Recently, researchers have discovered that many of social, natural and biological networks are characterized by scale-free powerlaw connectivity distribution and a few densely populated nodes, known as hubs. We envision that wireless networks are directly deployed over such real-world networks to facilitate communication among participating entities. Here nodes move in such a way that they exhi...

Extreme Programming (XP) and the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) are two recently emerging models addressing the difficulty of developing and delivering high-quality software products. The CMM introduces 5 levels of maturity and gives guidelines for what to do at an organizational level, while XP gives explicit guidelines for how to develop software at a project level. Together these models for...

In today’s business environment, information technology (IT) is an indispensable tool for any corporation. One of the largest IT investments goes to software-related products and activities such as development, maintenance and enhancement. In order to reduce the cost of software activities and improve the quality of software products, eþ ectively managing the software development process is an ...

ÐIn this paper, an empirical study that links software process consistency with product defects is reported. Various measurement issues such as validity, reliability, and other challenges in measuring process consistency at the project level are discussed. A measurement scale for software process consistency is introduced. An empirical study that uses this scale to measure consistency in achiev...

Third-party process certification programs such as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and the ISO 9000 set of standards have been popular in the IT outsourcing industry as a means of differentiation and quality assurance. Specifically, prior theory in signaling indicates that in markets where there is significant information asymmetry between vendors and potential clients, firms perceive value...

conclusions cmm in yazd is a low-incidence skin tumor that shows a relatively fixed incidence between 1988 and 2008, higher incidences of cmm were found in sun-exposed areas (especially head and neck areas), with more incidence in men. skin cancers and cmm incidence in iran is lower than western countries, most probably due to geographical zone, genetic factors, skin type, society-related custo...

The information systems (IS) development community has focused extensively on software process improvement (SPI) programs to address the persistence of low-quality software and the perception of a software crisis. It has employed formal assessment instruments such as the capability maturity model (CMM) to gauge IS process competence and provide the impetus for software process improvement initi...

A continuous representation model characterizes a set of processes by a structured set of process attributes, typically organized into six Capability Levels. The continuous representation is a flexible and easily extended architecture, so understanding its evolution can be helpful to those wishing to use a continuous representation model or to adapt it for different environments. The reference ...

In the mid-1980s, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research and Engineering (MITRE) Corporation began development of a process maturity framework to help organizations improve their software development and maintenance processes. Over the next several years, the framework evolved from a description of software process maturity (Humphrey and Swee...

The aim of this contribution is partly to build consensus on a consistent modelling methodology (CMM) of complex real processes in wastewater treatment by combining classical concepts with results from applied mathematics, and partly to apply it to the clarification-thickening process in the secondary settling tank. In the CMM, the real process should be approximated by a mathematical model (pr...