Updated: August 18, 2009

Welcome to COTSresearch.com

This web site is dedicated to disseminating upgrade decision analysis research for Commercial Off-the-Shelf productivity applications.

I am a recent doctorate graduate from the George Washington University, School of Engineering and Applied Science who researched under the guidance of Dr. T. Mazzuchi, Dr. S. Sarkani and Dr. J. Beach.

My research primarily focuses on current decision methodologies, attributes and models and aims to provide decision making guidance for IT professionals who are regularly faced with new releases of a currently deployed software applications.

Below are papers published to date: (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Recent Research Papers	Event / Journal	Title
Herald, Tom & Seibel, Jason	INCOSE MARC 2004	Technology Management Forecasting and Predictions for System of Interest Analysis
Seibel, Jason S.	LMCO Joint Symposium	An Attribute Proposal for Same Vendor, Version-to-Version COTS Upgrade Decisions
Seibel, Jason S. & Mazzuchi, Thomas A.	GWU, SEAS Dissertation, 2006	A Version-to-Version Upgrade Decision Support Model for Commercial Off-the-Shelf Productivity Applications
Seibel, Jason S. & Mazzuchi, Thomas A. Sarkani, Shahram	Journal of Systems Engineering	Same vendor, version-to-version upgrade decision support model for commercial off-the-shelf productivity applications

Jason S. Seibel , D.Sc, PMP, ITIL
George Washington University
School of Engineering & Applied Science
email: online@seibelfamily.com

Developed: December 13, 2004