NSF Workshop on Modeling and Simulation for Design of Large Software-Intensive Systems: Challenges and New Research Directions (DLS03)

NSF Workshop on Modeling and Simulation for Design of Large Software-Intensive Systems:
Challenges and New Research Directions (DLS03) [Dec 3-4, 2003]

Outline of Scheduled Activities (Tenative)

First Day (Wednesday, December 3, 2003)
Times	Activity
Morning	Introductions by Jerzy Rozenblit, Interim Head of ECE, and Taeib Znati, Program Manager of ANIR, NSF
	Themes: the Workshop Organizers will present brief overviews of, and perspectives on, the central themes and the technical, infrastructure and pragmatic elements of a theory of large software design.
Afternoon	First GroupSystems Session: all participants will be transported to The University of Arizona campus to take part in a collaborative environment for facilitating anonymous discussion of ideas and brainstorming.
	Returning to the hotel, participants will self select several breakout sessions to continue considering in more depth the ideas that have emerged in the Group Systems session.
Evening	Organizers meet to formulate points of discussion and potential recommendations emerging from the GroupSystems' transcript.
	Participants are free to network and prepare for the next day's activities.
Second Day (Thursday, December 4, 2003)
Morning	Presentations: In a plenary session, participants will respond to the previous day's brainstorms by presenting aspects of their own work that may illuminate issues that arose and support one or other research direction. Presentations will be kept short to enable as many to present as possible.
Afternoon	Second GroupSystems Session: All participants will return to the collaborative environment to help formulate and vote on recommendations for research directions toward a science of large software system design.
	Plenary wrap-up session: open discussion on recommendations and further thoughts about how to stimulate and support increased research in the science of large software design.