Smart Instructional Component Based Course Content Organization and Delivery Hongchi Shi, Yi Shang, and Su-Shing Chen, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA {shih,shangy,chens}@missouri.edu A major challenge in computer science (CS) education is to improve both instructional productivity and learning quality for a large and diverse population of students imder real-world constraints such as limited financial resources and insufficient qualified teachers. To address this challenge, we develop a new approach to course content organization and delivery using smart instructional components that can be integrated across the CS curriculum. Our approach has three major components: the structure of smart instructional components (called lecturelets), a prototype software system supporting lecturelets, and sample educational materials developed using the new approach. Lecturelets are self-contained instructional components for customized interactive presentation of subjects and can be easily integrated into a wide range of courses. They are implemented using active XML documents with Java code for individual subjects, including definition/description, examples, exercises, quizzes, projects, and supplemental information. A prototype of the software system that supports lecturelets is developed using agent, Web, and digital library technologies. Lecturelets together with the dependency relationships between them, such as pre-requisite and supplemental relationships, are stored in centralized or distributed document repositories for easy search and management. To validate this new approach, we develop a sample collection of lecturelets on Web and agent technologies and use in some existing computer science courses. Evaluation Technique of Software Configuration Management Jin Xizhe, Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea jxz@cs.chungnam.ac.kr During software development, users require software to change and engineers, for technical reasons, also modify it. Change is inevitable when software is built and change increases the level of confusion throughout the software life cycle. Software Configuration Management (SCM) is a set of activities to control and manage these changes. In spite o f software maintenance the activities o f control change after software release. Software configuration management is an umbrella activity that is applied throughout the software process. The SCM is structured in four integrated processes that provide for complete product life cycle management. 1. 2. 3. Configuration Identification - a process to define the product and its configuration documentation identification. Change Management process - change o f software product and its configuration documentation is controlled. Configuration Status Accounting information about documentation. a product provides status and and its configuration 4. Configuration Audits - verify consistency o f configuration documentation against the product.

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