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Ws10: Workshop on Challenges of Mobility (WCM)

Friday 27 August 2004

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General co-Chairs

J. Barrie Thompson, Helen M. Edwards (U. Sunderland, UK)
Mikko Ruohonen (U. Tampere, Finland)

The summit will continue work, undertaken since 2000, to promote consideration and evaluation of issues associated with professional practice in the field of information technology. In particular issues concerned with:

•  Ethics of professional practice
•  Established Body of Knowledge
•  Education and Training
•  Professional experience
•  Best Practice and Proven Methodologies
•  Maintenance of Competence

Such issues have been identified by International Federation for Information Processing as key to a standard for professional practice. Much of the previous work has concentrated on Software Engineering as it was believed that was the area within the Computing discipline where professionalism was likely to receive the greatest attention. This work has included a number of intensive workshop type events. Notable among these were workshops in 2001 at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2001) and the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T 2001) and an International Summit on Software Engineering Professionalism (SSEP) which was co-Located with the 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering in Orlando, Florida.

The prime aim of this summit is to provide a forum to consider not only professionalism within Software Engineering but also within the wider computing discipline. In particular, delegates will be directed, in both the activities at the Summit and in their position papers, to consider aspects of professionalism that are relevant to the following four areas:

•  Education and Training
•  Professional experience
•  Best Practice and Proven Methodologies
•  Maintenance of Competence

These position papers and the activities at the summit should enable opinions to be formed on:

•  What are the key steps in a career in computing?
•  What education and training are needed?
•  How should professional behaviour be regulated?
•  How is competence maintained and certified?

It will also help in:

•  Building up a truly international view and be sensitive to local situations
•  Getting accurate data and find out what the situation is across the world both in the areas of professional practice and educational structures.

Contact

barrie.thompson@sunderland.ac.uk