Accumulating and managing development experiences plays a key role in improving software quality and process. The experience factory paradigm provides an organizational approach for extracting development experiences from current software product-line projects and supplying the experiences to future projects. The paradigm relies upon accumulating experiences and storing them in a repository, th...

Ontologies are the backbone of the Semantic Web, a semantic-aware version of the World Wide Web. To the end of making available large-scale, high quality domain ontologies, effective and usable methodologies are needed to facilitate the process of Ontology Building. Many of the methods proposed so far only partly refer to well-known and widely used standards from other areas, like software engi...

Software requirements management is a volatile and dynamic process that requires continuous requirements process improvement in order to arrive at adequate requirements. However, there is interdependence amongst the processes themselves that leads to requirements managers‘ inability to achieve satisficed requirements for the intended software system. As a result, several software projects have ...

It has become great prominence that business organizations are considering open source software (OSS) when looking for software system solutions. However, building applications based on open source software remains an essential issue for many software developers since the new development process differs from traditional in-house development. In this paper, we present a development process based...

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Many innovative techniques and policy measures have been introduced to reduce energy consumption. Despite the high ambitions and societal pressures, the adoption rate of energy measures in office buildings is still low. Using adoption theories this paper provides a framework to analyse the adoption process of energy saving techniques in building processes. This framework is used to analyse the ...

We present a novel approach to describe the knowledge discovery process, focusing on a generalized form of attribute called view. It is observed that the process of knowledge discovery can, in fact, be modeled as the design, generation, use, and evaluation of views, asserting that views are the fundamental building blocks in the discovery process. We realize these concepts as an object oriented...

A generic integration framework should allow us to build practical dialogue systems for specific use case scenarios. While domain-specific dialogue systems are simpler to achieve than more general, open-domain conversational dialogue systems, the integration into use cases and demonstration scenarios requires a lot of difficult integration work, especially in multimodal settings where different...

If A is a finite alphabet, U ⊂ Z, and μU is a probability measure on A that “looks like” the marginal projection of a stationary stochastic process on A D , then can we “extend” μU to such a process? Under what conditions can we make this extension ergodic, (quasi)periodic, or (weakly) mixing? After surveying classical work on this problem when D = 1, we provide some sufficient conditions and s...