The explicit management of project experience (lessons learned on project planning and execution) has become of strategic importance to many organizations. This paper describes how to set-up and run a repository, implemented with case-based reasoning technology, for sharing project experience using an industrial-strength case study. The case study shows that it is both effective and efficient f...

Avoidance and discovery of security vulnerabilities in information systems and managing enterprises requires awareness of typical risks and a good understanding of vulnerabilities and threats and their exploitations. Various methods for characterizing, identifying and managing threats have been presented. Bruce Schneier has invented the Attack Trees, Microsoft call their method Threat Modeling ...

La dégradation de la fertilité des sols est un problème majeur en Afrique subsaharienne. forte croissance démographique, demande locale nourriture et réduction terres arables disponibles risquent d’accroître ce phénomène. Alors que les engrais minéraux sont peu utilisés, notamment à Madagascar, gestion largement dépendante matières organiques produites ferme. Afin d’augmenter l’efficacité du re...

For several year, "Entre Douro e Minho"(EDM) area has undergone an important diminution in agricultural surface and number of exploitations. RGA analysis of 1989 and 1999 confirms this tendency but some “fréguesias” know an increase in the cultures surface cultivated like Vinho Verde. Spatial representation of the RGA data in a GIS shows the great productive areas of Vinho Verde where cultures ...

Memory error exploitations have been around for over 25 years and still rank among the top 3 most dangerous software errors. Why haven’t we been able to stop them? Given the host of security measures on modern machines, are we less vulnerable than before, and can we expect to eradicate memory error problems in the near future? In this paper, we present a quarter century worth of memory errors: ...