Nowadays, project selection is a vital decision in many organizations. Because competition among research projects in order to gain more budgets and to attain new scientific domain has increased. Due to multiple objectives and budgeting restrictions for academic research projects have led to the use of expert system for decision making by academic and research centers. The existing methods suff...

This paper describes work undertaken within the context of the P3 (Project and Process Prompter) Project which aims to develop the Prompter tool, a “decision-support tool to assist in the planning and managing of a software project”. Prompter will have the ability to help software project managers to assimilate best practice and ‘know how’ in the field of software project management and incorpo...

This is the final report of the collaborative research project diagnoseIT on expert-guided automatic diagnosis of performance problems in enterprise applications.

This document summarises an evaluation of two software release tools CMT and SCRAM which have been identified by the “Software Process RTAG” as possible candidates for a common tool supported by LCG. The evaluation of SCRAM has been carried out by a CMT expert, while CMT has been evaluated by a SCRAM expert. The main goal of the evaluation was to compare and contrast the tools behaviour in a re...

Expert judgment for software effort estimation is oriented toward direct evidences that refer to actual effort of similar projects or activities through experts’ experiences. However, the availability of direct evidences implies the requirement of suitable experts together with past data. The circumstantial-evidence-based judgment proposed in this paper focuses on the development experiences de...

Web-based collaboration (eCollaboration) is becoming increasingly popular. The crucial first step of a consulting collaboration is expert finding. This paper describes the FindXpRT project for finding experts via rules and taxonomies. We implemented rules for a client finding an expert to collaborate with, for an expert’s decision making on whether to collaborate, and for specifying the collabo...

This paper describes work undertaken within the context of the P3 (Project and Process Prompter) Project the Prompter tool, a ‘decision-support tool to assist in the planning and managing of a software development project’. Prompter has the ability to help software project managers assimilate best practice and ‘know how’ in the field of software project management and incorporate expert critiqu...