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Record W2460239400 · doi:10.11575/prism/515

Decision support for COTS selection

2006· article· en· W2460239400 on OpenAlex
Tom Wanyama

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenuePRISM (University of Calgary) · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Techniques and Practices
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSoftwareCommercial off-the-shelfSystems engineeringSoftware engineeringComputer scienceSoftware developmentCredibilityRisk analysis (engineering)Component (thermodynamics)Engineering

Abstract

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In the last decade, the world of software development has evolved rapidly. This evolution has led to component-based software development, which in turn, has generated tremendous interest in the development of plug-and-play reusable software, leading to the concept of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components. The use of COTS is increasingly becoming commonplace. This is mainly due to shrinking budgets, accelerating rates of COTS enhancement, development time and effort constraints, and expanding system requirements. However, the COTS marketplace is characterized by a vast array of products and product claims, as well as extreme quality and capability differences among products. Therefore, there is need for a robust Decision Support System (DSS) to assist software developers and other stakeholders to select appropriate components for projects. In this research we propose an agent-based DSS for COTS selection and negotiation. The main task of the agents is to assist COTS selection stakeholders to conduct simulation-based evaluation of COTS products so as to determine the impact of different scenarios of COTS selection needs, preferences and constraints. Being web-based, the proposed DSS improves information sharing among stakeholder. Moreover, it addresses uncertainty issues related to credibility of information source, ability of the COTS selection team, changing system requirements, and changing COTS characteristics due to updates of COTS products.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.889
Threshold uncertainty score0.248

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.203 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it