[ecoop-info] Call for Papers for the 11th ECOOP Workshop on Quantitative Approaches in OO Software Engineering

[Yann-Gael Gueheneuc]

                            Call for Papers for
                                QAOOSE 2007
                           11th ECOOP Workshop on
                         Quantitative Approaches in
                    Object-Oriented Software Engineering

                        31 July 2006 - Berlin, Germany

                   http://www.inf.unisi.ch/lanza/QAOOSE2007/



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 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. Although
most of known work applies to object-oriented software, it is also
desirable to find measures for component-based software (CBS) and
aspect-oriented development, model-driven engineering (MDE), and for
web-based software (WBS), in general.

IMPORTANT DATES
- Workshop contribution submission: 13th of May 2007.
- Notification of acceptance: 31st of May 2007.
- Publication of the program: 15th of June 2007.
- Final version of the papers: 10th of July 2007.
- Workshop date: 30th of July 2007.

CONTACT INFORMATION
- Submissions address: guehene at iro.umontreal.ca
- Workshop web site:   http://www.inf.unisi.ch/lanza/QAOOSE2007/

LIST OF TOPICS
Submissions are invited, but not limited, to the following topics,
organized in four areas:

METRICS COLLECTION
- Automatic support for sharing research hypotheses, data and results
- Standards for the collection, comparison and validation of metrics
- Embedding metrics in CASE and application development tools
- Evaluation of metrics collection tools
- Automating collection from formal metrics definition
- Metrics collection in the development process (measurement planning)
- Public repositories for measurement data
- Metrics visualization
- Metrics for component-based systems
- Metrics for aspect-oriented systems
- Metrics for web-based systems
- Evolutionary software metrics collection and validation

QUALITY ASSESSMENT
- Measuring non-functional requirements of OO systems
- Quantitative OO and CB design heuristics
- Metric-based reengineering
- OOD and CBD quality characteristics assessment
- Quantitative assessment of OO analysis/design patterns and frameworks
- Quantitative assessment of behavioral modeling in OO models
- Quantitative assessment of OR and OO database/datawarehouse schemata
- Measurement and quality assessment of aspect-oriented systems
- Agent-based Web service architecture as a means of providing QoS
- Instrumentation of Web services for QoS
- Evaluating the ROI of adopting product measurement and quality
- Quantitative and qualitative analysis of software repositories
- Quantitative analysis of large-scale and long-term evolution

METRICS VALIDATION
- Meta-level metrics
- Formal and empirical validation of metrics
- Metrics and Measurement Theory
- Validation techniques and their limits
- Standard data sets for metrics validation
- Limitations of quality estimation techniques

PROCESS MANAGEMENT
- Reliability and rework effort estimates based on design measures
- Reuse evaluation
- Resource estimation models for OO and CB software development
- Quantitative tracking of OO, web services, and CBS development
- Empirical studies on the use of measures for process management
- Measurement support in a CBD life cycle

PARTICIPANT PROFILE
This workshop will be of interest to software quality researchers,
object-oriented methodologists, software metrics scientists, and users
and practitioners with interests in reuse, frameworks, analysis, design,
and programming, as well as to anyone interested in the management of
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
fields related to object-orientation. 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
seek to identify new fundamental problems arising in the field. The
workshop format will include the presentation of selected submitted
papers and a plenary working session for summarizing, evaluating, and
assembling new research results and for identifying future research
opportunities.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
Potential attendees must submit a position paper or experience report in
English to the workshop organizers. All submissions must include
author(s) name, affiliation, phone, fax, and e-mail address. Authors
must indicate the area(s) and/or topic(s) addressed in the submitted
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 presentations. All
accepted submissions will be included in the workshop proceedings.

SUBMISSION FORMAT
Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS format in PDF.

