COMPSAC 2008 32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Turku, Finland, July 28 - August 1, 2008.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Manuscript for submission should be written in English and have no more than six pages (including tables and figures). Please, see

COMPSAC 2008 website for instructions of the format of the papers. Electronic version of the papers in PDF or postscript files should be submitted to the workshop, using the submission page www.easychair.org/IWSC08, before the submission deadline on February 22, 2008.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE: Selected papers will be invited to submit an expanded version to be published in the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE). The papers must address decision support and be related to software engineering.

Control Approaches for Decision Support in Software Engineering: A control theoretic approach in an SE environment leads to concrete/quantitative suggestions to the developers and managers on how to proceed further to ensure that goals are met. It might also, though not necessarily, lead to a change in goals especially when there exists no feasible solution. However, in most cases, due to the multidimensionality of the problem, a control theoretic approach will likely lead to multiple feasible solutions, when at least one exists. This multiplicity of solutions provides choices to the management in decision making. Hence, a control theoretic approach when applied in an SE environment, aids in decision making.
Note that, for example, control used inside an automobile automatically leads to a physical action. This, however, is not likely to be the case in SE environments where the control suggestions might affect the employed manpower and hence a human being uses the suggestions to make the final decision. Such a decision will likely be based on several parameters that are not incorporated in the model.