Our Activities

TECHNICAL SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS -- Our main activity is the sponsoring of sessions and workshops at IEEE ComSoc conferences (specifically ICC and GLOBECOM). In the past we have organized technical sessions and workshops on topics that span:

Distributed Software System Challenges -- Discussing experiences with distributed software tecnology (e.g., CORBA, DCOM, DCE) and agent software technology.

Internal Software for Communications Systems -- e.g., Database Management, Process Management, Operating Systems, Performance, Reliability, Multiprocessing, Communications Management

Communications Systems Networking Software -- e.g., Customer Premises Equipment Interfaces, Exchange Carrier Interfaces, Signaling, Administrative Interfaces Operations Support Systems, Gateways, Protocols, Open System Interface Applications

Communication Software Applications -- e.g., Switching, Transmission, Subscriber, Operations Support Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, System Architecture

Communications Software Engineering -- e.g. Project Management, Development Methodologies, Software Metrics, Software Quality, Software Testing and Evaluation, Languages, Software Prototyping, Software Maintenance, Structured Specification and Design, Defect Measurement and Assessment


PUBLICATIONS -- We have coordinated technical papers in the Transmission of Communications magazine, provided key contributions on software topics in the Special Switching Issue and in IEEE Communications Magazine


EDUCATION -- We have organized tutorials on several current "hot topics" that include Design Patterns, CORBA and Object-Oriented Programming