Collaborative decision making in software engineering over distance

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In this project we will investigate tools and mechanisms to support decision-making in software engineering over distance. In the past decade, software development teams are more frequently distributed geographically and engaged in cross-site development efforts. At the same time, software is becoming increasingly complex requiring difficult and mult-faceted decisions to be made at each phase of the software development cycle. Because of the geographic distribution of decision makers and information sources (including human sources) required to make decisions, we must rely increasingly on tools and technology to support the decision makers and decision making processes. These tools must be able to provide access to information needed in decision making but also must provide collaborative environments for multiperson interactions that are required in complex decision making processes over distance. In this project, we will investigate how social computing technologies and their collaborative capabilities can be used to influence the design of platforms and tools to improve outcomes in collaborative decision making in software engineering over distance. We will also study how techniques currently used for decision making in business intelligence environments can apply in software engineering domains.