Announcement and Call for Participation

OOSPICE Project Information Workshop 

Friday, May 16, 2003 - 9:00 am to 16:00 pm

Vienna, Austria


Organised by the OOSPICE Project
Supported by the Austrian Computer Society

 

INTRODUCTION, BACKGROUND

In the last years, the software engineering community has witnessed the emergence of Component-Based Software Development (CBD). With the increasing popularity of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), CBD development approaches are expected to receive again increased attention and importance. On the other hand, the field of Software Process Improvement (SPI), sharing very similar goals to CBD (and SOA) like shorter time-to-market, reduced costs and increased quality, has made considerable advances in the standardization of software process assessment and improvement (e.g. SPICE/ISO 15504, CMM), but generally lacks tailoring and customisation to CBD.

The EU-funded international research and development project OOSPICE (IST-1999-29073) was targeted at overcoming the shortcomings experienced when applying SPI approaches to CBD. The project is now approaching its closure. For further information on the OOSPICE Project see http://www.oospice.com

WORKSHOP GOALS

The OOSPICE Project Information Workshop aims at disseminating the findings of the OOSPICE Project. It will provide an overview on the background and motivation for the project and the recent developments in both the fields of CBD and SPI. The focus of the workshop will be on introducing to the participants the CBD Best Practice Model developed within the project and both the Software Process Assessment Methodology for CBD as well as the CBD Development Methodology based on the Best Practice Model. The workshop will be rounded up by presentations of the Assessment Tool and the CBD Tool developed to support the methodologies.

PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION

This event is funded by the the EU. Participation at the workshop is free. The number of participants will be limited. Please register for the workshop by sending your name, affiliation, postal and email address and accomodation needs to registration@oospice.com. Hotel information will be made available to registered participants.

LOCATION

Austrian Computer Society (OCG)
Heinz Zemanek Room
Wollzeile 3-5
A-1010 Vienna, Austria.

Right in the center of Vienna, 5 minutes walk from the Dome (St. Stefan)

For more information on the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), see: http://www.ocg.at

For detailed information on how to get to the OCG, see: http://www.ocg.at/ueber-uns/plan.html

PROGRAMME

09:00  Arrival – coffee -
09:15   Opening / Introduction / Welcome 
09:30     The OOSPICE Project: An Overview  Fritz Stallinger
10:15 Coffee -
10:45  Best Practices in Component Based Development  Bruno Lefever, Danny Saro
12:15  Lunch -
13:15 Assessing CBD Process Capability Alec Dorling
14:30 Coffee -
15:00 Experiences with CBD and Rational Unified Process Alec Dorling
15:30    Forum / Discussion

CONTACT

In case of any questions please contact:

Fritz Stallinger (OOSPICE Project Manager)
Institute of Systems Sciences
Department of Systems Engineering and Automation
Kepler University Linz
A-4040 Linz / Austria

Email: fs@sea.uni-linz.ac.at or info@oospice.com
Phone: +43 732 2468-8868
Fax: +43 732 2468-8878

ANNOUNCEMENT ON WORLD WIDE WEB

This information can also be found at the OOSPICE Web site:

http://www.oospice.com/EU-Seminar_Vienna.html