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A Hybrid Model for Dynamic Simulation of Custom Software Projects in a Multiproject Environment

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Trustworthy Software Development Processes (ICSP 2009)

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This paper describes SimHiProS, a hybrid simulation model of software production. The goal is to gain insight on the dynamics induced by resource sharing in multiproject management. In order to achieve it the hierarchy of decisions in a multiproject organization is modeled and some resource allocation methods based on algorithms from the OR/AI domain are used. Other critical issues such as the hybrid nature of software production and the effects of measurement and control are also incorporated in the model. Some first results are presented.

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  1. Departamento de Organización Industrial y Gestión de Empresas, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. Descubrimientos s/n, 41092, Sevilla, Spain

    Javier Navascués

  2. Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41011, Sevilla, Spain

    Isabel Ramos & Miguel Toro

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  1. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.4 South Fourth Street, Zhong Guan Cun, 100190, Beijing, China

    Qing Wang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

    Vahid Garousi

  3. Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Bullard Hall, Room 201J, 777 Dyer Road, CA 93943, Monterey, USA

    Raymond Madachy

  4. Simula Research Laboratory, P.O.Box 134, 1325, Lysaker, Norway

    Dietmar Pfahl

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Navascués, J., Ramos, I., Toro, M. (2009). A Hybrid Model for Dynamic Simulation of Custom Software Projects in a Multiproject Environment. In: Wang, Q., Garousi, V., Madachy, R., Pfahl, D. (eds) Trustworthy Software Development Processes. ICSP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01680-6_17

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