Niazi, Mahmood; Ali Babar, Muhammad(Elsevier, 2009)
Objective: In this paper, we present findings from an empirical study that was aimed at identifying the lative ‘‘perceived value” of CMMI level 2 specific practices based on the perceptions and experiences of practitioners ...
The concept of knowledge bases originated in artificial intelligence as one side of expert systems-namely, the fundamental body of knowledge available to a domain. KBs are particularly appropriate in knowledge-intensive ...
Sigfridsson, Anders(University of Limerick, Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, 2010)
This thesis addresses the research question: how do software developers in distributed projects continually develop their practical knowledge through dealing with changing circumstances in daily work practice? The purpose ...
Within the body of literature, much emphasis has been placed on the use of process models to support software development [1, 2, 3]. Despite this, there is significant variation in the software processes used by software ...
Up to now, most open source software (OSS) deployments have been in invisible infrastructure applications running on back-office servers (GNU/Linux, Apache, and so on). Beaumont Hospital in Ireland recently started developing ...
Aspect composition is still a hot research topic where there is no consensus on how to express where and when aspects have to be composed into a base system. In this paper we present a modular construct for aspects, called ...
Professional Issues in Software Engineering (PISE) has been taught as part of the computer systems undergraduate degree programme at the University of Limerick using a multiinstitutional collaborative pedagogy. PISE considers ...
This paper addresses product configuration and
product derivation in product lines of embedded systems. We
show how domain-specific languages (DSLs), which are used to
describe the implementation of the product, can be ...
Richardson, Ita; Gresse von Wangenheim, Christiane(IEEE Computer Society, 2007)
Small software organizations independently financed and organized companies with fewer than 50 employees are fundamental to many national economies' growth. In the US, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Finland, Ireland, Hungary, ...
McKeever, Susan; Ye, Juan; Coyle, Lorcan; Bleakley, Chris; Dobson, Simon(2010)
The ability to identify the behavior of people in a home is at the core of Smart Home functionality. Such environments are equipped with sensors that unobtrusively capture information about the occupants. Reasoning mechanisms ...