The acceptance of the “E-Russia” project by the government of the Russian Federation presents a significant challenge to existing management structures. Particularly apparent is the need to be able to optimize the financial aspects of a project of this magnitude. Large project budget monitoring and control, including effective warnings regarding impending trends and deviations, is an imposing t...

An adaptive optical music recognition system is being adapted as part of an experiment in developing a comprehensive framework of tools to manage the workflow of large-scale digitization projects. This framework will not only support the path from physical object and/or digitized material into a digital library repository, it will also offer effective tools for incorporating metadata and perusi...

The aim of the IDEA (Identification électronique des animaux) project is to collect information on the feasibility of the introduction into the European Union (EU) of an animal electronic identification system, as referred to in Directive 92/102 and Regulation 1760/2000. The project will run for a period of four years (1998-2001) and will include one million animals in six countries (France, Ge...

Software testing in agile development is very complex issue in the IT world. Since agile methods do not focus much on testing activities and agile software development does not include testing practices required for a quality project, the process of finding the suitable method for testing, especially for large scale projects is challenging. In this paper, we propose a concept of integrated agil...

In product line development (PLD), maintaining architecture against the rapid changes in market requirements and the technical environment is important. When maintaining architecture, architecture migration is often necessary to keep the architecture up to date. An issue in architecture migration is the continuity of the products. Because architecture is the basis of the development of core ass...

This paper describes the construction and research program of the Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) Project. a testbed for exploring science education reform with telecommunications technology. The CoVis testbed is contrasted with other forms of cdu-cational research in an " e c o l o ~ y of paradigms." which argues that testbeds are in fact a new setting for research with di...

Thinking big comes naturally to many biologists. Pursuing biological research on a monumental scale traditionally has not. Given the depth of that dichotomy, it is amazing that any established scientist would consider signing on to a biological research endeavor of the magnitude of the Human Genome Project (HGP), let alone agree to help steer the ship. Yet, each of us did. Now that biology’s fi...

This paper studies the problems related to the organisation of a new large-scale project with ten years of duration and drawing key resources from the prevailing multi-project parent organisation. Special focus is on issues related to the management of the parent organisation and its evolution during the whole life cycle of the project. The problems and their tentative and normative solutions a...

Abstract We provide a survey on the joint European research project “GeoMetre”, which explores novel technologies and their inclusion to existing surveying strategies improve traceability of geodetic reference frames SI definition metre. This work includes development distance meters with range up 5 km, realisation optical multilateration systems for large structure monitoring at an operation 5...

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the openhardware microrobotic project swarmrobot.org and the platform Jasmine for building large-scale artificial swarms. The project targets an open development of cost-effective hardware and software for a quick implementation of swarm behavior with real robots. Detailed instructions for making the robot, open-source simulator, software libr...