karl@grebyn.COM (Karl A. Nyberg) (07/22/88)
[This was mailed to info-ada-REQUEST, and I accidentally deleted it instead
of forwarding it. Sorry about that - Ed.]
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Fourth Annual COCOMO Users' Group Meeting
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 2-3, 1988
General Chair: Clyde Chittister, SEI
Program Chair: Richard Fairley, George Mason University
Pgm. Committee: Barry Boehm, TRW
Karen Pullen, MITRE
Paul Rook, Software Engineering Consultant
Dan Ligett, Softstar
The first three annual COCOMO Users' Group meetings provided an opportunity
for COCOMO users and software cost estimation researchers from government,
industry, and universities to share experiences with COCOMO and other cost
estimation models, and to examine several implementations of cost estimation
tools based on COCOMO.
The fourth Annual COCOMO Users' Group meeting will be held at the Software
Engineering Institute facility of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania on November 2 & 3, 1988. One of the major focal points will be
adaptation of COCOMO and other models to estimating the effects of using Ada
on software project effort, schedule, and life-cycle costs, including
experiences with the TRW Ada COCOMO model presented at the 1987 meeting.
Another major focal point will be the adaptation of COCOMO and other models
to alternative software processes: prototyping, evolutionary development,
Ada process models, and incremental development.
Other topics to be discussed will include alternative cost estimation
models, extensions to COCOMO, and implementation techniques for COCOMO
models. The program will include about 12 invited presentations and 10 tool
demonstrations. Attendance will be limited to approximately 90 participants.
Persons interested in making a technical presentation or demonstrating a
COCOMO-related tool should send a 1 to 2 page abstract to:
Professor Richard E. Fairley
School of Information Technology
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030
USA
Abstracts due: 1 September 1988
Notification: 1 October 1988
Persons interested in general participation should also write to Professor
Fairley by 1 September 1988.