Effective methods for metrics definition are of particular importance, as measurement mechanisms are indispensable in virtually any engineering discipline. The paper describes how the well known Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) method of systematic metrics derivation from measurement goals can be extended by applying argument structures. The proposed approach is called Goal-Argument-Metric (GAM). The...

For interactions to be possible within the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ecosystem, each actor must be enough confident of other actors to engage safely in the interactions. Therefore, the establishing of objective metrics tailored to the context of SOA that show security of a system and lead to enhancements is very attractive. The purpose of our paper is to present a GQM (Goal Question M...

ERP implementation project success is influenced by a large number of factors, which most of the time are difficult to measure objectively. User involvement and participation is one of the most cited critical success factors in ERP implementation projects, and one of the most critical ones for their satisfactory outcome. This study attempts to define a set of metrics for monitoring user involve...

It is an important industrial need to deliver high-quality knowledge-based systems and organizational memories (e.g., to support service management or knowledge management in general). Evaluation is required to ensure this high quality and guide the development and maintenance. We present an approach for facilitating practical evaluation of organizational memories that meets the requirements fo...

Supporting Goal-Oriented Requirement Engineering (GORE) in a systematic and comprehensive way may require the combination of distinct goal-oriented approaches. However, due to lack of common semantics, to combine these approaches can be challenging. In this work, we propose a semantic alignment between two complementary goal-oriented approaches: the ArchiMate Motivation Extension and the Goal-Q...

The present article discusses and presents a new comprehensive approach aimed at measuring the maturity and quality of software processes. This method has been designed on the basis of Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM) and the Multi-level Fuzzy Inference Model and is used as a measurement and analysis tool. Among the most important characteristics of this method one can mention simple...

The present article discusses and presents a new comprehensive approach aimed at measuring the maturity and quality of software processes. This method has been designed on the basis of Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM) and the Multi-level Fuzzy Inference Model and is used as a measurement and analysis tool. Among the most important characteristics of this method one can mention simple...

In this paper, we describe the duplicate removal component of Infolab’s1 question answering system that contributed to CSAIL’s entry of TREC-152 Question Answering track. The goal of the Question Answering Track is to provide short, succinct answers to English sentences posed by users. In answering definition questions, we are asked to retrieve new and relevant information, in the form of short...

the main goal of the present paper is to extend classical results from the measure theory and dynamical systems to the fuzzy subset setting. in this paper, the notion of  dynamic equivalence relation is introduced and then it is proved that this relation is an equivalence relation. also, a new metric on the collection of all equivalence classes is introduced and it is proved that this metric is...