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Affiliate Benefits and Contributions
The USC-CSSE General Affiliates’ Program offers a wide variety of benefits of value to commercial and governmental software organizations:
USC Visits to Affiliate
- Annual one-day lecture/visit by a USC professor
- Longer-term visit arrangements
- Student resumes for summer or full-time positions
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Affiliate Visits to USC
- Annual Research Reviews:
– International Forums on COCOMO® and Systems/Software Cost Modeling
– Focused Workshops
– Technical Steering Committee
– Meetings Corporate campus visits
- Longer-term visit arrangements
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Workshops and Conferences at USC
- Annual Research Reviews (Mar or Feb)
- International Forums on COCOMO® and Systems/Software Cost Modeling (Oct)
- Conference on System Engineering Research (CSER) April, even years)
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Tool and Knowledge Transfer
- Prototype tools for experimentation
- Early-releases of tools developed by CSSE
- Technical support to “power users” of CSSE tools
- Website Affiliates Private Area
- Proceedings from conferences, workshops, seminars, tutorials, and LA SPIN
- Research Influence Reviews on Research and Curriculum Directions
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Contributions made by Affiliates:
$35,000
- Annual fee for large organizations (over $100M/year sales or budget)
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$25,000
- First-year introduction fee for large organizations
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$5,000
- Annual fee for small organizations (under $100M/year sales or budget)
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One Member
- For Technical Steering Committee (up to three for large organizations)
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Focal Points
- Identification of organizational focal points for technology transition
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