In the last few years, the University of Aveiro, Portugal, has been offering several distance learning courses over the Web, using e-learning platforms. Experience showed that dif...
One of the main reasons behind unfruitful software development projects is that it is often too late to correct the problems by the time they are detected. It clearly indicates th...
The notion of supply chains has been current for some time in the literature and in practice. Recently this has been extended to consider so-called extended enterprises. The paper...
For a software project to succeed, acceptable quality must be achieved within an acceptable cost, providing business value to the customers, and keeping delivery time short. Softwa...
Qi Li, Mingshu Li, Ye Yang, Qing Wang, Thomas Tan,...
In applications such as web-applications, e-commerce, and engine control, the demand for real-time data services has increased. In these applications, requests have to be processe...