An international standard has now been established for evaluating the quality of software
products. However there is no equivalent standard for evaluating the quality of conceptual …

The demand for increased software quality has resulted in quality being more of
differentiator between products than it ever has been before. For this reason, software …

The fact that the usage of metrics in the analysis and design of object oriented (OO) software
can help designers make better decisions is gaining relevance in software measurement …

The usefulness of measures for the analysis and design of object oriented (OO) software is
increasingly being recognized in the field of software engineering research. In particular …

We propose a novel system-level error tolerance approach specifically targeted for
multimedia compression algorithms. In particular, we focus on the motion estimation process …

Conceptual design is an important, but difficult, phase of systems development. Analysis
patterns can greatly benefit this phase because they capture abstractions of situations that …

In the past years, a variety of unicast and multicast routing protocols for mobile ad hoc
wireless networks (MANETs) have been developed. Zone routing protocol (ZRP) is one of …

In software engineering it is widely acknowledged that the usage of metrics at the initial
phases of the object oriented software life cycle can help designers to make better decisions …

Given the relevant role that models obtained in the early stages play in the development of
OO systems, in the recent years special attention has been paid to the quality of such …

In this paper, we suggest a method for refactoring UML structural and behavioral models of
closely related individual products into product lines. We propose to analyze duplications in …