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Fourth International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software
Engineering (PROMISE 2008)

                       THEME: Bridging Research and Industry
                    May 12,13, 2008 (Pending approval from ICSE)
                                 Leipzig, Germany
                               http://icse08.upb.de/
                    <http://icse08.upb.de/>

The PROMISE workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from
industry and academia, to review and discuss predictive models and
their uses
in helping to construct quality software products. Attendees are encouraged
to provide their datasets to the PROMISE data repository, to be used
for experiments
and as benchmarks by other researchers. The repository now contains 44 data sets and
is used to repeat/refute/improve previous results.

The goals of this workshop include:

• To bridge the gap between researchers and practitioners.
• To show, by example, to the next generation of software engineering researchers that empiricism is useful, practical, exciting, and insightful.
• To expand the PROMISE repository of data sets related to software engineering in order to conduct repeatable, refutable or improvable experiments.
• To deliver to the software engineering community useful and usable and verified models or methods:
• To compile a list of open research/industry questions that are deemed essential by the software engineering discipline.

The workshop program contains technical presentations and panels, and invited
presentations from industry leaders discussing the practicalities of collecting and
using industrial data.

PROMISE 2008 gives the highest priority to case studies, experience reports, and
presented results that are based on publicly available datasets. To increase the
chance of acceptance, authors are urged to submit papers that use such datasets.
Data can come from anywhere including the workshop Web site
(http://promisedata.org/repository/ <http://promisedata.org/
repository/> ).

Submissions should be five to ten pages long (max), and must be
original and
previously unpublished. Details of the workshop and paper/data submission
process are available at http://promisedata.org/2008/CFP.html <http://promisedata.org/2008/CFP.html>

Papers will be reviewed by the program committee in terms of their technical content
and their relevance to the scope of the workshop, as well as their ability
to stimulate discussion. At least one author of an accepted paper is required
to register and attend the workshop.
Selected papers from prior PROMISE workshops appeared in IEEE Software and the
Empirical Software Engineering journal. Papers selected to PROMISE
2008 are eligible
for submission to a journal special issue, details pending.

Important Dates

Submission of workshop papers January 5, 2008
Notification of workshop papers January 26, 2008
Publication ready copy February 18, 2008
Workshop May 12, 13, 2008

Workshop Steering Committee

General Chair:
     Gary Boetticher Univ. of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
Steering Committee:
     Gary Boetticher Univ. of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
     Tim Menzies West Virginia University, USA
     Tom Ostrand AT&T, New Jersey, USA
     Guenther Ruhe University of Calgary, Canada

Program Committee

Vic Basili University of Maryland, USA
Dan Berry University of Waterloo, Canada
Barry Boehm University of Southern California, USA (Pending)
Gary Boetticher Univ. of Houston - Clear Lake
Bojan Cukic West Virginia University, USA
Alex Dekhtyar Cal Poly State University, USA
Martin Feather NASA JPL, USA
Norman Fenton Queen Mary (University of London), UK
Jairus Hihn NASA JPL, USA
Ross Jeffery University of New South Wales, Australia
Gunes Koru University of Maryland, Baltimore City USA
Andi Marcus Wayne State University, USA
Tim Menzies West Virginia University, USA
Martin Neil Queen Mary (University of London), UK
Tom Ostrand AT&T
Guenther Ruhe University of Calgary, Canada
Martin Shepperd Brunel University, UK
Forrest Shull Fraunhofer Centre Maryland, USA
Sira Vegas Universidad Polit=E9cnica de Madrid Spain
Willem Visser SEVEN Networks, USA
Elaine Weyuker AT&T
Laurie Williams North Carolina State Univ., USA
Marv Zelkowitz University of Maryland, USA
Du Zhang Cal. State Univ., Sacramento, USA
Tom Zimmermann University of Calgary, Canada