| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M44101/01 |
| Title: |
FEAST/2 - FEEDBACK EVOLUTION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY/2 |
| Principal Investigator: |
Lehman, Professor MMM |
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| Department: |
Computing |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1999 |
Ends: |
31 March 2001 |
Value (£): |
234,752
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
Communications |
| Information Technologies |
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The project broadens and extends earlier successful investigation of the FEAST hypothesis and an emerging theory of software evolution. The hypothesis states that as a feedback system, significant improvement of the global software process requires improvement of both forward and feedback mechanisms. The project approach is based on development, refinement, analysis and interpretation of feedback models of the global process. The objective is to provide industrial management with technical support for software evolution planning and management, and means whereby the results may be used for process improvement.To achieve this, current black box and system dynamics models of industrial software systems, will be refined and new ones developed using metric and other process data. The search for behavioural patterns and trends will be supported by visualisation and data mining. Overall results will be evaluated by various means including fuzzy dynamics. Overall, this will yield sounder understanding and a discipline for model based process improvement general and the development of management, planning and other decision support aids in particular. Conclusions and recommendations and the methods whereby they were reached will be formally documented for transfer to the project collaborators in the first instance and, eventually, for wider dissemination and application.
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