Software production problems have forced industrial organisations producing embedded systems to assess and change the disciplines used to manage the software process. The development of software configuration management (SCM) is one of the solutions for problems concerning new product features. SCM is also one of the software processes that requires improvements. The importance of SCM is clearl...

The M protein of Streptococcus canis (SCM) is a virulence factor and serves as a surface-associated receptor with a particular affinity for mini-plasminogen, a cleavage product of the broad-spectrum serine protease plasmin. Here, we report that SCM has an additional high-affinity immunoglobulin G (IgG) binding activity. The ability of a particular S. canis isolate to bind to IgG significantly c...

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of superposition coded modulation (SCM). Two types of SCM schemes, i.e., the single-code SCM (SC-SCM) and multi-code SCM (MCSCM), are analyzed. The basic features of SCM are described, followed by the informationtheoretic analysis. Different encoding/decoding strategies are compared from the capacity point of view. A semi-analytical evolution techniq...

Which are the open problems in Software Configuration Management (SCM)? The purpose of this paper is to ignite a discussion on current and future SCM directions. Based on the findings of a Dagstuhl Seminar on the current state of Software Engineering, we assess the state of SCM with the goal to identify effective SCM tasks and solutions, to establish a core body of SCM knowledge, and to denote ...

The Drosophila protein Sex Comb on Midleg (Scm) is a member of the Polycomb group (PcG), a set of transcriptional repressors that maintain silencing of homeotic genes during development. Recent findings have identified PcG proteins both as targets for modification by the ubiquitin-like protein SUMO and as catalytic components of the SUMO conjugation pathway. We have found that the SUMO conjugat...