In the business world, analyzing and dealing with risk permeates all decisions and actions. However, to date, risk identification, the first step in the risk management cycle, has...
During the development and maintenance of ObjectOriented (OO) software, the information on the classes which are more prone to be changed is very useful. Developers and maintainer...
Recent work in applying causal modeling (Bayesian networks) to software engineering has resulted in improved decision support systems for software project managers. Once the causa...
Peter Hearty, Norman E. Fenton, Martin Neil, Patri...
When a lack of data inhibits decision making, large scale what-if queries can be conducted over the uncertain parameter ranges. Such what-if queries can generate an overwhelming a...
To improve the ability of predicting the impact scope of a given change, we present two approaches applicable to the maintenance of object-oriented software systems. Our first ap...