It has become increasingly preferable to construct bespoke software development processes according to the specifications of the project at hand; however, defining a separate process for each project is time consuming and costly. One solution is to u...
Developing high quality, reliable and on time software systems is challenging due to the increasing size and complexity of these systems. Traditional software development approaches are not suitable for dealing with such challenges, so several approa...
Software development stands out as one of the most rapidly expanding markets due to its pivotal role in crafting applications across diverse sectors like healthcare, transportation, and finance. Nevertheless, the sphere of cybersecurity has also unde...
Crowdsourcing software design (CSD) is the completion of specific software-design tasks on behalf of a client by a large, unspecified group of external individuals who have the specialized knowledge required by an open call. Although current CSD plat...
One of the challenges the organizations confront is to extract data from the information systems to know the reality of their processes to improve their efficiency. In this study, the application of Process Mining is addressed as an opportunity in th...
Several organizations have invested in business process automation software to improve their processes. Unstandardized processes with high variance and unstructured data encumber the requirements elicitation for business process automation software....
Cloud computing has emerged as more than just a piece of technology, it is rather a new IT paradigm. The philosophy behind cloud computing shares its view with green computing where computing environments and resources are not as subjects to own but...
This article will discuss the software development process utilised in the GNSS-denied navigation project targeted for drones. The process was implemented in an environment where software developers were oriented to developing a source code only and...
The design and implementation of a simulator, as a real-time application, for a complex process from the biological treatment stage of a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP), is addressed. More precisely, this emulator was achieved as a software tool th...
Common practice in agile delivery planning is based on user requirements-related artifacts. However, an aspect of business process alignment to software product functions comes into focus in the phase of inception of enterprise-aware disciplined agil...
Background: The software-development process is considered a knowledge area in software engineering that allows the performance of activities for the inception of a functional software. In a globalized software context, where companies and organizati...
Traditional vacuum system designs often rely on a 100% reserve, lacking precision for accurate petrochemical computations under vacuum. This study addresses this gap by proposing an innovative modeling methodology through the deconstruction of a typi...
Currently, explainability represents a major barrier that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is facing in regard to its practical implementation in various application domains. To combat the lack of understanding of AI-based systems, Explainable AI (XAI) a...
The transient process is the key for the design, operation and maintenance of the pipeline network system of the water supply project. This paper aims to study and develop a new type of visual numerical simulation software for the transient process o...
The software development process (SDP) is complex because it uses specific knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to deliver value to people, and the user’s needs are always growing and becoming more complex. Practitioners and academics have...
Scaling Agile in industrial software projects is a process control problem that must balance governance, scalability, and adaptability while keeping decisions auditable. We present a hybrid fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) framework that c...
A balanced scorecard (BSC) framework for a factory that develops software for banking was proposed by us at the end of 2015 to ensure its sustainability, and was focused on improving its productivity and cost. Based on this framework, the aim of this...
The present paper proposes a steel industry case study focused on a reheating furnace and a rolling mill. Hardware and software innovations were successfully combined in order to obtain process control and energy efficiency improvement. The reheating...
The importance of software has increased significantly over time, and software failures have become a critical concern. As software systems have diversified in functionality, their structure has become more complex, and the types of failures that can...
Background: Nutritional software applications are tools for professional care. These applications allow the management of relevant information, facilitating and speeding up the diet treatment, and are designed for a general population with potential...
The Empatica EmbracePlus is a recent innovation in medical-grade wristband wearable sensors that enable unobtrusive continuous measurement of pulse rate, electrodermal activity, skin temperature, and various accelerometry-based actigraphy measures us...
In the twenty-first century, the use of software is growing due to many applications requiring large and complex software. Many people do not realise that the use of software has influenced the operation of computer hardware to move indirectly as it...
This systematic literature review examines the integration of natural language processing (NLP) in software requirements engineering (SRE) from 1991 to 2023. Focusing on the enhancement of software requirement processes through technological innovati...
The increasing volatility of the markets and the growing demand for customized products are challenges for future production to ensure maximum flexibility and adaptability. This paper introduces software-defined value stream process systems (SVPSs),...
Many NHPP software reliability growth models (SRGMs) have been proposed to assess software reliability during the past 40 years, but most of them have focused on modeling the fault detection process (FDP) in two ways: one is to ignore the fault corre...
