—Model-Driven Software Development œ Techniques and Case Study“ Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) is an emerging technology approach that has potential to revolutionize the software industry. MDSD has the ability to both increase software delivery velocity, while at the same time reduce complexity and reuse software assets. Experts in the field believe that the MDSD approach helps to abs...

Model-driven development MDD aims to shift the focus of software development activity from coding to modeling. Application development starts with an abstract specification A, which is to be transformed into a concrete implementation C on a target architecture, as Figure 1a shows.2 The target architecture is usually layered, with each layer representing one view of the system. The modeling appr...

increasing urban network has both positive (accessibility) and negative (air pollution) impacts. in this research air quality is chosen as key elements with respect to their critical roles in quality of life and urban health. the overall objective of this study is to develop a mathematical model to plan appropriate locations for residential land uses and urban transportation network development...

In this paper we publish the results of a thorough empirical evaluation of a CMM-based software process improvement program that took place at the IT department of a large Dutch financial institution. Data of 410 projects collected over a period of four years are analysed and a productivity improvement of about 20% is found. In addition to these results we explain how the use of linear regressi...

--Extreme programming (XP) is a modern approach for iterative development of software in which you never wait for the complete requirements and start development. Security is usually unnoticed during early phases of software life cycle. In this paper, our main objective is to focus on security requirements at each phase of software life cycle. In this regard, XP is a key solution that provides ...

Nowadays technology follows us everywhere. However, it is often overlooked when dealing with social issues, despite how easily it might improve the life of countless handicapped individuals. In other words, small pieces of software, under the form of games, can help the individual remain focus and go through treatments and therapies effortlessly. But game development is tricky because simply ad...

A software development process is effectively an abstract form of model transformation, starting from an end-user model of requirements, through to a system model for which code can be automatically generated. The success (or failure) of such a transformation depends substantially on obtaining a correct, well-formed initial model that captures

Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) and ModelDriven Development (MDD) are often said to be alike since both approaches are based on the selection of elements (i.e. join points in AOSD and model elements in MDD) and their subsequent adaptation (i.e. weaving in AOSD and transformation in MDD). But does this mean that AOSD and MDD are in fact two words for pretty much the same thing? In th...