more information at www.eusprig.org
		July 15-16, 2004 in Klagenfurt, Austria

Final Programme

European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group

Annual Conference

Risk Reduction in End User Computing
Best practice for spreadsheet users in the new Europe

Thursday, 15^th July – Friday, 16^th July 2004
Pre-Conference Tutorial: Wednesday, 14^th July 2004

University of Klagenfurt
AUSTRIA

Wednesday, July 14^th 2004	Southern wing, 2^nd floor
(Pre-conference Session)	Room 2.42

15:30 – 16:00 Registration
16:00 – 17:30 Introductory Tutorial “Spreadsheets, their Use, their Problems and Risks: A EuSpRIG-briefing”; Ray Butler, Highways Agency and Louise Pryor, Louise Pryor & Co Ltd (UK)

Thursday, July 15th 2004	Southern wing, 1^st floor
first day	Lecture hall C

8:00 – 8:30 Registration

8:30 – 9:00 Welcome and Introduction

9:00 – 9:30 Keynote
“Appropriate Control of User Development Solutions in the Banking
Sector”;
Dean Buckner, UK Financial Service Authority (UK)

9:30 – 10:30 Session 1: Methodologies “Spreadsheets Good Practice”; Garry Cleere, ECDLF (IE) “A Paradigm for Spreadsheet Engineering Methodologies”; Thomas A. Grossman, Univ. of San Francisco and Özgür Özlük, San Francisco State Univ. (US)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:40 Session 2: Testing and Audits “When, why and how to test spreadsheets”; Louise Pryor, Louise Pryor & Co Ltd (UK) “TellTable Spreadsheet Audit: from technical possibility to operating prototype”; Andy Adler, John Nash, Neil Smith, Univ. of Ottawa (CA) “Identification of logical errors through Monte Carlo simulation”; Hilary L. Emmett, (UK), Lawrence I. Goldman, Decisioneering Ltd. (US)

UNITED KINGDOM

12:40 – 14.00 Lunch break

14:00 – 15:40 Session 3: Complexity “End User Computer Applications – Auditability and other Benefits Derived from a Temporal Dimension”; Ralph Baxter, Cluster Seven (UK) “A novel approach to formulae production and overconfidence measurement to reduce risk in spreadsheet modelling”; Simon R. Thorne, D. Ball, Z. Lawson, UWIC (UK) “Spreadsheet Models Complexity Metrics”; Andrej Bregar, Univ. Maribor (SI)

15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break

16:10 – 17:20 Session 4: Visualization “A Toolkit for Scalable Spreadsheet Visualisation”; Markus Clermont, Univ. of Limerick (IE) “Using Layout Information for Spreadsheet Visualization”; Sabine Hipfl, Univ. of Klagenfurt (AT) 17:20 – 17:30 wrap up of first day

19:00 Bus-transfer to Magdalensberg (departure)

19:++ – … Evening Event Conference Dinner After dinner speech: “VisiCalc: Design Trade offs in the First Electronic Spreadsheet” Dan Fylstra, President, Frontline Systems and best student paper award

Sponsor of best student paper award

Friday, July 16^th 2004	Southern wing, 1^st floor
second day	Lecture hall C

8:30 – 8:40 Introduction to programme
8:40 – 9:50 Session 5: Structure ”Spreadsheet structure discovery”; Jocelyn Paine, Univ. of Bristol (UK) “Spreadsheet Good Practice: Is There Any Such Thing?”; David Colver, Operis (UK)

9:50 – 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 – 11:30 Session 6: Error avoidance “XlStruct: A Tool for Building Structured Error-Resistant Spreadsheets”; Gary K. Arakaki , (JP) ”Computational Models of Spreadsheet-Development: Basis for Educational Approaches”; Karin Hodnigg, Univ. of Klagenfurt (AT), Markus Clermont, Univ. of Limerick (IE), Roland T. Mittermeir, Univ. of Klagenfurt (AT)
11:30 – 12:20 Panel session 12:20 – 12:40 Wrap up of conference 12:40 Finish of scientific programme

12:40 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 EuSpRIG Committee Meeting (room 2.69)

Presentations of EuSpRIG’04 can be attended also via internet. Interested parties can connect to http://campustv.uni-klu.ac.at/online.

By sending an e-mail to eusprig_discuss@isys.uni-klu.ac.at you can participate in the discussions taking place after each presentation.