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software process
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