The use of quality models in software package procurement provides a framework for the description of the domain which the package belongs to. Package descriptions and user quality requirements may be translated into the quality concepts defined in the model making package procurement more efficient and reliable. In this paper we address the construction of quality models for complex software d...

Since the Mid 1980’s, an increasing number of project management software packages (PMSP) has appeared in the market to support project management organizations. Despite the wide spread of PMSP, projects based organizations are left unguided as to how they should select the most appropriate software tool for their intended business use. The aim of this research was to apply a scoring model deve...

The latest version of the Surface Deformation Prediction Software (SDPS) package is presented through its application to a number of case studies. The package now exploits all the benefits of the Microsoft Windows platform and has a direct interface to CAD software, thus facilitating input and output. Also, the package features advanced calibration routines to handle predictions over specific r...

This paper describes the analysis tool DSPNexpress which has been developed at the Technical University of Berlin since 1991. The development of DSPNexpress has been motivated by the lack of a powerful software package for the numerical solution of Deterministic and Stochastic Petri Nets (DSPNs) and the complexity requirements imposed by evaluating memory consistency models for multicomputer sy...

Software has been studied at a variety of granularities. Code, classes, groups of classes, programs and finally large scale applications have been examined in detail. What lies beyond is the study of software collections that group together many individual applications. Collecting software and distributing it via a central repository has been popular for a while in the open source world, and on...

The software package KANT V4 for computations in algebraic number elds is now available in version 4. In addition a new user interface has been released. We will outline the features of this new software package.

This note provides complete details of the numerical algorithm implemented in the software package for signal resortoration of seismic signals [5]. The complete software package is available electronically [6].

The quality of the software design has a considerable impact on software maintainability. Improving software quality can reduce costs and efforts of software maintenance. Cohesion, as one of software quality characteristics, can be used as an early indicator for predicting software maintenance efforts. This paper improves Martin’s cohesion metric, which is one of the well-known and wellaccepted...

To cope with the complexity of large object-oriented software systems, developers organize classes into subsystems using the concepts of module or package. Such modular structure helps software systems to evolve when facing new requirements. The organization of classes into packages and/or subsystems represents the software modularization. the software modularization usually follows interrelati...