mrb@sei.cmu.edu (Mario Barbacci) (08/15/88)
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, Carnegie Mellon University 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 one of the chairmen: Professor Richard E. Fairley Mr. Clyde Chittister School of Information Technology Software Engineering Institute George Mason University Carnegie Mellon University Fairfax, VA 22030 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA USA Tel: +1 703 764 6195 Tel: +1 412 268 7781 Internet: cc@sei.cmu.edu uunet: ...!harvard!sei.cmu.edu!cc FAX: +1 412 268 5758 Abstracts due: 1 September 1988 Notification: 1 October 1988 Persons interested in general participation should also contact either of the chairmen by 1 September 1988.