Please pass on the EASE99 announcement to your colleagues. Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. ..................................................................... Third International Conference on Empirical Assessment and Evaluation in Software Engineering Keele University, Staffordshire, UK April 12th - 14th 1999 Invited speakers: Profesor Ian Sommerville, Lancaster University, "Software Systems are not Bridges: Some delusions of software engineers" Professor Chris Kemerer, University of Pittsburgh, USA , title to be announced Prefessor Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, University of Maryland, USA "Albert Einstein and empirical software engineering." Full technical programme and registration details can be found at: http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/cs/events/ease99/ Tutorials: Cognitive Dimensions of InformationArtefacts, with applications to Software Design, given by Dr. Thomas Green, Honorary Research Fellow, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds, UK. The Application, in a variety of Industrial Environments, of an Evaluation-Based Approach to Quality , presented by The Valse team -- Staphano De Panfillis (Engineering), Stephen Linkman (Keele University) & Jorgen Boegh (Delta) -- Dr. Pearl Brereton [log in to unmask] Dept. of Computer Science, Keele University, Keele, Staffs ST5 5BG UK Tel: +44 (0) 1782 583079 Fax: +44 (0) 1782 713082 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%