Theme: Sizing Systems and Software Engineering Efforts

For 2007 and 2008, the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering will hold its annual Forum on COCOMO and Systems/Software Cost Modeling on the USC campus in Los Angeles. Based on our successful 2006 Forum at the SSCI in the Washington DC area, we will hold the Forum in the DC area in 2009 and every third year thereafter. In 2007, we will focus the Forum theme on sizing systems and software engineering efforts. We will include a tutorial and workshops on sizing as it relates to cost models for software development (COCOMO II family), systems engineering (COSYSMO) and systems of systems integration (COSOSIMO), including such aspects as reuse, breakage, requirements volatility, and sizing/counting methods and tools. 

Related Forum topics include extending and integrating models for aspects such as schedule estimation, agile methods, COTS integration, value-based approaches, models for addressing software quality and security issues, and risk assessment. We would like to encourage submissions in these and other systems and software estimation related areas as well, including tool demonstration proposals.

Organization

General Chair:
Barry Boehm, USC-CSE.

Program Committee:
Rick Selby (Northrop Grumman/USC, Chair), Barry Boehm (USC), Winsor Brown (USC), Sunita Chulani (IBM), Dan Ligett (Softstar), Ray Madachy (USC), Don Reifer (RCI/USC), Chris Miller (SSCI), Ed Colbert (USC), LiGuo Huang (USC/IBM), Jo Ann Lane (USC), Thomas Tan (USC), Ricardo Valerdi (MIT/USC), Di Wu (USC), Ye Yang (USC/IBM)

Local Arrangements Chair:
Julie Sanchez, USC (jasanche@usc.edu)

Key Dates

1-3 page Abstracts Due:
August 17, 2007 to rick.selby@ngc.com

Notification Date:
September 7, 2007

Proceedings Materials Due:
October 10, 2007

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