (Invited paper)

Ingeborg Sølvberg. Hvilken kunnskapsprofil har fremtidens informasjons og kunnskapsleder? Fra arbeidet med å etablere en IM/IRF-utdanning ved UNIT sett i et internasjonalt perspektiv. Proc. of 9. Nordiske konferansen for informasjon og dokumentasjon. (NORD IoD –95); Informasjon og makt. Norsk bibliotekarforening, Oslo sept. 1995. s31-42. (Invited paper)

Ingeborg Sølvberg. Studieretning i Informasjonsforvaltning er i gang ved Universitetet i Trondheim. Proc. DATALIB-95, NTUB, Trondheim, okt. 95. (Invited paper)

Ingeborg Sølvberg. Digitalt bibliotek – nye utfordringer og nye muligheter. Proc. DATALIB-95, NTUB, Trondheim, okt. 95. (Invited paper)

Some reports. UNITE Final Report. Final report of the UNITE Project. ADM-final.rep.rpt-1.0-E-JL.78p+38p. June

1995. J.Lopez et.al.(Ed.)


ACKnowledge Final Report. Cap Gemini Innovation, France, 1992. 148p. ACK-CSI-WM-DL-007. C.Julien et.al.

Invited talks, in Norway Skjemabeskrivelser for å støtte evaluering av Digitale Bibliotek. 3.Norske Workshop om Digitale

bibliotek. 29.mars 2001 Arkivfaget – praktiske ferdigheter eller akademisk fag? Norsk Arkivråds 40-års jubileumsseminar 2001,

Oslo 30.okt. – 1.nov. Forskningsområder for digitale bibliotek. NFR Seminar om Digitale bibliotek, Oslo 11.des.2000. Forskningsbehov og forskningsmuligheter innen digitale bibliotek. NFR Seminar, 29.aug. 2000. Forskning innen digitale bibliotek. 2. Norske Workshop om digitale bibliotek. Scandic hotell, 14-15

oktober 1999. Teaching ”Knowledge Management” at university level. Knowledge Management Workshop/Seminar,

Det Norske Veritas, 13.febr. 1998. Faglige utviklingsstrategier og Digitale bibliotek som forskningsfelt. Startkonferansen for NFRs

Biblioteksforskningsprogram, Oslo, 16-17 januar 1997. Nytt studium –nye muligheter. Videreutdanningsprogram i IT for ansatte i fag- og forskningsbibliotek.

Norsk fagbiblioteksforening, Trondheim 12.mai 1997. BIBSYS – Gratulerer til BIBSYS på 25-årsjubileet. BIBSYS Høstmøte, Stavanger, 1997 Panelinnlegg. Fag- og forskningsbibliotekene – for viktige til å bli overlatt til bibliotekene? Oslo,

31.mars 1995.

Editor, national conferences K.Brisis, A. Krokan, I.Sølvberg (Eds.) IRF på Norsk. Workshop om Informasjonsressursforvaltning

(IRF). Randsvangen, juni, 1994. Statskonsult rapport 1995:5, rap.nr. 2401, 128s. Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg. Norsk Forskningsbasert Digitale bibliotek. Workshop. Trondheim 29-30 juni

1998.

IF-1 Five selected papers for Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg

a) Knowledge-based information retrieval. Ingeborg Sølvberg, Inge Nordbø, Agnar Aamodt. Future generations Computer Systems 7 (1991/1992), pp.379-390.The paper gives the main results from a project, KNOWIT, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).

b) O.J. Mengshoel, I. Sølvberg. Acquisition and Modelling of Uncertain, Incomplete and Time-varying Knowledge. Proc. 7th European Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge-based Systems Workshop, (EKAW’93). Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence, no.723, Springer Verlag, 1993. pp300-319.The paper presents some of the findings in the EU-funded UNITE project.

c) Ingeborg Sølvberg. Hvilken kunnskapsprofil har fremtidens informasjons og kunnskapsleder? Fra arbeidet med å etablere en IM/IRF-utdanning ved UNIT sett i et internasjonalt perspektiv. Proc. of 9. Nordiske konferansen for informasjon og dokumentasjon. (NORD IoD –95); Informasjon og makt. Norsk bibliotekarforening, Oslo sept. 1995. s31-42. (Invited paper)(The title in English: “What will be the knowledge profile for the Information- and Knowledge Manager of the future? Setting the scene for the curriculum for a M.Sc in Information Resource Management at the University of Trondheim.”) This is a ‘policy’ paper, and is important in the context of the establishment of the IF-group.

d) Ingeborg Sølvberg. New approaches to improve the information retrieval process. CASLIN PEW IV Conference Libraries of the Future, Tsjekkia June 8-12 1997, pp121-


133. (Invited paper) The invited paper was given at a Seminar in Tsjekkia, funded by the Mellon Foundation (US).

e) Norbert Fuhr, Preben Hansen, Michael Mabe, Andras Micsik, Ingeborg Sølvberg. Digital Libraries: A generic classification and evaluation scheme. Proc. 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2001). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.2163, Springer Verlag, 2001. pp.187-199.The paper proposes a framework for classification and evaluation of Digital Libraries, and is a shared effort with persons from four other countries.

