This paper presents an evaluation of GUCCRA technique realized with an inspection technique whose objective is to identify defects in Use Case Models. GUCCRA is a reading technique that helps the construction of these models and two studies were already carried out to evaluate it. In these studies GUCCRA was compared with Ad-Hoc and the results shown that the models generated by GUCCRA were mor...

With the population growth and consequently the requirement for development of civil constructions, it is necessary to design appropriate foundations for resisting structural loads. Soil weakness in bearing capacity of geotechnical elements has forced the researchers to continuously follow a solution to compensate for this deficiency. Within the past two decades, many studies have been carried ...

This paper deals with the construction of efficient estimators in semiparametric models without the sample splitting technique. Schick (1987) gave sufficient conditions using the leaveone-out technique for a construction without sample splitting. His conditions are stronger and more cumbersome to verify than the necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of efficient estimators which...

We investigate indexing techniques for sequence data, crucial in a wide variety of applications, where efficient, scalable, and versatile search algorithms are required. Recent research has focused on suffix trees (ST) and suffix arrays (SA) as desirable index representations. Existing solutions for very long sequences however provide either efficient index construction or efficient search, but...

Construction processes require preparation phases where rules, agreements and arrangements for the execution of the project are discussed and determined. Detailed information is worked out where among others the construction activities are named and follow up charts are determined. In practice, follow up charts are developed that describe the project in different levels of detail. The quality o...

This paper describes the use of a persistent store to support incremental system construction. A single example is elaborated throughout the paper to introduce elements of the incremental construction mechanism. The essence of the technique is to permit assignment of executable program fragments to typed locations in order to change the behaviour of a program under construction. The technique d...

Introduction: Radiotherapy is one of the effective methods in the treatment of cancer. In the recent methods of radiotherapy, intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) technique by compensators is used. when photon beam passes the compensator, scattered photons can be generated within the compensator. The presence of scattered photons may complicate the design of compensators as...