ProSim 2000 Workshop:
July  12 - 14, 2000

You are invited to participate in the Software Process Simulation Modeling Workshop (ProSim 2000).  Software process simulation modeling is increasingly being used to address a variety of issues from the strategic management of software development, to supporting process improvements, to software project management training.  The scope of software process simulation applications ranges from narrow focused portions of the life cycle to longer-term product evolutionary models with broad organizational impacts.  The goal of the workshop is to bring together academics and practitioners interested in the area of software process simulation modeling and metrics as well as important industrial issues related to cost estimation and business process design.  ProSim is an international forum for presenting current research themes and applications, to discuss various approaches and to discover underlying similarities.  Our key note speaker this year will be Dr. Barry Boehm. TRW Professor of Software Engineering and Director of the USC Center for Software Engineering. His contributions to the field include the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO), the Spiral Model of the software process, the Theory W (win-win) approach to software management and requirements determination and among others.

This year’s ProSim workshop will be collocated with and preceded by the FEAST workshop (Feedback and Evolution in Software and Business Processes) http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mml/f2000.  Both workshops will be held at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK.

• Workshop Theme and Topics of Interest
• Information for Authors
• Deadlines for ProSim 2000
• Author Information
• Workshop Location
• Registration Fee
• Accommodation
• ProSim 2000 Program Committee Members

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Software process simulation modeling is gaining increasing interest among academic researchers and practitioners alike as an approach for analyzing complex business and policy questions.  Although simulation modeling has been applied in a variety of disciplines for a number of years, it has only recently been applied to the area of software development and evolution processes. 

The focus of this workshop is on both the application of software process simulation research in addressing real-world problems, as well as advances being made which will provide the foundation for Software Process Simulation modeling in the future.  Software Process Simulation is being used to address important business issues in the software development domain including:

strategic management

planning

control and operational management

process improvement and technology adoption

understanding

training and learning

We invite research papers, experience reports, tutorials, and panel presentations in all areas related to software process modeling and simulation, and using all applicable techniques, (including discrete event, System Dynamics, knowledge-based systems, State-based modeling, petri-nets, and other approaches.  Preference will be given to quantitative methods).  An initial set of topics have been identified and include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Advances in software process simulation modeling methods and theory
• Applications of software process simulation modeling approaches in industry, for example to improve business processes and/or to support financial and business case analyses
• Use of software process simulation in promoting understanding and knowledge of software and business processes
• Practical benefits of modeling and simulation
• Metrics and model integration 
• Generalized and adaptable process simulation models.  Feasibility of validating standard “plug and play” model components, process patterns or process archetypes.
• Approaches/environments for supporting the integration of process representation, guidance, simulation, and execution capabilities for models of software processes. 

Information for Authors:

Deadlines:

March 17, 2000       -- 2-3 page (1,000 to 1,500 words) extended abstracts due
April  3, 2000          -- notification of acceptance for the workshop
June 2, 2000           -- Final full papers due (approximately 5,000 words)
August 31, 2000      -- “Best Papers” selected for inclusion in special issue of JSS
                                  or SPIP 
October 1, 2000      -- Revised versions of papers due for inclusion in special
                                 issue of JSS or SPIP 

Please send extended abstracts via email (in ASCII or MS Word readable attachment) or hard copy by March 17, 2000 to: 

Dr. David M. Raffo 
School of Business Administration 
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751 
Portland, OR 97207-0751 
e-mail: davidr@sba.pdx.edu

Workshop Location:

Registration Fee:

Registration fee including morning and afternoon refreshments, lunches, dinner on July 13 and a banquet on the 12th July will be approximately 315 GBP ( exclusive of accommodations)

Accommodation:

Accommodation in single and double rooms is offered in College Halls of Residence and in local hotels. Registration as soon as possible after notification of acceptance of papers on April 3,2000  will be advisable, particularly where the cheaper student accommodation is desired, as rooms are in high demand in July.

ProSim 2000 Program Committee Members
 

James Collofello Nancy Eickelmann Volker Gruhn Warren Harrison Yvonne Howard Marc Kellner Manny Lehman Ray Madachy David Raffo William Rotzheim Walt Scacchi Joe Vandeville Paul Wernick

Arizona State University, USA NASA IV&V Facility, Morgantown, WV, USA University of Dortmund, Germany Portland State University,  USA University of Southhampton, UK Software Engineering Institute,  USA Imperial College, UK University of Southern California, USA Portland State University, USA Marotz, Inc., USA University of California, Irvine, USA Northrop Grumman Corporation, USA University of Hertfordshire, UK

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