Welcome; CSSE Status and Plans
Barry Boehm
USC Center for System and Software
Engineering
CSSE Annual Research Review
March 18, 2008
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Outline
• Thanks to USC-CSSE Affiliates
• Welcome to New Affiliates
• Upcoming Events
• Today’s Agenda
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USC-CSSE Affiliates (35)
• 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, NASA-Ames, NSF, OSD (AT&L) - S&SE, 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
• New
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Bosch
Cisco
DACS
OSD (AT&L) – S&SE
Samsung
USAF Cost Center
• Prospective
– Australian DMO, ThoughtWorks, Xerox
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Upcoming Events
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15th Annual Research Review and Executive Workshop (ICM I), USC
Campus, March 17-20, 2008
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12th Annual Ground Systems Architecture Workshop (with Aerospace
Corp.), Manhattan Beach, CA, April 1-3, 2008
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Conference on Systems Engineering Research (with Stevens, LA), April 4-5,
2008
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Nominal Affiliate Renewal, May 2008
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Incremental Commitment Model Workshop II, Washington DC area, July
2008
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23rd International COCOMO/Systems and Software Cost Estimation Forum
and ICM Workshop III, USC Campus, October 27 – 30, 2008
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2007-2008 PhD’s and Continuing Students
Area
Architecture
Estimation
Process, Methods, Tools
System of Systems
Security
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2006 – 07 PhD’s
Continuing PhD Students
Sam Malek,
Chris Mattmann,
Roshanak Roshandel
George Edwards, Ivo Krka,
Chiyoung Seo, Ed Colbert,
Joshua Garcia, David
Woolard
LiGuo Huang,
Ye Yang
JoAnn Lane, Vu Nguyen,
Gustavo Perez, Thomas
Tan, Ali Afzal Malik, Jared
Fortune
Jesal Bhuta, Apurva Jain,
Hasan Kitapci, Alex Lam,
Molly Phongpaibul
Sue Koolmanojwong, Doug
Buettner, Dan Ingold,
Raffi Tikidjian, Di Wu
DeWitt Latimer
Dan Ingold, JoAnn Lane,
Anna Warner
Yue Chen, Danni Wu
Ed Colbert
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Real Projects for Real Clients Curriculum:
Proposed NSF Initiative: David Klappholz
• Team-project oriented undergraduate CS curriculum
– Learn by doing requirements, risk management, team performance,
V&V, as go through Web programming, database, etc. courses
– Being implemented at Stevens with USC support
– Broad-based group of early-adopter universities and colleges
– Goal to increase recruitment of women and minorities into CS
• Looking for industry support
– Serve as project clients
– Give talks in courses and faculty training sessions
– Encourage colleges to adopt real projects curriculum
• Connect with Dave Klappholz (here;davidk6@gmail.com)
Today’s Agenda
(Location: Davidson Conference Center)
7:30 – 8:00 am
Continental breakfast
8:00 – 9:45 am
System and Software Sizing & Estimation
Barry Boehm – Chair; Jared Fortune, JoAnn Lane, Ali Malik, Marilee Wheaton
9:45 – 10:15 am
Break
10:15 – 12:00 pm
Disruptive Technologies
Stan Settles – Chair; Mary Hall, Andrew Meyer, Kristin Lerman, Di Wu, Sue Koolmanojwong
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 – 2:00 pm
Tool Demo: Risk Assessment, Wiki Win Win, Architecture Analysis, Cost Estimation,
Electronic Process Guides
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Integrating Systems & Software Engineering Processes
Don Reifer – Chair; Barry Boehm, JoAnn Lane, Ray Madachy, Sue Koolmanojwong, Lee
Osterweil
3:30 – 4:00 pm
Break
4:00 – 5:30 pm
Architecture & Mobile Systems
A. Winsor Brown – Chair; George Edwards, Ivo Krka, Joshua Garcia, David Woollard
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Affiliates’ Reception, Dinner & Feedback Session (University Club)
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