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software process From: mik@sei.cmu.edu (Marc Kellner) Path: sei.cmu.edu!mik 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