Dr Juan Fernandez-Ramil

Juan Carlos Fernandez-Ramil
Lecturer
Computing Department
The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA,
United Kingdom (U.K.)
j.f.ramil <at> open.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1908 654088, sec: +44 (0) 1908 858462
fax: +44 (0)1908 652140

Appointments

· 2001 - present: Lecturer, Computing Dept., The Open University, UK

· 1996 - 2001: Researcher, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London, UK

Publications
Click here for a listing of publications in which I have been involved.

Books

Software Evolution and Feedback – Theory and Practice

Madhavji NH, Fernández-Ramil J and Perry DE (eds.),

Wiley, Chichester, UK (2006),

ISBN: 0-470-87180-6, pp. 616.

Managing the Software Enterprise – Software Engineering and Information Systems in Context,

Hall P and Fernández-Ramil J,

Int. Thomson Business Press,

London, UK (2007),

ISBN: 1844803546, pp. 441.

Research interests

· Software management, including effort estimation approaches for software and process simulation

· Empirical studies of software maintenance, including both proprietary and open source software

· Measurement of software

Qualifications

PhD in Software Evolution (2003), Dept. of Computing, Imperial College London. Thesis Title: "Continual Resource Estimation for Evolving Software"

MSc in Managerial Engineering (1993), Simon Bolivar University, Caracas

BSc in Electronic Engineering (1986), Simon Bolivar University, Caracas

Research Projects

CRESTES - Continual Resource ESTimation for Evolving Software
Funding kindly provided by the UK EPSRC. 2004 - 2005
The project evaluated an approach to productivity estimation, specifically oriented towards software systems that are under continual change.
Dr Sarah Beecham was the CRESTES research fellow.

Program Committee Memberships

ICSM 2007, 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, Oct. 2 - 5, 2007, Paris, France.

Evolvability 2007, 3rd IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability, Oct. 1st, 2007, Paris, France

IWPSE 2007, International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, Sept. 3 - 4, 2007, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

ICSOFT 2007, 2nd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, July 22 - 25, Barcelona, Spain

IWSSA 2007, 6th Intl. Workshop on System/Software Architectures, June 25 - 28, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

FLOSS 2007, 1st Intl. Workshop on Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development, May 21, Minneapolis, USA, co-located with ICSE 2007

ICSP 2007, International Conference on Software Process, Theme: "Coping with Software Process Dynamics and Agility", 19-20 May, Minneapolis, USA, co-located with ICSE 2007.

ICSM 2006, 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 24-27 Sept 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Evolvability 2006, Second IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability, 24 Sept 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, co-located with ICSM 2006

International ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution 2006, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, 6-7 April 2006, Lille, France

ICSEA 2006, International Conference on Software Engineering Advances, 29 Oct - 3 Nov, Tahiti, French Polynesia

CSMR 2006, 10th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 22 - 24 March, 2006, Bari, Italy

SPW/ProSim 2006, Software Process Workshop & Workshop on Software Process Simulation and Modeling, 20-21 May 2006, Shanghai, China, co-located with ICSE 2006

ICSOFT 2006, 1st International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, 11-14 Sept 2006, Setubal, Portugal

IWSSA 2004, 2005, 2006

FUSE 2004,