Background: Augmentation cystoplasty (AC) with autogenous ileum remains the current gold standard surgical treatment for many patients with end-stage bladder disease. However, the presence of mucus-secreting epithelium ...

Automated accept testing is an emerging practice that is claimed to yield many benefits to software development projects, among which is higher quality of the software product itself. Yet there is little empirically grounded ...

Software systems that undergo repeated addition of functionality commonly suffer a loss of quality in their underlying designs, termed design erosion. This leads to the maintenance of a system becoming increasingly ...

Designing the adequate scope and granularity of services is critical for their effective reuse. Patterns at business process level are abstractions of common and reusable designs to operate businesses. Business Process ...

With the explosive growth in the number of electronic documents available on the internet, intranets, and digital libraries, there is a growing need for automatic systems capable of indexing and organising such large ...

Music transcription is a complex cognitive task that requires a trained musician to listen to a piece of music, write down what notes were played and the timing of the notes. The task is further complicated if the music ...

Creating efficient parallel software can be a complicated and time consuming task, as there are many issues that need to be considered, such as race-conditions, thread-bound data dependencies and locking issues, among ...

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The use of several distinct recovery procedures is one of the techniques that can be used to ensure high availability and fault-tolerance of computer systems. This method has been applied to telecommunications systems and ...

Closely related to artificial Intelligence, awareness depends on the knowledge transferred to software-intensive systems so they can use it to exhibit intelligence.