MODELING THE EVOLUTION OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRENDS - A Bottom Up Approach

Latifa Ben Arfa Rabai, Yan Zhi Bai, Ali Mili

2009

Abstract

Many decision-makers in industry, government and academia routinely make decisions whose outcome depends on the evolution of software technology trends. Even though the stakes of these decisions are usually very high, decision makers routinely depend on expert opinions and qualitative assessments to model the evolution of software technology. In this paper, we report on our ongoing work to build quantitative models of the evolution of software technology trends. In particular, we discuss how we took three trend-dependent evolutionary models and merged them into a single (trend-independent) model.

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Ben Arfa Rabai L., Zhi Bai Y. and Mili A. (2009). MODELING THE EVOLUTION OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRENDS - A Bottom Up Approach . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-674-009-2, pages 47-54. DOI: 10.5220/0002259300470054


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft09,
author={Latifa Ben Arfa Rabai and Yan Zhi Bai and Ali Mili},
title={MODELING THE EVOLUTION OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRENDS - A Bottom Up Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2009},
pages={47-54},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002259300470054},
isbn={978-989-674-009-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - MODELING THE EVOLUTION OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TRENDS - A Bottom Up Approach
SN - 978-989-674-009-2
AU - Ben Arfa Rabai L.
AU - Zhi Bai Y.
AU - Mili A.
PY - 2009
SP - 47
EP - 54
DO - 10.5220/0002259300470054