In recent years, rapid advances were reached in the understanding of a series of biologic signals influencing cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) cells. CMM is in close contact with a peculiar dermal extracellular matrix (ECM). Stromal cells store and release various structural ECM components. The impact on CMM growth and progression is mediated through strong and long-lasting effects of ECM pro...

This technical report gives a step-by-step guide to developing a requirements process improvement model. The model is goal driven, and practitioners are directed towards key processes that define and prioritise requirements activities. The requirements model is a specialisation of the established Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (SW CMM). Best practices from the ...

This paper describes the case study of an application of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to a micro team with less than 10 people and very limited resources, clearly placed in the first CMM level of maturity, the Initial level. A major aim of the case, which extended over a period of one year, was to study the extent to which the CMM could be adapted to very small teams for software process...

E-Business has now become a buzzword. Businesses and organizations are paying more attention on resolving and implementing e-Business (EB) issues and solutions. Ad-hoc EB implementations conducted by organizations have in fact different levels or scopes, but they are all called e-Business achievement. Based on the concepts of capability and maturity from CMM, this paper proposes process orienta...

To ensure the gear precision, industries need a coherent model to express, to analyse and to check geometrical specifications. Most gear tolerance representations are directly driven by the convenience of dimensional metrology and not by the convenience of the set of activities of the tolerancing process. Therefore, to ensure the coherence of all tolerancing process activities, there is a neces...

We show that the two dimensional Calogero-Marchioro Model (CMM) without the harmonic confinement can naturally be embedded into an extended SU(1, 1|2) superconformal Hamiltonian. We study the quantum evolution of the superconformal Hamiltonian in terms of suitable compact operators of theN = 2 extended de Sitter superalgebra with central charge and discuss the pattern of supersymmetry breaking....

‘Human factor’ is one of the most relevant and crucial aspects of software development projects management. Aiming at the performance improvement for software processes in organizations, a new model has been developed to diagnose people related processes. This new model is People-CMM and represents a complementary solution to CMM. On the other hand, existing estimation models in Software Engine...

CMM found its genesis in Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University, USA . It was formulated mainly because the existing ISO standard was not suitable for the Software Industry. Today CMM is widely used and is considered to be the most prestigious standard in software industry. USA and Indian software companies were the first to adopt CMM. However given the cultural simila...

The present article discusses and presents a new and comprehensive approachaimed at measuring the maturity and quality of software processes. This method has beendesigned on the basis of the Software Capability Maturity Model (SW-CMM) and theMulti-level Fuzzy Inference Model and is used as a measurement and analysis tool. Among themost important characteristics of this method one can mention si...