ORGANIZERS
- Fernando Brito e Abreu is professor of object-oriented design and
programming at the Lisbon New University. He holds a PhD on Computer
Science and a MSc on Telecommunications and Computer Engineering, both
from the Lisbon Technical University. He leads the QUASAR research team
and the Portuguese Information Technologies and Telecommunications
Quality Commission (CS03) of the National Council for Quality (CNQ). He
is a member of the Software Group of EOQ - European Organization for
Quality and of the Editorial Board of the Software Quality Professional
journal. He is author or co-author of around 40 communications presented
at several international scientific meetings and has published over 20
papers on journals such as: Science of Computer Programming, Journal of
Systems and Software, Object Expert, ERCIM News, Personal Computer
World, L'Objet, Qualirama, Sistemas de Informacao and Interface. He has
participated in the organization of many scientific meetings as member
of the steering committee, general chair, program chair, program
committee member, demonstration chair, tutorial speaker, panel member or
session chair.
- Coral Calero has a PhD in Computer Science and is Associate Professor
at the Escuela Superior de Informatica of the Castilla-La Mancha
University in Ciudad Real. She is a member of the Alarcos Research
Group, in the same University, specialized in Information Systems,
Databases and Software Engineering. Her research interests include:
advanced databases design, database quality, software metrics, database
metrics. She is author of papers in national and international
conferences on this subject. She has published in Information Systems
Journal, Software Quality Journal, Information and Software Technology
Journal and SIGMOD Record Journal. She has organized the web services
quality workshop (WISE Conference, Rome 2003) and Database Maintenance
and Reengineering workshop (ICSM Conference, Montreal 2002)
- Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc is assistant professor at the Department of
Informatics and Operations Research (software engineering group) of
University of Montreal. He holds a Ph.D. in software engineering from
University of Nantes, France (under Professor Pierre Cointe's
supervision) since 2003 and an Engineering Diploma from Ecole des Mines
of Nantes since 1998. His Ph.D. thesis was funded by Object Technology
International, Inc. (now IBM OTI Labs.), where he worked in 1999 and
2000. His research interests are program understanding and program
quality during development and maintenance, in particular through
reverse engineering and the identification of recurring patterns. He is
also interested in empirical software engineering and in software laws
and theories. He has published many papers in international conferences
and leads the Ptidej team, which develops a tool suite to evaluate and
to enhance the quality of object-oriented programs by promoting the use
of patterns.
- Christian Lange is PhD student at the Department of Mathematics and
Computer Science of Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE), in the
capacity group Computer Science. He is working within the group System
Architecture and Networking under supervision of Michel Chaudron. He is
interested in assessing the quality of architectures and designs that
are described using the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and has already
published several journal and conference papers.
- Michele Lanza is an assistant professor at the newly founded faculty
of informatics of the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Michele Lanza
received his M.Sc. in 1999 and obtained his Ph.D. in 2003 at the
University of Bern, in the area of Software Engineering and
Reengineering, for which he received the 2003 Ernst Denert Software
Engineering Award. After working as post-doctoral research and teaching
assistant at the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
of the University of Bern, he worked as senior researcher at the
Institute of Informatics of the University of Zurich. Prof. Lanza is
both IEEE and ACM member, and served as reviewer and program committee
member for journals and conferences in the domain of software
reengineering and evolution and visualization. His main research
interests lie in software evolution, reverse engineering, and software
engineering with a special focus on software visualization and metrics.
He's the creator of CodeCrawler, a widely used information visualization
tool.
- Houari A. Sahraoui is associate professor at the department of
computer science and operations research (software engineering group) of
University of Montreal. Before joining the university, he held the
position of lead researcher of the software engineering group at CRIM
(research center on computer science, Montreal). He holds an Engineering
Diploma from the National Institute of Computer Science (1990), Algiers,
and a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Pierre & Marie Curie University LIP6,
Paris, 1995. His research interests include the application of
artificial intelligence techniques to software engineering,
object-oriented metrics, software quality, software visualization, and
software reverse- and re-engineering. He has published around than 80
papers in conferences, workshops, and journals and edited two books. He
served as steering, program and organization committee member in several
major conferences (ECOOP, ASE, METRICS, ICSM...) and as member of the
editorial boards of two journals. He was the general chair of the IEEE
Automated Software Engineering Conference in 2003.