Software Process Improvement 12th European Conference, EuroSPI 2005,

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Ita Richardson Pekka Abrahamsson Richard Messnarz (Eds.)

Software Process Improvement 12th European Conference, EuroSPI 2005 Budapest, Hungary, November 9-11, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Ita Richardson University of Limerick, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems National Technological Park Castletroy, Limerick, Ireland E-mail: [email protected] Pekka Abrahamsson VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland PO Box 1100, Kaitoväylä 1, 90571 Oulu, Finland E-mail: pekka.abrahamsson@vtt.fi Richard Messnarz International Software Consulting Network GmbH Research Office Schieszstattgasse 4, 8010 Graz, Austria E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005935531 CR Subject Classification (1998): D.2, K.6, K.4.2 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

This volume is intended for SPI (software process improvement) managers and researchers, quality managers, and experienced project and research managers. The papers constitute the research proceedings of the 12th EuroSPI (European Software Process Improvement, www.eurospi.net) conference held in Budapest, 9–11 November 2005, Hungary. Conferences have been held in 1994 in Dublin, 1995 in Vienna (Austria), 1997 in Budapest (Hungary), 1998 in Gothenburg (Sweden)