PROMISE 2012 - The International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE)

This international conference seeks repeatable methods for building verifiable models, useful for implementation, evaluation, & management of software development projects (both in general or for specific domains like telecom, finance, scientific applications, etc).
TOPICS: Our topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Effort prediction models
Defect prediction models
Meta-analysis and generalizations of predictive models exploring certain questions
Replicated studies
Predicting various intermediate or final outcomes of interest regarding business, team, human, people, process, and organizational aspects of software engineering
Privacy and ethical issues in sharing and modeling
Qualitative research guiding and informing the process of building future predictive models
Instance-based models predicting outcomes by examining similarities to past experiences
Industrial experience reports detailing the application of software technologies ? processes, methods, or tools ? and their effectiveness in industrial settings.
Tools for software researchers that effectively gather and analyze data to support reproducible and verifiable research.
THEME: The theme of PROMISE’12 is the next generation of empirical SE (next-gen). While we encourage submission of the traditional style of PROMISE papers, we also seek “next gen” papers that extend this area in significant new directions (see notes below)