Present-day software engineering combines technical and social skills, as well as collaboration among people with different backgrounds (e.g. due to global development and outsourcing). In this paper we address the problem ...

This research project develops a methodology for creating multifunctional infrastructure projects. It focuses on enabling an interdisciplinary approach to the establishment of a brief for the redesign of a road, the orbital ...

Inefficient product derivation practices can greatly diminish the productivity gains expected from a software product line approach. As a foundation for systematic and efficient product derivation a better understanding ...

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 ...

The Autonomic System Specification Language (ASSL) is a formal method dedicated to autonomic computing, and as such, assists developers with formal specification, validation and code generation of autonomic systems. Due ...

Among the other Central and Eastern European countries, Romania is one of the emerging outsourcing destinations. The current paper presents the findings of an exploratory study on the development of outsourcing relationships ...

We present a new formal approach to the implementation of embedded systems, arrived at by introducing self-management capabilities to the same. We use the ASSL (Autonomic System Specification Language) framework to approach ...

There are aspects of New Product Development (NPD) business processes that pose particularly difficult challenges to Organizational Learning systems. Short product and process life cycles compress the available time window ...