MARK C. PAULK Software Engineering Institute he Capability Maturity Model T Model for Software, developed by the Software Engineering Institute, and the ISO 9000 series of standards, developed by the International Organization for Standardization, have the common concern of quality and process management. The two are driven by similar issues and are intuitively correlated, but they differ in th...

Knowledge management (KM) has become an important topic as organizations wish to take advantage of the information that they produce and that can be brought to bear on present decisions. This paper described a system to manage the information and knowledge generated during the software maintenance process (SMP). Knowledge Management System (KMS) is utilizing to help employees build a shared vis...

ISO 9001 is a standard for quality management systems and CMMI is a model for process improvement. If an ISO-certified organization wishes to improve its processes continuously, implementing CMMI would be a good choice, as it provides more detailed practices for process improvement than the ISO standards. However, there are two issues that need to be resolved when an ISO-certified organization ...

This paper describes a generic algorithm for iso-line, iso-strip, iso-surface, and iso-volume visualization of unstructured 3D meshes, such as finite element models. The four types of visualization are integrated in the same data representation. Consequently iso-volume contouring is trivially implemented as a combination of iso-strip and iso-surface patches of surfaces. The algorithm can handle...

This paper describes PATT, a project assessment and tracking tool, created with the purpose of processing software metrics in order to provide managers with development information on software projects. Based on international software standards, including CMMI, ISO/IEC 9126 and ISO/IEC 15939, it collects metrics from projects artifacts, analyzes them, and spend efforts on calculating overall de...

This paper presents and describes a Web-based implementation of a three-dimensional software quality measurement model. The implementation is based on the 2003 version of the ISO quality model for software products: ISO 9126. The prototype presented includes all the 120+ measures proposed in the ISO standard, as well as weight assignments, target values, current project values and automated cal...

The design and synthesis of porous tungsten oxide (WO3) are challenging issues. tunability oxide's structures properties allows researchers to gain more understanding how different methods, precursors, additives affect its morphology. Read about these topics in the Minireview by P. Bastakoti et al. on page 9241 ff.

Requirement traceability ensures that software products meet their requirements and additionally makes the estimation of the consequences of requirement changes possible. In this article a case study analyses symptoms of this problem in the process model of ISO 12207, the foundation of SPICE (ISO 15504), and CMMi. Our analysis is directed at deriving a concept for the integrated extension of cu...

To achieve true interoperability for valuable linguistic resources different levels of variation need to be addressed. ISO Technical Committee 37, Terminology and other language and content resources, is developing a Data Category Registry. This registry will provide a reusable set of data categories. A new implementation, dubbed ISOcat, of the registry is currently under construction. This pap...