The Center for Empirically Based Software Engineering helps improve software development by providing guidelines for selecting development techniques, recommending areas for furth...
Forrest Shull, Victor R. Basili, Barry W. Boehm, A...
Abstract— In many software design and evaluation techniques, either the software evolution problem is not systematically elaborated, or only the impact of evolution is considered...
We introduce the distributed gradient clock synchronization problem. As in traditional distributed clock synchronization, we consider a network of nodes equipped with hardware clo...
Defect prevention is the most vital but habitually neglected facet of software quality assurance in any project. If functional at all stages of software development, it can condens...
Given that contractor plays a critical role in any construction project, contractor selection constitutes key decision for public authorities. Prequalification, i.e. the eliminati...