*** Call for Abstracts & Participation ***

November 7-9, 2006, Herndon, Virginia

Theme: Integrating Systems and Software Costing and Scheduling

This year's Forum will be the Washington DC area. We are also expanding the
Forum's scope to include systems engineering estimation experiences, and to
focus the Forum theme on integrating systems and software costing and
scheduling. We will include workshops on our related systems engineering
(COSYSMO) and systems of systems integration (COSOSIMO) cost models

Related Forum topics include extending and integrating models for aspects
such as size estimation, agile methods, systems engineering, value-based
approaches, facets of quality such as software dependability, etc. We would
like to encourage submissions in these and other systems and software
estimation related areas as well, including tool demonstration proposals.

We would like to invite you to submit a presentation on the Forum Theme or
other systems and software estimation related areas as well, including tool
demonstration proposals. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more details,
go to the Forum website:
http://cse.usc.edu/events/2006/CIIF...es/welcome.html

General Chair:
Brad Clark, Software Metrics, Inc.

Program Committee:
Rick Selby (Northrop Grumman/USC, Chair), Barry Boehm (USC), Ricardo Valerdi
(MIT/USC), Winsor Brown (USC), Sunita Chulani (IBM), Dan Ligett (Softstar),
Ray Madachy (USC), Don Reifer (RCI), Chris Miller (SSCI), Ed Colbert (USC),
LiGuo Huang (USC), Jo Ann Lane (USC), Dan Wu (USC), Ye Yang (USC) and Sue
Koolmanojwong (USC)

Local Arrangements Chair:
Rich Turner, SSCI

Key Dates

1-3 page Abstracts Due: August 24, 2006 to rick.selby@ngc.com
Notification Date: September 14, 2006
Proceedings Materials Due: October 18, 2006
Forum: November 7-9

Dan Ligett, Softstar Systems, (603) 672-0987, http://www.softstarsystems.com