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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
Casey, Valentine; Richardson, Ita(John Wiley and Sons Limited, 2004)
The focus of this paper is to outline the experience of a European based software organization utilizing the IDEAL model, while implementing a tailored Capability Maturity Model (CMM) software process improvement program. ...