A heuristic for software evaluation and selection
Software—Practice & Experience
A case study in applying a systematic method for COTS selection
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
ICSM '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Student peer evaluations using the analytic hierarchy process method
FIE '95 Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, on 1995. Proceedings., 1995 - Volume 02
Modelling Component Dependencies to Inform Their Selection
ICCBSS '03 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems
Intelligent Support for Selection of COTS Products
Revised Papers from the NODe 2002 Web and Database-Related Workshops on Web, Web-Services, and Database Systems
Decision support for customization of the COTS selection process
MPEC '05 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Models and processes for the evaluation of off-the-shelf components
Empirical Software Engineering
COTS Selection Best Practices in Literature and in Industry
ICSR '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Software Reuse: High Confidence Software Reuse in Large Systems
A Component Selection Framework for COTS Libraries
CBSE '08 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
Interactive selection of Web services under multiple objectives
Information Technology and Management
Information and Software Technology
Investigating ERP systems procurement practice: Hong Kong and Australian experiences
Information and Software Technology
Journal of Systems and Software
A method for compatible COTS component selection
ICCBSS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on COTS-Based Software Systems
A state-of-the-practice survey of off-the-shelf component-based development processes
ICSR'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components
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The fundamentals of good decision-making are, first, a clear understanding of the decision itself and second the availability of properly focused information to support the decision. Decision-making techniques help with both these problems. However, the techniques should be thought of as aids to decision-making and not the substitutes for it. Numerous decision-making techniques have been proposed as effective methods of ranking software products for selection for use as components in large-scale systems. Many of these techniques have been developed and successfully applied in other arenas and have been either used directly or adapted to be applied to COTS product evaluation and selection. This paper will show that many of these techniques are not valid when applied in this manner. We will describe an alternate requirements-driven technique that could be more effective.