Aligning IT Components to Achieve Agility in Globally Distributed System Development
Agile IT strategy, infrastructure, and project management are key elements for realizing agility in GDSD projects.
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Dependency Forecasting in the Distributed Agile Organization
Coordination, or the management of dependencies among tasks, can be accomplished in a number of ways in software development projects. Coordination mechanisms include such things as a defined software process, a well-documented software architecture, and detailed project planning. Agile methods tend to eschew these formal coordination mechanisms in favor of frequent, intensive, informal communication among […]
Why Spoofing Is Serious Internet Fraud
Fake Web sites fool the unwary into divulging personal data, undermining all consumers' trust in e-commerce, no matter how trustworthy the authentic online business truly is.
Toward Nature-Inspired Computing
NIC-based systems utilize autonomous entities that self-organize to achieve the goals of systems modeling and problem solving.
Building Objects out of Plato: Applying Philosophy, Symbolism, and Analogy to Software Design
If we analyze a program as we do a story, we might ask: "What is the author really saying?"
Studying the Current Status of Technology Adoption
Examining the extent and nature of adoption of technologies by micro, small, and medium-sized manufacturing firms in the greater Boston area.
Can Distributed Software Development Be Agile?
Three organizations studied here suggest the answer is "yes," when the unique characteristics of both environments are successfully blended.
Globalization and turbulent business environments are two factors that create significant challenges for software organizations today. In the wake of the IT downturn, many organizations have turned toward globally distributed software development (GSD) in their quest for the silver bullet of high-quality software delivered cheaply and quickly. At the same time, the increasingly volatile requirements […]
Globally Distributed Software Development and Pair Programming
The benefits of pair programming are unquestioned provided the pairs work in close proximity. Globally distributed software development creates opportunities for remote pair programming. What must be done to yield the same benefits?
Ambidextrous Coping Strategies in Globally Distributed Software Development Projects
Strategies for enhancing flexibility and rigor.
Personalization in Privacy-Aware Highly Dynamic Systems
Enabling novel ways to personalize the relationship with customers without sacrificing their privacy.
Polaris: Virus-Safe Computing For Windows XP
It limits the damage a virus can do by using the operating system's own security mechanisms to enforce the Principle of Least Authority on individual applications.
By applying well-known principlesof intellectual property valuation,sales expectations, growth of maintained software, discounting to present value, and the like, a method is presented for valuingsoftware based on the income that use of the softwareis expected to generate in the future.
The IT community is accustomed to looking at the evolution of computers referring to the "laws" and "theories" of Moore and Bell. However, in the age of ad hoc and spontaneous networking and miniaturization, additional non-hardware-based dimensions may help to influence our conceptions of future developments in computing. The theory of computer-class formation from 1975 […]
Externally Verifiable Code Execution
Using hardware- and software-based techniques to realize a primitive for externally verifiable code execution.
Using a process modeling-based approach to address privacy and related legal issues arising in an RFID-based augmented reality shopping situation.
Using a server-side architecture to connect specialized enforcement mechanisms with usage control requirements and policies.
Perspectives For Cryptographic Long-Term Security
Cryptographic long-term security is needed, but difficult to achieve. Use flexible cryptographic tools, and have replacements ready.
Mobile Data Service Fuels the Desire for Uniqueness
Mobile content creators and service providers can leverage users' desire to be unique to expand revenue.
Asian Trio’s Adoption of Linux-Based Open Source Development
Three Asian economic heavyweights---China, Japan, and South Korea---join IT forces.
Tapping the Power of Text Mining
Sifting through vast collections of unstructured or semistructured data beyond the reach of data mining tools, text mining tracks information sources, links isolated concepts in distant documents, maps relationships between activities, and helps answer questions.
Variations2: Retrieving and Using Music in an Academic Setting
University music students, teachers, and researchers discover and retrieve musical works and navigate within them, then create annotations and share them with other users.
Music Score Alignment and Computer Accompaniment
By relating musical sound to musical notation, these systems generate tireless, expressive musical accompaniment to follow and sometimes learn from a live human performance.
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