[comp.software-eng] BCS-FACS : Workshop on Formal Aspects of Measurement

brianm@r8a.cs.man.ac.uk (Brian Monahan) (03/05/91)

    British Computer Society  -- Formal Aspects of Computing Science
			Special Interest Group

			      presents:


			 A one-day workshop on
		    Formal Aspects of Measurement


			Friday, 3rd May, 1991


                            Council Room
			South Bank Polytechnic
			  103 Borough Road
			   LONDON, SE1 0AA


Programme:
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09:30-10:00:	Registration



Morning session (Robin Whitty, chair)
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10:00-10:05:	Introductory remarks


10:05-10:30:	Norman Fenton, City University
	        Software metrics: why a formal approach?

10:30-11:00:	Jim Bieman, Colorado State University
	        Deriving measures of software reuse in object-oriented systems

11:00-11:15:	Coffee


11:15-11:45:	Norbert Fuchs, Alcatel Austria-ELIN
	        Language independent definition of axiomatic metrics

11:45-12:15:	Austin Melton, Kansas State University
	        Constructive software measurement

12:15-12:45:	Horst Zuse, Technical University of Berlin
	        Measurement theory applied to software metrics

12:45-14:00:	Lunch


Afternoon session (Horst Zuse, chair)
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14:00-14:30:	Martin Shepperd, Bournemouth Polytechnic
                Algebraic models, OBJ and metrics validation

14:30-15:00:	Dave Gustafson, Kansas State University
	        Properties of software measures

15:00-15:30:	Tea


15:30-16:00:	Barbara Kitchenham, National Computing Centre
	        Never mind the metrics - what about the numbers?

16:00-16:30:	Panel discussion with:
                   Jim Bieman, Tim Denvir, Norman Fenton,
                   Norbert Fuchs, Barbara Kitchenham

	        Software measurement: a mathematical or an empirical science?

16:30-16:45:	Closing remarks



F U R T H E R  D E T A I L S
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The meeting will be held in the Council Room of the South Bank
Polytechnic at 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA.  The registration fee
for this meeting is #50 for BCS-FACS members, and #70 for non-BCS-FACS
members.  This will include a buffet lunch.

If you would like to attend, please fill in the registration form
below, and return it to:

    Research Administrator,
    Centre for Systems and Software Engineering,
    103 Borough Road,
    London SE1 0AA.

Please enclose a cheque for the correct amount made out to BCS-FACS.

The places available for this meeting are limited, so please register
early and don't forget to enclose your cheque.  Registration will be
strictly on a first-paid, first served basis.


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      BCS FACS -- Formal Aspects of Measurement -- Friday 3rd May


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