management needs qualitative and comprehensive information for decision making. managers are always searching for useful information in order to reach their firm's goals and strategies. the development in technology, globalization and focusing on costumers needs has changed the information that managers need to maintain their position in a competitive environment and take advantage of prof...

The correct operation of Critical Infrastructures (CIs) is vital for the well being of society, however these complex systems are subject to multiple faults and threats every day. International organizations around the world are alerting the scientific community to the need for protection of CIs, especially through preparedness and prevention mechanisms. One of the main tools available in this ...

Configuration knowledge bases are a wellestablished technology for describing configurable products like cars, computers, and financial services. Such knowledge bases are characterized by sets of constraints, variables, and domains. Lot of research has been done for testing knowledge bases, finding conflicts, and recommending repair actions. In contrast, less work has been done in the area of m...

A major aspect of the FEAST programme of research into long-term software evolution processes has been the collection of metrics for evolving software products, and the examination of the trends over time in these metrics. Due to difficulties in collecting suitable metrics over the long timescales necessary to perform FEAST analyses, the selection of metrics has generally been pragmatic, relyin...

In this paper a new small parameter associated with the density matrix deformation (density pro-matrix)studied in previous works of the author is introduced into the Generalized Quantum Mechanics (GQM), i.e. quantum mechanics involving description of the Early Universe. It is noted that this parameter has its counterpart in the generalized statistical mechanics. Both parameters offer a number o...

!BSTRACT This paper reports the results of applying metrics to hypermedia authoring under the SHAPE research project. The aim of SHAPE is to help authors develop high quality large hypermedia applications for education. The quality characteristics considered are the reusability of information, the maintainability of applications and the development effort. Although a number of metrics for hyper...

Portals have evolved from being simple providers of Web page access and corporate databases into being sites that support intelligent management, integration of applications and collaborative processing. Portals can be considered as an evolution of datawarehouses by extending its application to Intranets and giving access to all information resources and knowledge of a firm. All these facts mak...

Test-driven development (TDD) is entering the mainstream of software development. We examined the software development process for the purpose of evaluation of the TDD impact, with respect to software development productivity, in the context of a web based system development. The design of the study is based on Goal-Question-Metric approach, and may be easily replicated in different industrial ...

This paper reviews existing research within two fields; game studies and cultural heritage, discovering inadequacies in current digital means of heritage preservation. It is not unheard that commercial games have been utilized to showcase them, but they tend get glossed over favor serious games. Therefore, this study details new tools can further identify assess the level content which will ben...