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ECIS
2001
14 years 11 months ago
Avoiding Failure in SPI Initiation
Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a recognised systematic approach for improving the capability of software organisations. Such initiatives have met with a number of difficult...
Pouya Pourkomeylian
ASWEC
2001
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Process Improvement in Four Small Software Companies
For many small software companies, full-scale software process improvement (SPI) initiatives are often out of reach due to prohibitive costs and lack of SPI knowledge. However, to...
Aileen Cater-Steel
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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15 years 3 months ago
An Estimator of Propagation of Cascading Failure
— We suggest a statistical estimator to measure the extent to which failures propagate in cascading failures such as large blackouts. The estimator is tested on a saturating bran...
Ian Dobson, Kevin R. Wierzbicki, Benjamin A. Carre...
ESEM
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Why do programmers avoid metrics?
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and organizational issues a...
Medha Umarji, Carolyn B. Seaman
CLEIEJ
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Evaluation of a Fault-tolerant Model for Tactic Operations of Mobile Robotic Groups Using Genetic Algorithms
This paper addresses the evaluation of a fault-tolerant model for tactic operations of mobile robotic groups. The coordinated action of the group is planned with Genetic Algorithm...
Gustavo Pessin, Fernando Santos Osório