A PROCESS FOR COTS-SELECTION AND MISMATCHES HANDLING - A Goal-driven Approach

Sodany Kiv, Yves Wautelet, Manuel Kolp

2010

Abstract

Organizations facing the difficulties and costs associated with the development of their information systems from scratch turn to use commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products to build their systems. A crucial factor in the success of such project is to perform a good COTS decision-making process, a process that aims at defining the organizations' requirements, evaluating existing products and selecting the one that best fits requirements. However, even the best-fitting product would not perfectly match requirements, this is referred to as COTS mismatches. These mismatches occur as a result of an excess or shortage of COTS capabilities. Many of these mismatches are resolved after the COTS selection. This paper presents a goal-driven agent-oriented approach for proceeding the COTS decision-making and analysing mismatches during and after the COTS selection. The methodology is overviewed and illustrated on a case study.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kiv S., Wautelet Y. and Kolp M. (2010). A PROCESS FOR COTS-SELECTION AND MISMATCHES HANDLING - A Goal-driven Approach . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-021-4, pages 98-106. DOI: 10.5220/0002732700980106

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart10,
author={Sodany Kiv and Yves Wautelet and Manuel Kolp},
title={A PROCESS FOR COTS-SELECTION AND MISMATCHES HANDLING - A Goal-driven Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={98-106},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002732700980106},
isbn={978-989-674-021-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - A PROCESS FOR COTS-SELECTION AND MISMATCHES HANDLING - A Goal-driven Approach
SN - 978-989-674-021-4
AU - Kiv S.
AU - Wautelet Y.
AU - Kolp M.
PY - 2010
SP - 98
EP - 106
DO - 10.5220/0002732700980106