ISERN 2001, Glasgow, 20th – 22nd August 2001 Slide 1/6 Annual Meeting Department of Computer Science - University of Strathclyde Glasgow, Scotland, UK Günther Ruhe UNIVERSITY of CALGARY

ISERN 2001, Glasgow, 20th – 22nd August 2001 Slide 2/6 University of Calgary  U of C is the most research-intensive university in Alberta and among the top 10 in Canada  Research funding exceeds $134.5 million per year  16 faculties with more than 60 academic departments  Employs about 1,900 academic and 2,400 support staff  Serves 30,000 students registered in degree programs and another 20,000 in continuing education programs.

ISERN 2001, Glasgow, 20th – 22nd August 2001 Slide 3/6 SERN at U of C : Organization and Objectives Organization: Joint venture of the - Department of Computer Science and the - Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the U of C. Objectives of SERN are to establish:  A centre of excellence in research and development concerned with the knowledge flows and processes underlying the software life cycle;  Research and graduate training activities that will develop highly qualified personnel in industrial software development;  An organizational infrastructure at the University of Calgary supporting a long-term program of university-industry collaborative research on software development.

ISERN 2001, Glasgow, 20th – 22nd August 2001 Slide 4/6 SERN Research Areas & Research Approach Research Areas  Requirements engineering (A.Eberlein)  Agend-based software development (B.H. Far)  Object-Oriented software development (R. Kremer)  Web-based software development (F. Maurer)  Software engineering decision making (G. Ruhe)  Measurement (M. Smith)  Component-based software engineering (Y. Wang) Research Approach  Model building  Measurement  Empirical evaluation of results

ISERN 2001, Glasgow, 20th – 22nd August 2001 Slide 5/6 Proposals for Future Work  Development of a methodology guidebook for how to design and analyze empirical studies  ISERN data base with measurment data and procise definition/classification of the experiment  Inclusion of simulation as an additional source to get insight ("experiments in virtual world supplementing or predecessing experiments in real world")  New topics of experimental work: Component-based software development Empirical studies into how to coordinate distributed development teams Empirical case-study comparing productivity of XP and "normal“ development processes

ISERN 2001, Glasgow, 20th – 22nd August 2001 Slide 6/6 Contact Person  More than five years deputy director at Fh IESE  Emphasis on methodological research: Special issue in IJSEKE on "Analysis of Empirical SE Data“  Area Editor for Software Engineering Decision- Making to IJSEKE  Conducting experiments  Teaching Grad courses on SE measurement and SE decision-making Graduate course on ESE an University of Oulu  Actively involved in proposal for the European 5 th Framework ESERNET project