Formal specification methods are not often applied in industrial projects, despite their advantages and the maturity of theories and tools. The scarce familiarity of practitioners...
Karp and Zhang developed a general randomized parallel algorithm for solving branch and bound problems. They showed that with high probability their algorithm attained optimal spe...
ÐThis paper discusses the notion of process inconsistency and suggests that inconsistencies in software processes are inevitable and sometimes desirable. We present an approach to...
Ian Sommerville, Gerald Kotonya, Stephen Viller, P...
In this paper, we advocate decentralised process modelling and suggest that understanding and modelling the development processes of individual development participants is the key ...
Bashar Nuseibeh, Jeff Kramer, Anthony Finkelstein,...
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...
A wide variety of techniques and approaches are needed to understand and improve software development processes. The critical research problem is supporting the move from completel...