The objective of this research is to show the utility ofroles and personality characteristics to the evaluation andformation of software development teams. The goals of thisresearch include demonstrating empirically that Belbin'steam roles can be used to form and evaluate software...

In recent years studies have been conducted which suggest thattaking an architecture first approach to managing large softwareprojects can reduce a significant amount of the uncertainty presentin project estimates. As the project progresses, more concreteinformation is known about the planned...

Various business problems are of interest to both data mining and marketing academic communities, such as market segmentation, direct marketing, targeted marketing, personalization/customization, cross selling and discovering customer lifetime value. Yet, these two disciplines have very...

When large numbers of alerts are reported by intrusion detection (ID) systems in very fine granularity, it prevents system administrators from handling the alerts effectively. This in turn degrades the usability of an intrusion detection system. Aside from detection, timely responses of...

Modern computing environments involve a multitude of components working in concert to provide services to users. Computer elements, network elements, operating systems, applications, users, etc. must to be constantly managed and controlled to prevent unintended or illegal accesses that could...

Over the last decade there has been growing interest in pool-based active learning techniques, where instead of receiving an i.i.d. sample from a pool of unlabeled data, a learner may take an active role in selecting examples from the pool. Queries to an oracle (a human annotator in most...

The Internet has become the standard infrastructure for all kinds of communications. At the same time, the emergence of cloud computing and web services has significantly strengthened requirements for the Internet to display greater robustness to disruptions and higher flexibility to support...

Machine learning has become one of the most active and exciting areas of computer science research, in large part because of its wide-spread applicability to problems as diverse as natural language processing, speech recognition, spam detection, search, computer vision, gene discovery, medical...

The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is generally interpreted as the set of procedures that transform inputs into outputs and as the method by which information systems are built. In the software development industry, the SDLC not only produces information systems but also is itself a type...

Intelligent Product Recommendation Agents have been used for some time now by large, well known Internet businesses such as Amazon and Netflix. Unfortunately there is little research assessing the effectiveness of these systems in influencing online consumer behavior. Businesses that sell...