PROMISE'08 - May 12/13, 2008
The PROMISE 2008 workshop (part of the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering) seeks to deliver to the software engineering community useful, usable, verifiable, and repeatable models. Our theme this year is "models and methods."
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Presentations
May 12:
9:00 - Welcome/Introduction
9:30 - Keynote 1
· Risk and RelevanceMurray Cantor (IBM)
10:30 - Break
11:00 - Session 1: Defect Prediction
· 11:00 - Comparing Negative Binomial and Recursive Partitioning Models for Fault PredictionElaine Weyuker, Tom Ostrand, and Robert Bell
· 11:30 - Comparing Design and Code Metrics for Software Quality Prediction
Yue Jiang, Bojan Cukic, Tim Menzies and Nick Bartlow
· 12:00 - Adapting a Fault Prediction Model to Allow Inter Language Reuse
Shinya Watanabe, Haruhiko Kaiya and Kenji Kaijiri
12:30 - Lunch
14:00 - Session 2: Discussion 1
· Can Organizations Really Use Predictions?Chair: Tim Menzies (West Virginia U.)
14:30 - Session 3: Effort Estimation 1
· 14:30 - An Empirical Analysis of Software Effort Estimation with Outlier EliminationYeong-Seok Seo, Kyung-A Yoon and Doo-Hwan Bae
· 15:00 - Using Correlation and Accuracy for Identifying Good Estimators
Gary Boetticher and Nazim Lokhandwala
15:30 - Session 4: Data Quality & Discussion
· Data Sets and Data Quality in Software EngineeringGernot Liebchen and Martin Shepperd
18:30 - Dinner and Entertainment at Auerbach’s Keller
May 13:
9:00 - Keynote 2:
· Practical Use of Defect Detection and Prediction in the Development and Maintenance ofSoftware
Chris Beal (Sun Microsystems)
10:00 - Session 5: Predictor Issues
· Implications of Ceiling Effects in Defect PredictorsTim Menzies, Burak Turhan, Ayse Bener, Gregory Gay, Bojan Cukic and Yue Jiang
10:30 - Break
11:00 - Session 6: Effort Estimation 2
· 11:00 - Multi-criteria Decision Analysis for Customization of Estimation by Analogy MethodJingzhou Li and Guenther Ruhe
· 11:30 - Confidence in Software Cost Estimation Results based on MMRE and PRED
Marcel Korte and Daniel Port
· 12:00 - Improving Analogy Software Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Feature Subset Selection Algorithm
Mohammad Azzeh, Daniel Neagu and Peter Cowling
12:30 - Lunch
14:00 - Session 7: Resource Planning and Modeling
· 14:00 - Optimizing Requirements Decisions with KEYSOmid Jalali and Tim Menzies and Martin Feather
· 14:30 - Complementing Approaches in ERP Effort Estimation Practice: an Industrial Study
Maya Daneva
15:00 - Session 8: Modeling & Discussion
· 15:00 - Software Defect Repair Times: A Multiplicative ModelSwapna Gokhale and Robert Mullen
15:30 - Break
16:00 - Wrap-up Discussion
Call for Papers
Available, online.
Open Questions: (will this workshop answer any of them?)
Software engineering is a decision intensive discipline. But do we really understand software engineering? Can we help software engineers by building models that reveal hidden patterns regarding software resource management? How well do these models predict? Can they be used without requiring domain expert intervention? Do these models lead to better decisions? How are we to validate these models? Is the model creation process repeatable? Are there better, faster, cheaper ways to build those models? How effective are these models for identifying causal relations?

