[ecoop-info] CFP: QAOOSE'08 12th ECOOP workshop on Quantitative Approaches on Object-Oriented Software Engineering

[Lange, C.F.J.]

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QAOOSE 2008   
(12th ECOOP Workshop on Quantitative Approaches on 
Object Oriented Software Engineering)

at ECOOP 2008

July 7 or 8, 2008, Paphos, Cyprus
http://ecomodis.uni-mannheim.de/cms/QAOOSE/index.html   

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OVERVIEW

Measures of software internal attributes have been extensively used to help software managers, developers, customers, and users to characterize, assess, and improve the quality of software products. Many software companies have intensively adopted software measures to increase their understanding of how (and how much) software internal attributes affect the overall quality of their software. Estimation models based on software measures have been successfully used to perform risk analysis and assess maintainability, reusability, and reliability. Although most known work applies to object-oriented software, it is also desirable to find measures for related paradigms such as component-based software (CBS), aspect-oriented development, model-driven development or web-based software. 


TOPICS

Topics include, but are not limited to, the topics of interest below. We explicitly solicit position papers related to highlighted topics as well as papers that document and/or motivate the use of quantitative methods in industrial software processes. These topics were identified as important open research issues in QAOOSE 2008.

Area C (Metrics Collection and Metric-Based Analysis)
 *  Metrics for object-oriented systems, component-based systems, aspect-oriented systems, model-driven design, or web-based systems
 *  Theories and standards for collection, comparison and validation of metrics
 *  Evaluation of metrics and tools and their integration in CASE-tools
 *  Automatic support for collecting metrics, sharing research hypotheses and results
 *  Metrics collection in the development process (measurement planning)
 *  Metric-based visualization
 *  Metric-based analysis of evolution
 *  Public repositories for measurement data

Area A (Quality Assessment)
 *  Measuring non-functional requirements of OO and related systems
 *  Quantitative design heuristics
 *  Metric-based reengineering
 *  Quantitative assessment of design patterns, frameworks, behavioral models, and database schemata
 *  Evaluating the ROI of adopting product measurement and quality programs
 *  Quantitative and qualitative analysis of software repositories
 *  Quantitative analysis of evolution of software systems

Area P (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 activities
 *  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 researchers in and practitioners of software quality, object-oriented methodologies, software metrics, 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 of the practice in the field of quantitative approaches in object-oriented software engineering. A blend of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry is expected to share recent advances in the field-success or failure, lessons learned-and seek to identify new fundamental problems arising in the field and potential solutions. The workshop format will include the (short) presentations of selected submitted papers and a plenary working session for summarizing, evaluating, and assembling new research results and 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 the authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses. 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.

FORMAT

Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS format. 
File should be sent in PDF only.
Page limit: 		10 pages.
Submission address:	sahraouh at iro.umontreal.ca  

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of position papers:	May 18, 2008
Notification of acceptance: 		June 15, 2008
Camera-ready version due:		June 22, 2008
Preliminary program available:	June 22, 2008
Workshop date:				July 7th or 8th, 2008
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ORGANIZERS
Christian Lange		Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc	University of Montreal, Canada 
Houari A. Sahraoui	University of Montreal, Canada
Zoltán Porkoláb		Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary 
Giovanni Falcone		University of Mannheim, Germany 

WEBSITE:
http://ecomodis.uni-mannheim.de/cms/QAOOSE/index.html 

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Dr. ir. Christian Lange
Eindhoven University of Technology - Location: HG 5.30
Den Dolech 2 - P.O. Box 513 
5600 MB Eindhoven - The Netherlands
email: C.F.J.Lange at tue.nl - web: http://www.win.tue.nl/~clange
tel: +31 (0) 40 2478358 - fax: +31 (0) 40 2478345
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