Extension: April 15 2010
Overview
Measures of software internal attributes have been extensively used to help software managers, customers and users to characterize, assess, and improve the quality of software products. Many software companies have intensively adopted software measures to increase their understandability of how (and how much) software internal attributes affect the overall software quality. Estimation models based on software measures have successfully been used to perform risk analysis and to assess software maintainability, reusability and reliability. Although most of the known work apply to object-oriented systems it is also desirable to find measures for component-based development and for web technology in general.
List
of Topics
Submissions are invited, but not limited, to the following topics, organized in three areas:
Area C (Measure Collection and Measure-Based Analysis)
Area A (Quality Assessment)
Area P (Process Management)
We explicitly solicit position papers related to these topics were, which were identified as important open research issues in QAOOSE 2008 workshop as well as papers that document and/or motivate the use of quantitative methods in industrial software processes.
Participant
Profile
This workshop will be of interest to researchers in and practitioners of software quality, object-oriented methodologies, software measures, 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.
Submission
Format
Papers must be 8-12 pages long, written in English using the TOOLS format (LNCS)..
File format: PDF
Important
Dates
Submission of position papers due:
March 31, 2010
April 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2010
Preliminary Program available: TBD
Contact
Information
Submissions address: qaoose@iro.umontreal.ca with copy to vauchers@iro.umontreal.ca
Workshop web site: http://qaoose.iro.umontreal.ca
Organizers
Manual F. Bertoa is a Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (Spain). Since 1984 he has worked in several national and international companies, mainly within the computer and telecommunications businesses, with responsibilities ranging from software design and development in Fujitsu, to heading the Customer Support Service of Ingenia. He has also worked for the Andalucian Health Service (SAS), first as Head of the IT Services for the Costa del Sol Helath Care District, and then as Director of IT Services for the Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública. Since 1987 he has simultaneously lectured at the University of Málaga, where in 2002 became a full-time lecturer. His current research interests focus on the quality aspects of component-based software development, metamodels quality, and their application to the software industry. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2006 in computer science.
Coral Calero is Full Professor at the Escuela Superior de Informática of the Castilla-La Mancha University in Ciudad Real (Spain). MSc and PhD in Computer Science, she is member of the Alarcos Research Group, in the same University. Her research interests include: software measurement and quality models, specially in advanced databases, datawarehouses, web sites, web portals and data. She is author of articles and papers in these topics on the main conferences and journals and has also edited books on them: Ontologies for software engineering and software technology (Springer-Verlag), Handbook of research on web information systems quality (IDEA Group), Information and Database Quality (Kluwer), Metrics for Software Conceptual models (IC Press). She has served as program committee member on several conferences and journals and has organized workshops on the main international conferences.
Houari A. Sahraoui is Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research of the University of Montreal. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1995 in computer science, with specialization in meta-modeling and model transformation, from the Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris. His research interests include the application of artificial-intelligence techniques to software engineering, software visualization, object-oriented measurement and quality, and re-engineering. He has been on the program, steering, or organization committees of many international, IEEE and ACM conferences, and is member of the editorial board of three journals. He was the general chair of the IEEE Automated Software Engineering conference in 2003.
Stéphane Vaucher is completing his PhD at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Houari Sahraoui. His research interests include program comprehension and the assessment of software quality. Industrially, he has worked as an architect for Nortel Networks and independently as a consultant specialising in reengineering legacy systems.
Program Commitee
Past
Workshops
The proposed workshop is a direct continuation of the QAOOSE series of workshops, held at previous ECOOP conferences:
The Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering workshop at ECOOP 2008 in Paphos (organizers: Giovanni Falcone, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Christian F.J. Lange, Zoltán Porkoláb, and Houari Sahraoui) (http://ecomodis.uni-mannheim.de/cms/qaoose/index.html)
The Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering workshop at ECOOP 2007 in Berlin (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Coral Calero, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Christian Lange, Michele Lanza, Houari Sahraoui) (www.inf.unisi.ch/faculty/lanza/QAOOSE2007
The Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering workshop at ECOOP 2006 in Nantes (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Coral Calero, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Michele Lanza, Houari Sahraoui) (www.inf.unisi.ch/faculty/lanza/QAOOSE2006
The Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering workshop at ECOOP 2005 in Glasgow (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Coral Calero, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Michele Lanza, Geert Poels, Houari Sahraoui) (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~sahraouh/qaoose2005
The Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering workshop at ECOOP 2004 in Oslo (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Coral Calero , Geert Poels, Houari Sahraoui) (http://alarcos.inf-cr.uclm.es/qaoose2004/)
The Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering workshop at ECOOP 2003 in Darmstadt (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Mario Piattini , Geert Poels, Houari Sahraoui) (http://www-ctp.di.fct.unl.pt/QUASAR/QAOOSE2003/)
The Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering workshop at ECOOP 2002 in Málaga, (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Mario Piattini , 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 Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering workshop at ECOOP 2000 in Cannes (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Geert Poels, Houari Sahraoui, Horst Zuse) (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~sahraouh/qaoose/)
The "Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering" workshop at ECOOP'99 in Lisbon (organizers: Fernando Brito e Abreu, Walcelio Melo, Houari A. Sahraoui, Horst Zuse) (http://ecoop99.di.fc.ul.pt/techprogramme/w20.html)
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)