Conference Reports The Sixth Annual Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference (KBSE-91) Peter G. Selfridge AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 3C-441 Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA ty in Syracuse, NY. Attendance grew by 20% from last year, to a total attendance of about 140 people from 9 countries. Twenty five papers, three panels, two Plenary Addresses, and about 10 demonstrations were presented at the Conference. The conference began with an optional tutorial session on Sunday afternoon, intended for relative newcomers to the KBSE community. Over sixty people attended this session, which included three presentations. The first was a summary of the Rome Laboratory's Knowledge-Based Software Assistant Program, given by Doug White of the Rome Laboratory. He presented the primary goal oftbe program: to develop a knowledge-based software development environment with the following features. First, design should take place at a higher level of abstraction than current practice. Second, knowledge-based assistance should mediate the design activities, coordinate the software development process, and assist in the translation from informal domain representations to formal executable specifications. Third, the environment should maintain a repository of artifacts that can be used to maintain consistency and support evolution. The primary techniques for achieving these goals, some of
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