Preliminary Program 

 

 

Tuesday, October 24

7:30 - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast and Registration
(includes free COCOMO II  book and CD)

8:30 - 10:00 am

COCOMO II Tutorial I

·  Overview, Barry Boehm (10min)

·  Model Definition, Brad Clark (40min)

·  Application Examples, Don Reifer and Ray Madachy(40min)

10:30 - 12:00

COCOMO II Tutorial II

·  Calibration, Sunita Chulani and Bert Steece (30min)

·  Emerging Extensions, Winsor Brown (40min)

·  USC COCOMO II, Ellis Horowitz (20min

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 - 2:30; 3:00 - 4:30 pm

Parallel Tutorials
A. COCOTS, Chris Abts and Betsy Clark
B. COCOMO II and MBASE, Barry Boehm

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Affiliates' Dinner and Discussion

·  Emerging extensions: plans and priorities

·  Empirical studies and data collection

·  Thursday breakout group topics (examples: COCOTS, data repository access,  sizing)

Wednesday, October 25

7:30 - 8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 8:30 am

Welcome and Overview, Barry Boehm

8:30 - 9:15 am

Empirical Software Engineering Research, Vic Basili (UMaryland)

9:15 - 10:15 am

Planning and Estimating Web Applications (Barry Boehm, Chair)

·  Web Development: Estimating Quick-to-Market Software
       Don Reifer, RCI and USC-CSE

·  Aspects of Building Web Aplications Systems and of Using the MBASE Approach
       Anca-Joliana Stoica, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

10:15 - 10:45 am 

Break

10:45am - 12:15 pm

Estimating Software Reuse Costs (Sunita Chulani, Chair)

·  Estimating Software Reuse Costs
        Senta Fowler and Ali Mili, U of West Virginia

·  Parametric Analysis of Software Reuse Using COCOMO II
        Rhoda Novak, Aerospace Corp

·  COCOMO II Predicts the Effects of Collaborative Software Development and Sustaining Engineering
        David Mann, United Space Alliance

12:15 - 1:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 - 2:45 pm

Cost Driver Studies (Ray Madachy, Chair)

·  Effect of CASE Tools on Software Development Effort
       Jongmoon Baik, USC-CSE

·  The Cost Estimator DOCU: An Empirical and Theoretical Study
       Juan José Cuadrado Gallego et al., U. Carlos III, Spain

·  MOLACH: The Model For Language Change
       Dan Strickland, Dynetics Inc.

2:45 - 3:15 pm

Break

3:15 - 4:15 pm

RAD and Application Points (A. Winsor Brown, Chair)

·  Experience with the COCOMO II Application Point Model
       Richard Stutzke, SAIC

·  CORADMO Update
       Cyrus Fakharzadeh, USC-CSE

4:15 - 5:15 pm

Hybrid Methods (Richard Fairley, Chair)

·  Using Software Architecture for Estimation
       Dan Paulish, Robert Nord, and Dilip Soni, Siemens Research

·  Enhancing Cost Estimation Models with Task Assignment Information
       Joanne Hale, Allen Parrish et al., U. of Alabama

5:15 - 7:00 pm

Reception and Tools Fair (Salvatori 322 and 324)

7:00 - 9:00 pm

LA SPIN Meeting

·  Towards Measuring Value,  Howard Baetjer, Towson U

Thursday, October 26

7:30 - 8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 9:45 am

Function Points (Don Reifer, Chair)

·  Evolving Function Points
       Lee Fishman, Galorath, Inc.

·  The New Generation of Functional Size Measurement Methods for Software Estimation
       Serge Oligny, U. of Quebec

·  Fast Function Points
       David Seaver, Fidelity

9:45 - 10:45 am 

Break

10:45 - 11:45 am

Sizing and CMM

·  Software Estimation Experiences at Xerox
        Peter Hantos, Xerox

·  Reducing Estimating Errors with the CMM
        Ray Kile, Center for Systems Management

·  Improving Subjective Estimates Using Paired Comparisons
        Eduardo Miranda, Ericsson Research Canada
Forum ends. Affiliates' meeting continues

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Affiliates' Lunch

1:00 - 1:15 pm

Affiliates' Workshop: Finalize breakout groups

1:15 - 5:00 pm

Breakout group meetings (3:00 - 3:30 break)

Friday, October 27

7:30- 8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 10:00 am

Breakout Group Reports

10:00 - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 - 11:30 am

USC Response; General Discussion

 

 

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