The exponential dissemination of proximity computing devices (smartphones, tablets, nanocomputers, etc.) raises important questions on how to transmit, store and analyze data in networks integrating those devices. New approaches like edge computing aim at delegating part of the work to devices...

Advances in the communication technologies, along with the birth of new communication paradigms leveraging on the power of the social, has fostered the production of huge amounts of data. Old-fashioned computing paradigms are unfit to handle the dimensions of the data daily produced by the...

Software factories seek to develop quality software in a manner comparable to the production of other industrial products, establishing improvements in their production process so as to be more competitive. Productivity, one of the competitiveness pillars, is related to the effort required to...

Food security (FS) challenges exist in both the developed and the developing countries, the difference being the severity and the proportion of the population affected. Previous studies maintain that chronic food insecurity at subsistence farming level has persisted due to a number of factors...

This article describes how risk assessment is a significant aid in decision-making process. It is usually performed using models and a ‘model' is a function of some parameters which are usually affected by uncertainty due to lack of data, imprecision, vagueness, and a small sample size.. Fuzzy...

This article describes how quickly picking up some valuable information from massive RFID event stream often faces with the problem of long detection time, high memory consumption and low detection efficiency due to its stream characteristics of volume, velocity, variety, value and veracity. Aim...

This article describes how serial crimes are very interesting for study in the absence of proper and solid evidence. From a high volume of criminal cases of similar types, it is difficult to detect the crimes that were committed by the same offender or not. The process of linking of crimes which...

This article describes how experience in domain specific modeling can be captured and abstracted in a domain specific modeling language (DSML). Modeling with a DSML results in quality models. Patterns of enterprise application architecture (PofEAA) is a rich set of patterns that can be used by...

This article focuses on IS development methodologies, especially on new agile scaling frameworks. A significant need for large-scale agile is presented together with the evidence of its usage in companies. The aim of this article is to examine selected agile scaling methodologies and frameworks,...

While the quality of products is a competitive advantage for very small software development organizations, the usage of Software and Systems Engineering standards amongst such very small organizations is extremely low. A key factor in the literature explaining this lack of quality standards...