Analytical software quality assurance (SQA) constitutes a significant part of the total development costs of a software system. Most estimates say that about 50% of the costs can be attributed to defect-detection and removal. Hence, this is a promising area for cost-optimisation. Various defect-detection techniques can be used to improve the quality of software. Those techniques differ in many ...

In an ad hoc network, all communication is done over wireless media, typically by radio through the air, without the help of wired base stations. Since direct communication is allowed only between adjacent nodes, distant nodes communicate over multiple hops. The quality-of-service (QoS) routing in an ad hoc network is difficult because the network topology may change constantly, and the availab...

The Information Fusion Journal (IFJ), an Elsevier publication, is planning a special issue devoted to Localized Algorithms for Information Fusion in Resource-Constrained Networks. Resource-Constrained Networks (RCNs) include a wide variety of networks in which resources – such as processing, communication, and energy – are limited. Examples of RCNs include ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mobi...

OBJECTIVE To determine pediatric hospitalists' perceptions about residents' effects on cost and quality of care and their own ability to provide and teach cost-effective, high-quality care. METHODS A 15-item survey assessing hospitalist perceptions of resident impact on costs/quality and their role in teaching cost-effectiveness was developed and sent to 180 hospitalists from 113 institutions...

artificial neural networks are used in many smart apparatus and different fields such as signal processing pattern diagnoses, military systems, medicine, financial systems, and artificial intelligence. in this article using quality of neural networks in optimizing energy cost in moving limb and its effectiveness in organization a cognitive function founded by presenting an algorithm for use in ...

BACKGROUND Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) is a promising, though expensive treatment for severely ill patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). A high burden of disease in terms of quality of life (QoL) and life years lost can be a reason to prioritize mental health interventions, and specifically for BPD patients. Moreover, when the societal costs of the illness are high, spend...

Data quality management initiatives could both help to prevent the occurrence of data defects and repair their effect. While such initiatives can reduce overall costs, they also cause costs for their development and implementation. Therefore, the overall aim is not to improve data quality by any means, but to ensure cost-efficiency. The paper proposes a meta-model for simulating data quality ma...

In this paper, we extend the recently presented QoS routing scheme called Pre-Computation based Selective Probing(PCSP) to the practical environment where the state information available for the routing decision is not precise. This extended PCSP algorithm pre-computes the QoS variations as well as the cost and QoS metrics of the least-cost and bestquality paths, taking into account the impreci...

Efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks is often limited to technical or cost efficiency measures. However, some important non-tradable aspects of their service such as quality of service and network energy losses are generally not part of the analysis. A regulatory concern is that technical efficiency can be achieved at the expense of these measures as well as allocative effic...