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Little research has been conducted to date on the specific topic of the tailoring of systems development methods. Two related research areas--contingency factors research and metho...
Decomposing complex software systems into conceptually independent subsystems represents a signi cant software engineering activity that receives considerable research attention. ...
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This chapter discusses an extended deductive database prototype system, Q-Data, developed by Bellcore to improve data quality through data validation and cleanup. The key technolo...