Supporting software process decisions using bi-directional simulation

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 513-530

  Raffo, David M ^a   Setamanit, Siri On ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi criteria decision making; Project management; Simulation; Software measurement repositories; Software process modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL;

BIDIRECTIONAL SIMULATION; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME BASED CONTROL LIMITS; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT REPOSITORIES; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0346255555     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194003001445     Document Type: Article

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