A Pragmatic Approach to Reuse Introduction in an Industrial Setting

A Pragmatic Approach to Superwarfarin Intoxication in a Resource Constraint Setting; a Case Report

The Effect of Natural and Classroom Settings on Iranian Learners’ Pragmatic Competence: Length of Residence Versus Intervention

The present investigation sought to comparatively explore the effect of length of residence (LOR) as well as EFL instruction on the pragmatic competence of Iranian learners. The participants were 45 EFL learners in Iran and 45 learners in Canada selected based on snowball sampling and each group was divided into three sub-groups based on the years of learning English in an EFL or a natural sett...

A Non-radial Approach for Setting Integer-valued Targets in Data Envelopment Analysis

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been widely studied in the literature since its inception with Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes work in 1978. The methodology behind the classical DEA method is to determine how much improvements in the outputs (inputs) dimensions is necessary in order to render them efficient. One of the underlying assumptions of this methodology is that the units consume and prod...

Pragmatic Enterprise Web User Interface Development and Reuse: An Industrial Case Study

User Interface (UI) development is a time-consuming task for enterprise application (EA) development. Most of UIs are programmed manually from scratch or with some opportunistic reuse methods (e.g., copy & paste) in the industry, which lead to little productivity improvement. In this paper, we report an industrial case study on a successful UIs reuse program conducted in Neusoft. In such a prog...

The MASSIVE Development Method for Multiagent Systems

In this paper, we propose a pragmatic process model for the development of multiagent systems based on the combination of standard software engineering techniques. The development method that is presented in this paper features a product model to describe the target system, a process model to construct the product model and an institutional framework that supports learning and reuse over projec...