Automatic program repair (APR) offers significant potential for automating some coding tasks. Using APR could reduce the high costs historically associated with fixing code faults and deliver benefits to software engineering. Adopting also have profound implications developers’ daily activities, transforming their work practices. To realise of it is vital that we consider how developers feel ab...

Unlike many other U.S. Army procurement programs, the Future Combat Systems (FCS) program placed a premium on the design of training platforms and training content. All developers of FCS technologies were required to develop training concurrently. Thus, developers of the Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS), now being tested, delivered new equipment training with the UGS themselves. In addition, the...

Advanced services in digital libraries (DLs) have been developed and are widely used to address the required capabilities of an assortment of systems as DLs expand into diverse application domains. In order to reuse, integrate, unify, manage, and support these heterogeneous resources, the notion of complex objects (COs) has emerged as a means to facilitate aggregation of content and to help dev...

We propose an environment to support the development of web-based learning systems. Primary function of the system is to manage the learning process as well as to generate content customized to meet a unique requirement of each learner. Among the available supporting tools offered by several vendors, we propose to enhance the learning systems' functionality to individualize the presented conten...

There is increasing interest in creating networks of situated public displays that offer novel forms of interaction and rich media content – often as work towards a vision of ubiquitous computing or ambient multimedia. In this paper we present an infrastructure developed as part of the e-Campus project that is designed to support the coordinated scheduling of rich media content on networks of s...

With the setting up of digital libraries and information archive centers on Internet, copyright issue is becoming an important issue of concern. Unlike hardcopies, digital data can be modified and distributed very easily. Watermarking is the solution to this copyright problem. By embedding a secure, identifiable mark on the digital data, its data ownership and content integrity can be ensured. ...

In order to investigate practitioners' opinions of software process and software process improvement, we have collected information from 13 companies, in a variety of ways i.e. the use of Repertory Grid Technique, survey and focus group discussions. Both the Repertory Grid Technique and the focus group discussions (43 discussions occurred, in total) produced a large volume of qualitative data. ...

Even if recent methodologies bring more recognition to developers’ testing process, we still have little insight into its status within the industry. In this paper, we study the status of developers’ testing process at Nomadic Software. Our results show that the process is not uniformly executed. The company suffers from lack of control over the methods used, lack of formal communication on req...

the present research endeavors to discover similarities and differences among digital libraries in iran and to clarify the extent of their consistency in terms of main library requisites. using a qualitative -quantitative method, i.e. a survey research method using content analysis, it identifies iranian digital libraries (idls) and explores their characteristics. reviewing the literature, we i...