Title :
The Evaluation of Software Trustworthiness with FAHP and FTOPSIS Methods
Author :
Shi, Li ; Yang, Shanlin
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. Network Syst., Hefei Univ. of Technol., Hefei, China
Abstract :
Trustworthy software has attracted increasing concern both in academia and industry. How to effectively evaluate the trustworthiness is becoming a closed question. This paper models the software trustworthiness evaluation (STE) problem as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem, and proposes both an evaluation framework and a practical approach to evaluate the software trustworthiness based on the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) and fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (FTOPSIS) methods. FAHP method is utilized to obtain the weights of evaluation criteria. The FTOPSIS method is used to determine the final ranking of the software alternatives. The uncertainty and vagueness included in evaluation procedure are represented as fuzzy triangular numbers. Finally, the proposed method is applied to the case study of evaluating the trustworthiness of project management (PM) software alternatives for a car manufacturer in China.
Keywords :
decision making; fuzzy set theory; number theory; operations research; security of data; software reliability; China; car manufacturer; fuzzy analytic hierarchy process; fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution method; fuzzy triangular numbers; multicriteria decision-making problem; project management software alternatives; software trustworthiness evaluation; Application software; Computer industry; Computer network management; Computer networks; Decision making; Machine tools; Manufacturing; Project management; Software quality; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering, 2009. CiSE 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4507-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4507-3
DOI :
10.1109/CISE.2009.5365827
