Probability Distributions.- Linear Models for Regression.- Linear Models for Classification.- Neural Networks.- Kernel Methods.- Sparse Kernel Machines.- Graphical Models.- Mixture Models and EM.- Approximate Inference.- Sampling Methods.- Continuous Latent Variables.- Sequential Data.- Combining Models.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/stvr.247

Problem frames: analyzing and structuring software development problems. By Michael Jackson. Published by Addison‐Wesley, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., ACM Press Series, 2001. ISBN: 0‐201‐59627‐X, 390 pages. Price: U.K. ?32.95, U.S.A. $49.99, soft cover.

Measuring Physical Activity and Energy Expenditure

Distributed Software Development (DSD) has recently evolved, resulting in an increase in the available literature. Organizations now have a tendency to make greater development efforts in more attractive zones. The main advantage of this lies in a greater availability of human resources in decentralized zones at less cost. There are, however, some disadvantages which are caused by the distance that separates the development teams. Coordination and communication become more difficult as the software components are sourced from different places, thus affecting project organization, project control, and product quality. New processes and tools are consequently necessary. This work presents the findings of a systematic review of the literature related to the challenges concerning Distributed Software Development, whose purpose is to identify the solutions and improvements proposed up to the present day.

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Challenges and improvements in distributed software development: a systematic review

The process of communication.

A Software Architecture Intended to Design High Quality Groupware Applications.

Designing software architectures to meet both functional and non-functional requirements (FRs and NFRs) is difficult as it oftentimes relies on the skill and experience of the architect, and the resulting architectures are rarely derived directly from the requirements models. As a result, the relationships between the two artifacts are not explicitly captured, making it difficult to reason more precisely whether an architecture indeed meets its requirements, and if yes, why. This chapter presents a goal-oriented software architecting approach, where FRs and NFRs are treated as goals to be achieved, which are refined and used to explore achievement alternatives. The chosen alternatives and the goal model are then used to derive, using the provided mapping rules, a logical architecture, which is further mapped to a final concrete architecture by applying an architectural style and architectural patterns chosen based on the NFRs. The approach has been applied in an empirical study based on the 1992 London ambulance dispatch system.

Goal-Oriented Software Architecting

Construction of interaction observation systems for collaboration analysis in groupware applications

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is one of the most prominent trends in software development nowadays. This approach has proven to alleviate many problems that usually appear in software development processes. In particular, the possibility to automatically translate models into executable code reduces bugs and development/deployment times, among other important advantages. Then, transformation and mapping from domain abstract models (technology-independent) to technology-dependent models, through platform independent models, become crucial issues. For that reason, both business analysis and software engineering communities recognize the importance of business process modelling in software development. In this paper, a proposal for the process of generating and validating model transformations by using ontologies is introduced. The proposal starts with the description of business processes within an organization and it is intended to contribute to the automation and quality of the architectural design.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/9907/7785913/07785947.pdf

Ontology-based Transformation from CIM to PIM

Functional and non-functional requirements must be taken into account early in the development process of groupware applications in order to make appropriate design decisions, e.g. spatial distribution of group members and group awareness, which are related to the main characteristics exhibited by CSCW systems (communication, coordination and collaboration). This research work presents a proposal intended to facilitate the development of groupware applications considering non-functional requirements such as reusability, scalability, etc. In order to achieve these objectives, the proposal focuses on the architectural design and its implementation, with emphasis on the use of a realization of the technological Linda coordination model as the basis for this implementation. The outcome is a distributed architecture where application components are replicated and event control is separated. This work is part of a conceptual and methodological framework (AMENITIES) specially devised to study and develop these systems.

Manuel Noguera

Papers

A Software Architecture Intended to Design High Quality Groupware Applications.

Goal-Oriented Software Architecting

Construction of interaction observation systems for collaboration analysis in groupware applications

Ontology-based Transformation from CIM to PIM

Leveraging the linda coordination model for a groupware architecture implementation