SOARs are CSIAC publications that provide in-depth analysis of current technologies, research, and the latest technical information available on a topic within any of the CSIAC technical focus areas.
Is knowledge management one of those hyped concepts that rise quickly, ambitiously claims to cure organizational headaches, and then fails and falls quietly? Or is it an instrument that will really help organizations address some…
This MSIAC State of the Art Report provides a compendium and an analysis of COTS, GOTS, and developmental automated tools that can be applied to the verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) of individual models and…
The subject of Information Assurance (IA) has received increased attention over the last several years in the military modeling and simulation (M&S) community and, even more so, in the public domain. In the public domain,…
The increasing technological sophistication of the Department of Defense (DoD) leads to a dependency on technology that, in turn, represents potentially crippling vulnerabilities. DoD is dependent upon advanced weapon systems and Command, Control, Communications, Computers,…
The goal of this report is to survey the state of the practice in Commercial-Off-the-Shelf COTS-based development. The report discusses the definition of COTS and COTS-based systems. Then it lists and discusses pros, cons, and…
The purpose of this State of the Art Report (SOAR) is to organize the costs and benefits of Software Process Improvement (SPI) strategies, methods, approaches, and alternatives into a form and methodology that enables software…
This report discusses the state-of-the-art, as well as recent advances in the use of data mining techniques as applied to software process and product information. This report includes: a discussion on data mining techniques and…
Provides an assessment of the state-of-the-art in data embedding technology and its application to IA. It is particularly relevant to information “providers” concerned about intellectual property protection and access control; information “consumers” who are concerned…
This report reviews the state of the art of Object-Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMS). The objective of this report is to provide the reader with an understanding of the issues relevant to OODBMS technology and…
Defect tracking is a critical component of a successful software quality effort. In fact, Robert Grady of Hewlett-Packard stated in 1996 that “software defect data is [the] most important available management information source for software…
This State-of-the-Art-Report summarizes the history of software engineering technology transfer and suggests ways to help us understand how to shorten the time between innovation and effective practice. It begins by examining earlier efforts to understand…
Cost models were derived from the collection and analysis of large collections of project data. Modelers would fit a curve to the data and analyze those parameters that affected the curve. Early models applied to…