ProSim 05. The 6th International Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling. Proceedings

Since 1998 ProSim has been a successful international workshop that has show-cased the leading research in the Software Process Simulation and Modeling domain. Moreover, it has become one of the regular international meetings of the Software Process community. Participants have come from Europe, Asia, South America, North America, Africa and Australia/New Zealand. With respect to structure, the workshop is a combination of keynote and paper presentations, themed sessions and panel discussions. The goal of this workshop is to brinf together academics and practitioners interested in the area of software process modeling and simulation and in important industrial issues related to cost estimation and business process design. ProSim 05 continues the tradition set in previous workshops of serving as an international forum for presenting current research themes and applications, and for discussing various approaches to discover underlying similarities at both the applied and theoretical levels. In particular, this workshop solicits research dealing with both the application of software process simulation research in addressing real-world problems, as well as advances being made which provide the foundation for Software Process and Software Process Simulation Modeling in the future.