10.50

Quantifying the Risks of Outsourcing
Clifford Liles (LogicaCMG, UK)

11.50

Differences between Germany and the UK in Attitude and Approach to the Software Testing Market
Bob Bartlett (SIM/SQS, UK)

1.15

CVE and OVAL - International Security Standards That Are Making A Difference
Robert A. Martin (The MITRE Corporation, USA)

2.15

The Adoption and Diffusion of Standards
Josephine Wapakabulo, Tim King (The LSC Group, UK), Ray Dawson, Steve Probets (Loughborough University, UK)

3.15

Refreshments

3.30

An Analysis of the Industrial Applicability of Software Product Quality ISO Standards: The Context of MITRE's Software Quality Assessment Exercise
Witold Suryn, Marc-Alexis Côté, Claude Y. Laporte (École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada), Robert A. Martin (The MITRE Corporation, USA)

4.30

An Integrated Life-cycle Quality Model for General Public Market Software Products
Witold Suryn, Alain Abran, Pierre Bourque, Claude Laporte (École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada)

6.30 for 7.00

Dinner at Canterbury Christ Church University

9.00

Keynote Address
Pfizer

9.30

A Six Sigma Approach to Early Validation of Software Requirements
Management
Krishna Arul (Motorola Global Software Group, UK)

10.30

Quality Improvement through the Adoption of Integrated Business and Information Solutions (IBIS): A Case Study of Nigerian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Dili Ojukwu, Elli Georgiadou (Middlesex University, UK)

11.15

The Dynamic Perspective: Incorporating Knowledge and Learning into the Software Development Process
Darren Dalcher, Birinder Sandhawalia (Middlesex University, UK)

12.15

Towards Formalised Guidelines For Migrating Structured Designs to UML
Elli Georgiadou (Middlesex University,UK), Eleni Berki (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Ma del Brezo Cordero (Valladolid University, Spain), Margaret Ross, Geoff Staples (Southampton Institute,UK)

1.15

Lunch

2.15

Assessing variation in development effort consistency when some of
the data are missing
John Moses, Malcolm Farrow (University of Sunderland, UK)

3.15

A Generalised Structural Model of Object-Oriented Programs for Software Metrics Definition
Boris Cogan (London Metropolitan University,UK), Elena Shalfeeva (Institute for Automation and Control Processes, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

4.00

Instant Messaging Implications in the Transition from a Private Consumer Activity to a Communication Tool for Business
Thomas Jackson (Loughborough University, UK)

5.00

The Effectiveness of Training in Reducing Email Defects
Anthony Burgess, Thomas Jackson, Janet Edwards (Loughborough University, UK)

6.00

Website Accessibility and Usability of Tourist Organisations in Four African Countries
Tonderai Maswera, Ray Dawson (Loughborough University, UK)

9.00

Opening and Keynote Address

9.30

Experiences from the Use of Personal Software Process (PSP) in Greece;
Analysis of Cultural Factors
Kerstin Siakas, Andreas Mitalas (Technological Educational Institution of Thessaloniki, Greece)

10.30

Information Technology (I.T.) Ethics in the Global Setting
Vasso Stylianou, Kristina Abrossimova, Andreas Savva (Intercollege, Cyprus)

11.15

The Hydraulic X-Ray Machine: Achieving Student Self-realisation of Professional and Ethical Computing Issues
Antony Panteli (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK)

11.45

IS project management: the gap between industry and higher education
Robert T.Hughes (University of Brighton, UK)

12.45

Software Prototyping as Experiential Learning
Marian Eastwood, Robert T. Hughes (University of Brighton, UK)

2.15

Towards Implementing an ICT-based, Subject-Focused Teaching and
Learning Strategy for Convergent On-and-Off Campus Learning
Alastair Monger (Southampton Institute, UK)

3.15

Software Engineering and the Commercial Environment through the Lens of the Systems Approach
Peter Bennetts (University of Gloucestershire, UK)

4.00

Global Quality Management : The Academic, Industrial and Organisational Challenges of Software and Requirements Engineering to Face the Demands of Internationalisation
Eleni Berki, Heikki Saastamoinen, Zheying Zhang (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), Elli Georgiadou (University of Middlesex, UK), Mike Holcombe (University of Sheffield,UK), Margaret Ross, Geoff Staples (Southampton Institute, UK)

5.00

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