2/13/07
Barry Boehm, George Friedman
Center for System and Software Engineering
CSSE- Annual Research Review
February 13, 2007
(c) USC-CSSE 1

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• Commercial Industry (12)
– Bosch, Cisco, Cost Xpert Group, Galorath, Group Systems,
IBM, Intelligent Systems, Microsoft, Motorola, Price Systems,
Softstar Systems, Sun
• Aerospace Industry (8)
– BAE Systems, Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin,
Northrop Grumman(2), Raytheon, SAIC
• Government (7)
– DACS, FAA, NASA-Ames, NSF, US Army Research Labs, US
Army TACOM, USAF Cost Center
• FFRDC’s and Consortia (6)
– Aerospace, FC-MD, IDA, JPL, SEI, SPC
• International (2)
– Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Samsung
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Welcome to New and Prospective Affiliates
– Bosch, Cisco, DACS, Samsung, USAF Cost
Center
– Booz Allen Hamilton, NAIST, Wind River,
Xerox
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•
Conference on Systems Engineering Research (with Stevens, Hoboken, NJ),
March 14-16, 2007
•
11 st Annual Ground Systems Architecture Workshop (with Aerospace Corp.),
Manhattan Beach, CA, March 26-29, 2007
•
ICSE 2007 Boehm Symposium , May 22, 2007, Minneapolis, MN
•
New CSSE, SAE Directors , August 2007 (?)
• 22 nd International COCOMO/Systems and Software Cost Estimation
Forum , USC Campus, October 29 - November 1, 2007
• 15 th Annual Research Review and Executive Workshop , USC Campus, March
17-20, 2008
• Conference on Systems Engineering Research (with Stevens, LA), April 2008
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• Thus far, SAE has concentrated on Education > Research
• With priorities: Masters, Doctorate, Undergrad
• Presently: 300+ MS students, 12 PhDs, 0 Undergrad
– (Friedman classes: ~800 MSs, 15 PhDs)
• Adjunct faculty: totals centuries of experience
• Typical student: 2 decades of experience
• Fastest growing segment in DEN which is fastest in US
• Courses added at request of industrial clients
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• Research priority substantially increasing
• CSSE convocation in 2006
• PhD in SAE planned for 2007
• Hosted CSER 2004, 2006, 2008 (April 2008)
• CSER included SEANET and vision 2020
• University Relations: MIT, (CESUN), GMU, UMR
• Professional Society Relations: INCOSE, IEEE, IIE,
• PhD’s in pipeline: Henkle, Cooper, Dhallin, Dixit,
• Torres, Valencia, Pena, DiCarlo, Long, Fortune
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2006-2007 PhD’s and Continuing Students
Area
Architecture
2006 – 07 PhD’s
Sam Malek,
Chris Mattmann,
Roshanak Roshandel
LiGuo Huang,
Ye Yang
Continuing PhD Students
George Edwards,
Chiyoung Seo
Estimation
Process, Methods, Tools
System of Systems
Security
Jesal Bhuta, Apurva Jain,
Hasan Kitapci, Alex Lam,
Molly Phongpaibul
DeWitt Latimer
Yue Chen, Danni Wu
Ed Colbert, JoAnn Lane,
Vu Nguyen, Gustavo Perez,
Thomas Tan
Sue Koolmanojwong,
Gunjan Sharman,
Raffi Tikidjian, Di Wu
Dan Ingold, JoAnn Lane,
Anna Warner
Ed Colbert
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• NSF Science of Design Proposals
– Medvidovic and EE: Architecture-Based Multilevel Modeling
– Boehm and MSB: Interdisciplinary Collaborative Design
• NSF Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation
– Complex Systems prospective solicitation
• DoD Systems Engineering, Software Research Initiatives
– Being scoped and proposed
• New Affiliate – sponsored research
– Architecture–Based Cost Estimation, CodeCount toolset, Eclipse
Process Foundation, Embedded Systems, Systems of Systems
Estimation
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7:30 – 8:15 am
8:15 – 8:40 am
8:40 – 10:00 am
Continental breakfast
CSSE and SAE Status and Plans
Barry Boehm, George Friedman
Cost and Security Modeling
– Barry Boehm, Chair
Ricardo Valerdi, Ed Colbert, Yue Chen, Danni Wu
10:00 – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am –
12:00 pm
Human-System Integration
– Winsor Brown, Chair
Ann Majchrzak and Phil More (MSBA), Barry Boehm
12:00 – 2:00 pm
2:00 – 3:40 pm
3:40 – 4:10 pm
4:10 – 5:30 pm
5:30 – 8:30 pm
Lunch and Tool Demos
Processes and Tools
– Ray Madachy, Chair
Apurva Jain, Sue Koolmanojwong, Molly Phongpaibul, Alex Lam, DeWitt Latimer
Break
Architecture, COTS, and Requirements
– Sam Malek, Chair
Chris Mattmann, George Edwards, Jesal Bhuta, Hasan Kitapci
Affiliates Steering Group Dinner and Feedback
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