This paper starts by briefly describing the current situation of the world, including global environmental degradation, poverty and conflicts, displaying how unsustainable the present world is. In order to make this world sustainable, all sorts of actors in the international arena should play a more effective role. From this point of view, the paper examines roles of governments and the United ...

The problem of developing secure code is well known to high-tech sector companies. Some, like Microsoft, have found it necessary to establish ongoing security training for their developers to make up for the absence of college-level, secure coding curriculum. This research takes a unique, software reengineering-based, thread approach. Curriculum modules are built around a concept such as input ...

This article presents a synthetic vision of geographical information systems (GIS) applications that are state of the art in the renewable energy field. The objective is to analyze the main qualities and problems of these applications, focusing on specific samples, and to carry out a methodological proposal in this genre. From this point of view, the study synthesizes the analyzed applications ...

Centres on the promotion of quality in schools and ways by which best practice in industry can be applied in education. Explores definitions, procedures, assessment methods and analyses what can be learned from major theorists on the subject and the experience of industry. Drawing from information gathered during an industrial placement in a major chemical company, compares attitudes and practi...

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is currently one of the big challenges for Software Engineering. According to a recent report, for each dollar spent on developing an application, companies usually spend from 5 to 20 dollars to integrate it. In this paper, we propose a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for designing application integration solutions. It builds on our experience on two real...

Software product lines or platforms have received attention in research, but especially in industry. Many companies have moved away from developing software from scratch for each product and instead focused on the commonalities between the different products and capturing those in a product line architecture and an associated set of reusable assets. This development is, especially in the embedd...

Population modeling seeks to evaluate the contributions of interindividual and intraindividual variability, based on the raw subject data and the assay error, and to describe the findings in terms that are useful both for research and for optimal patient care. With parametric models, the probability distributions of each PK/PD parameter are described in terms of other parameters such as means a...

This paper presents two algorithms for analysing gCSP models in order to improve their execution performance. Designers tend to create many small separate processes for each task, which results in many (resource intensive) context switches. The research challenge is to convert the model created from a design point of view to models which have better performance during execution, without limitin...

Electronic Invoicing (E-invoicing) has been going through fast development during recent years. It is believed to bring great savings for companies. There has been a lot of research and studies on Einvoicing. This study is going to study on how E-invoicing operators could create value but from users’ perspective. The study is going to build its own value creation framework based on Amit and Zot...

Background With the expansion of the fashion industry the quantity of industrial pre-consumer textile waste has increased. It is estimated that approximately 10-20% of textiles are wasted during garment manufacture [1]. Reusing pre-consumer textile waste within the fashion supply chain offers many environmental advantages, including: · Directing waste away from landfill and incinerators · Conse...