This study employs a simulation-based approach, adapting the waterfall model, to provide estimates for software project and individual phase completion times. Additionally, it pinpoints potential efficiency issues stemming from suboptimal resource le...
Vulnerability lifecycles and the vulnerability markets are related in a manner that can lead to serious security and economic risks, especially regarding black markets. In the current era, this is a relationship that requires careful scrutiny from so...
The software engineering landscape is undergoing a significant transformation with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). AI technologies are poised to redefine traditional software development practices, offering innovative solutions to long-st...
In today’s rapidly evolving information technology sectors, agile methodologies have been employed by software development organizations to facilitate the large-scale, efficient, and swift development of digital products. Notably, it is a widel...
Reliable schedule-risk estimation in hybrid software development lifecycles is strategically important for organizations adopting AI in software engineering. This study addresses that need by transforming routine process telemetry (CI/CD, SAST, trace...
Software Defect Prediction (SDP) is an integral aspect of the Software Development Life-Cycle (SDLC). As the prevalence of software systems increases and becomes more integrated into our daily lives, so the complexity of these systems increases the r...
The recently completed Horizon 2020 European Research project—HOLISHIP—Holistic Optimization of Ship Design and Operation for Life Cycle (2016–2020) has developed suitable tools and software platforms which are necessary for the cre...
This paper describes an approach for developing decision support systems (DSS) for strategic and tactical operating room (OR) planning and scheduling problems. These problems involve assigning amounts of time and specific time blocks in the ORs to su...
This paper addresses the intricate challenge posed by remote handling (RH) operations in facilities with operational lifespans surpassing 30 years. The extended RH task horizon necessitates a forward-looking strategy to accommodate the continuous evo...
There are quite some machine learning (ML) models, frameworks, AI-based services or products from different IT solution providers available, which can be used as building blocks to embed and use in IT solution architectures of companies. However, the...
The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is the most promising factor in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDL), which allows the users to interact with the system. To ensure user-friendliness, GUI Testing (GT) is required. The traditional testing techni...
The article presents selected results of analytical and design works undertaken at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) in the field of building a computer support and software lifecycle management system that is critical for flight safety. T...
As a subclass of nanosatellites, CubeSats have changed the game’s rules in the scientific research industry and the development of new space technologies. The main success factors are their cost effectiveness, relative ease of production, and p...
The purpose of this review is to look at the future sustainability of project management by combining agile methodology and product management. Digital transformation is evolving rapidly, and the question is whether traditional project management is...
Software project development and maintenance activities have been reported in various repositories. The data contained in these repositories have been widely used in various studies on specific problems, e.g., predicting bug appearance, allocating is...
The paper which is based on a literature review combined with a case study, spanning manufacturing and process industry contexts, set out to determine whether there is an emerging trend to use a service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based platform supp...
This study introduces a novel approach to optimal Service Level Agreement (SLA) tier selection in online services by incorporating client-side obsolescence factors into effective SLA planning. We analyze a comprehensive dataset of 600 million records...
This study focused on optimizing a model house for different locations and types of thermal systems to understand better how heating system type affects thermal envelope design, operational greenhouse gas emissions, and life-cycle cost. The study inv...
This article presents a systematic literature review aimed at identifying challenges and opportunities for integrating sustainability into the digital product lifecycle. The review followed the PRISMA 2020 guidelines and involved a comprehensive sear...
The environment of today’s companies is marked by increasing dynamism. Rapid technological developments, strong innovation impulses, and continual market entry of new competitors create volatile conditions that make the delivery of valuable pro...
Current ML lifecycle frameworks provide limited support for continuous stakeholder alignment and infrastructure evolution, particularly in sensor-based AI systems. We present CAPTURE, a seven-phase framework (Consult, Articulate, Protocol, Terraform,...
Digital twins are a powerful consequence of digital transformation. In fact, they have been applied to many industries to enhance operations, predict needs, improve decision making, or optimize performance, even though the definition of digital twins...
Software risks are a common phenomenon in the software development lifecycle, and risks emerge into larger problems if they are not dealt with on time. Software risk management is a strategy that focuses on the identification, management, and mitigat...
In the proper management of construction, the use of BIM software allows for tracking of the entire lifecycle of buildings, enabling informed design and better management of the product lifecycle, easier collaboration among professionals, and a more...
Revolutionizing distributed agile software testing, we propose BCTestingPlus, a groundbreaking blockchain-based platform. In the traditional distributed agile software testing lifecycle, software testing has suffered from a lack of trust, traceabilit...
