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A 10-year working partnership between engineering instructors and communication instructors for a course called “Computer-Aided Engineering: Applications to Biomedical Process” aims to enrich the professional skills of the engineering students overall. This paper provides a window to the ways the course aids students in improving their engineering/technical writing and presenting skills. This year,...
This paper outlines challenges the authors have faced over decades of industrial experience with large-scale software analysis and maintenance projects (especially legacy modernization) for multiple organizations where millions of lines of source code are involved. Such projects require large teams cooperating on parsing, analyzing, and manipulating source code. In this context the use of traditional...
Existing registries organize functionally similar services into groups without considering past service-usage from the consumers' perspective, a.k.a. pragmatics. Pragmatics can help registries to calculate service similarity more effectively and improve organization schemes. However, pragmatics are not available beforehand and their highly accumulated number over time creates time and space efficiency...
Industry and big organizations recognize the value of VSEs, i.e. enterprises, organizations, projects or departments with up to 25 people [1], in contributing with emerging new technology that bigger organizations cannot use them as easily nor incorporate them in their solutions as fast. But often these potential small organizations, knowledgeable of providing these solutions, are not ready to comply...
With the development of complex intelligent transport systems, information sources define heterogeneity of transport processes data, cause heterogeneity of hardware and software platforms; which greatly reduces the efficiency and relevance of the data and decision-making process. That determines systematicity and actuality of the development of detailed models and transport process management technologies...
The purpose of this study is to explore an affordable, accessible, holistic micro-college model that integrates blended learning using MOOCs to increase access to higher education in the developing world. In spite of the phenomenal growth of MOOCs, people in the Majority World fail to take advantage of them due to several challenges that include the cultural relevance of courses, differences in teaching...
Nowadays, the software process improvement is implemented by organizations through various standards models to obtain quality software. According to reports from the SEI, indicate that CMMI-Dev through the IDEAL model is the most used reference in the implementation of software improvement processes with respect to other models. In this context, in the reports published in the year 2016 by the CMMI...
Inside of any organization, the acquisition process of product or service is extremely important and if not done properly can cause uncountable damage. In this way, the software acquisition isn't different and can cause uncountable problems too, like delays in existing contracts or even the dependence on the company contracted to code the product. Thus, the objective of this work is provide a software...
We formulate a mathematical programming problem for allocating capital budget between the organizational and physical capitals of the firm and solve it to obtain an analytically tractable and easy to implement decision rule for the optimal allocation of the capital budget. The model we develop depicts interconnections of these capitals and their constituent variables in the context of the firm's valuation...
Big Data is one of the great trends in the short and medium term in organizations. There is a growing concern in provid solutions to address this trend, to methodical analysis of data and to do better decisions. The amount of data becomes less relevant when there is efficiency in Analytics. Internal auditors need to be in compliance with technology evolution. This research main objective is to understand...
The rise of Information Technology has impacted not only on the way of doing business and the digital transformation of organizations, but also on the sustainability, acquiring a special relevance through the idea of the Green IT. The Green IT is becoming an indispensable area in organizations and in a social demand. However, organizations do not have the necessary mechanisms to assess their maturity...
Over time, software development organizations have been interested into the implementation of best practices that facilitate the improvement of its software processes with the firm purpose of improving products quality. One of the best approaches to improve software processes is to adopt a Software Process Improvement (SPI) initiative, which evaluates current practices and the way software products...
Thanks to the proliferation of Internet access and modern digital and mobile devices, online survey has been flourishing into data collection of marketing, social, financial and medical studies. However, traditional data collection methods in online survey suffer from serious privacy issues. Existing privacy protection techniques are not adequate for online survey for lack of strong privacy. In this...
Organizations that implement improvement processes to develop quality software usually appeal to SCAMPl-like evaluation methods in order to diagnose, plan and certify themselves. However, nowadays there is a need that goes beyond the evaluation, and it is the need to diagnose the processes maturity of the software development organizations that use more than one process improvement model or standard,...
Data citation is of growing concern for owners of curated databases, who wish to give credit to the contributors and curators responsible for portions of the dataset and enable the data retrieved by a query to be later examined. While several databases specify how data should be cited, they leave it to users to manually construct the citations and do not generate them automatically. We report our...
Best practices in developing Requirements Engineering are not new. They are easily comprehended by experts familiar to Requirements Engineering. However, for IT Personnel that are new to this field, understanding the process may pose major challenges. Thus, a Requirements Engineering Best Practices Work Flow was developed as a tool to assist in the development of Requirements Engineering. The work...
The present need for software organizations to seamlessly carryout software development results to significant high cost of electricity usage and emission of CO2 which contributes to climate changes. Therefore there is need for software practitioners to adopt sustainable practices in software development process. Sustainable practices can be adopted when software practitioners utilizes software which...
The method is suggested to establish master-slave communication between the Siemens PLC and field devices based on the Modbus protocol for process control systems. The data exchange between the PLC and current node in the network is organized by using the session data blocks. Creating the request package and unpacking the response from the slave device are carried out by the two respective functions...
With the dramatic increase in the number of software security problems, a growing body of research in how to integrate security within software development is notable. Many security approaches have appeared to solve security problems by applying a set of activities through Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Among the top approaches are McGraw's Touchpoints, Comprehensive Lightweight Application...
Many organization acquire disparate Enterprise Systems in operational. The effort to integrate different Enterprise Systems is needed for satisfying business requirements and agile organization. The agile organization is one of the operational strategies for achieve work efficiency. The fact is many organization still need more time for managing information to support decision making for management...
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