Welcome to the MoDELS 2005 Doctoral Symposium October 4, 2005 Half Moon Resort, Jamaica

1. Welcome to the MoDELS 2005 Doctoral Symposium October 4, 2005 Half Moon Resort, Jamaica

2. Students Nelly Bencomo, Lancaster University, UK Fabian Büttner, University of Bremen, Germany Calin Comes, University of Tg-Mures, Romania Ellen Van Paesschen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Jaime Pavlich-Mariscal, University of Connecticut, USA Stephan Roser, University of Augsburg, Germany Erendira Ibarra-Alvarado, University of Sussex, UK Andre Karpištšenko, Talinn Tech. University, Estonia Mark Mahoney, Illinois Inst. Technology, USA Hiroshi Wada, U. Massachusetts-Boston, USA Doctoral Symposium Participants International Representation: Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Romania, UK, and USA

3. Mentors Aditya Agrawal, IBM TJ Watson Research, USA Jean Bézivin, University of Nantes, France Betty Cheng, Michigan State University, USA Emanuel Grant, University of North Dakota, USA Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Jörg Kienzle, McGill University, Canada Ana Moreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Kerry Raymond, DSTC, Australia Doctoral Symposium Participants International Representation: Austrailia, Canada, France, Portugal, and USA

4. Let’s Introduce Ourselves • Your name and affiliation • Modeling research interests • Any interesting hobby or characteristic? • If student: • Year of study • Seeking academic or industry position?

5. Administrative issues • Reimbursement forms • Please fill out and give to Jeff today • Will be mailed to ACM directly next Monday from the States • 2-page summary for workshop reader • Due in 1 month; wait for email providing style/format • Extra banquet ticket for a student • 1 available, to whoever first answers: • “The first commercial software application to be sold independent from a hardware configuration was a modeling tool! What was the name of this tool?”

6. Our goals as mentors • To challenge you to think about potential weaknesses in your thesis • We won’t purposefully be confrontational, but will ask you to address any holes or problems that may also be raised by your “real” committee if not corrected early • Criticism not to be taken personally; offered in the spirit of improving your final results • Prepare you to practice “defending” your ideas in a public forum • Offer candid advice and suggestions regarding all facets of research • The “closed” nature of this workshop allows all of us to discuss things in confidentiality • “What is said in Jamaica, stays in Jamaica!”

7. Timing of Presentation • Your presentation time should be 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of questions • A “5 minutes left” sign will be presented to you after 25 minutes into your talk • If you go much over the time limit, we may ask you to stop so that we can move into the question period • If we get off-schedule, we will adjust things to give you a full 45-minute slot

8. Lets begin!

9. Free Banquet Ticket Question • Question: The first commercial software application was a modeling tool. What was the name of the tool, and who was the vendor? • Answer: • AUTOFLOW - Applied Data Research. 2002. Software products division records (CBI 154). Tech. rep., Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cbi00154.html.