The synchronous computational model with its simple computation and communication mechanism makes it easy to describe, simulate and formally verify synchronous embedded systems at...
Software development organizations are beginning to recognize that measurement is a prerequisite for systematic process improvement, and have started to measure their products and...
Christopher M. Lott, Barbara Hoisl, H. Dieter Romb...
Effort distribution by phase or activity is an important but often overlooked aspect compared to other steps in the cost estimation process. Poor effort allocation is among the ma...
Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. B...
In this paper, we propose an approach that provides the benefits of isolation in service-oriented applications where it is not feasible to use the traditional locking mechanisms u...
Paul Greenfield, Alan Fekete, Julian Jang, Dean Ku...
This paper describes an on-going effort to investigate problems and approaches for achieving Web-service-based, dynamic and collaborative e-learning. In this work, a Learning Cont...