Context-Based Recommendation Approach for Measurement and Evaluation Projects英文文献资料.docVIP

J. Software Engineering Applications, 2010, 3, 1089-1106 1089 doi:10.4236/jsea.2010.312128 Published Online December 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jsea) Context-Based Recommendation Approach for Measurement and Evaluation Projects Hernan Molina , Luis Olsina , Gustavo Rossi 1 1 2,3 1 GIDIS Web, School of Engineering, National University of La Pampa, General Pico, Argentina; National University of La Plata , La Plata, Argentina; Email:{hmolina,olsinal}@.ar, gustavo@.ar 2 LIFIA, School of Informatics, 3 National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, La Plata, Argentina Received November 19 ; 2010, revised November 30 , 2010; accepted December 10 , 2010. th th th ABSTRACT Data, information and knowledge are recognized as useful assets for analysis, recommendation and decision making at any business level of an organization. Providing the right information for decision making considering different user- requirements, projects and situations is, however, a difficult issue. A frequently-neglected challenge is to cope with the influence of contextual issues affecting the success of outcomes and decisions. Particularly, when conducting quality evaluations in software organizations, it is of paramount importance to identify beforehand the contextual issues af- fecting outcomes and interpretations for measurement and evaluation projects. Therefore, the relevant context informa- tion should be clearly identified, specified and recorded for performing more robust analysis and recommendations. In this work, a domain-independent context model and a mechanism to integrate it to any application domain is presented. The context model is built upon a measurement and evaluation framework enabling quantification and semant