As a contribution to consider software projects to be risk investments, it is important the full standardization of either the planning methodology (as a subset of project management methodology) and the effort estimation method. We think there is important and…

When stakeholders are geographically distributed communication presents new challenges for software engineering community. In order to improve communication between stakeholders, we have previously proposed to apply learning style models to characterise the way people interact. In this work we enhance…

Nowadays, an increasing number of companies are using process improvement models as a mean to improve the quality of their processes and therefore the quality of their products and services. Although various improvement frameworks exist that provide organizations with aids…

During recent years, new software engineering paradigms like component-based software engineering and COTS-based development have emerged. Both paradigms are concerned with reuse and customisation of existing components. The use of COTS software has become more and more important in state-of-the-art…

El presente proyecto desarrolla un prototipo contador de personas, utilizando sensores piroeléctricos y ultrasónicos; que permiten determinar cuando una persona pasa por un punto fijo y a la vez, con la ayuda de un software específico, permite determinar la dirección…

In order to apply HAZUS methodology to a real seismic risk study outside USA, the
Oslo municipality was chosen as study region. The civil institutions were asked for neccesary information and we were provided with different ASCII and Arcview files…

This paper outlines the development of a power quality monitoring system. The system is aimed at assessing power quality and detecting critical areas throughout at distribution system. Such system integrates a hardware system and a software processing tool developed in…

This paper presents several concepts and techniques for quantifying electric signal entropy and variability for assessing power quality, showing their irregularities, such as the electrical sine wave which delivers power to industry and homes. The paper will review these concepts…

We begin this issue with our invited authors Dr. Annie Pilote, Dr. Marie-Odile Magnan and Dr. Cynthia Groff (...) three articles are selected papers from the Annual Interuniversity Roundtable on Research in Language and Literature Education (...). Comencem aquest volum…

A Matlab-based seismic risk tool has been developed and named RISKICG. This tool is
still in development, but it can provide damage results and economic losses for the
general building stock of a city or country and also for the…