Planning and re-planning of software product releases

软件产品发布的计划和重新计划为发布分配特性，以满足最重要的技术、资源、风险、预算和涉众约束和目标。发布计划是一个计算上和认知上都很复杂的问题：这个问题很难解决，但更难制定出来。考虑了现有计划方法的五种扩展：(i)灵活发布日期的计划，（ii）跨产品的计划（系统和产品线发布计划），（iii）以资源为中心的发布计划，（iv）产品发布的重新计划，以及(v)非线性发布计划和重新计划。将基于问题形式化描述的专业优化技术的优势与人类专家的指导参与相结合的进化问题解决是适用于所有研究方向的基本原则。这项研究是为解决计算和认知困难的软件工程决策问题提供支持的更大努力的一部分。

Planning and re-planning for software product releases assigns features to releases such that most important technical, resource, risk, budget and stakeholder constraints and objectives are met. Release planning is a computationally and cognitively complex problem: The problem is hard to solve, but even harder to be formulated.Five extensions of existing planning methods are considered:(i) Planning with flexible release dates,(ii) Planning across products (system and product line release planning),(iii) Resource-centric planning of releases,(iv) Re-planning of product releases, and(v) Non-linear release planning and re-planning.Evolutionary problem solving combining the strengths of specialized optimization techniques based on formalized description of the problem with the guided involvement of human experts is the fundamental principle applied to all directions of research. The research is part of a larger effort to provide support for solving computationally and cognitively difficult software engineering decision problems.