1. Introduction The Collaboration Management Infrastructure (CMI) has been developed at MCC to manage collaboration processes in both traditional and virtual enterprises, and to provide combined process and situation awareness. CMI technology development is driven by the requirements of many advanced applications provided by the companies that are members of the consortial CMI project. Such adv...

A new, simple, high-speed, and hardware-only integration-based fluorescence-lifetime-sensing algorithm using a center-of-mass method (CMM) is proposed to implement lifetime calculations, and its signal-to-noise-ratio based on statistics theory is also deduced. Compared to the commonly used iterative least-squares method or the maximum-likelihood-estimation-based, general purpose fluorescence li...

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. (Cmm) is one of the phytopathogenic bacteria causing bacterial wilt disease and severe yield losses in tomatoes other solanaceous vegetables. Although there are some reports on Cmm infections eggplants (Solanum melongena), no information available resistance sources genetic control to this crop. We performed a search for eggplants, set 46 genotypes including lan...

The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM) has evolved significantly since publication of the software process maturity framework in 1987. The intent of CMM Version 1.0 was to formalize and elaborate the concepts of software process maturity, making them more accessible to the software community. The intent of the CMM Version 1.1 was to do a minor revision that would improve the consisten...

We propose a maturity model for computing education which is inspired by the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) used in software engineering. Similar to CMM, the Computing Education Maturity Model (CEMM) can be used to rate educational organisations according to their capability to deliver highquality education on a five level scale. Furthermore, CEMM can be used in order to improve an institution...

Recently, researchers have discovered that many of social, natural and biological networks are characterized by scale-free powerlaw connectivity distribution and a few densely populated nodes, known as hubs. We envision that wireless networks are directly deployed over such real-world networks to facilitate communication among participating entities. Here nodes move in such a way that they exhi...

Extreme Programming (XP) and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) are two recently emerging models addressing the difficulty of developing and delivering high-quality software products. The CMM introduces 5 levels of maturity and gives guidelines for what to do at an organizational level, while XP gives explicit guidelines for how to develop software at a project level. Together these models for...

In today’s business environment, information technology (IT) is an indispensable tool for any corporation. One of the largest IT investments goes to software-related products and activities such as development, maintenance and enhancement. In order to reduce the cost of software activities and improve the quality of software products, eþ ectively managing the software development process is an ...

Metals are essential in many biological processes, and metal ions are modeled in roughly 40% of the macromolecular structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). However, a significant fraction of these structures contain poorly modeled metal-binding sites. CheckMyMetal (CMM) is an easy-to-use metal-binding site validation server for macromolecules that is freely available at http://csgid.org/csgid...

ÐIn this paper, an empirical study that links software process consistency with product defects is reported. Various measurement issues such as validity, reliability, and other challenges in measuring process consistency at the project level are discussed. A measurement scale for software process consistency is introduced. An empirical study that uses this scale to measure consistency in achiev...