A new trend in the telecom industry is shifting where network functions are deployed from hardware-based equipment to software applications running in a virtualized environment on standard high volume servers. Network service providers are beginning to deploy virtualized network elements in order to drive higher resource utilization by sharing hardware across multiple network functions. Additio...

CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 (SPICE), the international standard for the assessment and improvement of software processes, provides a framework for the improvement of the organization of software development, whose application became a prerequisite for a software organization to be considered as a reliable business partner already in the 1990’s. They are related in this sense to the ISO 9001 standard...

The software crisis haven’t been handled completely after its appearing 30 years ago. Why is it? Many scientists and enterprises consider that the lack of the formal, effective technology and method of software quality management is the primary reason. The total quality management has become a integrated theory with the developing of the socialization production. Many international standard and...

This paper surveys the application of artificial intelligence approaches to the software engineering processes. These approaches can have a major impact on reducing the time to market and improving the quality of software systems in general. Existing survey papers are driven by the AI techniques used, or are focused on specific software engineering processes. This paper relates AI techniques to...

The financial services industry has experienced major changes in recent years, including globalization, deregulation, disintermediation, technological advancements, and new competitive structures. In the light of these changes, banks try to simultaneously achieve higher operational efficiency and higher flexibility. Both goals have been achieved in other industries with the digitalization and s...

CMM has been well accepted by the world as the standard for software development process control, quality improvement, and software company capacity evaluation. Aiming at the software outsourcing service market, more and more Chinese software companies are involved in the CMM certifications rush. However, to most of them, CMM is a very challenging goal. As China’s software industry is still at ...

Software and systems engineering are technical and complex processes. Without guidelines, software projects can be overwhelming to novice and experienced professional engineers alike. Standards are crucial as they describe essential proficiencies, including requirements-gathering methods, interface design for human cognitive abilities, and efficient and concise quality assurance tests for softw...

Organizations engaged in medical device software development are required to demonstrate compliance with a set of medical device standards and regulations before the device can be marketed. One such standard IEC 62304, Medical device software Software life-cycle processes, defines the processes that are required in order to develop safe software. Demonstrating compliance with IEC 62304 can be p...

The demand for medical device software continues to grow and there is an associated increase in its importance and complexity. This paper discusses medical device software process assessment and improvement. It outlines Medi SPICE, a software process assessment and improvement model which is being developed to meet the specific safety-critical and regulatory requirements of the medical device d...