This chapter describes a novel application of machine learning to an important estimation problem in software engineering – estimating the number of hidden defects in software artifacts. The number of defects is a software metric that is indispensable for guiding decisions about the software quality assurance during development. In engineering processes, management usually demands that a certai...

Airborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) is emerging as a highly cost-effective threedimensional (3D) mapping technology. Digital elevation models and orthorectified radar imagery are core products commercially manufactured by Intermap Technologies with its airborne IFSAR based STAR technology. The application list of STAR based mapping products is growing continuously due to t...

In this paper we discuss how software quality assurance is realized in Rational Objectory. Although much support is given through guidelines and checkpoints, the tool fails to provide clear goals and metrics for quality assessments and it only partially supports the phases in a measurement program.

Mooney viscosity is one of the important quality properties of polybutadiene rubber (PBR). It is important to implement appropriate measures to maintain and guarantee a uniform product quality required by the rubber processing industries. One major step towards quality assurance is the on line quality prediction of the product from the process parameters. This can be accomplished by developing ...

PURPOSE To describe the definition of quality, as used in the Dutch literature, and to discuss the policy concerning quality assurance of dental care of both the Dutch government and the Dutch Dental Association. DATA SOURCE Study of relevant literature. RESULTS Quality is described as the degree to which the entire set of characteristics of a product, process or service satisfies establish...

introduction dosimetric accuracy is a major issue in the quality assurance (qa) program for treatment planning systems (tps). an important contribution to this process has been a proper dosimetry method to guarantee the accuracy of delivered dose to the tumor. in brachytherapy (bt) of gynecological (gyn) cancer it is usual to insert a combination of tandem and ovoid applicators with a complicat...

background: health system pharmacies, like other health care professional, practice under a number of mandated stan­dards. basic concepts of quality assurance (qa) standards should be applied to hospital pharmacy practice. the survey re­ported here is to assess qa system implementation and its standard indicators observation in tehran university of medical sci­ences (tums) hospitals' pharmacies...

Government involvement in quality assurance is becoming the trend in many countries, including New Zealand. What values underpin the systems that evolve in each country, and who has given legitimacy to them? In the context of the prevailing ideology of early childhood, this paper unpacks quality assurance in Australia and comments on the assumptions, taken for granted premises and values which ...