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ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Integrating IT Service Management within the Enterprise Architecture
-- Published work in the IT services area is generally centered on the description of management best practices or specific technological issues. There is a lack of empirical studi...
Anacleto Correia, Fernando Brito e Abreu
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Strengthening Refactoring: Towards Software Evolution with Quantitative and Experimental Grounds
: Refactoring is a process meant to improve the internal quality of software systems. However, while on one hand, the guidelines for this delicate process are still empirical and q...
Sergio Bryton, Fernando Brito e Abreu
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Exploring and Overcoming Major Challenges in IT Infrastructures Faced by IT Executives
This paper aims at identifying top challenges faced by IT executives in IT infrastructures to help the formulation of
Luis Alexandre Ferreira da Silva, Fernando Brito e...
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Validation of Scenario-Based Business Requirements with Coloured Petri Nets
A scenario can be used to describe a possible instantiation of a given business use case and can be expressed for example as a list of steps written in natural language, or by an ...
Óscar R. Ribeiro, João M. Fernandes
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Integrating Formal Methods with Model-Driven Engineering
In this paper, we present our position and experience on integrating formal methods with the Model-driven Engineering (MDE) approach to software development. Both these two approa...
Angelo Gargantini, Elvinia Riccobene, Patrizia Sca...
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Integrating Quality Modeling with Feature Modeling in Software Product Lines
Due to the large number of possible variants in typical Software Product Lines (SPLs), the modeling of, explicit knowledge of, and predictability of the quality tradeoffs inherent ...
Joerg Bartholdt, Marcel Medak, Roy Oberhauser
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Development of CMS-Based Web-Applications Using a Model-Driven Approach
The emerging Model-Driven Engineering paradigm advocates the use of models as first-class citizens in the software development process, while artifacts such as documentation and so...
João de Sousa Saraiva, Alberto Rodrigues da...
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Software Process Improvement in Multimodel Environments
-- Software is increasing in size and complexity. As a direct implication, organizations nd it more difficult to achieve the desired product quality. Process improvement models are...
André Ferreira, Ricardo Jorge Machado
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Software Requirements Change Source Taxonomy
— Requirements changes during software development pose a risk to cost, schedule and quality while at the same time providing an opportunity to add value. Provision of a generic ...
Sharon McGee, Des Greer
ICSEA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Rule-Based Service Modeling
— In the context of service-oriented computing, services provide the capabilities necessary to support the business, especially its processes. Within the service modeling process...
Michael Gebhart, Sebastian Abeck