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Requirements Engineering (RE) research is believed to be mature enough for the community to be able to make comparative evaluations of alternative tools, techniques, approaches and methods. Commonly used exemplars in RE that have emerged over the years ...

This paper summarizes the EFIS 2003 workshop, held in Coventry, U.K. in July, as part of Coventry University's Data Horizons Week. Major research issues discussed include metadata/ontologies, integration frameworks, data quality and evolution, and ...

This report is intended to summarize the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Detection of Software Clones (IWDSC'2003). The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers within the field of clone detection to critically assess ...

In this competitive era, education has become equally demanding and competitive. Innovation in the sphere of education has led to new ways of learning. Internet has now made learning dynamic by introducing the concept of learning through E-learning. The ...

In this paper we show how the long range correlation and the local entropy measures in the software program can give indication about its structure. First we define a long range correlation and local entropy introducing a list of examples of use of ...

We discuss approaches to establishing "correctness" and describe the usefulness of logic-based model checkers for producing better practical system designs. While we could develop techniques for "constructing correctness" in our theoretical behavioral-...

Component-based software engineering (CBSE) represents an exciting and promising paradigm for software development. Software components are one of the key issues in CBSE. The software development community is continuously seeking new methods for ...

Nowadays, software architecture of CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) environments is evolving from layered structure to bus structure. This bus structure can greatly simplify the interconnection structure among tools and facilitate the ...

Effective communication at work places contributes significantly towards the performance of employees. It gives rise to enhanced job satisfaction, a good feeling of personal accomplishment and increased productivity. In this paper we have investigated ...

This paper discusses the results arrived at employing Object-Oriented (OO) measures on the small-sized programs developed by the Under Graduate (UG) students during the study of C++ laboratory course. The metric values computed reflect the experience/...

With the development of mobile agent technology and the applications of componentware, the requirements for a new componentware framework based on mobile agent technology are increasing. These requirements include requirements from programming ...

To develop Web applications, various integrated development environments have been used. In addition, several frameworks for efficiently developing those applications have been proposed. This paper presents the image-oriented page-transition framework ...

This paper describes an effort to recover and improve software architecture in a large-scale industrial project. We describe our motivation for architecture recovery and present a summary of its results. We also attempt to generalize our findings by ...

In this paper we discuss the current state of product family testing. Testing, unlike other areas of software development, has received only little attention in this context despite the problems directly rising from scale, reuse and variability. We ...

Among a large number of cohesion measures for classes proposed in last decade, many measures abstract a class by an undirected or directed graph, in which the nodes represent the class members and the edges represent the relationships among these ...