Certain characteristics of software being developed and of the development environment influence how software assurance should be managed. The scope and size of the system are obvious attributes to consider. A large system is built by first decomposing it into pieces that are more easily managed. Project management decisions often influence how that decomposition is done.

a-realistic context (subjects choose numbers or letters). Subjects are also paid substantial financial incentives to help ensure that they really do prefer (H,H) to (L,L). The key design elements abstract context and financial incentives fit together to achieve the main purpose, which is to operationalize a setting about which game theory makes a prediction. The purpose of psychology experiment...

An assurance case based regime requires a strong review element. Typically, one party is responsible for preparing the assurance case. Another party (the certification authority) is responsible for accepting the assurance case. Assurance cases are, by their nature, often subjective. The objective of assurance case development, therefore, is to obtain mutual acceptance of this subjective positio...

this paper shows how game theory can be applied to modeling the interaction between government and manufacturer in implementation of cleaner production. a generic game model based upon ‘two-person non-cooperative’ static game is created to allow various strategic actions being tested by stages, and aid decision making by selecting optimal strategy for both manufacturer and policy maker to reduc...

The OMG fact-oriented approach to assurance allows full traceability between the system facts and the assurance claims, so that the system facts can be gathered by automated tools and used as evidence to justify assurance claims. OMG Software Assurance Ecosystem defines a stack of standards to enable interoperability for tools, services and machine-readable content for assurance of existing sof...

1. Objectives The AMEISE (A Media Education Initiative for Software Engineering) approach focuses on the simulation of software project management processes. Based on Stuttgart University's SESAM (Software Engineering Simulation by Animated Models) [1], the AMEISE tool-set allows for repeatedly experiencing the complexity of software project management within a game-like simulation environment ...