Applied research is, by necessity, a distributed, collaborative process. To be useful, research methodologies must not only be applicable in such an environment, but must also be adaptive to the needs of human resources and specific research area requirements. This paper introduces eXtreme Researching (XR), an adaptation of eXtreme Programming (XP) by Ericsson, to support distributed telecommun...

This paper proposes the use of multiagent cooperation for solving global optimization problems through the introduction of a new multiagent environment, MANGO. The strength of the environment lays in its flexible structure based on communicating software agents that attempt to solve a problem cooperatively. This structure allows the execution of a wide range of global optimization algorithms de...

Exploration of our solar system increasingly involves physical interaction with the environment, requiring innovation in fields such as robotic manipulation (TA 4.2.1.3: New forms of sample handling, digging, grappling, etc) and extreme terrain access (TA 4.2.1.2: New means of accessing the sides of cliffs, craters, and other extreme locations). In both cases, NASA desires lightweight (TA 12.2....

Climate is the most important factor which control desertification .In order to detect climate changes in desert zones, time trend analysis is applied to extreme indices in Kashan station using extreme climate index software (ECIS). Results show significant trends in extreme indices during the past decade 1995-2004 and the pronounced warming is associated with a negative trend in cold extremes....

Understanding the emergence of extreme opinions and in what kind of environment they might become less extreme is a central theme in our modern globalized society. A model combining continuous opinions and observed discrete actions (CODA) capable of addressing the important issue of measuring how extreme opinions might be has been recently proposed. In this paper I show extreme opinions to aris...

Requirements engineering is a core practice within eXtreme Programming. Practising teams learn to not abandon any of the interconnected core practices. The continuous feedback teaches the team that they will develop at a faster and more reliable pace with the full set of practices. This paper shares an experience of how teams could accelerate development out of necessity, while maintaining thei...

This paper presents an early empirical study on Extreme Programming practices employing a qualitative action research method. The study was conducted on university students doing real commercial development projects to gain an insight into the problems faced by the new developers in adopting these agile practices. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of the XP practices on the qu...

BOLIVAR problem solving environment (PSE) is the multi-functional computational software for the researches and engineers who explore the extreme environmental conditions to design and build offshore structures and floating objects. It contains a set of computational modules of various methods for extreme analysis, and a set of modules for the stochastic and hydrodynamic simulation of metocean ...

This report presents an experiment comparing two lightweight methodologies. The objective of the experiment was to assess extreme programming seen as a design-less process and an agile methodology based on design. The experiment ran in a real environment. Twenty teams produced 20 systems, from scratch to the final product, in a period of one semester. They attended 4 clients. The factors of the...

This paper presents a single case study reporting the experiences of introducing extreme programming (XP) in a small development project at Online Telemarketing in Lund, Sweden. The project was a success despite the fact that the customer had a poor idea of the system required at the start of the development. This success is partly due to the introduction of practically all of the XP practices....