Software development organizations are beginning to recognize that measurement is a prerequisite for systematic process improvement, and have started to measure their products and...
Christopher M. Lott, Barbara Hoisl, H. Dieter Romb...
The widespread adoption of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in many strategic contexts of the information technology society has drawn the attention on the issues regarding ho...
Fabio Mancinelli, Jaap Boender, Roberto Di Cosmo, ...
Teams that are geographically distributed often share information both in real-time and asynchronously. When such sharing is through groupware, change conflicts can arise when peo...
Mark S. Hancock, John David Miller, Saul Greenberg...
Distributed processing environments such as that of a traffic management network system (TMS) can be implemented easier, faster, and secure and perform better through use of auton...
Component platforms play a major role in current distributed information systems. As these systems evolve, components need to be upgraded without breaking the consistency of compo...