mrb@sei.cmu.edu (Mario Barbacci) (07/02/87)
- - THIRD ANNUAL COCOMO USERS' GROUP MEETING Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania November 4-5, 1987 General Chair: Clyde Chittister, SEI Program Chair: Richard Fairley, Wang Institute Program Committee: Barry Boehm, TRW Bernard Price, U.S. Army Paul Rook, GEC Software UK Dan Ligett, Softstar The first two annual COCOMO Users' Group meeting at the Wang Institute 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 Third Annual COCOMO Users' Group meeting will be held at the new Software Engineering Institute facility of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on November 4 & 5, 1987. 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. In particular, Barry Boehm and Walker Royce will present the TRW work on Ada related process models and cost estimation tools. 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 around 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 Wang Institute of Graduate Studies Tyng Road Tyngsboro, MA 01879 Abstracts due: 1 September 1987 Notification: 1 October 1987 Persons interested in general participation should also write to Professor Fairley by 1 September 1987. - -