The Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is presented as a model for the CompHEP software package as a set of files containing the complete Lagrangian of the MSSM, particle contents and parameters. All resources of CompHEP with a user-friendly interface are now available for the phenomenological study of the MSSM. Various special features of the model are discussed. Submitted to Comp. Phys. Co...

Epidemiologic data are often clustered within multiple levels that may not be nested within each other. Generalized estimating equations are commonly used to adjust for correlation among observations within clusters when fitting regression models; however, standard software does not currently accommodate nonnested clusters. This paper introduces a simple generalized estimating equation strategy...

To stay ahead in competition, software organizations have to deliver required functionality consistently guaranteed with high quality. The quality expectations of customers at purchase time from the software is the major reason of emergent attention of software organizations to implement quality management in software development. Nowadays, use of Component Based Software Development (CBSD) app...

This paper describes the layout of a project that we want to discuss with the scientific community. In the project, we will validate the automated assessment of the internal quality of software according to the ISO 9126 quality model. In selected real world projects, automatically derived quality metric values shall be compared with expert opinions and information from bug and test databases. A...

Performing dependability evaluation along with other analyses at architectural level allows both making architectural tradeoffs and predicting the effects of architectural decisions on the dependability of an application. This paper gives guidelines for building architectural dependability models for software systems using the AADL (Architecture Analysis and Design Language). It presents reusab...

The Cox proportional hazards model has become the standard in biomedical studies, particularly for settings in which the estimation covariate effects (as opposed to prediction) is the primary objective. In spite of the obvious flexibility of this approach and its wide applicability, the model is not usually chosen for its fit to the data, but by convention and for reasons of convenience. It is ...

The object-oriented Unified Modeling Language (UML) which has become OMG standard offers a great variety of concepts for the definition of the structure and the expected behavior of a software system. It has the potential to replace many previously used software architecture description languages. This is especially true for the subset of so-called module interconnection languages. Compared wit...