In an organization operating in the bancassurance sector we identified a low-risk IT subportfolio of 84 IT projects comprising together 16,500 function points, each project varying in size and duration, for which we were able to quantify its requirements volatility. This representative portfolio stems from a much larger portfolio of IT projects. We calculated the volatility from the function po...

I kicked off this department in Feb-ruary by examining the gap between what we say and what we do in software projects (" The Hard Road From Methods to Practice, " Feb. 1997, pp. 129-130). In any given project, our publicly declared methodologies often bear little resemblance to our actual practices. In this article, I'd like to examine one actual practice that is finally emerging as a describa...

Software project management skills are becoming an important component of software engineering education. Software engineers working in teams need to carefully plan and coordinate their efforts in order to be successful. Unfortunately, most universities provide inadequate education in software project management. Most use lecture-based approaches which provide the necessary steps in software pr...

S ince the first description of its clinical activity against multiple myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma, the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib has become a standard of care for patients with these diseases in the relapsed/refractory setting. Modulation of proteasome function has also become an established approach to overcome chemoresistance and achieve chemosensitization in patients with relapse...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurobehavioral disorder of childhood and can profoundly affect the academic achievement, well-being, and social interactions of children; the American Academy of Pediatrics first published clinical recommendations for the diagnosis and evaluation of ADHD in children in 2000; recommendations for treatment followed in 2001. SUBCO...

The paper describes a proto-pattern for a system architecture which facilitates very rapid development and extension of an application. The overall pattern has three major components: Overall Architecture, Process Patterns for standard editing, viewing and navigation, and Meta Data patterns for knowledge storage. The architecture level pattern uses meta-data held explicitly in a persistent stor...

Information Visualization (2003) 2, 81. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500046 This issue presents four research articles. The first article is entitled ‘Network Intrusion Visualization with NIVA, an Intrusion Detection Visual and Haptic Analyzer,’ written by Craig Scott, Kofi Nyarko, Tanya Capers, and Jumoke Ladeji-Osias of Morgan State University. There is an urgent need for efficient intrusion det...

Previous research has demonstrated that female infants are capable of learning paired associations between predatory and emotional stimuli that male infants do not learn (Rakison, in review). These findings come in conjunction with evidence pointing towards inherent evolutionary psychological learning mechanisms that allow for the rapid detection of, attending to, and learning about predatory a...

Previous research has demonstrated that female infants are capable of learning paired associations between predatory and emotional stimuli that male infants do not learn (Rakison, in review). These findings come in conjunction with evidence pointing towards inherent evolutionary psychological learning mechanisms that allow for the rapid detection of, attending to, and learning about predatory a...

Utilizing resources and research from the University of Alberta Poker research group, we are investigating opponent modeling improvements. Currently, our simple poker bot plays online against instantiations of PokiBots, the poker machine created by the University of Alberta research group. After some decision rule building, our poker bot is competitive. Our next step is to build upon this resea...