Decision Support System for Risk Assessment and Management Strategies in Distributed Software Development

IEEE Access

Volumn 5, Issue , 2017, Pages 20349-20373

  Aslam, Adeel ^a   Ahmad, Naveed ^a   Saba, Tanzila ^b   Almazyad, Abdulaziz S ^c,d   Rehman, Amjad ^c,d   Anjum, Adeel ^a   Khan, Abid ^a  

^a COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

^b PRINCE SULTAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c AL YAMAMAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

decision support system; Distributed software development; risk analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIBLIOGRAPHIES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PLANNING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISKS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM (DSS); DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; GUIDELINES; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENTS; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW (SLR);

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85030782327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2757605     Document Type: Article

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