Programme at a Glance
You can download the workshop programme as a MS Excel 97 file or as a Postcript document.


Information for Presenters:
PC for conference presentations

A laptop running Microsoft Powerpoint 2000 will be available in the lecture hall. Please bring a floppy disk of your presentation.
OHP for conference presentations
An OHP will also be available for presentations.

Preliminary Programme
The detailed preliminary programme can downloaded as a MS Word 97 file 

Tuesday, 16th May 2000

16:00 - 19:00 Workshop Registration

Wednesday, 17th May 2000

08:00 Workshop Registration

08:30 Workshop Opening

08:45 Invited Talk by Greg Utas, Nortel Networks
An Industrial point of view on Feature Interaction Handling

09:30 Paper Session: Emerging Architectures I
Chair: Tom Gray

    Mario Kolberg and Kristofer Kimbler: 
    Service Interaction Management for Distributed Services in a Deregulated Market
    Environment

    Jonathan Lennox and Henning Schulzrinne
    Feature Interaction in Internet Telephony

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Paper Session: Emerging Architecture II
Chair: Ken Turner

    Pamela Zave and Michael Jackson 
    New Feature Interactions in Mobile and Multimedia Telecommunications Services

    Robert J. Hall 
    Feature Interactions in Electronic Mail

    Lynne Blair and Jianxiong Pang
    Feature Interactions -- Life beyond Traditional Telephony

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Paper Session: Online Approaches
Chair: Tadashi Ohta

    Magdi Amer, Ahmed Karmouch, Tom Gray and Serge Mankovskii Feature Interaction Resolution Using Fuzzy Policies

    Stephan Reiff
    Identifying Resolution Choices for an Online Feature Manager

14:30 Mini Workshop Session:
Chair: Dave Marples, Telcordia
    Feature Interaction: Industrial Viewpoints
16:00 Contest Awards and Evaluation
Chair: Evan H. Magill

18:00 Reception at the Glasgow City Chambers

Thursday, 18th May 2000

08:30 Coffee

08:45 Invited Talk by Luigi Logrippo, University of Ottawa, Canada
Immaturity and Potential of Formal Methods

09:30 Paper Session: Off-line / Formal Methods I
Chair: Pamela Zave

    Malte Plath and Mark Ryan 
    The feature construct for SMV: Semantics

    Bengt Jonsson, Tiziana Margaria, Gustaf Naeser, Jan Nystrom and Bernhard Steffen 
    Incremental Requirement Specification for Evolving Systems

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Paper Session: Off-line / Formal Methods II
Chair: Wiet Bouma

    Masahide Nakamura, Tohru Kikuno, Jameleddine Hassine and Luigi Logrippo 
    Feature Interaction Filtering with Use Case Maps at Requirements Stage

    Amy P. Felty and Kedar S. Namjoshi 
    Feature Specification and Automatic Conflict Detection

    Paul Gibson, Geoff Hamilton and Dominique Mery 
    A Taxonomy for Triggered Interactions using Fair Object Semantics

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Mini Workshop Session
Chair: Bernie Cohen

    Feature Interaction: Academic Viewpoints
16:00 Distillery Visit and Workshop Dinner

Friday, 19th May 2000

08:30 Coffee

08:45 Invited Talk by Kristofer Kimbler, High Definition Systems AB, Sweden
Service Interaction in Next Generation Networks: Challenges and Opportunities

09:30 Paper Session: Off-line / Formal Methods III
Chair: Mark Ryan

    Rafael Accorsi, Carlos Areces, Wiet Bouma and Maarten de Rijke 
    Features as Constraints

    Ahmed Khoumsi and Rodolpho Bevelo 
    A Detection Method developed after a thorough study of the contest held in 1998

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Paper Session: Software Engineering Approaches
Chair: Simon Tsang

    Ken Turner 
    Formalising the Chisel Feature Notation

    Jan Bredereke 
    Families of Formal Requirements in Telephone Switching

    D. Amyot, L. Charfi, N. Gorse, T. Gray, L. Logrippo, J. Sincennes, B. Stepien and T. Ware 
    Feature Description and Feature Interaction Analysis with Use Case Maps and Lotos

12:30 Workshop Close

13:00 Lunch

The organising committee is happy to help with enquiries. Please contact us at fiw00@eee.strath.ac.uk