The most important measure that must be considered in any software product is its design quality. Measuring of the design quality in the early stages of software development is the key to develop and enhance quality software. Research on object oriented design metrics has produced a large number of metrics that can be measured to identify design problems and assess design quality attributes. Ho...

parametric design optimization of an automotive body crashworthiness improvement is presented. the thicknesses of parts are employed as design variables for optimization whose objective is to increase the maximum deceleration value of the vehicle center of gravity during an impact. using the taguchi method, this study analyzes the optimum conditions for design objectives and the impact factors ...

Traditionally most Software Engineering experiments tend to formulate hypotheses and analyze an independent variable or a series of independent variables. This approach greatly reduces the type of research questions which can be explored. In addition, most Software Engineering situations are highly complex with many intertwined or ill-defined concepts, processes and “objects”. Hence, the questi...

introduction: we investigated the characteristic of a suitable irradiation on skin's tensional strength using design of experiments (doe). the experiments in this research are designed in two phases and data envelopment analysis (dea) is used for performance measurement of each phase. material and methods: samples were provided from pleura as surface tissue made of collagen and elastin fib...

This paper presents preliminary results from a pilot experiment dealing with the economic motivations to contribute to Free/Open Source Software (FOSS). Bessen and Maskin [1] argue that in a dynamic sequential innovation framework the standard argument for granting patent protection is no more valid and the innovator has at certain conditions an incentive to fully disclose the results of his wo...

MiniJudge is free online open-source software to help theoretical syntacticians collect and analyze native-speaker acceptability judgments in a way that combines the speed and ease of traditional introspective methods with the power and statistical validity afforded by rigorous experimental design. This paper shows why MiniJudge is useful, what it feels like to use it, and how it works.

Visualisation of local DNA conformation is a useful tool in interpreting and designing experiments at the molecular level. There are a number of methods whereby local curvature as well as other conformational parameters can be predicted. Calculation of these parameters on a genomic scale may help to clarify the role of these elements in genomic architecture.

The study of design methods in the 1950’s started from the perception of the increased complexity in industrial products. The linear paradigm of the first models evolved to more systemic representations of the design process. This paper presents the development of design models in order to contribute to a greater understanding of the methodology for design projects with caution to the fact that...