Most industries are challenging to increase productivity of software development. Often many process improvement activities are started with enthusiasm, unfortunately most of these...
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...
In this paper, we apply the primal-dual decomposition and subgradient projection methods to solve the rate-distortion optimization problem with the constant bit rate constraint. Th...
This position paper takes as outset experience obtained during development of an object-oriented prototype for a global customer service system. The project involved a large shipp...
This manuscript proposes a guiding methodology to obtain a software system that supports the execution of the business processes existing within an organization. The methodology pr...
Francisco J. Duarte, Ricardo Jorge Machado, Jo&ati...