Paper Info
Title
Interactive Decision Support for Multiobjective COTS Selection
Abstract
In the past decade component-based software engineering (CBSE) has gained considerable attention from both industry and the scientific community. Obviously, selecting the "best" combination of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components plays a critical role in CBSE. This task becomes demanding, as multiple objectives and constraints have to be taken into account. So far, the selection process has been tackled by such traditional techniques as the Weighted Scoring Method or the Analytical Hierarchy Process. This paper introduces a decision support approach that more properly addresses that challenge. The approach involves first determining (feasible) Pareto-efficient alternatives, then allowing decision makers to interactively explore the solution space until they find the most appealing solution. It not only works without extensive a priori preference information (such as criteria weights), it can also be easily integrated into existing COTS selection frameworks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/HICSS.2007.283
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
selection process,cots selection framework,multiobjective cots selection,weighted scoring method,pareto-efficient alternative,decision support approach,interactive decision support,analytical hierarchy process,appealing solution,solution space,commercial off-the-shelf,decision maker,decision support systems,object oriented programming,software engineering,decision support,analytic hierarchy process
Software engineering,Object-oriented programming,Computer science,Decision support system,A priori and a posteriori,Software selection,Management science,Analytic hierarchy process
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-2755-8
29
1.21
References 
Authors
21
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Neubauer1291.21
Christian Stummer256739.96