support all phases of the software development process. The original KBSA vision revolved around a new software process model, including knowledge-based software design and prototyping by executable specifications, and the generation of implementations using semantic-preserving rules. Research and development efforts around the world, including those supported by Rome Laboratory's long-term KBSA program, have led to the development of significant pieces of this vision. The annual KBSA Conference has provided a forum for discussion and presentation of work related to the KBSA effort. In 1991, the conference expanded its scope to include other work in knowledge-based software engineering, and changed its name to the Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference. The 1991 conference was quite successful in attracting technical papers from around the world on knowledge based software engineering. Since 1991 the KBSE conference took further steps to establish itself as the major conference in the field. An independent steering committee was established consisting of distinguished researchers and sponsors of research, a program committee was formed including many important KBSE researchers and a conference committee representing business, government and academia was formed to organize the conference. M a j o r Themes The papers and presentations at the conference provided a
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