From: Didar Zowghi (didar@ics.mq.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 21:34:23 EST
SETE 2000 - CALL FOR PAPERS
"Systems Engineering" and "Test & Evaluation" in the Changing
Environment of the 21st Century
Brisbane, Queensland, 15-17 November 2000
A Conference of The Systems Engineering Society of Australia (SESA) and
the Southern Cross Chapter of The International Test and Evaluation
Association (ITEA)
http://www.seecforum.unisa.edu.au/Sete2000/SETE2000.htm
The SETE 2000 Conference theme is "Systems Engineering" and "Test&
Evaluation" in the Changing Environment of the 21st Century.
Presentations and papers are invited relating to this theme, as well as
to the traditional tracks and special interest areas of SESA and ITEA.
Distance mode presentations - Conference presentations may be made in
person or by means of asynchronous (non real-time) distance mode
technology.
Student Track - Presentations and papers are also invited from students
of the fields of Systems Engineering and Test and Evaluation (T&E).
Exhibit area - Registrations of interest are also sought from potential
exhibitors. SETE 2000 will include both exhibitions and
presentations by vendors.
Conference Program
The Conference program integrates the Systems Engineering and Test &
Evaluation fields in a combination of plenary sessions, panels, technical papers and
exhibits. The program is expected to include papers in at least the following areas.
* Systems Engineering Applications
* T&E Visions of the Future
* Soft Systems Methodologies
* Critical Technologies (Instrumentation, Modelling, Simulation)
* Systems of Systems
* Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs)
* Selling Systems Engineering
* The Planning and Management of T&E
* Measurement
* T&E Investment Planning
* Modeling and Tools
* Virtual T&E
* Systems Engineering Management
* The Design of Experiments
* Processes and Methods
* Error Budgeting
* Software Engineering
* T&E for Systems of Systems
* Requirements Engineering and Management
* T&E - The Value Added
* Education and Training
* T&E - The Legal Issues
Important Dates:
Preliminary Submission: 15 July 2000
Acceptance Notification: 15 August 2000
Final submission 15 September 2000
Categories of submissions
There are two categories of submissions to serve the needs of industry
and academia:
* Papers
* Presentations
Papers
This category is primarily designed for Academia to meet the Australian
Department of
Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) requirements for
published papers.
Full papers will be reviewed anonymously by at least two peer
reviewers. For each
paper submitted, prospective authors are requested to submit by email
two files:
a separate Identification Page and the paper, both in Microsoft Word,
using Times
New Roman 11 point font, in double column format. An example paper,
which may be
used as a template, will shortly be provided on the Conference Website.
The Identification Page is to contain the following:
* Paper title
* Author name(s)
* Business affiliation(s)
* Address(es)
* Phone number and fax
* e-mail address(es)
* A short biography for each author.
* Primary contact to be used for all communications.
The preliminary paper is to have a title page with abstract (but no
author information),
5-8 numbered pages in length, including figures, tables and other
illustrations. Upon
acceptance, paper format requirements will be sent to the primary
contact. Technical
session paper presentations will be 20-30 minutes in length, plus a
10-15 minute
question and answer period. Papers accepted for presentation at SETE
2000 will be
published in the Conference Proceedings in both book and CD-ROM form.
Presentations
This category is primarily designed for industry practitioners.
Submissions are to
be made in the form of PowerPoint 97 presentations. The presentations
will be
reviewed by at least two peer reviewers. For each submission,
prospective authors
are requested to submit by email two files: a separate Identification
Page and the
presentation. The Identification Page is to include the information
specified above.
Presentations accepted for presentation at SETE 2000 will be published
in the
Conference Proceedings in CD-ROM form.
Call for Distant Mode Papers and Presentations
Call for papers and presentations to be presented in distant mode.
This is a call for papers and presentations to be presented by
personnel who otherwise
would be unable to attend the Conference. The intent is to prototype
the process for
mixing asynchronous presentations with synchronous discussions into the
traditional
Conference sessions. Personnel submitting distance mode papers and
presentations
must agree to
* Prepare their presentations in PowerPoint and recording the audio to
accompany each slide. Instructions and an add-in tool to PowerPoint
97 can be found
on the Conference Website.
* Telephone the Conference at a prearranged time and take part in the
traditional
post presentation discussion in the session room. The cost for a
ten-minute
telephone call is expected to be less than $10 from most places in
the world.
These papers and presentations are to meet the same review requirements
as the papers
and presentations to be presented live at the Conference. The accepted
paper will be
published in the Conference proceedings. The audio enhanced
presentation will be
published in the Conference CD-ROM.
Examples of asynchronous presentations can be seen at
http://www.umuc.edu/~jkasser/distance/distance.htm
Call for Student Track Papers
This is a call for papers and presentations in the student track. The
intent of this
track is to encourage students to publish. Students enrolled in
Master's level
and above programs are encouraged to upgrade a recent assignment, paper
or
presentation with the advice of their instructors and submit them for
the student
track. Student track papers and presentations can be submitted for live
or distance
mode participation in the Conference. Student track papers and
presentations must be
accompanied by an endorsement by the instructor certifying that the
paper or
presentation is an example of the work produced by students in the
specific program
in the specific institution.
All student track paper and presentation submissions will pass through
a two step
review process.
* Step 1 - The regular peer review process.
* Step 2 - An academic review process.
If the submission fails in Step 1, Step 2 will determine if corrections
can be made
to upgrade the submission to Conference standards, and recommend same.
Preliminary student track submissions are required to contain both the
preliminary
presentation and the preliminary paper
Accepted student track papers and presentations will
* Be published in the Conference proceedings and CD-ROM.
* Compete for the Systems Engineering and Evaluation Centre (SEEC)
Award for
the best Student Paper at the Conference.
Submit papers and presentations to the Technical Chair:
Associate Professor Joseph Kasser
Systems Engineering and Evaluation Centre
University of South Australia,
Mawson Lakes SA 5095, AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 8 8302-3941
Conference E-mail: CT2000@unisa.edu.au
Other E-mail Joseph.Kasser@unisa.edu.au
SESA is a Technical Society of The Institution of Engineers Australia
(IEAust),
affiliated with the International Council of Systems Engineering
(INCOSE).
SESA's Website is at http://www.sesa.org.au/
ITEA Southern Cross Chapter's Website is at http://itea.netspot.com.au/
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