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Chapter and Conference Paper
Trends in Harmonization of Multiple Reference Models
Diverse models currently exist in the field of Software Engineering which help organizations to apply recommended practices in order to support ther multiple needs in the areas of software development, mainten...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Homogenization, Comparison and Integration: A Harmonizing Strategy for the Unification of Multi-models in the Banking Sector
Information Technologies (IT) play a crucial role in the development of the business processes in organizations. Acquiring the best technologies is quickly becoming as important as understanding and improving ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Managing Process Diversity by Applying Rationale Management in Variant Rich Processes
Process diversity arises as software processes are influenced by organization, project and other contextual factors. Managing this diversity consists of considering how these factors actually modify the proces...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prediction of Business Process Model Quality Based on Structural Metrics
The quality of business process models is an increasing concern as enterprise-wide modelling initiatives have to rely heavily on non-expert modellers. Quality in this context can be directly related to the act...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quality Assessment of Business Process Models Based on Thresholds
Process improvement is recognized as the main benefit of process modelling initiatives. Quality considerations are important when conducting a process modelling project. While the early stage of business proce...
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Article
Do Rules and Patterns Affect Design Maintainability?
At the present time, best rules and patterns have reached a zenith in popularity and diffusion, thanks to the software community’s efforts to discover, classify and spread knowledge concerning all types of rul...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Supporting the Process Assessment through a Flexible Software Environment
A process assessment method provides elements in order to produce information which gives an overall view of the process capability. This information helps to determine the current state of software processes,...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis and Validation of Control-Flow Complexity Measures with BPMN Process Models
Evaluating the complexity of business processes during the early stages of their development, primarily during the process modelling phase, provides organizations and stakeholders with process models which are...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Formal Definition of Measures for BPMN Models
Business process models are currently attaining more relevance, and more attention is therefore being paid to their quality. This situation led us to define a set of measures for the understandability of BPMN ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Integrated Framework to Guide Software Process Improvement in Small Organizations
When a small organization (VSE) tackles a software process improvement (SPI) initiative, the model that is used least is the one that would guide the process improvement. We believe that this is a great failin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Process for Driving Process Improvement in VSEs
A success factor in Software Process Improvement -SPI- in very small enterprises -VSEs- is that improvement effort must be guided and managed by means of specific process. Nonetheless, many proposals related t...
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Article
Software process improvement in small and medium software enterprises: a systematic review
Small and medium enterprises are a very important cog in the gears of the world economy. The software industry in most countries is composed of an industrial scheme that is made up mainly of small and medium s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MASIPE: A Tool Based on Mobile Agents for Monitoring Parallel Environments
In this work MASIPE, a tool for monitoring parallel applications, is presented. MASIPE is a distributed tool that gives support to user-defined mobile agents, including functionalities for creating and transfe...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Systematic Review Measurement in Software Engineering: State-of-the-Art in Measures
The present work provides a summary of the state of art in software measures by means of a systematic review on the current literature. Nowadays, many companies need to answer the following questions: How to m...
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Chapter
Towards a SPEM v2.0 Extension to Define Process Lines Variability Mechanisms
Software organizations need to adapt their processes to each new project. Although Software Process Lines are the most suitable approach for the design of processes which are adapted to different contexts, SPE...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MIS-PyME Software Measurement Maturity Model-Supporting the Definition of Software Measurement Programs
An important reason why measurement program implementation fails is that the maturity of companies as regards measurement has not been taken into account at its definition phase. Unfortunately, the major metho...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementing Software Measurement Programs in Non Mature Small Settings
Although measurement has been successfully applied in various areas, it has proved to be a complex and difficult undertaking in the field of software and especially in the context of small and medium enterpris...
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Article
Properties, characterization and preparation of halogenated aromatic polyamides
This paper describes certain wholly aromatic polyamides based on 1,3-diamino-4-halobenzenes and 1,3-diamino-4,6-dihalobenzenes, and on isophthaloyl and terephthaloyl chloride by means of low temperature soluti...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Software Measurement Programs in SMEs – Defining Software Indicators: A Methodological Framework
Implementing a measurement program is not an easy task. It requires effort, resources, budget, experts in the field, etc. The challenges to successfully implement a measurement program in small settings are co...
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Chapter
An Ontology for Software Measurement
