Theme: Domain Oriented Cost Modeling
The USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering will hold its annual Forum on Systems, Software, and COCOMO Cost Modeling at USC during the first week in November. The Forum theme this year encourages investigation of the relationships between cost modeling and problem domains including theories, models, empirical results, and best practices. In addition, we plan to conduct workshops based on work we are doing for the DoD-Stevens-USC Systems Engineering Research Center as well as COSYSMO.
Topics of interest include concepts and data related to usage, analysis, and improvement of the COCOMO suite of models and any other cost models; innovative ways of applying cost models; impacts on planning and tailoring of engineering processes; model scalability; model integration experiences; schedule estimation; risk management; modeling and estimation as it relates to agile methods, COTS integration, or architectural approaches such as service-oriented architectures; models for addressing software quality and security issues; and value-based approaches. The COCOMO Forum is a venue for presenting data from PhD students, faculty, other academic researchers, and industry and government affiliates who describe emerging ideas as well as more mature concepts. We encourage abstract submissions addressing this wide spectrum of interest as well as tool demonstration proposals that will lead to lively exchanges of ideas.
Organization
General Chair: Barry Boehm (USC) and Jo Ann Lane (USC)
Program Committee: Rick Selby (Northrop Grumman/USC, Chair), Barry Boehm (USC), Winsor Brown (USC), Sunita Chulani (Cisco), Jared Fortune (Aerospace/USC), LiGuo Huang (SMU/USC), Jo Ann Lane (USC), Qi Li (USC), Dan Ligett (Softstar), Ray Madachy (NPS/USC), Ali Malik (USC), Vu Nguyen (USC), Thomas Tan (USC), Ricardo Valerdi (Univ. of Arizona/MIT), Ye Yang (ISCAS/USC)
Local Arrangements Chair: Julie Sanchez, USC (jasanche@usc.edu)
Key Dates
Submissions 2-3 page Abstracts Due: August 31, 2011 to rick.selby@ngc.com Notification Date: September 14, 2011 Proceedings Materials Due: October 7, 2011 |
Forum and Workshops |
