ICSE 2011 in Hawaii will see the second finals of the SCORE Software Engineering Contest. Teams from all over the world will take part in a competition that is open to students from undergraduate to master's level.
A representative of each finalist team will receive financial support to partially defray the cost of travel and particpation in the SCORE 2011 finals at ICSE 2011 in Hawaii.
Each team will develop a system chosen from a list and monitored by a committee member. The final deliverable is a report and accompanying system. Evaluation will be based on the quality of all aspects of the software engineering process followed, as well as the outcome. In order to accommodate a wide range of academic calendars, the SCORE 2011 Contest will run from February 2010 to January 2011, with team registration ending in November 2010 and project submission starting in February 2010. A small number of finalist teams will be announced in March 2011.
A variety of project topics are proposed by the SCORE Program Committee and made available on the SCORE website. [See Projects] These cover diverse application fields and types.
Each project topic has one or more reference persons in the SCORE Program Committee, to whom questions regarding the desired outcome of the project can be addressed. The project topic also specifies the type and amount of interaction scheduled by the reference person. For example, one project might have well-defined requirements and limit interaction with the reference person(s) to occasional email, while another topic might have (deliberately) fuzzy requirements and require a greater degree of interaction in which the reference person acts as the "customer" or "client".
Teams must register before they start the project. To register for participation in SCORE, a team representative should send the following information in an email message to score-2011-register :
- The selected project topic from among those proposed by the SCORE Program Committee. [See FAQ]
- The (tentative) team members (names, email addresses, institutions).
- The name and email address of the contact person.
- If the project is being performed in conjunction with an academic course, then the name of the course, and the name and email address of the course instructor. The course instructor must be made aware that students are participating in SCORE, and the SCORE committee may cc the instructor in certain communications.
