Waterfall methodology: For several decades the development teams have used waterfall process [4] for implementing software. But in the recent years several software companies, technical articles and research papers have acknowledged the benefits of agile methodologies over waterfall and have attempted to adopt agile processes. Software industry is constantly trying to keep up with competition t...

Projects combining agile methods with CMMI combine adaptability with predictability to better serve large customer needs. The introduction of Scrum at Systematic, a CMMI Level 5 company, doubled productivity and cut defects by 40% compared to waterfall projects in 2006 by focusing on early testing and time to fix builds. Systematic institutionalized Scrum across all projects and used data drive...

Geographical barriers influence species distribution and play an important role in the segregation of fish assemblages. The present study aims to test the influence of a small natural barrier on the spatial distribution of fish species in the Verde River, Upper Paraná River Basin, Brazil, considering two biotopes: upstream and downstream of the Branca Waterfall. We observed the highest species ...

Since turbo codes with iterative decoding were introduced [1], a huge amount of research activities have been conducted on the evaluation or prediction of the performance of turbo codes. The iterative turbo decoding algorithm can be analyzed by studying two open-loop constituent decoders separately [2]–[6]. Given the statistic of communication channel output, the behavior of each constituent de...

This paper presents an improved version of multistage threshold decoding with a difference register (MTD-DR) for selforthogonal convolutional codes (SOCCs). An approximate lower bound on the bit error rate (BER) with the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding is also given. MTD-DR is shown to achieve an approximate lower bound of ML decoding performance at the higher Eb/N0. The code with larger minim...

The classical problem of reliable point-to-point digital communication is to achieve a low probability of error while keeping the rate high and the total power consumption small. Traditional information-theoretic analysis uses explicit models for the communication channel to study the power spent in transmission. The resulting bounds are expressed using ‘waterfall’ curves that convey the revolu...

We present an image segmentation technique using the morphological Waterfall algorithm. Improvements in the segmentation are brought about by using improved gradients. These are based on the detection of object boundaries learnt from human segmentations introduced by Martin et al. (2004). We avoid the usual pitfall found when applying Watershed algorithms to these boundaries, namely that the bo...

Semester Learning Plan (RPS) is a learning planning document prepared as guide for lecturers and students in carrying out teaching activities on campus one semester. RPS was made to the process so that material taught following outcomes set by study program. To meet adjust needs of graduate users development science technology, must be regularly reviewed updated if there are changes materials n...