“Writing code is not the problem, understanding the code is the problem” this saying [7] summarizes how important is domain knowledge in software development and maintenance. Gathering this knowledge is an expensive process, which requires an investment of time, money, resources, and which is very demanding, because knowledge is scattered over various locations within source code. In this work,...

NoSQL databases were initially devised to support a few concrete extreme scale applications. Since the specificity and scale of the target systems justified the investment of manually crafting application code their limited query and indexing capabilities were not a major impediment. However, with a considerable number of mature alternatives now available there is an increasing willingness to u...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a software system that, from a high level specification language, generates source code for the valuation of real options. The specification language allows the description at an abstract level and independently of any valuation method specific details, firstly of the flexibility that is present in an investment project in the form of a coll...

T oday’s most commercially significant microprocessors remain firmly wedded to legacy instruction set architectures, some of which are now over a decade old. Despite the admitted shortcomings of these ISAs, manufacturers are reluctant to develop radically new ones because they risk losing the commercial advantage of their product’s existing software base. On the other side of the coin, software...

T oday’s most commercially significant microprocessors remain firmly wedded to legacy instruction set architectures, some of which are now over a decade old. Despite the admitted shortcomings of these ISAs, manufacturers are reluctant to develop radically new ones because they risk losing the commercial advantage of their product’s existing software base. On the other side of the coin, software...

T oday’s most commercially significant microprocessors remain firmly wedded to legacy instruction set architectures, some of which are now over a decade old. Despite the admitted shortcomings of these ISAs, manufacturers are reluctant to develop radically new ones because they risk losing the commercial advantage of their product’s existing software base. On the other side of the coin, software...

Many software development projects start with an existing code base that has to be tightly integrated into a new system. In order to make a robust system that will achieve the desired business goals, developers must be able to understand the architecture of the old code base and its rationale. This thesis presents a lightweight approach for the recovery of software architecture. The main goal o...

in this paper, efforts are made to compare the safety of steel moment resistant frames designed according to different editions of the iranian code of practice for seismic resistant design of buildings. also, failure risk of a low and medium height frame which designed for high and low seismicity regions according to three editions of the code are evaluated. first, the testing cases were design...

beryllium chemical combination has a considerable effect on the design and fabrication of the241am9be neutron source. in this investigation the beryllium combinations were studied as a generator ofneutrons with various mass percentage, and the neutron yields were also calculated using the results of thealice and srim codes calculations per unit incident charge. the neutron yields of beryllium ...

‎‎a natural generalization of two dimensional cyclic code ($t{tdc}$) is two dimensional skew cyclic code‎. ‎it is well-known that there is a correspondence between two dimensional skew cyclic codes and left ideals of the quotient ring $r_n:=f[x,y;rho,theta]/_l$‎. ‎in this paper we characterize the left ideals of the ring $r_n$ with two methods and find the generator matrix for two dimensional s...