IF-1 Personal statement by Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg

In the period 1970 to 1985 I worked in the area of information technology, information systems and libraries. My main achievement was the design and implementation of BIBSYS, the Norwegian library network. Today it is a pleasure to see the impact BIBSYS has had on the library community, both in Norway and abroad, and how it is an important tool for teachers, students and researchers. I, and the BIBSYS group, established good relations to international library automation projects. In this period I also initiated and conducted several research projects, partly funded by NFR. As the research funding in this area ‘dried up’, I turned to knowledge-based systems and established a research group in SINTEF, which became an important Norwegian player. We won many challenging research and development contracts; funded by NFR, industry, ESA and EU. I led and participated in several of the projects. In this context I will mention the knowledge acquisition project ACKnowledge (ESPRIT II), which was one of the first EU-funded projects for NORWAY. It was a success – and great fun. Our follow-up EU project was UNITE; knowledge acquisition of temporal and uncertain information. The contract we won from European Space Agency (ESA), KNOWIT (Knowledge based information retrieval) gave important and valuable results.In the ninety’s the importance of digital objects, digital libraries, information science, became visible to many communities. I expected the possibility to get research funding in this area to improve. I hence accepted a position at the university, where I faced the great challenge and the important opportunity to plan and establish the curriculum in Information management, in cooperation with industry as well as the library community. This work has been fun, but very time consuming.After I joined NTNU it has been much harder than I had anticipated getting research funding as well as doctoral students. I cannot see that the situation on national level will improve in the near future.

I have been visiting scientist at four universities in USA, altogether 3 ½ years. (Stanford University, University of Florida, Naval Postgraduate School, and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)) This has been rewarding, but also necessary, in my areas. During 2002-2003 I plan to spend min.6 months as visiting scientist at a US University.

I will be the General Chair for ECDL in 2003 (the European Digital Library Conference). The conference will take place in Oslo in cooperation with Oslo College. They have a much better resource situation than we have at NTNU. They are interested and they have the capacity to give the necessary personnel and administrative support needed to arrange such a large conference.My research plans for the next years are to build upon my international networks, especially through Delos Network of Excellence (Delos NoE), and to join research projects where


possible. I will continue the cooperation with UCSB, on digital libraries. The Delos-National Science Foundation (NSF) upcoming cooperation, where I am participating in a joint working group of 12 researchers from Europe and USA, seems promising.

IF-X Publications from other IF-group members

Journal articles. Petersen, S. A., M. Divitini & M. Matskin "An agent-based approach to modelling Virtual Enterprises",

International Journal of Production, Planning & Control, special issue on Enterprise Modeling, Taylor & Francis, Vol. 12, No. 3, Issue Apr 2001, pp. 224-233.

Divitini, M. & C. Simone "Supporting different dimensions of workflow adaptability", Computer Supported Cooperative Work, The Journal of Collaborative Computing, special issues on Adaptive Workflow. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Vol. 9:3, 365-397.

Books and edited books/proceedings Schwartz, D. G. , M. Divitini, and T. Brasethvik, (ed.) “Internet-based Knowledge Management and

Organizational Memories”. Hershey, USA: IDEA GROUP PUBLISHING, January 2000. (See http://www.idea-group.com/Internet_Based_Organizational_Memory_and_Knowledge_Management.htm)

Chapters in books Schwartz, D. G. , M. Divitini, and T. Brasethvik “On Knowledge Management in the Internet Age”. In

Internet-based Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories, ed. D. G. Schwartz, M. Divitini, and T. Brasethvik. Hershey, USA: IDEA GROUP PUBLISHING. January 2000. (See http://www.idea-group.com/PDFs/schwartz.pdf)

Articles in refereed int’l conferences/workshops Trond Aalberg. Linking Information with Distributed Objects. Proc. 5th European Conference on

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL2001). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 2163, Springer Verlag 2001. pp. 149-160.

Divitini, Monica, 1999: Supporting Coordination: A Multi-agent Approach. In Jiming Liu and Ning Zhong (eds.) Proceedings of the 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Systems, Methodologies, and Tools, IAT. World Scientific, pp.467--471 (A longer version appeared in the proceedings of NIK’99, pp.371-382).)

Divitini, M. & Babak A. Farshchian “Collaboration and Coordination through Basic Internet Tools: a case study”. Proceedings of WORLD MULTICONFERENCE SCI/ISAS'99, Orlando, Florida. 1999, pp. 550-554.

Petersen, S. A., M. Divitini & M. Matskin, “An Agent-based approach to modeling Virtual Enterprises”, in the Proceedings of IFIP International Enterprise Modelling Conference (IEMC ’99), Verdal, Norway, June 1999.

Articles on national conferences, other national publications, presentations. Trond Aalberg and Knut Hegna. Architecture for Digital Libraries. Report (in norwegian). BIBSYS,

2000. Trond Aalberg, DIGLIB: Component-based architecture for research and developement of digital

libraries. Norwegian Reseach Councils Conference in Library and Information Science. Voksenåsen, Oslo. 31.jan-01.febr. 2000.

Trond Aalberg. Identifiers. Norwegian Workshop on Digital Libraries. Trondheim 14-15 October 1999. Trond Aalberg. Linking Digital Resources. Norwegian Workshop on Digital Libraries. Trondheim 14.-

15. oktober 1999. Trond Aalberg. Metadatastructure for searching in heterogenous document descriptions. Norwegian

Reseach Councils Conference in Library and Information Science. Voksenåsen, Oslo. 20.-21 januar 1998 Trond Aalberg, Integrated Acces to Heterogenous Document Repositories. Master thesis (in norwegian).

Departement of Computer and Information Science, NTNU, April 1998. Trond Aalberg. Integrated access to image collections. Norwegian Reseach Councils Conference in

Library and Information Science. Leangkollen, Asker. 16-17 Jan. 1997.







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