Proceedings of a Symposium on the High Cost of Software Held at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, on September 17-19, 1973,
Abstract
The Monterey Symposium on the High Cost of Software was held in September 1973, under the joint sponsorship of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, and the Office of Naval Research. The objective of the symposium was to consider what research is needed to achieve a major reduction in software costs. Attendance was by invitation. The 97 attendees were organized in five workshops. The attendees were in strong agreement that direct and indirect software costs are unnecessarily high and are growing rapidly, that they constitute a serious limitation on the effectiveness of information-processing systems, and that the high cost is a consequence of the poor state-of-the-art of software design, production, and maintenance. There was a strong feeling of urgency that an energetic program of research be undertaken to advance the software art. The workshop discussions resulted in two sets of recommendations for a service-supported research program. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1973
- Accession Number
- AD0777121
Entities
People
- Jack Goldberg
Organizations
- Air Force Research Laboratory