Software effort estimation is a critical part of software engineering. Although many techniques and algorithmic models have been developed and implemented by practitioners, accurate software effort prediction is still a challenging endeavor. In order to address this issue, a novel soft computing framework was previously developed. Our study utilizes this novel framework to develop an approach c...

Internet software is an emerging software paradigm. Traditional evaluation methods for software reliability are no longer applicable because of the open and dynamic characteristics of the Internet software. In order to evaluate its reliability accurately, there must be a dynamic and open reliability evaluation approach. This paper presents the collection approach of the reliability-related data...

The software development community should be provided with an efficient methodology and tool support for proactive, quantitative performance management during functionality-driven software development. In this paper we present a UML (Unified Modeling Language) profile as part of the framework (shown in Figure 1) that allows the evaluation of software architecture decisions and design solutions ...

this study aims to develop seismic fragility curves for a typical pile-supported wharf. fragility curve is one of the popular tools in seismic performance evaluation of a structure. the software flac2d was used to simulate the seismic performance of the wharf structure. using eight time history records, occurred in past, as seismic loading, incremental dynamic analysis (ida) was applied for sei...

The quality of an architectural design of a software system has a great influence on achieving non-functional requirements of a system. A regular software development project is often influenced by non-functional factors such as the customers' expectations about the performance and reliability of the software as well as the reduction of underlying risks. The evaluation of non-functional paramet...

It is well known that errors caught in the early stages of system development life cycle greatly helped reduce the expense for later error fixing andmitigate risks and complications. Performance analysis is one of the methods to ensure satisfactory system performance that can avoid redesign and patch in the later stage of system development when performance problems emerge. Much work has been d...

Much of the production in firms takes place over time. This paper seeks to understand the value of interim performance information on long projects. In particular, the model explores the sorting effects of performance evaluations. Conducting an interim performance evaluation increases efficiency by providing the option to end projects with low early returns. The main result: It is efficient to ...

Understanding the performance characteristics of enterprise applications, such as response time, throughput, and resource utilization, is crucial for satisfying customer expectations and minimizing costs of application hosting. Enterprise applications are usually based on a large set of existing software (e.g. middleware, legacy applications, and third party services). Furthermore, they continu...