[Dbworld] Deadline change for QUTE-SWAP at SIGSOFT 2004

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WORKSHOP
QUantitative TEchniques for SoftWare Agile Processes
http://www.crs4.it/qute-swap/index.html

November 5, 2004

within
ACM SIGSOFT 2004/FSE-12
Newport Beach, CA - USA
October 31 - November 5


The Workshop
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Collecting and analyzing software process data can help to control and predict 
the performance of software development activities, helping software developers 
to achieve both business and technical objectives. Experience has shown that 
quantifying the software process operation can improve insight, e.g. allowing 
assessing the impact of process change on the software products.
On the other hand, the widespread adoption of agile processes and the 
increasing structural diversity of software development organizations around 
the world (e.g., in average size and available skills) as well as new concerns 
e.g. about privacy, are driving the need for non-intrusive, cost-effective 
methods capable to deliver long term success in collecting process data without 
further increasing the burden of process management. Process data mining 
techniques are also being investigated aimed at extracting valuable knowledge, 
capable to improve software products? quality.
Several ongoing national and international research projects are dealing with 
these and related software data processing issues.
The proposed workshop is aimed at highlighting the cutting edge of process data 
collection and analysis research, fostering information exchange between 
researchers working on data analysis for agile software process improvement and 
practitioners interested in exploiting software data collection and analysis 
techniques as a basis for making process decisions and predicting process 
performance.
The workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

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    Techniques for monitoring agile processes? performance and stability

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    Non-intrusive, privacy-aware process data collection, analysis and
    mining

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    Return-On-Investment (ROI) models for process data warehousing and
    analysis

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    Network-based environments and protocols for measuring software
    process
    behaviour

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    Using process data to assess capability and improvement potential

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    Controlled obfuscation of process data

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    Statistical process control





Call for contribution
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Contributions should be written in English and should not exceed 10 pages, 
using a 10 pt. font, single-spaced.
Authors are encouraged to submit contributions to 
quteswap_storage-9FwS9/QnVio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in PDF format. Only electronic 
submissions will be accepted.
The cover page should include paper title, a short abstract, a complete list of 
authors and their affiliations, a contact person for correspondence, postal and 
e-mail addresses.
Best papers will be selected and reviewed for a special journal issue.

IMPORTANT DATES:

* Paper submission: August 20, 2004
* Author notification: September 15, 2004
* Camera-ready papers: October 1, 2004



Organization
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ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
quteswap_org-ztBHCL0NYMM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Ernesto Damiani
University of Milan - Italy

Michele Marchesi
University of Cagliari - Italy

Marco Scotto
University of Genoa - Italy

Giancarlo Succi
Free University of Bozen - Italy

Davide Carboni
CRS4 - Italy



PROGRAM COMMITTEE
(to be completed)

Stefan Biffl
Vienna University of Technology - Austria

Giulio Concas
University of Cagliari - Italy

Gerhard Friedrich
Universität Klagenfurt - Germany

Paul Gruenbacher
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz - Austria

Witold Pedrycz
University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada

Karl Reed
La Trobe University - Melbourne, Australia

David Rine
George Mason University - Virginia, USA

Laurie Williams
North Carolina State University

Mario Piattini
Universitad Castilla-LaMancha, Spain




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