6th Software Measurement European Forum, Rome, Italien

Abbrevation

SMEF

Link

http://www.dpo.it/smef2009.htm

City

Rome

Country

Italy

Start Date

2009-05-28

End Date

2009-05-29

Abstract

<pre>The Software Measurement European Forum 2009 is the sixth edition of a successful event for the software measurement community. In 2009, SMEF will be located in Rome, Italy. SMEF aspires to be a leading worldwide event for experience interchange and knowledge improving on a subject that is critical for the ICT governance. Mission The Software Measurement European Forum will provide an opportunity for the publication and presentation of the latest researches, industrial experiences, case studies, tutorials, best practices on software measurement and estimation. This includes measurement education, methods, tools, processes, standards and the practical application of measures for project and service management, risk management, contractual and improvement purposes. Practitioners from different countries will share their experience and discuss current problems and solutions related to the ICT Governance based on software metrics. 2009 Event focus: Making software measurement be actually used Although software measurement is a young discipline, it has quickly evolved and many problems has been adequately solved in conceptual frameworks. Available methods, standards and tools are certainly mature enough to be effectively used to manage the software production processes (development, maintenance and service providing). Unfortunately only few organizations, compared to the potential interested target, have brought the measurement process from theory to practice. We are soliciting contributions in order to analyse causes and possible solutions to the problem of measurement as a "useful but not used" capability. Papers are welcome to provide guidance to establish and actually using a roadmap for covering the distance from theory to practice. This year the Program Committee is soliciting papers focused only in the following areas: – Focus Area : Making software measurement be actually used (this will receive a special attention in the conference agenda) – How to integrate Software Measurement into Software Production Processes – Measurement–driven decision making processes – Data Reporting and dashboards – Software measurement and Balanced Scorecard approaches – Service measurement methods (SLA and KPI) – Software measurement in contractual agreements – Software measurement and standard process models (ITIL, ASL, ...) – Software measurement and Software Maturity Models (CMM–I, SPICE, Six Sigma, ...) – Software measurement in a SOA environment – Functional size measurement methods (IFPUG and COSMIC tracks) – (Software) Measurement to control risks – Software Reuse metrics Only original papers will be accepted. Event organisation Conference Chairperson: Roberto Meli (DPO / Data Processing Organization). Conference Executive Manager: Cristina Ferrarotti (IIR / Istituto Internazionale di Ricerca). Program Committee Chairperson: Ton Dekkers (Galorath International Ltd). Abstract submission Abstracts should conform to the attached standard. They must be sent to the e–mail address specified, within the stated deadline. Paper submission If the abstract is preliminarily accepted then the author will receive a template to use for paper submission and eventually for publication together with an example that describes the guidelines for the writing or enhancing of the paper. The event program definition and printed publishing will be based on the accepted abstracts. The conference website will contain updated information on the agenda. The final acceptance of the contributions will be based on a papers review process that will eventually confirm the preliminary acceptance based on the abstracts analysis. There will be no guarantee that an abstract acceptance will lead to a paper acceptance. This is made in order to improve the quality of contributions and to increase event success factors. An author may participate with one or more papers to the conference but only one speech per author will be allowed. The major limitations for papers are: papers should be in English and should preferable not exceed 12 pages (using the template). Proceedings The proceedings will be published in the format of a printed book with an ISBN code. Proceedings will also be published in the SMEF web site. Paper presentation The program committee will tailor the conference program based on the quality and number of (accepted) contributions. When accepted, the available time for a presentation is 30 minutes including 5 minutes for questions. Primary presentation language will be English, a simultaneous translation to Italian will be available. Italian is the secondary language with simultaneous translation to English. Speakers duties and fees Speakers must be registered in advance in order for their contributions to be accepted in the program. A special fee of 450 EUR will be granted to them for the two days conference attendance. Co–authors may attend the forum at the same fee of speakers.</pre>