Dan Ligett
07-11-2003, 08:31 AM
===== 18th International Forum on COCOMO/Software Cost Modeling =====
Conference Theme: Software Sizing Metrics in Light of Recent
Systems/Software Engineering Trends
The topic of this year's Forum is Software Sizing. In particular we solicit
papers that explore good software sizing estimates. Trends such as visual
programming, object-oriented methods, stories as requirements, COTS-based
systems, and legacy software are topics of particular interest.
These issues will be the focus of the 18th International Forum on
COCOMO/Software Cost Modeling to be held during October 21-24, 2003 at the
USC campus in Los Angeles, CA. The forum will begin with tutorials on key
sizing issues, including Koni Thompson of the David Consulting Group
discussing how to deal with evolving standards in Function Point/Lines of
Code ratios.
Contributed papers, presentations and tool demonstrations are welcome for
the main forum sessions during October 21-22. Abstracts (1-3 pages) of
submissions are due to Ladonna Pierce (ladonna@sunset.usc.edu, Phone: (213)
740-5703, Fax: (213) 740-4927) by July 18, 2003. Acceptance notification
will be on August 15, 2003; and proceedings materials will be due to LaDonna
Pierce on September 26, 2003.
Other highlights of the Forum will include an initial release of a new
COCOMOII.2003 calibration to about 100 more data-points, and availability of
Agile COCOMO II, a simple web-based analogy-estimation version of COCOMO II
for small and agile-methods projects. Associated workshops will cover
evolving USC research on models for sizing, system engineering cost
estimation, early COTS-based systems cost estimation, and costs of
developing secure software. The General chair is Barry Boehm at USC; the
program chair is Dr. Sunita Chulani at IBM.
More details are available at:
http://www.softstarsystems.com/cocomo18.htm
or
http://sunset.usc.edu/events/upcoming/index.html
Dan Ligett, Softstar Systems, (603) 672-0987
Conference Theme: Software Sizing Metrics in Light of Recent
Systems/Software Engineering Trends
The topic of this year's Forum is Software Sizing. In particular we solicit
papers that explore good software sizing estimates. Trends such as visual
programming, object-oriented methods, stories as requirements, COTS-based
systems, and legacy software are topics of particular interest.
These issues will be the focus of the 18th International Forum on
COCOMO/Software Cost Modeling to be held during October 21-24, 2003 at the
USC campus in Los Angeles, CA. The forum will begin with tutorials on key
sizing issues, including Koni Thompson of the David Consulting Group
discussing how to deal with evolving standards in Function Point/Lines of
Code ratios.
Contributed papers, presentations and tool demonstrations are welcome for
the main forum sessions during October 21-22. Abstracts (1-3 pages) of
submissions are due to Ladonna Pierce (ladonna@sunset.usc.edu, Phone: (213)
740-5703, Fax: (213) 740-4927) by July 18, 2003. Acceptance notification
will be on August 15, 2003; and proceedings materials will be due to LaDonna
Pierce on September 26, 2003.
Other highlights of the Forum will include an initial release of a new
COCOMOII.2003 calibration to about 100 more data-points, and availability of
Agile COCOMO II, a simple web-based analogy-estimation version of COCOMO II
for small and agile-methods projects. Associated workshops will cover
evolving USC research on models for sizing, system engineering cost
estimation, early COTS-based systems cost estimation, and costs of
developing secure software. The General chair is Barry Boehm at USC; the
program chair is Dr. Sunita Chulani at IBM.
More details are available at:
http://www.softstarsystems.com/cocomo18.htm
or
http://sunset.usc.edu/events/upcoming/index.html
Dan Ligett, Softstar Systems, (603) 672-0987