Chinese ink painting, known as sumi-e, is a traditional art form based on careful placement of expressive brush strokes. To extend such brush strokes from their paper form, we propose a system that can digitize and transform such paintings into 2.5D sprites, while preserving the artist’s unique style. We apply our paintstroke-extraction technique to plants, the most traditional subject of sumi-...

Maintenance of software systems is becoming major concern for software developers and users. In software projects/products, where software changes/updates are frequently required to improve software quality, maintainability is an important characteristic of ISO 9126 quality standard to evaluate. Analyzability, changeability, stability, and testability are sub attributes/characteristics of maint...

Background: Issues with software product quality are commonly reported when organisations engage in outsourcing relationships. To address this issue, value-based software engineering literature emphasises the need for all success-critical stakeholder groups to work towards a mutually agreed goal. Aim: This paper presents a case study that aims to compare and contrast the priority two groups pla...

Medical translation systems present an intriguing research area as language barriers can become life-threatening when health issues come into place. There is however a lack of common evaluation techniques, making the fair comparison of such systems a difficult task. In this work we try to remedy this deficiency by proposing a quality model based on the ISO/IEC 9126 standard that could serve as ...

2000 To my family iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Sumi Helal, for giving me the opportunity to work on this challenging topic and for providing continuous guidance and feedback during the course of this work and thesis writing. Without his encouragement this thesis would not have been possible. Dr. Frank for agreeing to attend my defense on my last minute r...

Estimating the risk of in-sourcing is key to the success of the project, but often the risks are hidden in the software being in-sourced. In this thesis I will explore, using measures on the source code, to evaluate the maintainability state of a project, by applying a proposed Maintainability Model. The model defines measures for each maintainability characteristic of ISO 9126, and grades them...