[comp.software-eng] Call for Papers -- Software Engineering Processes

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From: mik@sei.cmu.edu (Marc Kellner)
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                     CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES

         SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESSES: MODELS AND ANALYSIS

       Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences -- 23

             Kailua - Kona, Hawaii -- January 2 - 5, 1990


   The Software Track of HICSS-23 will contain a special set of papers
focusing on a broad selection  of  topics  in  the  area  of  Software
Engineering  Processes:  Models  and  Analysis.   In recent years, the
software engineering research community has begun to focus significant
attention  on  the processes utilized to develop and support software,
as a complement to the more traditional focus on the products of those
processes.  This attention is leading to the development of approaches
to modeling and analyzing software engineering  processes.    Software
process  modeling encompasses a representation approach, comprehensive
analysis  capabilities,  and  the  capability  to   make   predictions
regarding the effects of changes to a process.

   The  need  to  model  and analyze software engineering processes is
more  important  today  than  ever,  because   the   advent   of   new
methodologies  and  technologies  aimed  at  various  aspects of these
processes is forcing managers and developers to  decide  how  to  best
utilize  them.  Historically, these decisions have been made primarily
by intuition, with little empirical data to substantiate  promises  of
productivity and product quality gains.  Process modeling and analysis
can increase our knowledge of  software  engineering  processes,  and,
therefore,  support  the improvement of software engineering practices
and products by:

   - Increasing understanding regarding a process

   - Enabling  processes  to  be  formally  defined  and  applied
     prescriptively

   - Supporting evolutionary improvements to a process

   - Facilitating effective management of a process

   The  presentations  will provide a forum to discuss new advances in
theory  and  applications  addressing  the   functional,   behavioral,
organizational, and data aspects of software engineering processes, in
addition to work in the  area  of  process  simulation  and  automated
process  analysis.    Papers  are  invited  that  may  be theoretical,
conceptual, tutorial, or descriptive in nature.  Those papers selected
for  presentation  will  appear in the Conference Proceedings which is
published by the Computer  Society  of  the  IEEE,  and  possibly,  be
reprinted  later in a special issue of a professional society journal.
HICSS-23 is sponsored by the University of Hawaii in cooperation  with
the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Pacific Research Institute
for Information Systems and  Management  (PRIISM).    Submissions  are
solicited addressing the following issues and topics:

   - What   are   the  requirements  for  process  representation
     formalisms?

   - What paradigms and approaches ( e.g., programming languages,
     systems  analysis  tools,  expert systems) are supportive of
     these  formalisms?    Evaluations  of  the  suitability   of
     specific modeling approaches are solicited.

   - How   can   influences   on  a  process,  such  as  employee
     motivation, be modeled  and  how  can  these  influences  be
     measured?

   - What  must be measured to provide a predictive capability in
     models?

   - How can process models be  verified  and  validated?    What
     parameters   are   required   to  validate  experiments  and
     substantiate results?

   - How can the effect of technology  insertion  be  anticipated
     and measured?

   - What  are  the characteristics of widely applicable, generic
     software process models, and how  can  they  be  effectively
     customized for specific projects?

   - How  can  organizations  gain  and  use  feedback from model
     applications to improve  the  model  and  the  corresponding
     process?

   - What is a "good" process; can process quality be measured?

   - Can modeling determine the quality of a process?

   - What   progress  is  being  made  in  the  construction  and
     validation of software engineering process models and in the
     quantitative  analysis  of  software  engineering processes?
     Thus, reports of actual  experience  with  such  models  are
     solicited.


                  INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS

   Manuscripts  should  be  22-26  typewritten, double-spaced pages in
length.  Do not send submissions that  are  significantly  shorter  or
longer  than  this.  Papers must not have been previously presented or
published, nor currently submitted  for  journal  publication.    Each
manuscript   will  be  put  through  a  rigorous  refereeing  process.
Manuscripts should have a title page that includes the  title  of  the
paper,   full  name(s)  of  its  author(s),  affiliation(s),  complete
physical mail and electronic address(es), telephone number(s),  and  a
300-word abstract of the paper.


                              DEADLINES

        - A 300-word abstract is due by April 15, 1989

        - Feedback to authors concerning abstract by May 1, 1989

        - Six copies of the manuscript are due by June 5, 1989

        - Notification of accepted papers by September 1, 1989

        - Accepted  manuscripts, camera-ready, are due by October
          1, 1989


                  SEND SUBMISSIONS AND QUESTIONS TO:

                         Dr. Marc I. Kellner
                    Software Engineering Institute
                      Carnegie Mellon University
                      Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
                        phone: (412) 268-7721
                       e-mail: mik@sei.cmu.edu