Data from several projects show a significant relationship between the size of a module and its defect density. Here we address implications of this observation. Does the overall defect density of a software project vary with its module size distribution? Even more interesting is the questioncan we exploit this dependence to reduce the total number of defects? We examine the available data sets...

The haplotype inference (HI) problem is the problem of inferring 2n haplotype pairs from n observed genotype vectors. This is a key problem that arises in studying genetic variation in populations, for example in the ongoing HapMap project [5]. In order to have a hope of finding the haplotypes that actually generated the observed genotypes, we must use some (implicit or explicit) genetic model ...

I this paper, we draw on control theory to understand the conditions under which the use of agile practices is most effective in improving software project quality. Although agile development methodologies offer the potential of improving software development outcomes, limited research has examined how project managers can structure the software development environment to maximize the benefits ...

In the academic sector, most engineering research funding presupposes collaborative projects. Collaboration between academia and industry is encouraged. This approach creates successive complexity in most Research and Development (R&D) projects in many ways. Projects funded by the European Commission or jointly funded by national agencies are often encouraged to become large, competing companie...

Managing the development of large-scale software systems is a challenge to all software project managers due to the ever-increasing complexity inherent in the software development life cycle. In this paper, a formalism intended to capture the concurrent and iterative nature of software development, called Software Project Management Net (SPMNet), is proposed to model software development projec...

2 Purpose 3 Project Members 4 Industrial Affiliates 5 Project Description and Methodology 5.1 Quantum Algorithms and Complexity Theory 5.2 Quantum Circuit Complexity 5.3 Communication Complexity 5.4 Quantum Information Security This part of the proposal addresses the impact of quantum computation and quantum communication on the field of cryptology. We can break this up into three parts. SINCE ...

The increasing complexity, heterogeneity and dynamism of emerging pervasive Grid environments and applications has necessitated the development of autonomic self-managing solutions, which are based on strategies used by biological systems to deal with similar challenges of complexity, heterogeneity, and uncertainty. This paper introduces Project AutoMate and describes its key components. The ov...

When an activity-on-arc (AoA) project network is to be constructed, one typically seeks to minimize the number of dummy arcs. Recent investigations have shown, however, that the computational effort of many network-oriented project management techniques depends strongly on the so-called complexity index ( C l ) of a network. We show other justifications for minimizing the Cl rather than the num...

Within the project the complexity must be tackled to increase the chances for success. Engineering disciplines manage complexity, avoid, circumvent, and reduce it. A prominent aspect again is to limit the size of the system to take care of at once – decomposition and incremental development resemble each other in this respect. Our engineering and project management wisdom well in place, we are ...