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PrologueShor6ly after the collapse of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe, a Polish housewife was interviewed by Na6ional Public Radio.She complained that the introduction of free enterprise to Poland was a great inconvenience.Now, instead of shopping at the most conveniently loc…
ABSTRACTtWe present empirical evidence that metrics on communication artifacts generated by groupware tools can be used to gain significant insight into the development process that produced them.We describe a testbed for developing and testing communication metrics, a senior lev…
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Large scale distributed systems are becoming of paramount importance, due to the evolution of technology and to the interest of market.Their development, however, is not yet supported by a sound technological and methodological background, as the results developed for small size …
Since the 1980s most countries worldwide have introduced laws which extend copyright protection to computer software.In the first Australian case to consider copyright in a shareware computer program distributed on the Internet, the court held that the Internet service provider O…
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The data being reported from successful software process improvement projects indicates that the quality of the process is an important predictor of the organization's ability to deliver high quality products on schedule and within budget.Although process improvement does not off…
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Software often evolves from batch to interactive use.Because these two usage styles are so different, batch systems usually require substantial changes to support interactive use.Specific issues that arise during conversion include assumptions about duration of system execution, …
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Recently, a class of experimental designs has been devised that guarantee input domain coverage up to all combinations of k test factors taken t at a time.With such designs, all pairwise combinations (or triplets or quadruplets, etc.) are selected at least once.To evaluate their …
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Retargeting applications that process machine code is a tedious and error-prone task.We help automate retargeting by describing instruction sets in a high-level specification language and by generating automatically the code for encoding and decoding instructions.Moreover, we pro…
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