Software technology risk advisor

Author

Toth, Gregory A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

20-23 Sept. 1994

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

188

Abstract

This paper describes the Software Technology Risk Advisor (STRA), a knowledge-based software engineering tool that provides assistance in identifying and managing software technology risks. The STRA contains a knowledge base of software product and process needs, satisfying capabilities and capability maturity factors. After a user ranks the importance of relevant needs to his or her project, the STRA automatically infers risk areas by evaluating disparities between project needs and technology maturities. Identified risks are quantitatively prioritized and the user is given risk reduction advice and rationale for each conclusion. This paper presents methods used in the STRA, along with discussions of knowledge acquisition experimental results, current status, and related work.

Keywords

expert systems; knowledge acquisition; project management; project support environments; risk management; software tools; STRA; capability maturity; knowledge acquisition; knowledge base; knowledge-based software engineering tool; software product; software technology risk advisor; Application software; Computer science; Engineering management; Expert systems; Knowledge management; Programming; Risk management; Software engineering; Software tools; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference, 1994. Proceedings., Ninth

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA, USA

ISSN

1068-3062

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6380-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KBSE.1994.342663

Filename

342663