Measurement unit safety policy checking is a topic in software analysis concerned with ensuring that programs do not violate basic principles of units of measurement. Such violations can hide significant domain-specific errors which are hard or impossible to find otherwise. Measurement unit analysis by means of automatic deduction is addressed in this paper. We draw general design principles fo...

Software engineering researchers have attempted to improve the software development process for over two decades. A primary thrust in this process lies in the arena of measurement. “You can’t control what you can’t measure” [5]. This research applies software metric techniques to the development of multimedia products. Problem areas such as education, instruction, training, and information syst...

industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as sales, distribution, manufacturing, materials, finance, human resources and maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. however, since most of these or-ganizations have a `functional structure`, each function or department works towards ...

The modelling concept is well accepted in software engineering discipline. Some software models are built either to control the development stages, to measure program quality or to serve as a medium that gives better understanding of the actual software systems. Software process modelling nowadays has reached a level that allow software designs to be transformed into programming languages, such...

N-gram language modeling is essential in natural language processing and speech processing. In morphologically rich languages such as Korean, a word usually consists of at least one lemma (content morpheme) and functional morphemes which represent various grammatical. Most word forms in Korean, however, have problems of sparse data and zero probability, because of quite complex morpheme combina...

This chapter critically reflects on the deceptively simple relationship between language and survey response—a.k.a., the language-opinion connection. It discusses what survey researchers actually know about this link, paying close attention to challenges involving conceptualization, measurement, and research design. Throughout, the discussion emphasizes a core theme: Despite great advancements ...