This study examined elementary science and language arts software programs to determine the degree of use of integrated themes. Using a twenty-item review instrument based on criteria derived from a literature review of integrated instruction in the subjects of science and language arts, a total of 141 (including pilot study n = 12) software were analyzed. Findings revealed that there were more...

The fast growth in complexity coupled with requests for shorter development periods for embedded systems are bringing demands towards a more effective, i.e. higher-abstract, design process for hardaware/software integrated design. In Software Engineering area, Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Executable UML (xUML) has been accepted to bring further improvement in software design. This paper ...

Open source has recently become a practical and advocated fashion to develop, integrate, and license software. As a consequence, open source communities that commonly perform the development work are becoming important in the practice of software engineering. A community that is lively can often produce high-quality systems that continuously grow in terms of features, whereas communities that d...

Software development is a knowledge based activity, requiring intelligence. Towards this end, software development can be improved if intelligent assLc;tance is provided. An intelligent assistance should not only know but should also understand what is doing and be able to take initiative and guide the users. This paper reviews the different kinds of assistance one can expect from a software de...

This report describes how control integration between software components may be organised using an encapsulation technique combined with broadcast message passing : each software component, which is encapsulated within an integrated software component (IC), communicates by sending and receiving events. Events are emitted without the emitter knowing whether there are any receivers. The proposed...

this study sets out to investigate the effectiveness of the integrated cognitive-psychodrama training on modifying irrational relationship beliefs among married women. statistical population included all of married women living in allameh tabatabaei university dormitories in 2011. 30 samples were randomly selected among the married women with high relationship beliefs grades and distributed ran...

Automotive software development is inherently complex and involves different stakeholders, phases, and disciplines. The AutoMoDe approach to automotive software development defines distinct levels of abstraction for integrated development. To facilitate the design and evolution of heterogeneous automotive software, suitable views for each level are supported, targeting development steps like in...

I would not presume to propose a late submission for a paper to a conference if this were not such an extraordinary circumstance. My team has been in charge of developing the informatics tools for doing DNA identification of remains of those killed at the World Trade Center. Using non-standard development techniques under truly extraordinary pressures, we have developed a large integrated softw...