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CALL
FOR PAPERS
1)
Title of the workshop
7th
ECOOP Workshop on Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software
Engineering (QAOOSE'2003)
Darmstadt,
July 2003
2) Abstract
Quantitative
approaches in the OO field is an active research area that aims at developing
and evaluating methods, techniques, tools and guidelines to improve
the quality of software products and the efficiency and effectiveness
of software processes. The research topics usually include a strong
focus on applying a scientific methodology based on data collection
(either by objective measurements or subjective assessments) and analysis
(e.g. by statistical, artificial intelligence or operations research
techniques). In many large software development companies, measures
help software managers, customers and users to characterize, assess,
and improve the quality of software products. Estimation models based
on software measures are also used to perform risk analysis and to assess
software maintainability, reusability or reliability.
Nevertheless,
much work is yet to be done to investigate analytically and empirically
the relationships between OO design aspects, either structural or behavioral
ones, and the resulting software quality characteristics of resulting
deliverables. For instance, several methods and techniques such as application
frameworks, design patterns, aspect-orientation, component-based development
and others that rely upon the OO paradigm, have been proposed in order
to improve software engineering productivity and software quality. To
improve our understanding on their impact on products developed using
them, we must be able to assess the quality of such products via adequate
software product and process measures.
Over the
years the QAOOSE workshop series has built an active research community.
We expect new participants to join this community on QAOOSE'2003 edition.
3) Format
QAOOSE'2003
aims to shed some light on recent research results and to point out
future research directions that might interest not only the academic
community but also industry. Like in previous years, submissions of
position papers are invited, but not limited, to the areas of metrics
collection, quality assessment, metrics validation, and process management.
During the workshop there will be some sessions for presenting position
papers and a plenary working session for summarizing, evaluating and
assembling the new research results and for identifying future research
opportunities.
The workshop
organizers will select a subgroup of the accepted submissions for oral
presentation. However, all accepted position paper submissions will
be included in the workshop proceedings to be distributed to the participants.
4) Rules
for attending
Potential
attendees must submit a position paper or experience report in English.
All submitted position papers will be formally reviewed by the workshop
organizers for originality, relevance, quality and clarity. All authors
of accepted submissions will be invited to participate in the
workshop. We especially encourage the submission of new ideas, even
if not supported by validated research. All submissions must include
the author(s) name, affiliation, phone, fax and e-mail address. Authors
must indicate explicitly the topic(s) addressed in the submission paper.
Those topics are 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
- Automating
collection from formal metrics definition
- Metrics
collection in the development process (measurement planning)
- Public
repositories for measurement data
Area A
(Quality Assessment)
- Measuring
non-functional requirements of OO systems
- Quantitative
OO and CB design heuristics
- Metric-based
design refactoring
- OOD
and CBD quality characteristics assessment
- Quantitative
impact analysis in OO and CB architectures
- Quantitative
assessment of OO analysis/design patterns and frameworks
- Quantitative
assessment of behavioral modeling in OO models
- Quantitative
assessment of OR and OO database schemata
Area V
(Metrics Validation)
- Meta-level
metrics
- Formal
and empirical validation of OO metrics
- OO
metrics and Measurement Theory
- Validation
techniques and their limits
- Standard
data sets for metrics validation
- Limitations
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 and CB software development
- 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 particularly
encourage papers reporting the use of quantitative methods by practitioners
in OO or CB software development processes. Submissions must conform
to the following format guidelines:
| 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! |
Submission
address: qaoose2003@di.fct.unl.pt
5)
Attendee background
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 that will have chances to become good research
opportunities.
This workshop
will be of interest to software quality researchers, object-oriented
and component- based 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 and component-based development projects. We will
expect our workshop attendees to have a reasonably good knowledge of
the object-oriented paradigm and a fair knowledge of software engineering
techniques, including the application of quantitative measurement.
6)
Important Dates
| Submission
of position papers due: |
April
25, 2003 |
| Notification
of acceptance: |
May
19, 2003 |
| Preliminary
program available: |
May
26, 2003 |
| Deadline
for early registration: |
(to
be announced) |
| Workshop:
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July
21 or 22, 2003 |
7) Minimum
number of attendees
Ten (10)
8) Maximum number of attendees
Thirty
(30)
9) Contact
info and affiliation of the organizers
Fernando
Brito e Abreu (fba@di.fct.unl.pt)
QUASAR Group, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade
Nova de Lisboa,
Monte da Caparica, Portugal
Mario
Piattini (Mario.Piattini@uclm.es)
Escuela Superior de Informatica - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Ciudad Real, Spain
Geert
Poels (geert.poels@rug.ac.be)
Department of Management Information, Operations Management and Technology
Policy - Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Centre for Industrial Management - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven,
Belgium
Houari
A. Sahraoui (sahraouh@iro.umontreal.ca)
Département d'Informatique et Recherche Opérationnelle
- Université de Montréal
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
10) Info
about the Workshop Reader
Springer-Verlag
will publish the ECOOP 2003 WS Reader as a LNCS volume. This book will
include a report from this workshop, written by its organizers. The
report will provide a summary of the workshop with the major issues
discussed and the conclusions drawn from the discussion. The report
may also include additional info about the current research being carried
out in the area and open research directions on the workshop themes.
Although the position papers submitted to the workshop will not be included
there, a summary of the presentations made by each of the accepted submissions
for oral presentation will. We recall that all accepted position papers
will be included in the workshop proceedings.
11) Additional
info
The QAOOSE'2003
home page is:
- http://ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/QUASAR/QAOOSE2003
This workshop
is a direct continuation of six successful workshops, held at previous
editions of ECOOP in Malaga (2002), Budapest (2001), Cannes (2000),
Lisbon (1999), Brussels (1998) and Aarhus (1995). The QAOOSE workshops
have attracted participants from both academia and industry involved
or simply interested in the application of quantitative methods in object
oriented software engineering research and practice. You can find additional
information in:
- The "Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering"
workshop at ECOOP'2002 in Malaga (organizers: Mario Piattini, Fernando
Brito e Abreu, Geert Poels, Houari Sahraoui) http://alarcos.inf-cr.uclm.es/qaoose2002/
- The "Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering"
workshop at ECOOP'2001 in Budapest (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu,
Brian Henderson-Sellers, Mario Piattini, Geert Poels, Houari Sahraoui)
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~sahraouh/qaoose01/
- The "Object-Oriented Product Metrics for Software Quality Assessment"
workshop at ECOOP'98 in Brussels (organizers: Houari A. Sahraoui,
Sandro Morasca, Walcelio Melo) http://www.crim.ca/~hsahraou/oopm.html
- The "Quantitative Methods for Object-Oriented Systems Development"
workshop at ECOOP'95 in Aarhus (organizers: Horst Zuse, Brian Henderson-Sellers,
Fernando Brito e Abreu)
http://ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/QUASAR/ECOOP95
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