This paper presents a framework that draws on Structuration theory and dialectical hermeneutics to explicate the dynamics of software process improvement (SPI) in a packaged softw...
Software process improvement (SPI) has emerged as a critical area for organizations involved in software development. There is now considerable evidence that SPI can provide subst...
This paper describes an initiative to improve software acquisition process in Brazil. This initiative was conducted in the context of the MPS.BR Program, a nationwide effort to de...
Kival Chaves Weber, Eratostenes Edson Ramalho de A...
—Data quality assessment is a key issue, in order to broad the applicability of iris biometrics to unconstrained imaging conditions. Previous research efforts sought to use visib...
Most image and video compression algorithms that have been proposed to improve picture quality relative to compression efficiency have either been designed based on objective crite...