Automated population of causal models for improved software risk assessment

20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 433-434

  Hearty, Peter ^a   Fenton, Norman ^a   Neil, Martin ^a   Cates, Patrick ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Software process models

Indexed keywords

CASE TOOLS; CAUSAL MODEL; CAUSAL MODELING; COMMERCIAL TOOLS; PROTOTYPE TOOLS; SOFTWARE COST; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE PROCESS MODELS; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME-SCALES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 48449098307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1101908.1101990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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