Entropy production is the key behind second law of thermodynamics, and it well defined by considering a joint unitary evolution system S thermal environment E. However, due to diversity initial state Hamiltonian environment, hard evaluate characterization entropy production. In present work, we propose that E can be solved non-perturbatively in framework Gaussian quantum mechanics (GQM). We stu...

Software Cockpits, also known as Software Project Control Centers, support the management and controlling of software and system development projects and provide means for quantitative, measurement-based project control. Currently, many companies are developing simple control dashboards that are mainly based on Spreadsheet applications. Alternatively, they use solutions providing a fixed set of...

Software reliability prediction is a statistical method to put in place a timely software development practice useful for objective assessment of bidders. The current study suggests one research method that enables reliability assessment on such previous projects by studying user satisfaction and the amount of delay in delivery time. If incorporated into the existing acquisition process, the re...

In software-intensive organizations, an organizational management system will not guarantee organizational success unless the business strategy can be translated into a set of operational software goals. The Goal Question Metric (GQM) approach has proven itself useful in a variety of industrial settings to support quantitative software project management. However, it does not address linking so...

In software-intensive organizations, an organizational management system will not guarantee organizational success unless the business strategy can be translated into a set of operational software goals. The Goal Question Metric (GQM) approach has proven itself useful in a variety of industrial settings to support quantitative software project management. However, it does not address linking so...

Der Goal Question Metric (GQM) Ansatz stellt eine allgemeine Qualitätsmanagementstrategie dar und berücksichtigt infolgedessen nicht die Besonderheiten von Software-Modellen. Wir haben eine kontextsensitive Qualitätsplanung für Software-Modelle entwickelt, die den GQM-Ansatz auf die Qualitätsplanung von SoftwareModellen zuschneidet und um Konzepte und Aktivitäten erweitert. Dabei konzentrieren ...

This paper provides a a framework to evaluate the transition to a OSS software solution in terms of returns and losses in the context of Public Administrations. The ultimate goal of the framework is to identify costs that are not easy to trace or that are not usually collected like user acceptance. The framework has been conducted using a Total Cost of Ownership approach, which is the most freq...

This paper presents work done in the QualOSS (Quality of Open Source Software) research project, which aims at building a methodology and tools to help in the assessment of the quality of FLOSS (free, libre, open source software) endeavors2. In particular, we introduce the research done to evaluate the FLOSS endeavor communities. Following the Goal-Question-Metric paradigm, QUALOSS describes go...

Most of today’s products and services are software-based. Organizations that develop software want to maintain and improve their competitiveness by controlling software-related risks. To do this, they need to align their business goals with software development strategies and translate them into quantitative project management. There is also an increasing need to justify cost and resources for ...

Validation is one of the software engineering disciplines that help build quality into software. The major objective of software validation process is to determine that the software performs its intended functions correctly and provide information about its quality and reliability. This paper identifies general measures for the specific goals and its specific practices of Validation Process Are...