The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is often used to check the environmental suitability of hydrogen energy systems, usually involving comparative studies. However, these comparative studies are typically affected by inconsistent methodologic...
Since the construction industry is one of China’s high carbon emission industries, to achieve China’s carbon neutrality target by 2060, CO2 emissions in cold regions must be reduced. At the same time, forests have excellent carbon sequest...
Background: Several product lifecycle management systems (PLMs) have been implemented in the industrial sector for managing the data of the product from the design up to the disposal or recycling stage. However, these PLMs face certain challenges in...
Evaluating the cost of detecting bridge defects is a difficult task, but one that is vital to the lifecycle cost analysis of bridges. In this study, a detection cost sample database was established based on practical engineering data, and a bridge de...
The concept of digital twins (DT) has already been discussed some decades ago. Digital representations of physical assets are key components in industrial applications as they are the basis for decision making. What is new is the conceptual approach...
Code readability and software complexity are considered essential components of software quality. They significantly impact software metrics, such as reusability and maintenance. The maintainability process consumes a high percentage of the software...
The transformer is a fundamental piece of equipment for power grids. The analysis and optimization of their life-cycle costs are of great importance to reinforce the economic efficiency of electrical networks. This paper constructs a comprehensive tr...
Modern control systems in the maritime domain are increasingly controlled by software systems and become subject to updates and configuration changes during operation. Moreover, with the shift to autonomous vessels and cars, these software-based syst...
With rapid technological advances in airborne control systems, it has become imperative to ensure the reliability, robustness, and adaptability of airborne software since failure of these software could result in catastrophic loss of property and lif...
This article presents a novel software tool for the assessments of life-cycle environmental impacts and costs, which is aimed to support decision-making in the design phase of retrofit interventions in the building sector. By combining Life Cycle Cos...
Like other communities, sustainability in and for software design is a grand research and development challenge. Current research focuses on eliciting the meanings of sustainability and on building approaches for its engineering and integration into...
The purpose of this paper is to propose a method for the optimization of raw wood for the timber construction industry that would meet the green business and sustainable development requirements within the concept of corporate social responsibility....
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is known to be a complex system because of its severe constraints as it controls critical applications. It is difficult to manage such networks and keep control of all the variables impacting their operation d...
Software maintenance is one of the key stages in the software lifecycle and it includes a variety of activities that consume the significant portion of the costs of a software project. Previous research suggest that future software maintainability ca...
Data mining (DM) with Big Data has been widely used in the lifecycle of electronic products that range from the design and production stages to the service stage. A comprehensive analysis of DM with Big Data and a review of its application in the sta...
As part of agile methodologies seen in the past few years, IT organizations have continuously adopted new practices in their software delivery life-cycle to improve both efficiency and effectiveness of development teams. Two of these practices are co...
Software maintenance is an important step in the software lifecycle. Software module clustering is a HHMO_CF_GDA optimization problem involving several targets that require minimization of module coupling and maximization of software cohesion. Moreov...
One of expensive stages of the software lifecycle is its maintenance. Software maintenance will be much simpler if its structural models are available. Software module clustering is thought to be a practical reverse engineering method for building so...
The increasing complexity of spacecraft On-Board Software (OBSW) necessitates advanced development and testing methodologies to ensure reliability and robustness. This paper presents a digital twin approach for the development and testing of embedded...
The Wuppertal Institute developed, in the early 1990s, an input-oriented lifecycle-wide resource accounting method, the “Material Input per Service-Unit” concept (MIPS), today also referred to as “Material Footprint”. The official handbook applicabl...
In the automotive industry, the reduction of development costs is of key importance. The development of electrical hardware is an expensive, time-consuming process with a lot of development stages (e.g., prototyping, electrical testing, mechanical te...
Climate change represents a paramount challenge for humanity in the 21st century. Green infrastructure (GI), due to its myriad environmental and societal benefits, has emerged as an essential natural life support system and a pivotal strategy to comb...
While rainwater harvesting can provide additional water resources, this approach is largely undertaken using water from roofs. More recently, the potential for using stormwater harvested from permeable pavements was recognised as a potential addition...
Software development has a problem with transparency/visibility. As an intangible product, software and its intermediate development results are hard to see or touch. Customers of custom software have difficulties checking progress, and risk coming o...
Blockchain technology (BCT) can enable distributed collaboration, enhance data sharing, and automate back-end processes for digital twin (DT) decentralized applications (dApps) in the construction industry (CI) 4.0. The aim of this paper was to propo...
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