A system has been developed that analyses the emotional content of web pages. Text is extracted from an embedded Internet browser and sent to a text-to-emotion engine that identifies the emotive content. An experiment was conducted that examines the effect the emotional content of the web page...

This article reports on the latest developments of our Emotional Stock Analyser application. The original application automatically analyses the text that is input by the user, using a text-to-emotion engine that identifies the emotive content. The whole text of newspaper articles about the...

Today software development has truly become a globally sourced commodity. This trend has been facilitated by the availability of highly skilled software professionals in low cost locations in Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Far East. Organisations endeavouring to leverage the opportunities...

In a globalised world economy, small and mediumsized companies (SMEs) are now entering the global software engineering (GSE) arena, but their involvement is more often opportunistic than carefully planned. Considered until a few years ago a major destination for outsourcing/offshoring, Ireland...

Software development has become a globally sourced commodity. Software development processes such as requirements elicitation, development of components and maintenance tasks are often distributed across sites and countries. This research paper focuses on the distribution of the testing process,...

The focus of this research is to outline the experience of a small-to-medium-sized European-based software development organization, utilizing the IDEALSM model while implementing a tailored Capability Maturity Model® (CMM®) software process improvement (SPI) program.[CMM is registered in the...