The number of defects is an important indicator of software quality. Agile software development methods put an explicit requirement on automation and permanently low defect rates. ...
In a competitive market, semiconductor fabricator must face an environment with multi-product types, multi-priority orders and demand changes in time. Since semiconductor fabricat...
Grid computing is an emerging technology by which huge numbers of processors over the world create a global source of processing power. Their collaboration makes it possible to pe...
Software firms are increasingly distributing their software development effort across multiple locations. In this paper we present the results of a two year field study that inves...
The practice of having PhDs employed by the university that trained them, commonly called "academic inbreeding," has long been assumed to have a damaging effect on schol...