Due to the increased complexity of software development projects more and more systems are described by models. The sheer size makes it impractical to describe these systems by a single model. Instead many models are developed that provide several complementary views on the system to be developed. This however leads to a need for compositional models. This paper describes a foundational theory ...

There are several software process models and methodologies such as waterfall, spiral and agile. Even so, the rate of successful software development projects is low. Since software is the major output of software processes, increasing software process management quality should increase the project’s chances of success. Organizations have invested to adapt software processes to their environmen...

Software development is a complex and difficult task that requires the investment of significant resources and carries major risk of failure. According to its proponents, model-driven (MD) software development approaches are improving the way we build software. Model-driven approaches putatively increase developer productivity, decrease the cost (in time and money) of software construction, imp...

This paper describes some of the results of an analysis of new software technology, which can be used to develop microsimulation models. Searching for microsimulation software development environment, the author concludes that opportunities of contemporary software technology are not exhausted; Web-based application development could provide better software architecture while fulfilling user re...

In this paper, we propose a new approach to model-driven development, which we call introspective model-driven development (IMDD). This approach relies heavily on some well-understood underlying abstractions, in order to bridge the abstraction gap between the requirements and the actual executable system. These abstractions are object-oriented programming languages and frameworks as a means of ...

development is a dynamic and continuous phenomenon that is under the influence of various factors forming a complicated multidimensional system together. any impairment in these factors can lead to impaired development in children, which is one of the most common problems in children. therefore, this study provides a brief overview of these factors and the way they affect early childhood develo...

The context in which Chinese firms and, as a nation, China is attempting to catch-up is fundamentally different that that facing earlier latercomers such as Japan and Korea. This paper contrasts these contexts and describes an alternative model of catch-up that can be discerned through an examination of the industries in which Chinese firms are competing successfully. The basic elements of thei...

The prosomeric model is a segmental structural model of the brain of vertebrates that explicitly holds that the brain is formed by an uninterrupted series of transverse subunits of the neural tube, generally called neuromeres. Among such subunits is a large rostral forebrain unit – the secondary prosencephalon – that encompasses hypothalamus, eyes, and telencephalon, followed by three caudal fo...