Welcome, JSP and JSD

Coffee Break

Worlds and Machines

Lunch

Current Work

Organizers:

Bashar Nuseibeh
Pamela Zave

The Tribute will be open: attendees can sign-up on the registration page when it becomes available.

Software repositories such as source control systems, archived communications between project personnel, and defect tracking systems are used to help manage the progress of software projects. Software practitioners and researchers are recognizing the benefits of mining this information to support the maintenance of software systems, improve software design/reuse, and empirically validate novel ideas and techniques. Research is now proceeding to uncover the ways in which mining these repositories can help to understand software development, to support predictions about software development, and to exploit this knowledge concretely in planning future development.

The goal of this two-day working conference is to strengthen the community of researchers and practitioners who are working to recover and use the data stored in software repositories to further understanding of software development practices. We expect the presentations and discussions at MSR 2009 in Vancouver to continue on a number of general themes and challenges from the previous MSRs held at ICSE since 2004. For more information about MSR and the MSR Challenge, see the MSR 2009 website. Contact any of the organizers for more information about the MSR 2009 conference.

Organizers:

Katsuro Inoue, Osaka University, Japan (General Chair)
Michael W. Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Canada (Program Co-chair)
Jim Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA (Program Co-chair)
Christian Bird, University of California, Davis, USA (Challenge Co-chair)

Program comprehension is a vital blend of software engineering activities that supports reuse, inspection, maintenance, evolution, migration, reverse engineering, and reengineering of existing software systems. The International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) is the principal venue for works in the area of program comprehension as well as a leading venue for works in the areas of software analysis, reverse engineering, software evolution, and software visualization.

ICPC 2009 will be co-located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’09) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As a city of approximately 2 million people, Vancouver offers a wide variety of cultural attractions including the Vancouver Aquarium, Gastown, Granville Island, and Science World, while providing access to recreational activities like biking, sea kayaking, scuba diving, and hiking.

ICPC 2009 promises to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present and to discuss state-of-the-art and best-practice results in the field of program comprehension. For more information visit http://icpc.csi.muohio.edu/.

Organizers:

Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University, USA (General Chair)
Rainer Koschke, Universität Bremen, Germany (Program Co-chair)
Andrian Marcus, Wayne State University, USA (Program Co-chair)

Software development takes place in a dynamic context of frequently changing technologies and limited resources. Globally distributed development teams are under ever-increasing pressure to deliver their products more quickly and with higher levels of quality. At the same time, global competition is forcing software development organizations to cut costs by rationalizing processes, outsourcing part or all of their activities, reusing existing software in new or modified applications, and evolving existing systems to meet new needs. To address these difficulties, new or modified processes are emerging, including lean and agile methods and plan-based product line development. For ICSP 2009, systems engineering processes addressing the specific challenges of developing trustworthy software are of particular interest.

ICSP 2009 invites papers describing completed research or advanced work-in-progress in all areas of software and systems development process including: agile software processes, CMMI, novel techniques for software process representation and analysis, process tools and metrics, and the simulation and modeling of software processes. As in previous years, ICSP 2009 will organize a special track for papers on software and systems process simulation. Contributions reflecting industrial experience are particularly welcome. For further information regarding paper submission and ICSP 2009 in general, please visit our website.

Organizers:

Dietmar Pfahl, Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Norway (General Chair)
Ray Madachy,University of Southern California, USA (Program Co-chair)
Qing Wang, Institute of Software - Chinese Academy of Science, China (Program Co-chair)
Vahid Garousi, University of Calgary, Canada (Publicity Chair)

The PROMISE conference leverages the successful experience from the four previous workshops. The objective of the conference is to deliver to the software engineering community useful, usable, verifiable, and repeatable models applicable to better manage software processes and projects.

To this end, we:

• Maintain an on-line repository where researchers and practitioners can store the data they use to make their conclusions, access models and data used by other researchers and practitioners, and compare their results to those obtained in previous work.
• Hold an annual conference where researchers and practitioners can meet to discuss and refine their results and methods, and to describe repeatable experiments in software engineering

Traditionally, PROMISE meetings have focused on effort and defect prediction. More recently, there has been a focus on other issues such as model-based requirements engineering and value-based software engineering. For the 2009 meeting, we encourage papers that extend the idea of PROMISE to many more fields of software engineering. For further information, please visit http://promisedata.org.

Organizers:

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