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               Call for Participation

         1st International Workshop on

Software Productivity Analysis and Cost Estimation
            (SPACE 2007)

        Tuesday (10am ~ 5pm), December 4, 2007
            Nagoya, Japan

    Co-located with IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on
        Software Engineering (APSEC07)

Registration and Participation:
          http://apsec2007.fuka.info.waseda.ac.jp

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

****Keynote by Professor Magne Jorgensen (SIMULA Lab, Norway)
--- "When to Use Estimation Models and When to Use Expert Judgment? "

Research Talks:
1. "Measuring Productivity Using the Infamous Lines of Code Metric "
    Benedikt Mas y Parareda and Markus Pizka

2. "Fair Software Value Quantification by Productivity Data Analysis"
    Naoki Ohsugi, Nobuto Inoguchi, Hideyuki Yamamoto, Seisuke =
Shimizu,
Noboru Hattori, Jun Yoshino, Takeshi Hayama and Tsuyoshi Kitani

3. "A Critique of How We Measure and Interpret the Accuracy of
Software Development Effort Estimation"
    Magne J=C3=B8rgensen

4. "A SemiQ Model of Test-and-Fix Process of Incremental Development"
    He Zhang, Barbara Kitchenham and Ross Jeffery

5. "Issues of Implementing the Analogy-based Effort Estimation in a
Large IT Company"
    Jingyue Li and Reidar Conradi

6. "Profitability Estimation of Software Projects: A Combined
Framework"
    Stefan Wagner, Songmin Xie,Matthias Rubel-Otterbach and Burkhard =
Sell

7. "Utilizing Functional Size Measurement Methods for Embedded Systems"
    Ali Nazima Ergun and Cigdem Gencel

8. "Evaluation of Ensemble Learning Methods for Fault-Prone Module
Prediction"
    Sousuke Amasaki

WELCOME

Welcome to the First International Workshop on Software Productivity
Analysis and Cost Estimation (SPACE 2007), held in conjunction with
the IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Software Engineering (APSEC 2007),
Nagoya, Japan.
Software project managers require reliable methods for estimating
software project costs, and assessing software development
productivity. For over 25 years, there has been considerable research
effort directed towards software cost estimation and software
productivity analysis, various algorithmic approaches developed and
their performance reported in the research literature. But
nevertheless, cost estimation and productivity analysis remains a
complex problem in the software industry.

The goal of the workshop on software productivity analysis and cost
estimation, SPACE 2007, is to bring together practitioners and
researchers for discussion and presentation on the emerging aspects
pertaining to software cost estimation, productivity analysis,
prediction models and techniques, and lessons learned. The workshop
provides a leading forum to present new ideas and to explore future
directions in these areas for software engineering and software
project management.

AREAS

Software Effort and Cost Estimation, Defect Rate and Reliability
Assessment
Software Productivity Measurement / Analysis
Software Process Improvement
Software Quality Measurement and Assurance
Development of Predictive Models
Case-based / Analogy-based Reasoning Approaches
Expert-based Reasoning Approaches
Algorithmic Techniques
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
Evaluation and Comparison of Techniques and Models
Simulation Techniques
Experience Management
Data Mining using Software Repository
Development of Tool to Support Software Metrics

CHAIRS:

Jacky Keung
National ICT Australian Ltd.
Jacky.Keung@nicta.com.au

Ross Jeffery
National ICT Australia Ltd.
Ross.Jeffery@nicta.com.au

Makoto Nonaka
Faculty of Business Administration
Toyo University
Tokyo, Japan
Nonaka-m@toyonet.toyo,ac.jp

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBD):

Barbara Kitchenham - Keele University, UK
Mahmood Niazi - Keele University, UK
Martin Shepperd - Brunel University, UK
Sarah Beecham - Open University, UK
Ross Jeffery - NICTA, Australia
Jacky Keung - NICTA, Australia
Liam O'Brien - NICTA, Australia
Magne Jorgensen - SIMULA, Norway
Jurgen Munch - IESE_Fraunhofer, Germany
JingYue Li - NTNU, Norway
Stephen MacDonell - AUT, NZ
Carol Dekkers - QualityPlusTech, USA-
Qing Wang - ISCAS, China
Hajimu Iida - NAIST, Japan
Hironori Washizaki - NII, Japan
Makoto Nonaka - Toyo University, Japan
Naoki Ohsugi - NTT Data, Japan

Best Regards,

Dr. Jacky Keung
Research Scientist
Empirical Software Engineering