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.