Collaborative decision making in software engineering over distance

在这个项目中，我们将研究支持远程软件工程决策的工具和机制。在过去的十年中，软件开发团队更频繁地分布在不同的地理位置，并从事跨站点的开发工作。与此同时，软件正变得越来越复杂，需要在软件开发周期的每个阶段做出困难和多方面的决策。由于决策者和作出决策所需的信息来源(包括人力资源)的地理分布，我们必须越来越依赖工具和技术来支持决策者和决策过程。这些工具必须能够提供对决策所需信息的访问，还必须为远距离复杂决策过程中所需的多人交互提供协作环境。在这个项目中，我们将研究如何使用社会计算技术及其协作能力来影响平台和工具的设计，以改进远程软件工程中的协作决策结果。我们还将研究目前在商业智能环境中用于决策的技术如何应用于软件工程领域。

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.