"The aim of this book is to analyze the relationship between agile methods and open source, presenting the basic principles and practices and providing evidence through a set of specific empirical investigations"--Provided by publisher.

Section 1. Project management and cost estimation -- Chapter 1. Software project and quality modelling using Bayesian networks / Norman Fenton, Peter Hearty, Martin Neil, Lukasz Radlinski -- Chapter 2. Using Bayesian networks for web effort estimation / Emilia Mendes -- Chapter 3. Optimizing...

As the air transportation system's capacity increase has not met the rapid growth in demand, maximizing the utilization of the infrastructure is preferred over expanding it. To make the most efficient use of the existing resources, it is then necessary to develop and implement advanced...

Open-source software development is a production model that exploits the distributed intelligence of participants in Internet communities. This model is efficient because of two related reasons: it avoids the inefficiencies of a strong intellectual property regime and it implements concurrently...

Twenty years of software development in China : a look back at history from my perspective -- Software industrialization and globalization : opportunities and challenges for China -- On the road towards innovated-in-China : examples from SAP Labs China -- From made-in-China to innovated-in-China...

Evolution of IT architecture -- Concept of process-centric architecture -- Business process management (BPM) -- Process model -- Process execution -- Benefits of process-centric architecture -- A typical manifestation of process-centric architecture -- SOA for services -- Standards and...

"Practical Goal Programming" is intended to allow academics and practitioners to be able to build effective goal programming models, to detail the current state of the art, and to lay the foundation for its future development and continued application to new and varied fields. Suitable as both a...

History and Philosophy of Goal Programming -- Goal Programming Variants -- Formulating Goal Programmes -- Advanced Topics in Goal Programming Formulation -- Solving and Analysing Goal Programming Models -- Detection and Restoration of Pareto Inefficiency -- Trend of Integration and Combination...