A study to establish the current practise of the verification and validation process at ABB Automation Product AB (ABB APR) has been performed. The study is performed in cooperation between the Department of Communication Systems and ABB Automation Product AB (ABB APR). It is concluded that several basic process element are at place at ABB APR. The process used is basically a waterfall model. T...

This research deals with a vital and important issue in computer world. It is concerned with the software management processes that examine the area of software development through the development models, which are known as software development life cycle. The main objective of this research is to design a development model that meets the needs of different systems and eliminates the defects pr...

Construction of short-length LDPC codes with good, both waterfall and error-floor, behavior is still an attractive research problem. Recently proposed construction algorithms in this field are based on remarkably simple ideas, but yet, their effectiveness can still be questioned. In this paper we investigate a novel measure of goodness of a given LDPC code, namely its ACE spectrum, based on a p...

Software architecture is taking a bad rap with many agile proponents; big up-front design, massive documentation, smell of waterfall, it is pictured as a non-agile practice, something we do not want to even consider; though everybody want to be called an architect. However, certain classes of system, ignoring architectural issues too long “hit a wall” and collapse by lack of an architectural fo...

We present a method for synthesizing fluid animation from a single image, using a fluid video database. The user inputs a target painting or photograph of a fluid scene along with its alpha matte that extracts the fluid region of interest in the scene. Our approach allows the user to generate a fluid animation from the input image and to enter a few additional commands about fluid orientation o...

a James Madison University, Department of Biology, MSC 7801, Harrisonburg, VA, 24401, USA b University of Oregon, Department of Geological Sciences, 325C Cascade Hall, Eugene, OR 97403, USA c Idaho State University, Department of Biological Sciences, 921 S. 8th Ave., Pocatello, ID, 83209, USA d U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, 2327 University Way, Suite 2, Bozeman...

Uncoded bit error probability with maximum-likelihood detection and channel capacity is derived analytically for binary signaling on the dual antenna array channel with correlated fading in the large system limit. The example of fading correlation due to poor scattering is analyzed in greater detail. In case of poor scattering (or high load), a waterfall behavior of the uncoded bit error probab...

Nearly 99% of all U.S. firms are small businesses and roughly half the private sector employees work for a small business. Yet surprisingly little research attention is given to IT and its role in small firms; neither from the small consumer nor producer perspective. This area is of increasing importance, as small firms struggle to grow and gain competitive advantage against the backdrop of rap...

Topically reactive publications Most technical computing publications are topically reactive— they depend mainly on unsolicited submissions to fill their pages every year. Prior to joining IEEE Software, I was editor in chief of another academic journal for almost 10 years. Readers would often suggest I publish more on this or that topic. Unfortunately, because the topics we published were what...

Final year students in the Bachelor of Computing complete an industry project where they work in teams to build an IT system for an external client. Grading projects in these circumstances is difficult because of the huge variability of projects and clients. A method of ameliorating some of the variation is to perform a function point count on the projects. Due to the large number of projects a...