1 INTRODUCTION 1 Goals The tutorial is intended to provide information on agents and agent technology to educate more of the software development and CHI community on the impact and nature of current Agent technology. By providing a reasonable backdrop for agents‚ this tutorial hopes to allow the student to pursue additional reading material with a more objective eye for that which is real and that which is hyperbole (hysteria?). 2 Objectives The tutorial student should leave with
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Software Crisis Software crisis was a term used in the early days of computing science. The term was used to describe the impact of rapid increases in computer power and the complexity of the problems which could be tackled. In essence‚ it refers to the difficulty of writing correct‚ understandable‚ and verifiable computer programs. The roots of the software crisis are complexity‚ expectations‚ and change. The major cause of the software crisis is that the machines have become several orders
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Temporary-Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) – An Operations Research Software TORA is an algorithm i.e. a mathematical set of instructions or programs (mathematical-software). It is an optimization system in the area of operations research which is very easy to use. Further‚ TORA is menu-driven and Windows-based which makes it very user friendly. The software can be executed in automated or tutorial mode. The automated mode reports the final solution of the problem‚ usually in the standard format followed
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the company name] | FORWARD SOFTWARE | Settlement or Else? | | | INTRODUCTION Forward Software‚ Inc. is a software company potentially facing a copyright infringement lawsuit. The spreadsheet product Forward sells includes an optional menu navigation system identical to that of Focus Software‚ the original developer of the menu system. Forward’s spreadsheet product currently dominates the market. Focus Software is currently suing a smaller software company that has also used this
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SOFTWARE ENTREPRENURSHIP blah blah Composition II blah blah November 16‚ 2012 Software Entrepreneurship A software is a program that can be run on a computer system. Over the past few decades‚ software has become less of an obscurity and more of an absolute necessity. Modern societies function heavily under the use of computing and software systems. Organizations such as Schools‚ financial institutions‚ small business‚ large corporations are heavily ran on software systems. Software is
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months. They would launch and run business for another six months until when they decide to either expand or not and continue to run business for six more months. At the end of 18 months‚ Bernard would definitely sell his interests. According to the case‚ Bernard’s value of original opportunity was $68.465K. Subtracted by the initial investment of $90K‚ the NPV was $21.535K. Thus‚ he planned to pass the opportunity. But his friends offered him alternatives which may generate positive outcomes to the
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Ermack B. Verzel June 26‚ 2013 Assignment Software Engineering 1. As software becomes more pervasive‚ risks to the public (due to faulty programs) become an increasingly important concern. Develop a realistic doomsday scenario where a failure of a computer program could do great harm (endanger human life or economies). Tech doomsday scenario: The Net goes down News flash: The Internet melted down today as millions of Web surfers found themselves redirected to the wrong sites
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probabilistic approach to finding failure-causing inputs based on Bayesian estimation. According to our probabilistic insights of software testing‚ the test case generation algorithms are developed by Markov chain Mote Carlo (MCMC) methods. Dissimilar to existing random testing schemes such as adaptive random testing‚ our approach can also utilize the prior knowledge on software testing. In experiments‚ we compare effectiveness of our MCMC-based random testing with both ordinary random testing and adaptive
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Software Metric Software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. Since quantitative measurements are essential in all sciences‚ there is a continuous effort by computer science practitioners and theoreticians to bring similar approaches to software development. The goal is obtaining objective‚ reproducible and quantifiable measurements‚ which may have numerous valuable applications in schedule and budget planning‚ cost estimation‚ quality assurance testing
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Computer software‚ be it the brain behind our VCR or the program created specifically to run a country’s missile defense system‚ are an absolutely integral part of helping to make our day-to-day lives that much less complicated. But when your blender comes screaming to life in your sleep‚ or your bank somehow “loses” your life savings and says “you only have 37 cents in that account”‚ who is to blame? According to liability laws that have been in question since the birth of what might be considered
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