Software Project Management for Distributed Computing

Part I. Characteristics and Estimation of Software Projects for Distributed Computing

1. Modeling of Reusability Estimation in Software Design with External Constraints
R. Selvarani, P. Mangayarkarasi

2. Estimation of Costs and Time for the Development of Distributed Software
Manal Bajta, Ali Idri, Joaquín Nicolas Ros, José Luis Fernandez-Aleman, Ambrosio Toval

3. Using COSMIC for the Functional Size Measurement of Distributed Applications in Cloud Environments
Filomena Ferrucci, Carmine Gravino, Pasquale Salza

4. Characteristics of Large-Scale Defense Projects and the Dominance of Software and Software Project Management
Kadir Alpaslan Demir

5. Software Project Management as a Service (SPMaaS): Perspectives and Benefits
Muthu Ramachandran, Vikrant Chaugule

Part II. Approaches and Frameworks for Software Development and Software Project Management

6. Component-Based Hybrid Reference Architecture for Managing Adaptable Embedded Software Development
Bo Xing

7. 3PR Framework for Software Project Management: People, Process, Product, and Risk
Kadir Alpaslan Demir

8. CrowdSWD: A Novel Framework for Crowdsourcing Software Development Inspired by the Concept of Biological Metaphor
Tarek A. Ali, Eman S. Nasr, Mervat H. Gheith

9. An Approach to Migrate and Manage Software: Cloud-Based Requirements Management
Areeg Samir

10. A Novel Approach to Modelling Distributed Systems: Using Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems
Bogdan Okreša Ðurić

Part III. Advances in Software Project Management and Distributed Software Development

11. Optimizing Software Error Proneness Prediction Using Bird Mating Algorithm
Amrit Pal, Harsh Jain, Manish Kumar

12. Improved Agile: A Customized Scrum Process for Project Management in Defense and Security
Luigi Benedicenti, Paolo Ciancarini, Franco Cotugno, Angelo Messina, Alberto Sillitti, Giancarlo Succi

13. Ontology Annotation for Software Engineering Project Management in Multisite Distributed Software Development Environments
Pornpit Wongthongtham, Udsanee Pakdeetrakulwong, Syed Hassan Marzooq

14. Investigating the Scope for Agile Project Management to Be Adopted by Higher Education Institutions
Simon P Philbin

15. Software Project Management for Combined Software and Data Engineering
Seyyed M. Shah, James Welch, Jim Davies, Jeremy Gibbons

Keywords: Computer Science, Computer Communication Networks, Software Engineering, Models and Principles, Management of Computing and Information Systems