The increase dependence on software aspects has led the society to emphasize the importance of software quality and metrics. At present there are two categories of quality metrics; dynamic and static. Although dynamic metrics can provide a clearer insight into the software quality issue; it is observed that static metrics are often used for such a purpose. This is due mainly to the technical di...

In this work two distinct metrics are proposed, which aim to quantify the importance of a web page based on the visits it receives by the users and its location within the website. Subsequently, certain guidelines are presented, which can be used to reorganize the website, taking into account the optimization of these metrics. Finally we evaluate the proposed algorithms using real-world website...

A review is given of recent work on topology changing solutions to the first order form of general relativity. These solutions have metrics which are smooth everywhere, invertible almost everywhere, and have bounded curvature. The importance of considering degenerate metrics is discussed, and the possibility that quantum effects can suppress topology change is briefly examined. * To appear in t...

Metric spaces are among the most important widely studied topics in mathematics. In recent years, Mathematicians began to investigate using other metrics different from Euclidean metric. These metrics also find their place computer age in addition to their importance in geometry. In this paper, we consider the plane geometry with the generalized absolute value metric and define trigonometric fu...

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the de facto standard language for modeling object-oriented software systems. As the importance of UML within organizations increases, the need for measuring UML models arises. This paper describes a UML measurement tool that not only fully supports the measurement of models according to the most popular metrics definitions, but also provides an open measu...

Achieving a practical and productive balance in collaborative research between partners from high and lower income countries (North-South Collaborations) requires seeking win-win solutions. This issue requires time to engage each other and to understand each participant’s research priorities and to identify areas of mutual interest. In SACTRC’s experience, key elements include; building researc...