Call For Participation in COCOMO Users' Meeting

Call For Participation in COCOMO Users' Meeting

[Karl A. Nyberg]

[This was mailed to info-ada-REQUEST, and I accidentally deleted it instead
of forwarding it.  Sorry about that - Ed.]

                      CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

             Fourth Annual COCOMO Users' Group Meeting

                   Software Engineering Institute
                     Carnegie Mellon University
                      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

                         November 2-3, 1988

General Chair:  Clyde Chittister, SEI

Program Chair:  Richard Fairley, George Mason University

Pgm. Committee:  Barry Boehm, TRW
                 Karen Pullen, MITRE
                 Paul Rook, Software Engineering Consultant
                 Dan Ligett, Softstar

The first three annual COCOMO Users' Group meetings provided an opportunity
for COCOMO users and software cost estimation researchers from government,
industry, and universities to share experiences with COCOMO and other cost
estimation models, and to examine several implementations of cost estimation
tools based on COCOMO.

The fourth Annual COCOMO Users' Group meeting will be held at the Software
Engineering Institute facility of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania on November 2 & 3, 1988.  One of the major focal points will be
adaptation of COCOMO and other models to estimating the effects of using Ada
on software project effort, schedule, and life-cycle costs, including
experiences with the TRW Ada COCOMO model presented at the 1987 meeting.
Another major focal point will be the adaptation of COCOMO and other models
to alternative software processes:  prototyping, evolutionary development,
Ada process models, and incremental development.

Other topics to be discussed will include alternative cost estimation
models, extensions to COCOMO, and implementation techniques for COCOMO
models.  The program will include about 12 invited presentations and 10 tool
demonstrations.  Attendance will be limited to approximately 90 participants.

Persons interested in making a technical presentation or demonstrating a
COCOMO-related tool should send a 1 to 2 page abstract to:

                  Professor Richard E. Fairley
                  School of Information Technology
                  George Mason University
                  Fairfax, VA  22030
                  USA

Abstracts due:  1 September 1988
Notification:  1 October 1988

Persons interested in general participation should also write to Professor
Fairley by 1 September 1988.