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Risk Assessment of Information Technology Projects Using Fuzzy Expert System

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Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications (DICTAP 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 166))

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Information Technology (IT) projects are accompanied by various risks and high rate of failure in such projects. The purpose of this research is Risk assessment of IT projects by an intelligent system. Here, a Fuzzy Expert System has been designed with considering main effective variables on risk assessment as Inputs variables and level of project risk as output. Then, the system rules have been extracted from the IT experts and the system has been developed with the use of FIS tool of MATLAB software. Finally, the presented steps have been run in an Iranian Bank as empirical study.

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  1. Department of Information Technology Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran

    Sanaz Pourdarab & Ahmad Nadali

  2. Young Researchers Club, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran

    Hamid Eslami Nosratabadi

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  1. LE2I, UMR, CNRS 5158, Faculté des Sciences Mirande, 9 , avenue Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078, DIJON, France

    Hocine Cherifi

  2. Faculty of Computer Systems and Software Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Lebuhraya Tun Razak, 26300, Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia

    Jasni Mohamad Zain

  3. Information Systems Department, King Saud University, 11543, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Eyas El-Qawasmeh

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Pourdarab, S., Nosratabadi, H.E., Nadali, A. (2011). Risk Assessment of Information Technology Projects Using Fuzzy Expert System. In: Cherifi, H., Zain, J.M., El-Qawasmeh, E. (eds) Digital Information and Communication Technology and Its Applications. DICTAP 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 166. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21984-9_47

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