Staff Profiles
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Shari Lawrence PfleegerWashington Office Senior Information Scientist EducationPh.D. in information technology and engineering, George Mason University; M.S. in planning, and M.A. in mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University; B.A. in mathematics, Harpur College |
Research Focus
Cyber and information security; Information sciences; Software assurance; Software cost estimation; Software engineering; Software quality; Software risk; Decision-making; Project management
RAND Research Areas
Public Safety; Science and Technology; Terrorism and Homeland Security
Recent Projects
- Investigation of policy and decisionmaking issues that help organizations and government agencies understand whether and how information technology supports their missions and goals
- Risks in software cost estimation
- Evaluation of geographic profiling software
- Spam and privacy laws
- Cyber security survey
Selected Publications
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Joanne M. Atlee, Software Engineering: Theory and Practice (3rd ed.), Prentice Hall, 2006
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger et al., Software Cost Estimation and Sizing Methods: Issues and Guidelines, RAND Corporation, 2005
, "Soup or Art? The Role of Evidential Force in Empirical Software Engineering", IEEE Computer, 2005
Martin C. Libicki and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Collecting the Dots: Problem Formulation and Solution Elements, RAND Corporation, 2004
Charles P. Pfleeger, Security in Computing (3rd ed.), Prentice Hall, 2003
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