The Sixth Annual Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference

The Sixth Annual Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference (KBSE-91) was held at the Sheraton University Inn and Conference Center in Syracuse, New York, from Sunday afternoon, 22 September, through midday Wednesday, 25 September. The KBSE field is concerned with applying knowledge-based AI techniques to the problems of creating, understanding, and maintaining very large software systems. The Sixth Annual Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference (KBSE-91) was held at the Sheraton University Inn and Conference Center in Syracuse, New York, from Sunday afternoon, 22 September, through midday Wednesday, 25 September. This conference was sponsored by Rome Laboratory (previously Rome Air Development Center) and was held in cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. The origin of KBSE-91 is as follows: In 1983, Rome Air Development Center published a report calling for the development of a knowledgebased software assistant (KBSA) that would use AI techniques to support all phases of the software development process (Green et al. 1986).