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(1) Background: Software for the numerical simulation of groundwater plays an important role in studying environmental problems. However, it is still unclear whether the pre-processing software of the numerical simulation of groundwater has a negativ...
This paper presents a general testing coverage software reliability modeling framework that covers imperfect debugging and considers not only fault detection processes (FDP) but also fault correction processes (FCP). Numerous software reliability gro...
With the growing need for software-driven devices in modern life, the pervasive necessity of energy efficiency is also rising dramatically. Considering the importance of energy-efficient software in the IT-sphere, many companies started to search and...
Audits are an essential component of every organization, particularly those involving software development. In addition to several testing cycles, software auditing has become an essential software development milestone. Software auditing is a contin...
In recent years, the number of Earth Observation missions has been exponentially increasing. Satellites dedicated to these missions usually embark with payloads that produce large amount of data and that need to be transmitted towards ground stations...
[Context] Freelancers could catalyze the software development process by providing their niche skills to generate high quality outputs. They could help companies (including startups) to foster innovations by suggesting creative ideas and providing th...
This paper presents a novel hardware architecture for implementing real-time EMG feature extraction and dimensionality reduction in resource-constrained FPGA environments. The proposed co-processing architecture integrates four time-domain feature ex...
This research focuses on a software application providing opportunities for the processing and analysis of data generated by a saccade sensor with human eye movements. The main functional opportunities of the developed application are presented as we...
This paper presents a case study of how a Spanish financial software factory (FSF) has determined the weights of the indicators and objectives included in their strategy map with the aim of ensuring its business sustainability. A strategy map is a gr...
Colorimetric sensing techniques for point(s), linear and areal array(s) were developed using image sensors and novel image processing software for chemical, biological and medical applications. Monitoring and recording of colorimetric information on...
In the conditions of modern production, the choice of a rational technological process is crucial for the competitiveness and efficiency of enterprises. Traditional decision-making methods are often accompanied by subjectivity and insufficient precis...
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...
In this work, we propose the software library PyPore3D, an open source solution for data processing of large 3D/4D tomographic data sets. PyPore3D is based on the Pore3D core library, developed thanks to the collaboration between Elettra Sincrotrone...
While design groups have utilized the abilities of injection molding simulation software, its use is often underutilized by process engineers. To expand the application of simulation software to manufacturing groups, this work focuses on developing a...
One of the most important challenges of this decade is the Internet of Things (IoT), which aims to enable things to be connected anytime, anyplace, with anything and anyone, ideally using any path/network and any service. IoT systems are usually comp...
Engineering graphics are present in the design stage, but also constitute a way to communicate, analyse, and synthesise. In the Architecture-Engineering-Construction sector, graphical data become essential in analysing buildings and constructions thr...
The oxygen bottom blown copper smelting process (SKS process) is a newly developed intense smelting process, which has been widely applied to copper production in China. A multiphase equilibrium model for the SKS process was established based on its...
This study continues a series of papers covering the R&D of circuit simulators embedded into manufacturing equipment for the laser trimming of film and foil resistors intended to improve the final product’s performance and reduce process co...
Machining process simulation is a method to increase machining quality and efficiency. The right cutting tool geometry and parameters are chosen during the machining simulation process to create a variety of precision component shapes. A machining si...
To tackle the challenges of the sustainable development of entrepreneurship education in China and bridge the gaps between academic research and practices for Goal 4 of the SDGs, this design science research aims to create an educational artifact for...
The purpose of this article is to point out the need to use software simulation tools in industrial practice to optimize the production process and assess the economic effectiveness of investment, including risk. The goal of the research is to find a...
Requirements management is a key aspect in the development of software components, since complex systems are often subject to frequent updates due to continuously changing requirements. This is especially true in critical systems, i.e., systems whose...
Research software is currently used by a large number of scientists on a daily basis, and everything indicates that this trend will continue to increase in the future. Most of this scientific software is very often developed by the researchers themse...
There is a large amount of Information Technology and Communication (ITC) tools that surround scholar activity. The prominent place of the peer-review process upon publication has promoted a crowded market of technological tools in several formats. D...
The success of after-sales services fundamentally depends on the possibility of symmetry balancing needs, supply and customer satisfaction. Spare parts planning (SPP) software selection is an investment in balancing the symmetry of inventory control,...
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