Architecture recovery is a recent research area which aims at providing reverse engineering technologies to extract high-level architectural information from the source code of legacy systems. In this paper we review the main (only?) architecture recovery environments proposed thus far. The environments are analysed with respect to different quality attributes, and their features and limitation...

Recent theory and experimental work in metapopulations and metacommunities demonstrates that long-term persistence is maximized when the rate at which individuals disperse among patches within the system is intermediate; if too low, local extinctions are more frequent than recolonizations, increasing the chance of regional-scale extinctions, and if too high, dynamics exhibit region-wide synchro...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between local government services and the overall satisfaction of users with the e–recruitment website (e–job website) in Taiwan. A two–dimensional mean value matrix (TDMVM) technique was used to explore the identification, classification, and application of website service quality. The results show that the asymmetrical relationship betw...

Improving food safety, reducing the impacts of food safety problems, and providing a means to verify food quality attributes are driving the development of traceability initiatives in agri-food systems. Numerous and varied examples exist, from regulatory traceability initiatives, to industry-wide livestock traceability programmes, to individual supply-chain systems that combine traceability wit...

We describe an approach for evaluating whether a candidate architecture dependably satisfies stakeholder requirements expressed in requirements-level scenarios. We map scenarios to architectural elements through an ontology of requirements-level event classes and domain entities. The scenarios express both functional requirements and quality attributes of the system; for quality attributes, the...

Chili shrimp paste (CSP) is a favorite condiment in Southeast Asia. Microbial spoilage makes CSP unsuitable for consumption within several days. Thermal treatment was applied to produce microbiologically safe CSP. The effect of heating process on physicochemical and sensorial properties of CSP was studied. Heating at the optimum condition (21.6 min, 80 ̊C) has been shown effective and reliable ...

abstract spatial prediction of soil organic carbon is a crucial proxy to manage and conserve natural resources, monitoring co2 and preventing soil erosion strategies within the landscape, regional, and global scale. the objectives of this study was to evaluate capability of artificial neural network and multivariate linear regression models in order to predict soil organic carbon using terrain ...

some of inherent limitations of accrual accounting make the actual earnings and accounting earnings different. so assessment of reported earnings quality has allocated extensive bulk of accounting studies to itself. the decrease information quality such as earnings quality increases information risk and also the investor’s risk. it’ll increase their expected return. since cost of equity is the ...

in customer relationship management (crm) systems, importance and performance of the attributes that define a service is very important. importance-performance analysis is an effective tool for prioritizing service attributes based on customer needs and expectations and also for identifying strengths and weaknesses of organization in the market. in this study with the purpose of increasing reli...

This chapter describes the growth in seafood production and trade and the main factors causing these developments. We then review the leading economic research on the international seafood trade and markets with a focus on interactions of markets and the management of fisheries and aquaculture. Specific examples include the relationship between fisheries management institutions and internationa...