CALL FOR PAPERS on Empirical Software
Evaluation
Part of the Software
Technology Track
at the Thirty-seventh Annual
on the Big
Additional detail on the web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu
Mintrack Chairs:
Ian Gorton,
Chief Architect, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (ian.gorton@pnl.gov)
In all areas of software technology, competing products battle to gain market share and dominance. While this situation promotes innovation in technologies and products, it creates a confusing landscape for IT organizations faced with selecting an appropriate technology that satisfies their requirements. It is well documented that the evaluation phase of software product procurement is typically expensive and time-consuming for organizations. It is also fraught with danger, as the selection of an inappropriate tool or technology will be at best a waste of money (shelfware), and in many cases it will lead to ultimate project and even business failure.
Repeatable empirical evaluations can provide significant insights in to the suitability of a particular software technology for use in a given organizational setting. This minitrack will therefore focus on presenting new results from the empirical evaluation of a wide range of software technologies. Papers that report quantitative results from studies exploring important software product quality attributes are sought, including performance, scalability, reliability, usability and comparative studies. Papers describing novel experimental designs and predictive modeling based on empirical foundations are also encouraged.
Technologies of interest include, but are not limited to, middleware, ERP and CRM applications, Web technologies, workflow systems, software development and CASE tools, databases, and so on. Potential topic areas include:
· Benchmark study results
· Run-time performance comparisons
· Studies of the reliability of various technologies
· Usability experiments
· Scalability studies
· New measures useful for empirical evaluations
· Experimental design methods and techniques
· Cost-effective experimental approaches
· Novel approaches and tools for performing empirical experiments
· Results and lessons learned from prototyping studies
· Predictive models based on empirical observations
· Analysis of errors found in software technologies
IMPORTANT
DEADLINES
Contact
minitrack chairs for submission instructions.
Authors must be
registered for the conference by this date.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR
PAPER SUBMISSION
1. Contact the
minitrack chairs in advance for specific submission instructions.
Otherwise,
submit an electronic version of the full paper, consisting of no more than
25 double- spaced pages, including diagrams, directly to Ian Gorton. (NOTE: The final paper must be NO MORE THAN 10
pages, double-column, single spaced.)
2. Do not submit the manuscript to more
than one Minitrack Chair. Papers
should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently
submitted for consideration elsewhere.
3. Each paper
must have a title page to include title of the paper, full name of all authors,
and complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and
e-mail address(es).
4. The first
page of the manuscript should include only the title and a 300-word abstract of
the paper.
TRACKS
AT HICSS-37
* Collaboration
Systems; Co-Chair: Jay Nunamaker; E-mail: nunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu
Co-Chair: Robert
O. Briggs; E-mail: bob@GroupSystems.com
* Complex
Systems; Chair: Robert Thomas; E-mail: rjt1@cornell.edu
* Decision
Tech. for Management; Chair: Dan Dolk; E-mail:
drdolk@nps.navy.mil
* Digital
Documents; Chair: Michael Shepherd; E-mail: shepherd@cs.cal.ca
* Emerging
Technologies; Chair: Ralph H. Sprague; E-mail: sprague@hawaii.edu
* Information
Technology in Health Care; Chair: William Chismar
E-mail:
chismar@cba.hawaii.edu
* Internet
& the Digital Economy; Co-Chair: David King; E-mail: dave@comshare.com
Co-Chair: Alan Dennis; E-mail: ardennis@indiana.edu
* Organizational
Systems & Tech.; Chair: Hugh Watson; Email: hwatson@terry.uga.edu
* Software
Technology; Gul Agha;
E-mail: agha@cs.uiuc.edu
For the latest information; visit the HICSS web
site at:
HICSS
conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system
sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical,
conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature.
Submissions undergo a peer referee process and those selected for
presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously
published.
CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION:
Ralph Sprague,
Conference Chair
Email: sprague@hawaii.edu
Sandra Laney,
Conference Administrator
Email: hicss@hawaii.edu
Eileen Dennis,
Track Administrator
Email: eidennis@indiana.edu
For the latest
information; visit the HICSS web site at: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu
2004 CONFERENCE VENUE:
Hilton Waikoloa
Village (on the Big Island of Hawaii)
425 Waikoloa
Beach Drive
Waikoloa, Hawaii
96738
Tel:
1-808-886-1234
Fax:
1-808-886-2900
http://www.hilton.com/hotels/KOAHWHH/index.html?show=all
NOTE: December 1
is the deadline to guarantee hotel room reservation at conference rate.