[ecoop-info] CfP: PROMISE 2011 (7th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering)

[Stefan Wagner]

PROMISE 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS

7th International Conference on 
Predictive Models in Software Engineering
Sept 20-21, 2011
Banff, Canada
Co-located with ESEM'11

http://promisedata.org/2011/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Promise-2011/
Twitter: @promise_conf

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The PROMISE conference seeks verifiable and repeatable
models that are useful for the implementation, 
evaluation, and management of software processes and 
projects. Such models relate to software development 
efforts (both in general or software development for 
specific domains such as telecom, finance, scientific 
applications, etc).
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TOPICS
Our topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Effort prediction models
* Defect prediction models
* Meta-analysis and generalizations of predictive 
 models exploring certain questions
* Replicated studies
* Predicting various intermediate or final outcomes of
 interest regarding business, team, human, people, 
 process, and organizational aspects of software 
 engineering
* Privacy and ethical issues in sharing and modeling
* Qualitative research guiding and informing the 
 process of building future predictive models
* Instance-based models predicting outcomes by 
 examining similarities to earlier experiences
* Industrial experience reports detailing the 
 application of software technologies - processes, 
 methods, or tools - and their effectiveness in 
 industrial settings.
* Tools for software researchers that effectively 
 gather and analyze data to support reproducible and 
 verifiable research.
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PAPERS
Papers must not exceed 10 pages (including 
references). Submissions must be original work, not 
published or under review elsewhere. Accepted papers 
will be published in the ACM digital library.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: April 21
Notification: June 21
Camera-Ready: July 21
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DATA
PROMISE 2011 will give the highest priority to 
empirical studies based on publicly available 
datasets. It is therefore encouraged, but it is not 
mandatory, that conference attendees contribute the 
data used in their analysis to the on-line PROMISE 
data repository. The repository currently holds 135 
data sets, which can be used to 
repeat/confirm/refute/improve previous results.
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SPECIAL ISSUE
Authors of selected papers from PROMISE'11 will be 
invited to submit extended versions to a special 
issue of Information and Software Technology 
(Elsevier).
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SUBMISSION
To submit, follow the instructions at 
http://promisedata.org/2011/submit.php. In summary:

1) Papers must come with structured abstracts:
  http://www.dur.ac.uk/ebse/abstracts.php 

2) Papers must be formatted using ACM Sig proceedings
  style:
  http://goo.gl/wE1k

3) See also the data submission details:
  http://promisedata.org/2011/submit.php
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ORGANIZATION

General Chair: Tim Menzies, WVU
Chair, industry day: Ayse Benar, Ryerson U
Publicity: Stefan Wagner, TU Munich
Publications: Gunes Koru, UMBC

Program Committee:
Tim Menzies, WVU (chair) 
Lefteris Angelis, U Thessaloniki
Erik Arisholm, Testify
Ayse Benar, Ryerson U
Barry Boehm, USC
Gary Boetticher, Clear Lake
Bojan Cukic, WVU
Norman Fenton, Queen Mary 
Greg Gay, U Minnesota
Mark Harman, University College London
Ahmed Hassan, Queen's U 
Jane Hayes, U Kentucky
Jacky Keung, NICTA
Jo Hannay, Simula
Taghi Khoshgoftaar, FAU
Gunes Koru, UMBC	
Emila Mendes, Auckland U	
Sandro Morasca, U dell'Insubria
Tom Ostrand, AT&T
Andy Podgurski, Case Western
Alessandro Sarcia, U Rome
Martin Shepperd, Brunel U
Burak Turhan, U Oulu
Stefan Wagner, TU Munich 
Elaine Weyuker, AT&T
Du Zhang, Calif. State U
Hongyu Zhang, Tsinghua U
Tom Zimmermann, Microsoft