We demonstrate our large-scale web information analysis system called WISDOM2013, which consists of several deep semantic analysis systems such as a factoid QA, a non-factoid QA and a sentiment analyzer, and a software platform on which its semantic analysis systems can be applied to a billion-page-scale web archive. The software platform has an extendable architecture, and we are planning to e...

Phone: 301.405.6722 ally distributed development teams to assemble highly confi gurable systems from generic services and components and then incrementally adding new features to the system over time. Porter says he “wants to create the revolutionary new tools that will help companies succeed in this new environment”. He believes that this kind of software development only works if you have rap...

This chapter presents a teaching framework for agile quality—that is, the way quality issues are perceived in agile software development environments. The teaching framework consists of nine principles, the actual implementation of which is varied and should be adjusted for different specific teaching environments. This chapter outlines the principles and addresses their contribution to learner...

We describe the design and use of a daily quality assurance (QA) system for proton therapy. The QA system is designed to check the overall readiness of proton therapy system consistently within certain reference tolerances by a home-made QA device (the QA device). The QA device is comprised of a commercially available QA device, rf-Daily QA 3, a home-made acrylic phantom, a set of acrylic compe...

The task group (TG) for quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery was formed by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine's Science Council under the direction of the Radiation Therapy Committee and the Quality Assurance (QA) Subcommittee. The task group (TG-135) had three main charges: (1) To make recommendations on a code of practice for Robotic Radiosurgery QA; (2) To make recommen...

This paper draws on existing literature and research on software development process improvement, and related fields, to explore the impact of quality assurance (QA) certification on the Australian software development industry. Recently, many developers have committed resources to achieve certification in response to government purchasing policies favouring standards-certified suppliers, but c...

Open Source Software (OSS) projects have the unique opportunity to reach an unprecedented level of software quality by tapping into its community and collaborative power. However, the community process of collaborative software Quality Assessment (QA) may not reach its full potential or worse be easily jeopardised by malevolent entities because there is a lack of protection mechanisms, easy-to-...

Component-based software development approach is based on the idea to develop software systems by selecting appropriate off-the-shelf components and then to assemble them with a well-defined software architecture. Because the new software development paradigm is much different from the traditional approach, quality assurance (QA) for component-based software development is a new topic in the so...

Component-based software development approach is based on the idea to develop software systems by selecting appropriate of-the-shey components and then to assemble them with a well-defined software architecture. Because the new software development paradigm is much diferent ?om the traditional approach, quality assurance (QA) for component-based software development is a new topic in the softwa...

Introduction: The aim of this study is evaluation of two Quality Assurance methods in sliding window IMRT technique and Determination of gamma index in both methods   Materials and Methods: In this study two tools named" Delta4" phantom and " Epiqa" software has been used to perform QA on the treatment plan before the actual treatment by Varian linear acceler...