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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Predictor Models in Software Engineering
May 18-19, 2009, Vancouver, Canada http://promisedata.org/2009

(Co-located with ICSE 2009: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009)

With KEYNOTE addresses by:

• Barry Boehm, USC
• Brendan Murphy, Microsoft

The PROMISE conference provides an annual forum for researchers and
practitioners to present and exchange ideas, results, and experiences
with
predictor models that are applicable to implementation, evaluation, and
management of software processes and projects. A key objective of
PROMISE
is to help establish verifiable and repeatable models that are useful
to the
software engineering community. Traditionally, PROMISE meetings have
focused
on effort and defect prediction. For 2009, PROMISE is expanding its
traditional scope to include topics such as model-based requirements
engineering and value-based software engineering. We encourage
submissions
that extend the idea of PROMISE to many more fields of software
engineering.

TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to,

• Effort prediction models
• Defect prediction models
• Applications of predictive models in software engineering
• Classification of predictive models
• Model-based requirements engineering
• Value-based software engineering
• Building predictive models using AI and statistical methods
• Strengths and limitations of predictive models
• Cost benefit analysis of predictive models

The PROMISE on-line repository provides researchers and practitioners a
central location where they can store the data they use to make their
conclusions, and access models and data used by other researchers and
practitioners, The repository now contains 76 data sets, which can be
used
to repeat/confirm/refute/improve previous results. Conference
attendees are
encouraged to provide their datasets to the PROMISE repository, to be
used
for experiments and as benchmarks by other researchers.

PROMISE 2009 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
conference Web
site (http://promisedata.org/repository/).

Submissions should be five to ten pages long (max), and must be
original and
previously unpublished. The details of the paper and data submission
process
are available at http://promisedata.org/2009/cfp.php

Papers will be reviewed by the program committee in terms of their
technical
content and their relevance to the scope of the conference, as well as
their
ability to stimulate discussion. At least one author of an accepted
paper is
required to register and attend the conference. Papers presented at
PROMISE
2009 will be submitted to the ACM digital library and are eligible for
submission to a journal special issue, details pending.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts due January 12, 2009
Submissions due January 26, 2009
Author notification March 2, 2009
Camera ready copy due March 16, 2009

CONFERENCE STEERING COMMITTEE

Gary Boetticher (General Chair) U. of Houston - Clear Lake, USA
Tim Menzies West Virginia University, USA
Tom Ostrand Program Chair) AT&T, New Jersey, USA
Guenther Ruhe University of Calgary, Canada