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  • Improving product derivation in software product line engineering
    O'Leary, Pádraig; Richardson, Ita; Thiel, Steffen (Department of Computer Science,Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, 2010)
    The derivation of individual products from a software product line is still seen as a time-consuming and expensive activity in many organisations. Despite recognition that an effective derivation process could alleviate ...
  • Improving software development process through economic mechanism design
    Yilmaz, Murat; O'Connor, Rory V.; Collins, J.J. (Springer-Verlag, 2010)
    We introduce the novel concept of applying economic mechanism design to software development process, and aim to find ways to adjust the incentives and disincentives of the software organization to align them with the ...
  • Improving software quality - the SQRL approach
    Parnas, David Lorge (2003)
    This paper provides an introduction to the Software Quality Research Laboratory at the University of Limerick.
  • Improving software risk management in a medical device company
    Mc Caffery, Fergal; Burton, John; Richardson, Ita (IEEE Computer Society, 2009)
    Software Risk Management (RM) within Medical Device (MD) companies is a critical area. Failure of the software can have potentially catastrophic effects, leading to injury of patients or even death. Therefore regulators ...
  • Improving software security using search-based refactoring
    Ghaith, Shadi; Ó Cinnéide, Mel (Springer, 2012)
    Security metrics have been proposed to assess the security of software applications based on the principles of “reduce attack surface” and “grant least privilege.” While these metrics can help inform the developer in ...
  • Improving the performance of an FPGA based model design for sensor monitoring using PlanAhead tool
    Arshak, Khalil; Jafer, Essa; Ibala, Christian Serge (IEEE Computer Society, 2006)
    The study in this paper is focused on the improvement of a Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) based design using a hierarchical analysis tool offered by XILINX PlanAhead'TM. During this work, PlanAhead software is ...
  • Improving the quality of service routing in OLSR protocol
    Moad, Dalil; Djahel, Soufiene; Naït-Abdesselam, Farid (IEEE, 2012)
    In this paper we propose an approach to improve the quality of service (QoS) routing in the optimized link state routing protocol. The OLSR protocol operates generally in a best effort mode by finding the shortest path ...
  • Improving verification & validation in the medical device domain
    Sivakumar, M.S.; Casey, Valentine; Mc Caffery, Fergal; Coleman, Gerry (Springer, 2011)
    The benefits of effective verification and validation activities in the medical device domain include increased usability and reliability, decreased failure rate and recalls and reduced risks to patients and users. Though ...
  • An industrial case of exploiting product line architectures in agile software development
    Ali Babar, Muhammad; Ihme, Tuomas; Pikkarainen, Minna (Association for Computing Machinery, 2009)
    There has been an increased interest in exploring the ways of integrating agile software development and software product line approaches. Both approaches share several common goals, which provide the motivation for ...
  • Industrial perspective on the usefulness of design rationale for software maintenance
    Ali Babar, Muhammad; Tang, Antony; Gorton, Ian; Han, Jun (IEEE Computer Society, 2006)
    Software maintenance is widely known as a problematic area that may consume up to 80% of a software project’s resources. It has been claimed that providing an effective mechanism to access Design Rationale (DR) has great ...
  • Inferring the data access from the clients of generic APIs
    Song, Hui; Huang, Gang; Xiong, Yingfei; sun, Yanchun (IEEE Computer Society, 2012)
    Many programs access external data sources through generic APIs. The class hierarchy of such a generic API does not reflect the schema of any particular data source, and thus it is hard to clarify what data an API client ...
  • Influence of addition of plasmin or mastitic milk to cheesemilk on quality of smear-ripened cheese
    O'Farrell, Ian P.; Sheehan, Jeremiah J.; Wilkinson, Martin G.; Harrington, Dermot; Kelly, Alan L. (EDP Sciences, 2002)
    Smear-ripened cheese varieties are characterised by the growth of a smear culture, containing predominantly Brevibacterium linens, on the cheese surface during ripening. In such cheese, considerable zonal differences in ...
  • Influence of a magnetic field on the electrochemical rest potential
    Rhen, Fernando M.F.; Fernandez, Damaris; Hinds, Gareth; Coey, John Michael David (The Electrochemical Society, 2006)
    The influence of an external magnetic field on the rest potential ΔE0 of ferromagnetic and nonferromagnetic electrodes is studied. The shift E0 is measured as a function of magnetic field magnitude and direction, pH, ...
  • The Influence of new product development on Scrum practices
    Lane, Michael; Fitzgerald, Brian; Agerfalk, Par J. (2012)
    One of the most widely used Agile software development (ASD) methods is Scrum. The underlying inspiration for Scrum came from an examination of new product development (NPD). This work proposes that the combination of six ...
  • The influence of SPI on business success in software SMEs: an empirical study
    Clarke, Paul; O'Connor, Rory V. (Elsevier, 2012)
    In this paper, we present the findings of a study into the relationship between software process improvement (SPI) and business success in software development small- to medium- sized companies (software SMEs). A number ...
  • Information modelling based on a meaningful use of language
    Eriksson, Owen; Agerfalk, Par J. (2004)
    In traditional modelling approaches, such as entity-relationship modelling, the predominant information modelling problem is how to represent external reality in the system in a ‘true’ way. In these approaches semantic ...
  • An information retrieval based approach for measuring service conceptual cohesion
    Kazemi, Ali; Rostampour, Ali; Zamir, Amin; Jamshidi, Pooyan; Haghighi, Hassan; Shams, Fereideon (IEEE Computer Society, 2011)
    High cohesion as a desirable principle in software design has an incredible impact on software reuse, maintenance and support. In service-oriented architecture (SOA), the focus of services on single business functionality ...
  • An InfoStation-based multi-agent system supporting contextualised and personalised mLearning service delivery
    Meere, Damien (University of Limerick, 2012)
    The main work reported in this thesis is the proposition, design and implementation of a novel InfoStation-based multi-agent system, which facilitates the delivery of contextualised and personalised mobile eLearning ...
  • Inline source code exploration
    Exton, Chris; Storey, Margaret-Anne; Desmond, Michael; IRCSET (University of Limerick, Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, 2010)
    When exploring source code in modern integrated development environments (IDEs), programmers are prone to disorientation, a state of ‘mental lostness’ which disrupts concentration and task focus. Disorientation can result ...
  • Innovating with open-sourcing: governance concerns for managers
    Shaikh, Maha; Cornford, Tony (2009)
    Among various forms of innovation in industry structures and business models an increasing number of companies have shown interest in aligning themselves to an open source software model as a means to capture intellectual ...

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