In this article, we present a study of the correlation between factorization and the quality criterion of traceability. Our work is based on a set of new factorization metrics and a specific definition of traceability. The results of our experiment show a good correlation between the increase of the factorization of a UML class diagram and its traceability.

Overt visual attention during diagram-based problem solving, as measured by eye movements, has been used in numerous studies to reveal critical aspects of the problem-solving process that traditional measures like solution time and accuracy cannot address. In Experiment 1, we used this methodology to show that particular fixation patterns correlate with success in solving the tumor-and-lasers r...

We study the influence of thermal fluctuations in the phase diagram of a recently introduced two-dimensional phase field crystal model with an external pinning potential. The model provides a continuum description of pinned lattice systems allowing for both elastic deformations and topological defects. We introduce a nonconserved version of the model and determine the ground-state phase diagram...

in order to study of genetic diversity and similarity among four native olive cultivars including ‘mari’, ‘zard’, ‘shengeh’ and ‘rowghani’, these cultivars were evaluated in five regions including ali abad, gilvan, tarom, manjil and jamal abad at 2012-2013. there was a significant difference among studied individuals. the correlation coefficient analysis among studied traits showed that there w...

This paper is concerned with the fusion of information from process data and process connectivity and its subsequent use in fault diagnosis and process hazard assessment. The Signed Directed Graph (SDG), as a graphical model for capturing process topology and connectivity to show the causal relationships between process variables by material and information paths, has been widely used in root c...

In addition to geological, hydrological and hydrogeological invcstigations and $roundwater tracing, detailed surveyin of the groundwater quality IS becoming particular1 important for environmental impact monitoring on karst aquifers. &roundwater qualitydata contain NO types of information, i.e. the natural chemistry of water and its caused by anthropognicimpacts. The method of results presentat...

We derive the multiparticle-correlation expansion of the excess entropy of classical particles in the canonical ensemble using a new approach that elucidates the rationale behind each term in the expansion. This formula provides the theoretical framework for an entropy-based ordering criterion that has been already tested for a variety of model fluids and thermodynamic phenomena. In view of fut...