Software product lines - families of similar but not identical software products - need to address the issue of feature variability. That is, a single feature might require various...
Optimizing a semiconductor wafer fab requires balancing technology and productivity. Recent work on productivity modeling will be described and focus on discrete event simulation ...
For many small software companies, full-scale software process improvement (SPI) initiatives are often out of reach due to prohibitive costs and lack of SPI knowledge. However, to...
Two different types of development tasks are distinguished: Clear and unclear development tasks. Based on hypotheses from organizational theory two different designs of software d...
Successful control of contact transitions is an important capability of dextrous robotic manipulators. In this paper we examine several methods for controlling the transition from...