— It is through our mental models of the world that we understand it. Advances in science are nothing more than improvements to the model. This paper presents the development and...
Studying the evolution of topics (collections of co-occurring words) in a software project is an emerging technique to automatically shed light on how the project is changing over...
Stephen W. Thomas, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Do...
Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential especially for large software projects. However, once the required efforts have been estimated, little is done to rec...
Pongtip Aroonvatanaporn, Chatchai Sinthop, Barry W...
Estimation of development effort without imposing overhead on the project and the development team is of paramount importance for any software company. This study proposes a new e...
Pekka Abrahamsson, Raimund Moser, Witold Pedrycz, ...
Abstract. We focus on discrete event systems with a structure of parallel processing, synchronization, and noconcurrency. We use max-plus algebra, which is an effective approach fo...