8th Workshop on Quantitative Approaches in Object-Oriented Software Engineering (QAOOSE 2004)

The workshop was a direct continuation of seven successful workshops, held at previous editions of ECOOP in Darmstadt (2003), Malaga (2002), Budapest (2001), Cannes (2000), Lisbon (1999), Brussels (1998) and Aarhus (1995). This time, as in previous editions, the workshop attracted participants from both academia and industry that are involved / interested in the application of quantitative methods in object oriented software engineering research and practice. As a result of the previous edition and in order to open the workshop participation to a broader audience, the 2004 edition extended the scope of the workshop to quantitative approaches to other than object-oriented modelling, specification and programming methodologies and technologies. In particular component-based systems (CBS), web-based systems (WBS) and agent-based systems (ABS) will also fit into this new edition. Like in previous years, submissions were invited, but not limited, to the areas of metrics collection, quality assessment, metrics validation, and process management. This year we received 15 position papers. 9 authors were invited to present theirs positions as discussion topics and 3 others to present posters. Informal proceedings of QAOOSE’2004 were distributed to the participants.