Estimating the costs of software development is one of the most important activities in software project management. Inaccuracies in such estimates may cause irreparable loss. A low estimate of the cost of projects will result in failure on delivery on time and indicates the inefficiency of the software development team. On the other hand, high estimates of resources and costs for a project wil...

systems management software G. Pruett A. Abbondanzio J. Bielski T. D. Fadale A. E. Merkin Z. Rafalovich L. A. Riedle J. W. Simpson The management software for the IBM eServere BladeCentert platform combines multiple management tools and technologies to create an integrated solution for managing, configuring, and deploying the chassis components and attached storage area networks. The IBM softwa...

Welcome to Software Engineering Risk Management (SERIM). As a professional associated with the development of software, you are well aware that the software development process can truly be a jungle, filled with hazards that lie in wait to sabotage your projects. These hazards (risks) are numerous and often complex. The purpose of this application is to help you find a safer path through this j...

The waterfall model of conventional software management, which is still prevalent in many mature software organizations, has served its purpose. The ever-increasing market demands on software development performance continue. The increasing breadth of Internet applications has further accelerated the transition to a more modern management process known as spiral, incremental, evolutionary, or i...

Software-Produkt-Management hat zunehmende Bedeutung und erhebliche Verbreitung sowohl bei Software-Herstellern als auch in Anwenderorganisationen erlangt. Es zielt auf den nachhaltigen ökonomischen Erfolg der Software-Produkte, seien sie selbstentwickelt oder zugekauft. In diesem Tutorium wird ein praxisorientierter Überblick gegeben über das breite Spektrum von Themen, für die ein SoftwarePro...

Software architecture is a recognized and indispensable part of system development. Software architecture is often defined in terms of components and connectors, or the ”high-level conception of a system”. In recent years, there has been an awareness that not only the design itself is important to capture, but also the knowledge that has led to this design. This so-called architectural knowledg...

Software Configuration Management and Product Data Management systems have been developed independently, but recently the need to integrate them to support multidisciplinary development environments has been recognised. Due to the difference in maturity levels of these disciplines, integration efforts have had limited success in the past. This paper examines how the move towards model-based dev...

This paper proposes a knowledge-based approach to manage software warehouses. It is understood that knowledge acquisition is the bottleneck for intelligent systems of all kinds. Our research focuses on solutions for both theoretical and practical aspects of the bottleneck tasks through the proposed mechanisms of randomization, symbolic representation, and grammatical inference. Key-Words: Knowl...