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 Relevance
            Murray Cantor (IBM)

10:30 - Break

11:00 - Session 1: Defect Prediction

          · 11:00 - Comparing Negative Binomial and Recursive Partitioning Models for Fault Prediction
            Elaine 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 Elimination
            Yeong-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 Engineering
            Gernot 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 of
            Software
            Chris Beal (Sun Microsystems)

10:00 - Session 5: Predictor Issues

          · Implications of Ceiling Effects in Defect Predictors
            Tim 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 Method
            Jingzhou 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 KEYS
            Omid 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 Model
            Swapna 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?