PhD Seminar in Computer Engineering

1st Semester 1999

Approach  Topics will be determined at the beginning of the course depend on students' background.  Each week the lead student will post the interesting questions and determine the reference papers of which will be actively discussed in the round table style.  The lead student is responsible to write up the discussion of the day (in English) and hand in the report by next week schedule.  Other students should prepare the discussion by reading the reference papers and additionally search more references to support their own view to reply to the posted questions.  All opinions in writing should be sent to the lead student to be included in his/her write up of the week.

Schedule  (assume the class helds every Thursday)

• 17 June  Explicit parallelism  Prabhas
• 24 June  Software Engineeing 1  Wiwat
• 1 July  Sotware Engineering 2  Somjai
• 8 July  Verification  Radchaporn
• 15 July  Neural Networks 1  Natakorn
• 22 July  Neural Networks 2  Nuanwan
• 29 July  Object Orientation  1  Pichayothai
• 5 Aug  Object Orientation 2  Voraset
• 12 Aug  Queen's birthday  no class
• 19 Aug  Machine Learning 1  Sukree
• 26 Aug  Machine Learning 2  Dechanuchit
• Other weeks will be schedule later on

• How IA64 exposes intruction level parallelism, IEEE Computer (magazine), July 1998.

• What is different (explicit) from the traditional instruction scheduling such as Pentium ?
• How the shift from hardware to software (instruction scheduling) affect the performance ?
• What that you expect to be the obstacle of the success of IA64 and why ?

• [1]  A.I. Wasserman, "Toward a Discipline of Software Engineeering", IEEE Software, pp.23-31, November 1996. (pdf  2Mbytes)
• [2]  J.Bamberger, "Essence of the Capability Maturity Model", IEEE Computer, pp.112-114, June 1997. (pdf)

• How do you think about "Chicken-and-egg" aspect to the discussion on "How SE will be recoginzed as an engineering discipline" in [1] ?
• How do you agree with A.Wasserman, the author of [1] about the eight concepts that constitute the foundation of SE discipline?
• How does CMM specified in [2] mean to you?

• Richard S. Hall, et al. "Evaluating Software Deployment Languages and Schema", Proc. of International Conference on Software Maintenance, 1998. (pdf)
• Richard S. Hall, et al. "A Cooperative Approach to Support Software Deployment Using the Software Dock", Proc. of the 1999 International Conference on Software Engineering, 1999. (pdf)

• A. Bhattacherjee and J. Gerlach, "Understanding and Managing OOT Adoption", IEEE Software, pp. 91-96, June 1998.
• R.G. Fichman and C.F. Kemerer, "Object Technology and Reuse: Lessons from Early Adopters", IEEE Computer, pp. 47-59, October 1997.

• How do you think about replacing traditional method with object technology?
• What that you think to be the barrier of  OOT adoption?
• Will OOT be viable and why?