This elaboration describes the adaptation of the first three FunctionPoint steps as a partial approach to estimate the effort in process oriented Software-Product-Families. The examination is based on general Product-Family requirements to a proceeding of cost estimation with a view to generative programming.

the purpose of this paper is to estimate the welfare cost of inflation in iran. we first use the long-horizon regression approach developed by fisher and seater (1993) to obtain an estimate of the inflation rate elasticity of money demand and then the baily’s consumer surplus approach to calculate the welfare cost function. the results show that reducing inflation rate from 40% to 0% increases ...

The main goal of the research proposed in this document is to reduce the cost of developing and maintaining large software applications. Our approach augments existing object-oriented languages with a small number of domain-independent features designed to enhance code reusability, thus making applications easier to build. This proposal describes the contributions we expect our research to make.

“Cloud” computing – a relatively recent term, builds on decades of research in virtualization, distributed computing, utility computing, and more recently networking, web and software services. It implies a service oriented architecture, reduced information technology overhead for the end user, great flexibility, reduced total cost of ownership, on demand services and many other things. This pa...

the main purpose of this research is to explain the elements and characteristics of religious education curriculum based on the task-oriented approach. to achieve this purpose, frankena`s model for analyzing a normative philosophy; deductive method was used. based on the results, the task-oriented the ultimate goal of religious education and then ten target interface for religious education wer...