Rigorous software process improvement (SPI) assessments are considered by many small software development firms to be too expensive. This paper presents the results from a program...
Exception handling patterns can raise the abstraction level of processes, facilitating their writing and understanding. In this paper, we identify several useful, general purpose e...
Barbara Staudt Lerner, Stefan Christov, Alexander ...
This paper introduces the concept of an analytic web, a synthesis of three complementary views of a scientific process that is intended to facilitate the conduct of science. These ...
Leon J. Osterweil, Alexander E. Wise, Lori A. Clar...
Current use case guidelines typically recommend a goal-driven process for use case creation and, in many cases, this approach indeed works sufficiently well. Yet, in our experienc...
The aim of this paper is to introduce a new method for finding and reusing process equipment design and inherently safer process configurations by case-based reasoning (CBR) and ob...