SMEF 2004

Program

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Opening Remarks

Istituto di Ricerca Internazionale
Cristina Ferrarotti (Conference Manager, IIR Italy)
Data Processing Organization
Roberto Meli (Conference Chairperson, DPO)
Gruppo Utenti Function Point Italia
Italian Software Metrics Association
Loredana Mancini (GUFPI-ISMA President)
Conference Opening Remarks
Roberto Meli (Conference Chairperson, DPO)
Greetings from IFPUG
Mary Bradley (IFPUG President - represented by Carol Dekkers)


Papers & Presentations

Day 1 (January, 28th)

The Software Measurement Role in a Complex Contractual Context
R. Meli (DPO, Italy)
When to Suffer the Penalties for Late Delivery of Software
K. McDaid (Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Success with Outsourcing and Function Points - Do's and Don'ts
C.A. Dekkers (Quality Plus Technologies, Inc., USA)
Control Enhancement Projects Based on Size Measurement
T. Dekkers (Sogeti Nederland B.V., Netherlands)
Modelling and Measuring ICT Assets: Benefits and Methods
E. Arista, M. Benedetti (A&P Consulting, Italy), F. Perna, L. Santillo (DPO, Italy)
Making Good Software Correctly: Hard to Do Well!
F.J. Heemstra, R.J. Kusters (Eindhoven University of Technology and Open University, Netherlands)
The Software Measurement Body of Knowledge
A. Abran, L. Buglione (École de Technologie Supérieure & Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
A '4 Operation' Metric System
C. Bianco (NTE, Spain), P. Muñoz (UPC Barcelona, Spain)

Day 2 (January, 29th)
Stream A

Six Sigma for Software
T. Fehlmann (Euro Project Office AG, Switzerland)
Integrated Software Measure Validation Process: The Validity Conditions Impact
N. Habra (University of Namur, Belgium), M. Lopez & V. Paulus (Cetic - Aéropôle, Belgium)
An Empirical Review of Use Case Metrics for Requirements Verification
B. Bernárdez, A. Duran, M. Genero (University of Seville, Spain)
Proposal for a Data Warehouse OLAP Cube Function Point Counting Standard
M. Bundschuh (AXA Service AG, Germany)
Function Points and UML: State of the Art and Hypotheses about an Evaluation Model
G. Calavaro (IBM-Rational Software, Italy), G. Cantone (University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy), D. Pace (Italy)
IFPUG Function Point Analysis in an UML Context
T. Iorio (DPO, Italy)
A Quality Model for Web-based Environments: First Results
L. Buglione, F. Gasparro, E. Giacobbe, C. Grande, S. Iovieno, M. Lelli, A. Scarcia & H. Sedehi (GUFPI-ISMA, Italy)
Using Function Points within Estimation, Planning and Test Processes: The Svimservice Experience
M. Conte (DPO, Italy), N. Iacovelli (Svimservice, Italy)
Measuring Software Assets in a Public Organization: A Case History from Provincia Autonoma di Trento
I. Della Noce & L. Nardelli (Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Italy), L. Santillo (DPO, Italy)
A Software Measurement System to Support Business Needs: A Real Experience in Infocamere
G. Moretto & B. Zanellato (Infocamere, Italy), M. Lelli & T. Iorio (DPO, Italy)
The Functional Measurement Role in a Changing Organization: A Case History from ACI Informatica
M. Conte & F. Perna (DPO, Italy), G. Proietti (ACI Informatica, Italy)

Day 2 (January, 29th)
Stream B

ISO/IEC 9126 in Practice: What Do We Need to Know?
P. Botella, X. Burgués, J.P. Carvallo, X. Franch, G. Grau, J. Marco, C. Quer (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Software Quality Revisited
R. Fitzpatrick & B. O'Shea (School of Computing, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland), P. Smith (School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland, UK)
Preliminary Results of two Academic Case Studies on Cost Estimation of Changes to Requirements
A. Loconsole & J. Borstler (Umea University, Sweden)
Software Cost Prediction with Predefined Interval Estimates
S. Bibi, I. Stamelos, L. Angelis (Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
A Consideration of the Variation in Development Effort Consistency Due to Function Points
M. Farrow & J. Moses (School of Computing and Technology, University of Sunderland,UK)
Productivity Models and Risk Contingencies: A Floating Borderline
L. Luciani & R. Meli (DPO, Italy)
Standardized Acceptance Testing
H.L. Hausen (Fraunhofer, Germany)
A Categorization for Object Oriented Software Metrics in Fault Prediction
R. Neumann (Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Software Systems Engineering at the University of Potsdam, Germany)
Scenario-Based Performance Modelling and Validation in Real-time Reactive Systems
V.S. Alagar, O. Ormandjieva & J. Shen (Concordia University, Canada)
Evaluating a Distributed Integrated Configuration Management Demonstrator
L. Cocchio (Società Italiana Avionica S.p.A., Italy), J.P.H. Huang & J. Newman (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)

Day 3 (January, 30th)

COSMIC Full Function Point Method: 2004 - State of the Art
A. Abran (École de Technologie Supérieur, Canada), R. Meli (DPO, Italy), C. Symons (SMS, UK)
One Year Experience with COSMIC-FFP
T. Dekkers & F. Vogelezang (Sogeti Nederland B.V., Netherlands)
A Proposed Measurement Role in the Rational Unified Process and its Implementation with ISO 19761: COSMIC-FFP
A. Abran & S. Azzouz (École de Technologie Supérieure & Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Use Comparison of the Function Point Analysis and Cosmic-FFP for Web Applications
E. Magiera (University of Silesia, Poland)
Faster and More Accurate Functional Size Measurement by KISS - Keeping It Simple
P. Forselius (FiSMA, Software Technology Transfer Finland Ltd, Finland)
E&Q: An Early & Quick Approach to Functional Size Measurement Methods
M. Conte, T. Iorio, R. Meli & L. Santillo (DPO, Italy)


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