Leveraging nature's tool kit

A Software Reliability Tool-Kit

In this paper the authors try to address and give first solutions to this problem, defining and implementing a portable tool-kit aimed at the automatic collection, processing and analysis of failure data in order to assess and predict reliability. The work has been accomplished within the ESPRIT II SCOPE project which aims at defining software assessment and certification procedures, demonstrat...

The Natures of Nonconfigurationality

Population, development, and human natures

At the dawn of this new millennium, the human enterprise is quickly becoming a globally unified one. Yet numerous obstacles and pitfalls remain in the path of a full and fair unification. A substantial fraction of the world’s population is well-off and increasingly connected through trade and communications systems. But an even larger fraction is struggling to make ends meet and is only sketchi...

The PrICE Tool Kit: Tool Support for Process Improvement

Process improvement is an important means to obtain competitive advantage and improve customer satisfaction. The PrICE tool kit provides support for process improvement and has been developed to show the feasibility of the PrICE approach. The approach for Process Improvement by Creating and Evaluating process alternatives (in short: the PrICE approach) describes the concrete steps that have to ...

A Modular Tool Kit for Knowledge Management

We describe an integrated programming environment for develop ing knowledge-based systems. The environment contains a variety of general-purpose tools: a rule interpretation system, a semantic integrity manager, a task representation system and a file manager. Although the tools have different origins (e g . rule based systems, database management, process control), an obiect-oriented foundatio...