Motivated by applications in batch scheduling of jobs in manufacturing systems and distributed computing, we study two related problems. Given is a set of jobs {J1, . . . , Jn}, w...
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and organizational issues a...
Two different types of development tasks are distinguished: Clear and unclear development tasks. Based on hypotheses from organizational theory two different designs of software d...
This paper describes a new technique for embedding a message within structured shapes. It is desired that my changes in the shape owing to the embedded message are invisible to a ...
The computation of a shape's orientation is a common task in the area of computer vision and image processing, being used for example to define a local frame of reference and...