Empirical Methods in Software Engineering
Research Staff
Academics: Prof Ross Jeffery (PhD, UNSW, Sydney 1986), A/Prof Arthur Ramer PhD, SUNY 1986), Dr. Jayasooriah (PhD, UNSW, Sydney 1986), Dr. Geoff Whale
PG Research Students: 4 graduated
Visitors: Christiana Differding (Fraunhofer Institute - IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany), Victor Basili (University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A.), Dieter Rombach (Fraunhofer Institute - IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany), Maria do Carma Nicoletti (Federal University of San Carlos, Brazil)
Capability:
- descriptive process modelling
- software development cost modelling and estimation
- software metrics and inspections
- models of workflow analysis
- decision theory and fuzzy logic
- certification and project analysis
Trackrecord (1997-2001)
Research Grants:
- ARC Large Grants: Conditional Objects $190,000
- Fuzzy Rule Systems for Reservoir Modeling $200,000
- ARC Small Grant: Quantum Rationality $15,000
- ARC SPIRT: Hypermedia Design Process and Product (SPIRT) $195,000
- Managing changes in dynamic workflow environments $300,000
- Learning fuzzy rules for dynamic workflow management $70,000
- Others
- ACE, Software Metrics and Estimation (with CSIRO and Fraunhofer) $183,000
- Department of Industry, Science and Resources as part of the CORONET
- Project (European Commission Fifth Framework Project) $48,000
Publications:
- Journal articles 30
- Chapters in books 12
- Conference papers 60
- Reports and misc 10
Collaborations:
CSIRO/Macquarie University Joint Research Centre for Adv. Sys. Engineering (Sydney), UTS (Sydney), Fraunhofer Inst. for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany), Laforia (Lab. For Artificial Intelligence), University of Paris VI KAIST – Korea Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, National Singapore University – Dept’s of CS and EE, Lund University (Sweden), Nara Inst. of Science and Technology (Japan), Centre for Empirically Based Software Engineering (University of Maryland & Southern California), Allette Systems Pty Ltd (Australia), Access OnLine Pty Ltd (Australia).
Miscellaneous:
- Consulting
- BT Funds Management
- expert witness for the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
- Caeser Recent Activities
- Conducting the Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (2001)
- Sponsoring the Australian Software Engineering Conference (Aug 2001)
- Hosting the Dieter Rombach Seminar for industry (Aug 2001)
Facilities: The group has its own subnet and compute-server that is used for installing specialised software and experimentation.
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