Focus on software

Quality Improvement with Focus on Performance in Software Platform Development

Platform development provides software organisations with means to quickly respond to changing consumer needs. Product reuse and improved development efficiency can be achieved if platform development is introduced. A major challenge when using software platforms to produce a variety of products is to keep a high quality of the platform throughout the development of the products. It is therefor...

Introductory Software Engineering with a Focus on Dependency Management

In this paper I describe my approach to teaching introductory software engineering, a three-credit upper-level undergraduate course. What I believe is innovative is not the particular concepts or techniques but the way they are woven together, using the unifying concept of dependency management. The specific techniques I teach are the use of interfaces and factory design patterns. Interfaces ar...

Revenue and Pricing Models for Software Vendors with a Focus on Software-as-a-Service

At present the way software is offered to customers is changing. Software vendors expand their product portfolio by providing software that can be accessed via the Internet. These Software-as-a-Service solutions require the (re-)design of existing business models, particularly with regard to revenue and pricing models. The contribution of the research described below is to derive strategies for...

Intelligent Software Agents with Applications in Focus

Most people are familiar with the concept of agents in real life. There are stock-market agents, sports agents, real-estate agents, etc. Agents are used to filter and present information to consumers. Likewise, during the last couple of decades, people have developed software agents, that have the similar role. They behave intelligently, run on computers, and are autonomous, but are not human b...

Focus: the Future of Software Engineering