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CS Seminar: Dr. Hoa Khanh Dam (University of Wollongong) - Predicting delays in software projects using networked classification

Speaker: Dr. Hoa Khanh Dam, University of Wollongong, Australia

Talk Title: Predicting delays in software projects using networked classification

Series: CS Seminar Series

Abstract: One of the challenges in (software) project management is to make reliable prediction of delays in the context of constant and rapid changes inherent in (software) projects. In this talk, I will present our recent work in data-driven software engineering to provide automated support for project managers and other decision makers in predicting whether a subset of software tasks (among the hundreds to thousands of ongoing tasks) in a software project have a risk of being delayed. Our approach makes use of not only features specific to individual software tasks (i.e. local data) - as done in previous work - but also their relationships (i.e. networked data). In addition, using collective classification, our approach can simultaneously predict the degree of delay for a group of related tasks. Our evaluation results show a significant improvement over traditional approaches which perform classification on each task independently.

Biography: Dr Hoa Khanh Dam is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Australia. He holds PhD and Master degrees in Computer Science from RMIT University, and Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Melbourne in Australia. His work has won multiple Best Paper Awards (at WICSA, APCCM, and ASWEC) and ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award (at MSR). His research has been published in the top venues in software engineering (ICSE, ASE, ER), AI/intelligent agents (AAMAS, JAAMAS), and service-oriented computing (ICSOC and BPM). He served as Program Co-Chair for the 17th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA) in 2014. Other major international conferences that he has been involved with include AAMAS (PC), ICSOC 2015 (Publication Chair and PC), ASWEC and EDOC 2015 (Publicity Chair). Prior to his academic career, he spent a number of years in the industry at various positions, including technical architect, project manager and software engineer. He is Associate Director for the Decision Systems Lab at the University of Wollongong. His research interests span across a number of areas in data-driven Software Engineering (e.g. applications of data mining and machine learning into software engineering), model-driven development and evolution, agent-oriented software engineering, service-oriented engineering and business process management.

Host: Teamcore Group

Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 144

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Assistant to CS chair