ESERG: Empirical Software Engineering Research Group
at Bournemouth University
Current ESERG Projects
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project title: Marketing Advanced Software Tools (MAST)
description: Conversion of research software tools into marketable products 
staff: Martin Shepperd and Jenny Longster
dates: April 2004 - October 2004
funding: Southwest Regional Development Agency
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contact: Martin Shepperd
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project title: MeLLow: Meta-level Learning for Software Project
Prediction (GR/S45119)
description: An investigation of the use of "machine learning" approaches to conduct meta-analysis of empirical results project cost (effort) prediction systems. The goal is to determine what conditions favour what particular prediction techniques.
staff: Martin Shepperd, Carolyn Mair and Martin Lefley
dates: November 2003 - October 2006
collaborators: STTF Ltd (Finland), BT Labs (UK)
funding: EPSRC
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contact: Martin Shepperd
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project title: DITSE: Data Imputation Techniques for Software Engineering (GR/S55347)
description: An investigation into the application of data imputation methods for software engineering data sets that contain missing values. The goal is to use the data sets that we collect -- that frequently are incomplete -- more effectively.
staff: Michelle Cartwright and Bheki Twala
dates: November 2003 - April 2006
collaborators:
funding: EPSRC
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contact: M. Cartwright
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project title: Case-Based Reasoning Support For Fault Diagnosis Systems (CBRdiagnoser)
description: An industrial casestudy to investigate the impact of richer problem and solution representation for a case-based fault diagnosis system.
staff: Martin Shepperd and a doctoral research student
dates: January 2004 - December 2006
collaborators: BT
funding: EPSRC (industrial CASE award) and BT
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contact: M. Shepperd
Past Research Projects
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project title: NAME (non algorithmic methods of estimation)
description: Investigating the use of "machine learning" approaches to the software cost estimation problem
staff: Chris Schofield, Martin Shepperd, Martin Lefley
collaborators: Siemens Plessey Systems
funding: EPSRC, DERA
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contact: Martin Shepperd
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project title: VALSE Project (Validating SQUID in Software Environments)
description:To integrate a case based reasoning facility into an existing software quality management toolset (SQUID) and evaluate the toolset at various trial software developers.
staff: Liguang Chen, Chris Schofield, Martin Shepperd
collaborators: Matra BAe Dynamics, ENEA, Engineering spA, Keele University, Delta and TUV Nord
funding: EU Innovation Programme
contact: Martin Shepperd
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project title: ANGEL- Effort Estimation Using Analogy
description: An empirical investigation into the use of analogical reasoning for the purposes software effort estimation
staff: Chris Schofield, Martin Shepperd
collaborators: BT and others
funding: BT, EHE
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contact: Martin Shepperd
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project title: Effort Prediction With Sparse Data
description: Investigation into techniques, including analytic hierarchy processing (AHP) for software project effort estimation when little or no historical data is available.
staff: Sharman Barker, Martin Shepperd
collaborators: BT Labs.
funding: BT Labs.
contact: Martin Shepperd
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project title: Metrics for Object Technology (MOT Project)
description: An investigation into the automated evaluation of OO architectures
staff: Colin Kirsopp, Martin Shepperd, Steve Webster
collaborators: none at present
funding: DEC
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contact: Colin Kirsopp
Empirical Software Engineering Research Group
School of Design Engineering and Computing
Bournemouth University
Poole House
Bournemouth BH12 5BB
England
Last updated: 30/6/2004
Contact mcartwri@bournemouth.ac.uk