The information explosion has led inevitably to the need to design and implement software solutions to the new information environments faced by any person, group, company, and nation. Measuring software product quality has been neglected for a long time but now both producers and researchers...

The information explosion has led inevitably to the need to design and implement software solutions to the new information environments faced by any person, group, company, and nation. Measuring software product quality has been neglected for a long time but now both producers and researchers...

As the cloud technologies are largely studied and mobile technologies are evolving, new di-rections for development of mobile learning tools deployed on cloud are proposed.. M-Learning is treated as part of the ubiquitous learning paradigm and is a pervasive extension of E-Learning technologies....

Although China became the world's leading patent filer in 2011, patent quality is still a serious issue in the country. This article first provides a statistical snapshot of this situation and then discusses how China's network of patent-related policies and practices in certain cases actually...

While patent filings in China have been exploding in recent years, analysis based on a variety of metrics shows that this increase has not necessarily translated into a ‘proportionate’ rise in patent quality. Further, based on projections quantifying “highest quality” patents in China,...

This paper uncovers over 10 central level and over 150 provincial/municipal level patent targets, mostly to be met by 2015, within a wide range of Chinese policy documents. The analysis suggests there are weaknesses in certain targets due to the absence of important criteria for ensuring patent...

We consider the evaluation of a business process quality, focusing on the robustness facet that is a very important quality dimension in this context. Our goal is to define metrics taking tacit knowledge into account. For this, we (re-)use informations coming from an existing structural analysis...

Nous nous intéressons dans cet article à l’évaluation de la qualité d’un processus métier, plus particulièrement à la facette de robustesse qui est une importante dimension de la qualité dans ce contexte. Notre objectif est de proposer des métriques d’évaluation permettant de...