Current ESERG Projects

• 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
  further details: click here
  contact: Martin Shepperd
• 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
  further details: click here
  contact: Martin Shepperd
• 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
  further details: click here
  contact: M. Cartwright
• 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
  further details: click here
  contact: M. Shepperd

• 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
  further details: click here
  contact: Martin Shepperd
• 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
• 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
  further details: click here
  contact: Martin Shepperd
• 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
• 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
  further details: click here
  contact: Colin Kirsopp

Last updated: 30/6/2004
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