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Software Engineering Economics

by Barry W. Boehm , 1981
"... Abstract—This paper summarizes the current state of the art and recent trends in software engineering economics. It provides an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management. It surveys the field of software cost estimation, including the maj ..."
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the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation. Index Terms—Computer programming costs, cost models, management decision

Bigtable: A distributed storage system for structured data

by Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, Robert E. Gruber - IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH CONFERENCE ON USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON OPERATING SYSTEMS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION - VOLUME 7 , 2006
"... Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance. These applications ..."
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Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance. These applications

A solution to the simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem

by M. W. M. Gamini Dissanayake, Paul Newman, Steven Clark, Hugh F. Durrant-whyte, M. Csorba - IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation , 2001
"... Abstract—The simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) problem asks if it is possible for an autonomous vehicle to start in an unknown location in an unknown environment and then to incrementally build a map of this environment while simultaneously using this map to compute absolute vehicle ..."
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landmarks obtained by surveying. In conclusion, this paper discusses a number of key issues raised by the solution to the SLAM problem including suboptimal map-building algorithms and map management. Index Terms—Autonomous navigation, millimeter wave radar, simultaneous localization and map building. I.

Motivation through the Design of Work: Test of a Theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance,

by ] Richard Hackman , Grec R Oldham , 1976
"... A model is proposed that specifies the conditions under which individuals will become internally motivated to perform effectively on their jobs. The model focuses on the interaction among three classes of variables: (a) the psychological states of employees that must be present for internally motiv ..."
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in the management literature, in fact little is known about the reasons why "enriched" work sometimes leads to positive outcomes for workers and for their employing organizations. Even less is known about the relative effectiveness of various strategies for carrying out the redesign of work One reason

Value-Based Software Engineering

by Barry W. Boehm - ACM Software Engineering Notes , 2003
"... Abstract—This paper provides a definition of the term “software engineering ” and a survey of the current state of the art and likely future trends in the field. The survey covers the technology available in the various phases of the software life cycle—requirements engineering, design, coding, test ..."
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set of 104 references is provided. Index Terms—Computer software, data systems, information systems,

Delayed internet routing convergence

by Craig Labovitz, Abha Ahuja, Abhijit Bose, Farnam Jahanian - ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review , 2000
"... Abstract—This paper examines the latency in Internet path failure, failover, and repair due to the convergence properties of interdomain routing. Unlike circuit-switched paths which exhibit failover on the order of milliseconds, our experimental mea-surements show that interdomain routers in the pac ..."
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with respect to the number of autonomous systems in the Internet. Finally, we demonstrate that much of the observed convergence delay stems from specific router vendor implementation decisions and ambiguity in the BGP specification. Index Terms—Failure analysis, Internet, network reliability, routing. I.

A Markov Model for the Term Structure of Credit Risk Spreads

by Robert A. Jarrow, David Lando, Stuart M. Turnbull - Review of Financial Studies , 1997
"... This article provides a Markov model for the term structure of credit risk spreads. The model is based on Jarrow and Turnbull (1995), with the bankruptcy process following a discrete state space Markov chain in credit ratings. The parameters of this process are easily estimated using observable data ..."
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, and for risk management. This article presents a simple model for valuing risky debt that explicitly incorporates a firm's credit rating as an indicator of the likelihood of default. As such, this article presents an arbitrage-free model for the term structure of credit risk spreads and their evolution

Index Structures for Path Expressions

by Tova Milo, Dan Suciu , 1997
"... In recent years there has been an increased interest in managing data which does not conform to traditional data models, like the relational or object oriented model. The reasons for this non-conformance are diverse. One one hand, data may not conform to such models at the physical level: it may be ..."
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In recent years there has been an increased interest in managing data which does not conform to traditional data models, like the relational or object oriented model. The reasons for this non-conformance are diverse. One one hand, data may not conform to such models at the physical level: it may

Analyzing Peer-to-Peer Traffic Across Large Networks

by Subhabrata Sen, Jia Wang - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking , 2002
"... Abstract—The use of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications is growing dramatically, particularly for sharing large video/audio files and software. In this paper, we analyze P2P traffic by measuring flowlevel information collected at multiple border routers across a large ISP network, and report our investi ..."
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properties of P2P traffic suggests that the P2P workload is a good candidate for being managed via application-specific layer-3 traffic engineering in an ISP’s network. Index Terms—File sharing, peer-to-peer, P2P, traffic characterization, traffic measurement.

Predicting fault incidence using software change history

by Todd L. Graves, Alan F. Karr, J. S. Marron, Harvey Siy - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , 2000
"... AbstractÐThis paper is an attempt to understand the processes by which software ages. We define code to be aged or decayed if its structure makes it unnecessarily difficult to understand or change and we measure the extent of decay by counting the number of faults in code in a period of time. Using ..."
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than an otherwise similar module, the older module will have roughly a third fewer faults. Our most successful model measures the fault potential of a module as the sum of contributions from all of the times the module has been changed, with large, recent changes receiving the most weight. Index Terms
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