In the process of software development, the ease with which the user can perform his/her tasks in the system commonly called usability is an important requirement. The prototyping of user interfaces is one of the most widely used techniques to specify this type of requirement. This paper presents the importance and need to improve and increase the agility of prototyping interfaces in agile deve...

We present the Royal Society Corpus (RSC) built from the Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. At present, the corpus contains articles from the first two centuries of the journal (1665–1869) and amounts to around 35 million tokens. The motivation for building the RSC is to investigate the diachronic linguistic development of scientific English. Specifically...

Future Internet services will have vastly different requirements than the current Internet. Manageability, which has been largely ignored, will have the dual role of controlling capital and operational expenditures as well as enabling agile reorganization and reconfiguration of network services and resources according to changing business needs, user demands, and environmental conditions. Auton...

Current manufacturing planning software systems (such as computer aided process planning (CAPP) systems) are general and in a closed form, i.e., i t i s very difficult to modify these systems to respond to a user's dynamically changing needs. These systems are not well suited to agile manufacturing. This research work aims at developing an architecture for rapid development of CAF'P systems. Th...

Agile processes are expected to follow a set of well known agile principles and practices. This paper analyses the utilization of an agile process in a project that imposes certain difficulties in meeting such principles and practices in their totality, particularly those that refer to daily face-to-face communication among team members and frequent delivery of new versions of the product in sh...

Agile development methods have been described by proponents as being the best way to deal with the dynamic nature of software development in organizations, yet looking at agile practices of the major agile methodologies reveals many practices that have been used in the past. This work examined agile practices from the perspective of software development professionals and identified four charact...

In modern software application development, engineering systems and tools from several sources have to cooperate for building agile process environments. While there are approaches for the technical integration of componentbased business software systems, there is only little work on the flexible and efficient integration of engineering tools and systems along the software life cycle. In this p...

The paper presents the concept of ‘leagility’. Building on lean and agile literature, the paper describes the similarities and differences between these concepts and the application of each paradigm within the context of the total supply chain. Particular attention is paid to the notion of the ‘decoupling point’, which determines the location within the supply chain at which a product is custom...

A still growing number of software concepts and framworks have been proposed to meet the challenges in the development of more and more complex robotic systems, like humanoids or networked robotics. The issue of hard realtime, however, has not been the main focus of such concepts, but is essential for building and controlling mechatronic systems. Here we discuss the specific demands of complex ...

The extended usage of written corpora not only for manual querying but also for machine learning led to the creation of massive corpora. These corpora are almost solely crawled from the internet and contain texts of various quality. Corpora that contain more typos or ungrammatical texts are more difficult to use for computational linguists and are thus a major obstacle in automatic development....