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Ubiquitous Computing poses new challenges for the software engineering community. The T-Engine platform consisting of standard real-time kernel, T-Kernel, running on the standard hardware with networking facility creates broad application opportunities based on the collaboration …
This half-day tutorial covers the salient features of the first major revision of the Unified Modeling Language - UML 2. This short note summarizes the major topics covered by the tutorial.
In recent years, a number of business reasons have caused software development to become increasingly distributed. Remote development of software offers several advantages, but it is also fraught with challenges. In this paper, we report on our study of distributed software devel…
Component based software development (CBSD) becomes a popular paradigm for Internet based systems. Compared to other popular paradigms, CBSD supports the development from reusable components other than the development from the scratch. Consequently, modeling becomes more importan…
Software developers often face steep learning curves in using a new framework, library, or new versions of frameworks for developing their piece of software. In large organizations, developers learn and explore use of frameworks, rarely realizing, several peers may have already e…
There is a lack of published studies on software development in Southeast Asia, which is fast becoming an IT outsourcing haven. This paper presents exploratory survey and case study results on software practices of some software firms in five ASEAN countries (Malaysia, Philippine…
Location-based computing (LBC) is becoming increasing important in both industry and academia. A key challenge is the pervasive deployment of LBC technologies; to be effective they must run on a wide variety of client platforms, including laptops, PDAs, and mobile phones, so that…
Medical informatics and software engineering researchers have studied how to use software technologies to define, analyze, automate, and provide decision support for healthcare workflows. We, as the requirement engineering and prototyping group of the Siemens R&D center, have bee…
Software engineering has evolved, over a short period of time, into a dominant and omnipresent industry. In education we have recognized the importance of both managerial and technical aspects, but often failed to organize them in a coherent course with a relevant, if not realist…
Testing concurrent software is notoriously difficult due to problems with non-determinism and synchronisation. While tools and techniques for the testing of sequential components are well-understood and widely used, similar tools and techniques for concurrent components are not c…
Decentralized applications are composed of distributed entities that directly interact with each other and make local autonomous decisions in the absence of a centralized coordinating authority. Such decentralized applications, where entities can join and leave the system at any …
Finite-state verification (FSV) techniques attempt to prove properties about a model of a system by examining all possible behaviors of that model. This approach suffers from the state-explosion problem, where the size of the model or the analysis costs may be exponentially large…
Effort and cost estimation is crucial in software management. Estimation of software size plays a key role in the estimation. Line of Code (LOC) is still a commonly used software size measure. Despite the fact that software sizing is well recognized as an important problem for mo…
Innovative University/Industry interactions are examined in this open event with the aim of providing inputs to an international project that is being funded through the United Kingdom's Teaching Fellowship Scheme. These inputs will support the first stage of the project which is…
Cost estimation is a very crucial field for software developing companies. The acceptance of an estimation technique is highly dependent on estimation accuracy. Often, this accuracy is only determined after an initial application. Possible further steps for improving the underlyi…
Software engineers are commonly faced with the problem of incomplete data. Incomplete data can reduce system performance in terms of predictive accuracy. Unfortunately, rare research has been conducted to systematically explore the impact of missing values, especially from the mi…
This paper is a cross-study of service-learning projects executed by student groups in a 10-week course on software engineering. The principal benefits of service-learning are demonstrated by the groups in this setting. The course is structured to support the project activities; …
Refactorings are behaviour-preserving program transformations, typically for improving the structure of existing code. A few of these transformations have been mechanised in interactive development environments. Many more refactorings have been proposed, and it would be desirable…
We present a methodology and tool for performance analysis of distributed server systems, which allows high-level specification of the system, and generates and solves the underlying queueing network model. Our approach is different from the existing ones in that the specificatio…
High-level process management is quantitative management. The Process Performance Baseline (PPB) of process or subprocess under statistical management is the most important concept. It is the basis of process control and improvement. The existing methods for establishing process …