Extended Submission Deadline: February 28, 2005!

Motivation

Software development is driven by economics, broadly construed, yet we lack economic models to describe and guide it. Past work on software economics addressed mainly the issues of cost and schedule estimation and control but not overall value creation. We need economic models, tools and methods to better understand how to design software, software-intensive systems, and system development projects for maximum value creation. Such an economic perspective has the potential to improve many aspects of software development, which is an increasingly important goal as the information revolution continues to accelerate.

• requirements analysis
• specification/validation
• modularity/integration
• value-based security
• dynamic reconfiguration
• testing/verification
• evolution/retirement
• staffing/scheduling
• competitive strategy

While other forums address software business issues more broadly, EDSER seeks to foster discussions of and leading to research in which economic concepts, models, and tools are employed to advance our understanding, and improve the development, of software, software-intensive systems, and the technical organizations and processes that produce them. We seek contributions within this broad but clearly software-engineering-oriented scope.

Goals

The EDSER workshop has several goals:

• to clarify the problem: a disconnect between current logical, value-neutral software engineering and the need for a value-oriented discipline
• to build a community of scholars in software engineering and sister disciplines to address the problem in intellectually deep and useful ways
• to provide a forum for the communication of the most significant recent work in framing and helping to solve the underlying problem

Participation

Participation in the EDSER workshop is by invitation. Invitations are based on evidence of research interest and activity within the technical scope of the workshop. Evidence is provided in the form of a short (2-3 page) position paper. A position paper should clearly identify the technical problem being addressed; an economics-oriented approach to analyzing or addressing it; and argumentation, analysis, experimental data, or other preliminary evidence to support the plausibility of the proposed approach. Mature research results are not expected, but plausibility at the level of a proposal sketch would be appropriate. Position papers will be accepted according to the guidelines of the International Conference on Software Engineering. The web-based CyberChair system will be used to submit papers. To submit you paper, please visit this this page. Publication-ready versions of papers will be required to conform to ICSE-defined formats.

Organizing Committee

The EDSER-7 organizing committee will include the following members:

• Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia
• Mary Shaw, Carnegie Mellon University
• Barry Boehm, University of Southern California
• Jyrki Kontio, Helsinki University of Technology
• Hakan Erdogmus, National Research Council of Canada