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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
This paper reports the findings of a detailed study of Web-based systems design (WBSD) practices in Ireland based on data collected over a 3-year period (2002–2005), the objectives of which were to (1) contribute towards ...
Ledwith, Ann; Richardson, Ita; Sheehan, Anne(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2006)
Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to present a modified framework for the waves of change of new product development of McGrath. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative study of new product development (NPD) ...
This paper presents a method of estimating the availability of fault-tolerant computer systems with several recovery procedures. A segregated failures model has been proposed recently for this purpose. This paper provides ...