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From process improvement to people improvement: enabling learning in software development

The importance of people factors for the success of software development is commonly accepted. The success of a software project is largely determined by having the right people on the right place at the right time. As software development is a knowledge intensive industry, the ‘quality’ of these people is primarily determined by their knowledge and skills. Knowledge and skills are an important...

Representation and optimization of software usage models with non-Markovian state transitions

Integration of functional, cognitive and quality requirements. A railways case study

The paper shows a SHEL oriented requirements engineering approach, which has been applied in a case study dealing with the definition of the requirements for a new railways traffic control system. The SHEL model provides an integrated view by considering any productive process or activity performed by a combination of Hardware, Software and Liveware resources within a specific environment. A se...

Evaluation of Workflow-type software products: a case study

The main objective of this paper is to propose a set of indicators for the evaluation of Workflow Software-type products within the context of Information Systems. This paper is mainly based on a comprehensive bibliographical review of all topics referring to the Workflow Technology and Information Systems. Next, sets of indicators are presented for the selection of a Workflow Software based on...

Behavioural analysis of component-based systems

Hardware Engineers have shown that building systems from components has brought enormous benefits. Using components permits hardware engineers to consider systems at an abstract level, making it possible for them to build and reason about systems that would otherwise be too large and complex to understand. It also enables them to make effective reuse of existing designs. It seems reasonable to ...