Final Programme

(Updated June 27th, 2003)

FIW'03
Seventh International Workshop on Feature Interactions
in Telecommunications and Software Systems

11th June to 13th June, 2003
(Tutorials 10th June)
Ottawa, Canada.

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/fiw03/

Abstracts available (click on titles).
Presentations of talks and panel sessions are available in
PowerPoint () or Acrobat ().

Tuesday, 10th June

All tutorials include a 30 minutes coffee break (at 10:00 and at 15:00).
8:00-8:30 Tutorial Registration
8:30-12:00 Tutorial 1 (A-0150): New Voice Services, Ken Turner
8:30-12:00 Tutorial 2 (H-0104): Networked Appliances: The Next Wave of Computing?, Stan Moyer
13:30-17:00 Tutorial 3 (A-0150): Extreme Software Systems, Greg Utas
13:30-17:00 Tutorial 4 (H-0104): Developing Presence and Awareness Services, Ramiro Liscano
9:00-17:30
Workshop Registration (in front of A-0150)
17:30-19:15 Informal gathering at the Café Nostalgica (603 Cumberland, U. of Ottawa)

Wednesday, 11th June

8:00-8:20 Workshop Registration
8:20-8:30 Workshop Opening
D. Amyot (U. Ottawa), L. Logrippo (UQO), and Peter Perry (Mitel Networks)
8:30-9:30 Invited talk: Feature Disambiguation, Pamela Zave
Chair: Nancy Griffeth
9:30-10:00 Coffee break
10:00-12:00 Session I: Architecture and Design Methods
Chair: Ken Turner
12:00-13:30 Lunch (terrace on the 2nd floor of the University Center)
13:30-14:30 Panel Session I: New Features for IP Telephony
  • Chair: Tom Gray, Pinetel, Canada
  • Bernard Cohen, City University, England
  • Debbie Pinard, Aphrodite Telecom, Canada
  • Anabel Quan-Haase, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Michael Weiss, Carleton University, Canada
  • Pamela Zave, AT&T Research, USA
14:30-15:30 Session II: Emerging Application Domains
Chair: Mark Ryan
15:30-16:15 Coffee break and posters
16:15-17:45 Session II (continued): Emerging Application Domains
Chair: Fuchun Joseph Lin
19:00- Programme Committee Dinner

Thursday, 12th June

8:00-8:30 Workshop Registration
8:30-9:30 Invited talk: The Periphery, Context and Intent: Architectural Considerations in the Design of Interactive Appliances, Bill Buxton
Chair: Bernie Cohen
9:30-10:00 Coffee break
10:00-11:00 Session III: Human Factors
Chair: Evan Magill
11:00-12:00 Session IV: Detection and Resolution Methods I
Chair: Masahide Nakamura
12:00-13:15
Lunch (first floor, SITE building)
13:15-14:15 Panel Session II: Policy-enabled Mechanisms for Feature Interaction Problem: Reality, Expectation, Challenges
  • Chair: Petre Dini, Cisco Systems (USA) and Concordia University (Canada)
  • Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA
  • Tom Gray, Pinetel, Canada
  • Fuchun Joseph Lin, Telcordia Technologies, USA
  • Luigi Logrippo, UQO/University of Ottawa, Canada
  • Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, University of Stirling, UK
14:15-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-16:00 Session V: Emerging Architectures
Chair: Tadashi Ohta
17:15-20:45 Conference Banquet (please arrive at the dock at 17:15 at the latest), to be followed by an informal gathering in the Château Laurier and/or the Market.
 

Friday, 13th June

8:00-8:30 Workshop Registration
8:30-9:30 Invited talk: Reducing the Feature Interaction Problem in Communication Systems Using an Agent-Based Architecture, Debbie Pinard
Chair: Tom Gray
9:30-10:00 Coffee break
10:00-11:00 Session VI: Foundations
Chair: Muffy Calder
11:00-12:00 Session VII: Detection and Resolution Methods II
Chair: Ferhat Khendek
12:00-12:15 Workshop Closing
12:15 Lunch (first floor, SITE building)

Contacts

All queries to the Organising Committee should be sent to: FIW03@site.uottawa.ca