Artificial Intelligence Applications for Improved Software Engineering Development: New Prospects

Computer scientists, software engineers, and other researchers describe recent investigations into how artificial intelligence techniques and concepts as knowledge-based systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic, and data mining might be used to aid activities in software development, specifically project management and cost estimation, requirements engineering and specification, software design and implementation, and software testing and maintenance. Among their topics are using Bayesian networks for estimating web effort, the crooked road from textual scenarios to message sequence charts, an intelligent computational argument system for supporting collaborative software development decision making, and computational intelligence for functional testing. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)