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LIST OF SUGGESTED FEAST'2000 WORKSHOP TOPICS
The list is illustrative. Position papers and extended abstracts addressing topics other than these but within the general themes will be welcome.
THEMES
- Role and Impact of Feedback Mechanisms and Interactions on Business and Software Processes
- Dynamics of Software and Business Evolution and Their Interactions
- Software and Business Process Improvement in the Context of Feedback
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I. Understanding and Forecasting Software and Business Evolution
- the what, why and how of software evolution - theory and practice
- identifying, measuring, analysing sources and attributes of product and process evolution
- software evolution: its drivers, characteristics, attributes and implications
- the role of stakeholders' viewpoints
- feasibility and benefits of controlled evolution
- directing and controlling software evolution
- evolution vs ab initio development
- comparing the economics of software evolution and revolution
- evolution in a re-use, component and COTS-intensive world
II. Models and Empirical Studies
- data collection, analysis , interpretation and modelling
- role and impact of formal and informal feedback on software and business processes
- of feedback mechanisms in software and business processes
- of dynamic interactions in and between software, organisational, business, market and technological environments
- process models reflecting feedback interactions
- modelling and analysis paradigms from other disciplines
- methods, techniques and tools for monitoring processes and feedback
III. Process Management and its Support
- management as a feedback-driven process
- feedback in product and process evolution
- feedback in process control
- paradigms for management of evolution
- understanding and forecasting process behaviour and product evolution
- process improvement and reengineering
- cost estimation in the context of feedback and system evolution
- uncertainty and risk management
- use of approaches such as fuzzy dynamics, qualitative dynamics, multi-agent techniques
- exploitation of feedback for process improvement
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