Agile methods and MDE are often considered to be polar opposites of each other. Agile methods are fast, adaptive, responsive; MDE is heavyweight, planfirst, and requires high up-front investment. But are agile methods and MDE really so contradictory? Or could they co-exist and even work together to maximize each other’s benefits? In this talk, I will reflect upon our recent study with two large...

This paper presents Agile Planner for Digital Tabletops (APDT) as a tool that facilitates agile planning meetings using large horizontal displays. Utilizing APDT on a reasonably sized digital tabletop allows collaborators to create, edit, move, rotate, toss and delete index cards just like they would do with paper artifacts. APDT provides a multimodal input system that supports gesture-, handwr...

Agile processes focus on facilitating early and fast production of working code, and are based on software development process models that support iterative, incremental development of software. Although agile methods have existed for a number of years now, answers to questions concerning the suitability of agile processes to particular software development environments are still often based on...

This paper proposes a method for detecting copy-move forgery over images tampered by copy-move. To detect such forgeries, the given image is divided into overlapping blocks of equal size, feature for each block is then extracted and represented as a vector, all the extracted feature vectors are then sorted using the radix sort. The difference (shift vector) of the positions of every pair of adj...

Agile methodologies were introduced in 2001. Since this time, practitioners have applied Agile methodologies to many delivery disciplines. This article explores the application of Agile methodologies and principles to business intelligence delivery and how Agile has changed with the evolution of business intelligence. Business intelligence has evolved because the amount of data generated throug...

Researchers predict that a “flashing” electric ratchet could separate same-charge ions by their diffusion coefficients, possibility improve the energy efficiency of processes such as water desalination and purification.

Time is one of the most important factors dominating agile software development processes in distributed settings. Effective time management helps agile teams to plan and monitor the work to be performed, and create and maintain a fast yet sustainable pace. The Pomodoro Technique is one promising time management technique. Its application and adaptation in Sourcesense Milan Team surfaced variou...

In this paper, we evaluate a method of agile software development for carrier Cloud service platform development. It is generally said that agile software development is suitable for small-scale development, but we adopt it for the development which has more than 30 members. We attempted to enable automatic regression tests for each iteration when we adopted agile software development, so that ...