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ICSE
2001
IEEE-ACM
15 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Study of Global Software Development: Distance and Speed
Global software development is rapidly becoming the norm for technology companies. Previous qualitative research suggests that multi-site development may increase development cycl...
James D. Herbsleb, Audris Mockus, Thomas A. Finhol...
CORR
2010
Springer
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14 years 9 months ago
The Naming Game in Social Networks: Community Formation and Consensus Engineering
We study the dynamics of the Naming Game [Baronchelli et al., (2006) J. Stat. Mech.: Theory Exp. P06014] in empirical social networks. This stylized agentbased model captures essen...
Qiming Lu, Gyorgy Korniss, Boleslaw K. Szymanski
RE
2008
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Supporting Requirements Model Evolution throughout the System Life-Cycle
Requirements models are essential not just during system implementation, but also to manage system changes post-implementation. Such models should be supported by a requirements m...
Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos, Yijun Yu, Tien Ngu...
ALIFE
2008
14 years 9 months ago
Criteria for Conceptual and Operational Notions of Complexity
While complex systems have been studied now for more than two decades, there still is no agreement on what complexity actually is. This lack of a definition might be a problem when...
Dominique Chu
BMCBI
2011
14 years 4 months ago
An Agent-Based Model to study the epidemiological and evolutionary dynamics of Influenza viruses
Background: Influenza A viruses exhibit complex epidemiological patterns in a number of mammalian and avian hosts. Understanding transmission of these viruses necessitates taking ...
Benjamin Roche, John M. Drake, Pejman Rohani