The evaluation of metric of performance is useful in the evaluation of protocols, in the improvement of applications, in the content choice, among others. The obtaining of these metrics, it continues being a complex task because most of the time…

Nowadays, technology has become the key element to carry out the management, organization and fulfillment of the electoral process. The electoral process should be understood as the actions that entail the making of the electoral roll, citizen identification, the act…

In C++, Generative Programming (GP) techniques are being used to generate highly customized and optimized products automatically manufactured at compile-time; to provide these functionalities increasing compiling power is required.
This work presents an improved compilation model for C++ by adding…

Previous work in software product lines showed an increment of up to 10 times in productivity and product quality [SEI Prod_Line]; because of this, the software product line approach is critical for the success of a development project including a…

An Electronic Government Procurement (e-GP) project, as most of complex software systems development and implantation, requires sophisticated and strong managerial concepts and skills. So, an effective and consistent managerial framework is needed.
Traditional project management models, that propose a series…

There is a lot of information published on the Web that can be useful for decision-making.
The work reported in this paper focuses on how to extract and integrate this information in order to construct a Data Warehouse that makes…

This work presents a methodology with basic steps to follow before developing Interorganizational Information Systems (IOSs), which constitute the support for the execution of business processes (BPs) in new structural forms made up of various organizations, called Interorganizational Networks (IONs).…

The need for privacy has become a major priority for both governments and civilians desiring protection from signal interception. Widespread use of personal communications devices has only increased demand for a level of security on previously insecure communications. This paper…

Data quality is a research area strongly investigated during the 90’s. However, few companies in Argentina apply data quality methodologies or tools during the analysis, design or implementation phases of software development process. Developers generally use techniques to design systems…

Many computational applications need to look for information in a database. Nowadays, the predominance of nonconventional databases makes the similarity search (i.e., searching elements of the database that are "similar" to a given query) becomes a preponderant concept. The Spatial…