Conceptualizing a Genomics Software Institute (GSI)

Conceptualizing a Genomics Software Institute (GSI)

Microbial ecology has been enhanced greatly by the ongoing 'omics revolution, bringing half the world's biomass and most of its biodiversity into analytical view for the first time; indeed, it feels almost like the invention of the microscope and the discovery of the new world at the same time. With major microbial ecology research efforts accumulating prodigious quantities of sequence, protein...

TESTQUAL: Conceptualizing Software Testing as a Service

Software testing has emerged as a distinct responsibility in software development. This paper argues that software testing should be conceptualized as a service rather than being viewed as a sequential line of responsibility in software development. Testing as a service has two key aspects: (1) a service to developers, and (2) a service to end users. This paper draws from the SERVQUAL and softw...

Conceptualizing Measures of Required Software Functionality

Software functionality expressed in user requirements is a key element for the measurement and planning of the software process. As such, it is important to have an upper model of existing function analysis models as those provided in function point counting methods. This paper discusses an ontological analysis of the concepts related to the specifications of functionality, in the context of ex...

Institute for Software - Integrated Systems

Conceptualizing Adjectives Conceptualizing Adjectives Conceptualizing Adjectives

We specify a model for the conceptual interpretation of relative adjectives (like \big"), which covers a crucial aspect of the underlying comprehension process { the comparison to a norm that is associated with a comparison class. Building on an elaborate domain ontology and knowledge about intercorrelations, comparison classes are dynamically created depending on the context in which adjectiva...