Agent-based simulation for software development processes

Software development is a costly process and requires serious quality control on the management level: Managing a project with more than 10 programmers over several years is a highly nontrivial task. We are building tools for helping the manager to predict the future development of the project based on certain adjustable parameters. The main idea is to view the software process as agent-based simulation in a multiagent system (MAS). This approach requires to combine three different areas: (1) mining data and patterns from projects done in the past, (2) modeling the software development process in a multiagent environment, and (3) running the simulation on a dedicated and scalable multiagent platform.