PLASTIC: People As a Service supported by the Information and Communication Technologies

The objective of the Project is the development of technologies to obtain more optimal and flexible configurations of project teams, with the capacity to determine the most suitable team for particular project objectives and necessities. PLASTIC will take into account personal skills (technical, management, etc.), personal talent, project necessities, contractors, etc, in order to optimize costs and results. Notable improvements in the quality of projects and in the satisfaction of contractors, users and developers are expected.

Objectives

In more detail, the objectives of CiTIUS teams in the PLASTIC project are the following:

  • To develop a software infrastructure that will permit the integration of the different sources of corporate information, its analysis by means of linguistic tools, and the automatic extraction of knowledge
  • To investigate and develop tools for characterizing employers of organizations using metrics to describe them and predict their evolution, in order to infer the future of the organization
  • To develop tools for estimating the effort of the development of software projects, taking into account project types and software metrics
  • To develop tools for automatically generating situational natural language reports summarizing the evolution of the project