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A FRAMEWORK FOR INTELLIGENT ASSESSMENT
AND RESOLUTION OF COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF
PRODUCT INCOMPATIBILITIES
by
Jesal Bhuta
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(COMPUTER SCIENCE)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Jesal Bhuta
Object Description
| Title | A framework for intelligent assessment and resolution of commercial-off-the-shelf product incompatibilities |
| Author | Bhuta, Jesal |
| Author email | jesal@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Computer Science |
| School | Viterbi School of Engineering |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-05-07 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-06-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Boehm, Barry |
| Advisor (committee member) |
[illegible] Settles, F. Stan Valerdi, Ricardo [illegible] |
| Abstract | Software systems today are frequently composed from prefabricated commercial components that provide complex functionality and engage in complicated interactions. Such projects that utilize multiple commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products often confront interoperability conflicts resulting in budget and schedule overruns. These conflicts occur because of the incompatible assumptions made by developers during the development of these products. Identification of such conflicts and planning strategies to resolve them is critical for developing such systems under budget and schedule constraints. Unfortunately, acquiring information to perform interoperability analysis is a time-intensive process. Moreover, increase in the number of COTS products available to fulfill similar functionality leads to hundreds of COTS product combinations, further complicating the COTS interoperability assessment activity.; This dissertation motivates, presents and validates an intelligent assessment and resolution framework for Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) incompatibilities. The framework can be used to perform high-level and automated interoperability assessment to filter out COTS product combinations whose integration will not be feasible within project constraints. The framework efficiently and effectively captures knowledge on COTS product interoperability and allows a user to automatically leverage this knowledge to perform interoperability assessment. The framework elements have been utilized to develop an interoperability assessment tool -- Integration Studio.; This framework is empirically validated using controlled experiments and project implementations in 25 projects from small, medium and large network centric systems from diverse business domains. The empirical evidence consistently indicates an increase in interoperability assessment productivity by about 50% and accuracy by 20% in small and medium systems. |
| Keyword | COTS; incompatibility; interoperability; commercial-off-the-shelf; assessment; resolution; mismatches |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m526 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Bhuta, Jesal |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Bhuta-20070611 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Bhuta-20070611.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | A FRAMEWORK FOR INTELLIGENT ASSESSMENT AND RESOLUTION OF COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF PRODUCT INCOMPATIBILITIES by Jesal Bhuta A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (COMPUTER SCIENCE) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Jesal Bhuta |
