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Optimal software design reuse policies: A control theoretic approach

Authors: Monica Johar, Vijay Mookerjee, Suresh Sethi

Published in: Information Systems Frontiers | Issue 2/2015

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We study optimal policies for design reuse in a software project using a control theoretic approach. A project needs to be developed in minimum time by optimally choosing the proportion of effort allocated towards design activities. We first consider a local case, where the benefits of design activities are restricted within the project. Here the optimal policy follows a bang-bang structure: invest fully in design followed by investing fully in implementation. Next we consider two sequentially linked projects where design capital built in the first project can be reused by the downstream project. For the two project case, the design investment in the upstream project first increases and then decreases with the ability to utilize design capital accumulated in the first project for the second project. We also propose a coordination scheme that rewards the upstream project team so that design investment in this project is chosen in a globally optimal manner.

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Title: Optimal software design reuse policies: A control theoretic approach
Authors: Monica Johar
Vijay Mookerjee
Suresh Sethi
Publication date: 01-04-2015
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Information Systems Frontiers / Issue 2/2015
Print ISSN: 1387-3326
Electronic ISSN: 1572-9419
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-013-9421-1

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