(PROMISE) PROMISE 2005: International Workshop on Predicor Models in Software Engineering

Held in conjunction with

Important Dates:
Abstract Due: 11 February 2005
Papers Due: 21 February 2005
Acceptance Notification: 21 March 2005
Publication Ready: 31 March 2005

Workshop Chairs
Jelber Sayyad Shirabad
School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
CANADA
jsayyad AT site DOT uottawa DOT ca

Tim Menzies
Department of Computer Science,
Portland State University
Portland, Oregon 97207-0751
USA
timm AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu

Contact Email
promise AT site DOT uottawa DOT ca

Workshop Program

9:00 - 9:15	Introduction *Jelber Sayyad Shirabad and Tim Menzies*
9:15 - 10:25	*Datasets and OSS Based Predictive Models* An Analysis of Data Sets Used to Train and Validate Cost Prediction Systems *Carolyn Mair and Martin Shepperd* Bournemouth University, UK *Magne JørgensenSimula Labs, Norway Longitudinal Analysis of Long-Timescale Open Source Repository Data* *Bart Massey* Portland State University, USA
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:10	Towards Predictor Models for large Libre Software Projects *Israel Herraiz, Gregorio Robles, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona* Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain *Requirements Tracing* Baselines in Requirements Tracing *Senthil Karthikeyan Sundaram, Jane Huffman Hayes, Alexander Dekhtyar* University of Kentucky, USA
12:10 - 12:25	*Morning Sessions Discussions*
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch
2:00 - 3:30	*Software Cost Estimation Models* Simple Software Cost Analysis: Safe or Unsafe? *Tim Menzies* Portland State University, USA *Dan Port* University of Hawaii, USA *Zhihao Chen* University of Southern California, USA *Jairus Hihn* NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Feature Subset Selection Can Improve Software Cost Estimation Accuracy *Zhihao Chen* University of Southern California, USA *Tim Menzies* Portland State University, USA *Dan Port* University of Hawaii, USA *Barry Boehm* University of Southern California, USA *Defect Prediction Models* An Investigation of the Effect of Module Size on Defect Prediction Using Static Measures *A. Günes. Koru and Hongfang Liu* UMBC, USA
3:30 - 4:00	Coffee Break
4:00 - 4:35	Nearest Neighbor Sampling for Better Defect Prediction *Gary D. Boetticher* University of Houston, USA
4:35 - 4:50	*Afternoon Sessions Discussions*
4:50 - 5:30	Panel and Future Directions