Business Semantics: Best Practices for Gathering Precise Requirements

This presentation will deal with the complexities of gathering complex business requirements from users that use industry-specific terminology. I will use examples from healthcare, insurance, finance, law enforcement, real estate, education and banking. I will also discuss the use of controlled vocabularies and metadata registries to manage this process and standards for creating and storing metadata (SKOS and 11179). I will also discuss case studies in federal data exchange standards. We will show how the skills for developing semanticlly precise data defintions are critical for areas such as business intelligence and enterprise data reporting.

Thinking about the client/consultant relationship

What is it that attracts some people to consulting; either as consultants or as clients? And what is it that makes or breaks a successful consulting engagement? Awareness of one's own skills and limitations is key.

We will discuss the importance of knowing your (and your client's) levels of competence and ignorance. Though often not the intent, these words, competence and ignorance, have come to have negative connotations in our society. Negative connotations aside, competence and ignorance are useful if not essential considerations when looking at client/consultant dynamics and communication patterns. And successful communication leads to successful engagements.

Please join us for the first seminar of the Fall 2009 Master of Science in Software Engineering (MSSE) seminar series.

The MSSE seminars are presented by the University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center (UMSEC) and are open to the general public.

On Saturday morning, September 26, we will have two speakers.

Daniel F. Keefe (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota) will present "Picturing Time: Data Visualization for Studying Biomechanical Motions".

Antonia Zhai (Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota) will present "Parallelization on Multicore --- Power and Performance Perspectives"

DATE: Saturday, September 26.

The University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center presents a Symposium on "Changing Regulations and Standards for Medical Device Software and Health Information Systems".

In this symposium, FDA representatives and industry leaders will provide an update on the status of standards used for medical device software and health information management systems and the current thinking of regulatory bodies regarding what they may require to evaluate the safety of these products.

Static code analysis is performed without actually executing programs built from that code. At this event, we are covering analysis performed by automated tools. There are numerous commercial as well as open source tools of varying capability available. The sophistication of the tools ranges from those that highlight simple--but serious--coding errors (misuse of libraries, ignored return values, erroneous equality checks, etc.), through tools with more sophisticated analysis that can detect deeper problems (null pointer dereferencing, division by zero, array out of bounds, etc.), to formal methods that mathematically prove properties about a given program (that its behavior matches its specification).

If you are interested in applying for the M.S. in Software Engineering program, please join us for a lunch or dinner information session at the Campus Club (Coffman Union 4th Floor). The director will give you an overview an overview of the program and answer any questions you have. Space is limited to 8 prospective students per session; sign-up is required. If the session you would like to attend is full, please contact us at msse [at] cs [dot] umn [dot] edu.

Map to Coffman Union
Parking will be validated
THIS SESSION STARTS AT 6:00pm
Call 612-625-1381 if you have any questions

UMSEC Event open to all students, alumni, and general public. Speaker Bio: Jay Ruuska is a consultant specializing in software test automation. He helps teams develop and implement test-automation strategies and architectures. Recent clients include Cisco Systems, Toshiba, Symantec, Kodak, and the Gap. He also provides training for automated GUI validation. Previously he held positions at EDS and IBM in the United States and abroad. Jay has been involved in the disciplines of user-interface testing (usability, functional validation, visual defect detection, and user-acceptance testing) across various media since 1987. He is an honors graduate of the University of North Texas and has been a featured speaker in North America, Europe, and Asia.

If you are interested in applying for the M.S. in Software Engineering program, please join us for a lunch or dinner information session at the Campus Club (Coffman Union 4th Floor). The director will give you an overview an overview of the program and answer any questions you have. Space is limited to 8 prospective students per session; sign-up is required. If the session you would like to attend is full, please contact us at msse [at] cs [dot] umn [dot] edu.

Map to Coffman Union
Parking will be validated
THIS SESSION STARTS AT 12:00pm
Call 612-625-1381 if you have any questions

If you are interested in applying for the M.S. in Software Engineering program, please join us for a lunch or dinner information session at the Campus Club (Coffman Union 4th Floor). The director will give you an overview an overview of the program and answer any questions you have. Space is limited to 8 prospective students per session; sign-up is required. If the session you would like to attend is full, please contact us at msse [at] cs [dot] umn [dot] edu.

Map to Coffman Union
Parking will be validated
THIS SESSION STARTS AT 6:00pm
Call 612-625-1381 if you have any questions

If you are interested in applying for the M.S. in Software Engineering program, please join us for a lunch or dinner information session at the Campus Club (Coffman Union 4th Floor). The director will give you an overview an overview of the program and answer any questions you have. Space is limited to 8 prospective students per session; sign-up is required. If the session you would like to attend is full, please contact us at msse [at] cs [dot] umn [dot] edu.

Map to Coffman Union
Parking will be validated
THIS SESSION STARTS AT 12:00pm
Call 612-625-1381 if you have any questions