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...

We systematically study the question of identification and consistent inclusion of the radion, within the Lagrangian approach, in a two brane Randall-Sundrum model. Exploiting the symmetry properties of the theory, we show how the radion can be identified unambiguously and give the action to all orders in the radion field and the metric. Using the background field method, we expand the theory t...

We introduce a randomized iterative fragmentation procedure for finite metric spaces, which is guaranteed to result in a polynomially large subset that is D-equivalent to an ultrametric, where D ∈ (2,∞) is a prescribed target distortion. Since this procedure works for D arbitrarily close to the nonlinear Dvoretzky phase transition at distortion 2, we thus obtain a much simpler probabilistic pro...

We present a conjugate invariant method for completing any T0-quasi-metric space. The completion is built as an extension of the bicompletion of the original space. For balanced T0-quasi-metric spaces our completion yields up to isometry the completion due to Doitchinov. The question which uniformly continuous maps between T0-quasimetric spaces can be extended to the constructed completions lea...

the aim of this paper is to identify the quality factors of business to business (b2b) electronic commerce applications. having in mind the above-mentioned goal, a model will be developed in three phases. at the first stage, well-known software quality models are studied for choosing a model as the basis and using the quality factors of web applications and through referring to the quality char...

conflicts of interest in biomedical research can endanger the independent judgement of researchers and, in a worst-case scenario, can result in harm to humans, animals or the environment, or avoidable damage to scientifically validated truths. Highly publicized cases of scientists who have downplayed the risk of passive smoking—while receiving funding from the tobacco industry—or researchers wh...

In planning software process improvement activities, it is essential to determine the factors that most influence the success of a software project. In this article, we present an investigative and analytical framework for evaluating software process factors based on the Goal/Question/Metric (GQM) paradigm. We built descriptive models of the software process, defects, and cost. These models wer...