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  • (2007) Zhu, Liming; Ali Babar, Muhammad; Staples, Mark; Nonaka, Makoto
    Book Chapter
    The possible variability of project delay is useful information to understand and mitigate the project delay risk. However, it is not sufficiently considered in the literature concerning effort estimation and simulation in software product line development. In this paper, we propose a project delay simulation model by introducing a random variable to represent the variability of adaptive rework. The model has been validated through stochastic simulations by comparing generated adaptive rework to an actual change effort distribution, and by sensitivity analysis. The result shows that the proposed model is capable of producing reasonable variability of adaptive rework, and consequently, variability of project delay. Analysis of our model indicates that the strength of dependency has a larger impact than the number of residual defects, for the studied simulation settings. However, high levels of adaptive rework variability did not have great impact on overall project delay.

  • (2004) Zhu, Liming; Ali Babar, Muhammad; Jeffery, David
    Book Chapter
    Software architecture (SA) evaluation is a quality assurance technique that is increasingly attracting significant research and commercial interests. A number of SA evaluation methods have been developed. Most of these methods are scenario-based, which relies on the quality of the scenarios used for the evaluation. Most of the existing techniques for developing scenarios use stakeholders and requirements documents as main sources of collecting scenarios. Recently, architectures of large software systems are usually composed of patterns and styles. One of the purposes of using patterns is to develop systems with predictable quality attributes. Since patterns are documented in a format that requires the inclusion of problem, solution and quality consequences, we observed that scenarios are, though as informal text, pervasive in patterns description, which can be extracted and documented for the SA evaluation. Thus, we claim that the patterns can be another source of collecting quality attributes sensitive scenarios. This position paper presents arguments and examples to support our claim.

  • (2007) Zhu, Liming; Osterweil, Leon; Staples, Mark; Kannengiesser, Udo
    Book Chapter
    In many modern enterprises, explicit business process definitions facilitate the pursuit of business goals in such ways as best practice reuse, process analysis, process efficiency improvement, and automation. Most real-world business processes are large and complex. Successfully capturing, analysing, and automating these processes requires process definition languages that capture a variety of process aspects with a wealth of details. Most current process modeling languages, such as Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), focus on structural control flows among activities while providing inadequate support for other process definition needs. In this paper, we first illustrate these inadequacies through our experiences with a collection of real-world reference business processes from the Australian lending industry. We observe that the most significant inadequacies include lack of resource management, exception handling, process variation, and data flow integration. These identified shortcomings led us to consider the Little-JIL language as a vehicle for defining business processes. Little-JIL addresses the afore-mentioned inadequacies with a number of innovative features. Our investigation concludes that these innovative features are effective in addressing a number of key reference business process definition needs.

  • (2004) Peng, Gang-Ding; Nalwa, H.S.
    Book Chapter

  • (2004) Waite, David; Joo, Sung; Feitz, Andrew; Sedlak, David; Hahn, Hermann H.
    Book Chapter

  • (2007) Letaief, K. B.; Zhang, W; Hossain, Ekram; Bhargava, Vijay
    Book Chapter

  • (2004) Van Craeynest, K; Van Langenhove, H; Stuetz, Richard; Parsons, S.
    Book Chapter

  • (2005) Barabosa, Vera; Stuetz, Richard; Lens, P; Westermann, P; Haberbauer, M; Moreno, A
    Book Chapter

  • (2006) Mariette, Nick; Pan, Zhigeng; Cheok, Adrian; Haller, Michael; Lau, Rynson W.H.; Saito, Hideo; Liang, Ronghua
    Book Chapter
    This paper describes a subjective experiment in progress to study human sound localization using mobile audio augmented reality systems. The experiment also serves to validate a new methodology for studying sound localization where the subject is outdoors and freely mobile, experiencing virtual sound objects corresponding to real visual objects. Subjects indicate the perceived location of a static virtual sound source presented on headphones, by walking to a position where the auditory image coincides with a real visual object. This novel response method accounts for multimodal perception and interaction via self-motion, both ignored by traditional sound localization experiments performed indoors with a seated subject, using minimal visual stimuli. Results for six subjects give a mean localization error of approximately thirteen degrees; significantly lower error for discrete binaural rendering than for ambisonic rendering, and insignificant variation to filter lengths of 64, 128 and 200 samples.

  • (2003) Wang, Jun; Leondes, C.T.
    Book Chapter
    A manufacturing firm must be competitive as assessed by the level of profit, both locally and on a global basis in order to survive. About 40% of the selling price of a product can be manufacturing costs, and thus maintaining a high level of profit depends on reducing manufacturing costs. For this reason, the manufacturing industry has led the revolution in production technology. This has resulted in the development of highly effective Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) techniques which are treated rather comprehensively in this chapter.