There is a balanced plant–water relationship in the original vegetation desert area. With increase population and social development of area, people need goods services forest ecosystem. To meet growing demand for plant community services, more has been changed into non-native vegetation, such as Loess Plateau China. However, with growth, sometime soil drying happens becomes gradually serious t...

This work discusses the general possibilities offered by Software Engineering Processes (abbreviated as software processes) to reach this goal. Several approaches are known to use different process styles as agile methods or the Rational Unified Process in teaching. One process claiming to integrate these different styles in one process is OpenUP, an open source process framework. This work eva...

Popular process models such as the Rational Unified Process or the V-Modell XT are by nature large and complex. Each time that a new release is published software development organizations are confronted with the big challenge of understanding the rationale behind the new release and the extent to which it affects them. Usually, there is no information about what has changed or most importantly...

The paper presents a sketch of a framework-based agile reengineering process, named PARFAIT, whose objective is to provide the users with evolved versions of legacy systems, as soon as possible. The overall static structure of the Rational Unified Process (RUP), originally developed for forward systems engineering, has been here adapted for reengineering and is used for PARFAIT documentation. F...

Industrial practice in software engineering has developed in recent years from rigid heavyweight document-based development techniques, such as the Rational Unified Process, to incorporate more agile, iterative, communication-centric approaches such as Extreme Programming. This shift has created a need for a similar shift in software engineering education. We report our experience of incorporat...

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Adaptive software is used in situations where either the environment is unpredictable or the system is open. This paper presents a methodology named ADELFE, which is led by the Rational Unified Process (RUP) but is devoted to software engineering of adaptive multi-agent systems. ADELFE guarantees that the software is developed according to the AMAS theory. We focus this presentation on the addi...

This paper presents a method named ADELFE, which is led by the Rational Unified Process but is devoted to software engineering of adaptive multi-agent systems. ADELFE guarantees that the software is developed according to the AMAS theory. We focus this presentation on the four first core workflows of the RUP. Therefore, in the preliminary requirements an agreement on what the system has to do m...

Electronic voting has been attracting the attention of governments and research groups with most work on the subject referring to the user requirements such a system should satisfy. For several cases, though, requirement identification seldom goes further than a simple narrative description of a basic set of nonfunctional characteristics related to security. On the other hand, governmental repo...