Objective and Motivation
Software project managers require reliable methods for estimating software project costs, and assessing software development productivity. For over 25 years, there has been considerable research effort directed towards software cost estimation and software productivity analysis, various algorithmic approaches developed and their performance reported in the research literature. But nevertheless, cost estimation and productivity analysis remains a complex problem in the software industry.
The goal of the workshop on software productivity analysis and cost estimation, SPACE 2008, is to bring together practitioners and researchers for discussion and presentation on the emerging aspects pertaining to software cost estimation, productivity analysis, prediction models and techniques, and lessons learned. The workshop provides a forum to present new ideas and to explore future directions in these areas for software engineering and software project management.
