Francisco VALDÉS-SOUTO
National Autonomous University of Mexico Science Faculty
Mexico

Has a PhD degree in Software Engineering with a specialty in Software Measurement and Estimation at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) in Canada, two master's degrees in Mexico and France. President of COSMIC. Associate Professor of the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Founder of the Mexican Association of Software Metrics (AMMS). More than 25 years of experience in critical software development. He currently has more than 50 publications including articles in Indexed Journals, Proceedings, books and book chapters. He is the main promoter of the topic of formal software metrics in Mexico, promoting COSMIC (ISO/IEC 19761) as a National Standard. Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI). Research interests: software measurement and estimation applied to software project management, scope management, productivity and economics in software projects.

Jorge VALERIANO-ASSEM
SPINGERE
Mexico

Master in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, specialist consultant in formal software measurement and estimation since 2016. Areas of interest: Software metrics (COSMIC), Software estimation models, Software Validation Models, Estimation of Functional and Non-Functional Requirements, Evaluation of the Performance of Software Development Projects aligned to Software Metrics, Evaluation of the Quality of the Software Development Product.