---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: QAOOSE 2001: 1st Call for papers Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:55:09 +0200 From: Geert Poels gpoels@vlekho.wenk.be To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE
CALL FOR PAPERS
5th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering (QAOOSE 2001) http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~sahraouh/qaoose01/
co-located with ECOOP 2001, Budapest, Hungary http://ecoop2001.inf.elte.hu/
Monday 18 June, 2001
ORGANISERS
Fernando Brito e Abreu fba@di.fct.unl.pt / fba@inesc.pt Faculdade de Ci¾ncias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Software Engineering Group - INESC Rua Alves Redol, 9, Apartado 13069, 1000 Lisboa, Portugal
Brian Henderson-Sellers brian@it.uts.edu.au Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research University of Technology Sidney Faculty of Information Technology, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia
Mario Piattini mpiattini@inf-cr.uclm.es Escuela Superior de Informatica, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Ronda de Calatrava, 5, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
Geert Poels gpoels@vlekho.wenk.be / geert.poels@econ.kuleuven.ac.be Centre for Industrial Management, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and VLEKHO Business School, University of Sciences and Arts Koningsstraat 336, 1030 Brussel, Belgium
Houari A. Sahraoui sahraouh@iro.umontreal.ca DÊpartement d'Informatique et recherche opÊrationnelle, UniversitÊ de MontrÊal CP 6128 succ Centre-Ville, MontrÊal QC H3C 3J7, Quebec, Canada
OVERVIEW
Measures of software internal attributes have been extensively used to help software managers, customers and users to characterize, assess, and improve the quality of software products. Many large software companies have intensively adopted software measures to increase their understandability of how (and how much) software internal attributes affect the overall software quality. Estimation models based on software measures have successfully been used to perform risk analysis and to assess software maintainability, reusability and reliability. However, most measurement efforts have focused on, what we call today, "legacy technology".
The OO paradigm provides more powerful design mechanisms. Much work is yet to be done to investigate analytically and/or empirically the relationships between OO design mechanisms, e.g., inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation, usage, etc., and different aspects of software quality, e.g., modularity, modifiability, understandability, extensibility, reliability, reusability, etc. Furthermore, new technologies, e.g., UML, OO frameworks, OO Analysis/Design patterns, OO architectures, OO components, which take advantage of OO design mechanisms have been proposed in order to improve software engineering productivity and software quality. However, to better understand the pros and cons of these technologies on products developed using them we must be able to assess the quality of such products via adequate software product measures.
LIST OF TOPICS
Submissions are invited, but not limited, to the following topics, organized in four areas:
Area C (Metrics Collection) Automatic support for sharing research hypotheses, data and results (*) Standards for the collection, comparison and validation of metrics Embedding metrics in OO CASE tools Evaluation of OO metrics collection tools Metrics collection in the development process (measurement planning) Public repositories for measurement data
Area A (Quality Assessment) Measuring non-functional requirements of OO systems (*) Measurement and quality assessment of components (*) Metrics-based design heuristics OO quality characteristics assessment Quantitative impact analysis in OO architectures Measurement and quality assessment of OO analysis/design patterns and frameworks Measurement and quality assessment of dynamic OO models Measurement and quality assessment of UML and ODMG conceptual schemata Measurement and quality assessment of OR and OO database schemata
Area V (Metrics Validation) Meta-metrics (*) Formal and Empirical validation of OO metrics OO metrics and Measurement Theory Validation techniques and their limits Standard data sets for metrics validation The limits of quality estimation techniques
Area P (Process Management) Reliability and rework effort estimates based on design measures OO reuse evaluation Resource estimation models for OO projects Quantitative tracking of OO development activities Empirical studies on the use of OO measures for process management Measurement support in a CBSE life cycle
We explicitly solicit position papers related to topics marked with an asterisk (*) as well as papers that document and/or motivate the use of quantitative methods in industrial OO software processes. These topics were identified as important open research issues in last year's QAOOSE workshop.
PARTICIPANTS PROFILE
This workshop will be of interest to software quality researchers, object-oriented methodologists, software metrics scientists and users, practitioners with interests in reuse, frameworks, analysis, design and programming as well as those interested in the management of object-oriented development projects.
PROGRAM PREVIEW
This workshop will provide a forum to discuss the current state of the art and the practice in the field of quantitative approaches in the OO field. A blend of researchers and practitioners from industry and academia is expected to share recent advances in the field, success or failure stories, lessons learned, and will seek out as yet unidentified fundamental problems arising in this field. The workshop format will include the presentation of selected submitted papers and a plenary 'working' session for summarizing, evaluating and assembling the new research results and for identifying future research opportunities.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Potential attendees must submit a position paper or experience report in English by e-mail to gpoels@vlekho.wenk.be. All submissions must include the author(s) name, affiliation, phone, fax and e-mail address. Authors must indicate the area(s) and/or topic(s) addressed in the submission paper. Only authors of accepted submissions will be invited to participate in the workshop. The workshop organizers will select a subgroup of the accepted submissions for oral presentation. However, all accepted submissions will be included in the workshop proceedings.
SUBMISSION FORMAT
Paper format: A4 Size: 4 to 12 pages Spacing: 1,5 lines Font: 12 points Margins: 2,5 cm File type: PDF, RTF or HTML Style: free!
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of position papers due: April 17, 2001 Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2001 Preliminary Program available: May 15, 2001
PREVIOUS EDITIONS
The proposed workshop is a direct continuation of the QAOOSE series of workshops, held at previous ECOOP conferences:
QAOOSE 2000, the "Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering" workshop at ECOOP 2000 in Cannes (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Geert Poels, Houari Sahraoui, Horst Zuse)
QAOOSE'99, the "Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering" workshop at ECOOP'99 in Lisbon (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Walcelio Melo, Houari A. Sahraoui, Horst Zuse)
The "Object-Oriented Product Metrics for Software Quality Assessment" workshop at ECOOP'98 in Brussels (organizers: Houari A. Sahraoui, Sandro Morasca, Walcelio Melo)
The "Quantitative Methods for Object-Oriented Systems Development" workshop at ECOOP'95 in Aarhus (organizers: Horst Zuse, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Fernando Brito e Abreu)
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