The Application of Reusable Software Components Project (ARSC) formulated an experiment design, data collection plan, and procedures in preparation for a reuse experiment. The reuse experiment is currently in progress and the experiment planning and the results to date are presented. While the design, plan, and procedures were developed to support the investigation of software reuse, they, as w...

Experiments are suitable for studying emerging approaches at Universities by using students as subjects. We identify a problem that the existing experimental designs are not well suited for studying qualitative properties and human factors which cannot be controlled and studied in isolation. On the other hand case studies are well suited for studying those situations. However, case studies are ...

this study concerns the scope to improve water flooding in heterogeneous reservoirs. we used an existing, in-house developed, optimization program consisting of a reservoir simulator in combination with an adjoint-based optimal control algorithm. in particular we aimed to examine the scope for optimization in a two-dimensional horizontal reservoir containing a single high permeable streak, as a...

generally, a typical problem which is crucial in a manufacturing system is increasing the production rate.  to cope with the problem, different types of techniques are used in companies by trial and error which imposes high costs on them. using simulation as a tool for assessing the effect of alterations on the performance of the overall system might be significant. this paper considers a simul...

abstract human insulin-like growth factor i (higf-i) is a kind of growth factor with clinical significance in medicine. the major objective of this study is over- production of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor i( rhigf-i) through a developed process by recruiting effective factors in order to achieve the most recombinant protein. up to now e. coli expression system has been widely us...

Customer changing their needs is a typical phenomenon in the software development phase. Predicting impact of a change is needed prior to actual change implementation so that an effective planning can be made. Several high level artifact analysis approaches have been developed including performing the prediction using class interactions. Since design patterns are one of the elements that affect...

In software development, one of the main problems is predicting defects during the software product life cycle. In our analysis, we focused on that problem and investigated whether it can be tackled as early as in the design stage of evolving software. In the design stage of software life cycle, most of the effort is invested in emergence of a module. Then, with each upgrade of this module, it ...

Since computer science has traditionally considered itself more an application of discrete logic than of continuous functions, measurement has not played as important a role in software as it has in other areas of engineering. Since few computer science programs teach courses in measurement theory, statistics, experimental design, or related areas, software engineering has not benefited from ri...

Alaska Simulator Toolset is an interactive software suite developed at the University of Innsbruck which allows to explore different approaches to process flexibility by using a familiar metaphor, i.e., travel planning and execution. In particular, Alaska Simulator Toolset is used for studying research questions in the context of business process management and other related fields. For this, A...