Systematic evaluation of software product line architectures

The architecture of a software product line is one of its most important artifacts as it represents an abstraction of the products that can be generated. It is crucial to evaluate the quality attributes of a product line architecture in order to: increase the productivity of the product line process and the quality of the products; provide a means to understand the potential behavior of the products and, consequently, decrease their time to market; and, improve the handling of the product line variability. The evaluation of product line architecture can serve as a basis to analyze the managerial and economical values of a product line for software managers and architects. Most of the current research on the evaluation of product line architecture does not take into account metrics directly obtained from UML models and their variabilities; the metrics used instead are difficult to be applied in general and to be used for quantitative analysis. This paper presents a Systematic Evaluation Method for UML-based Software Product Line Architecture, the SystEM-PLA. SystEM-PLA differs from current research as it provides stakeholders with a means to: (i) estimate and analyze potential products; (ii) use predefined basic UML-based metrics to compose quality attribute metrics; (iii) perform feasibility and trade-off analysis of a product line architecture with respect to its quality attributes; and, (iv) make the evaluation of product line architecture more flexible. An example using the SEI’s Arcade Game Maker (AGM) product line is presented as a proof of concept, illustrating SystEM-PLA activities. Metrics for complexity and extensibility quality attributes are defined and used to perform a trade-off analysis

Silvipastoral systems on Amazon river floodplains: identification of multipurpose forest species based on traditional knowledge of riverside inhabitants.

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Effect of increasing doses of glyphosate on water use efficiency and photosynthesis in glyphosate-resistant soybeans.

The increase cultivated area of GR soybeans across different regions of the world have raised questions not yet answered as related secondary effects of glyphosate on physiology of GR soybeans. In this work, we attempted to measure the effect of increasing glyphosate doses on water absorption and photosynthetic parameters of soybean, cv. BRS 242 GR. Plants were grown in completed nutrient solution (Hoagland & Arnon, 1950) in a greenhouse equipped with an evaporative cooling system (25?35 : 20?22C day/night) under natural daylight. The commercially formulated isopropylamine salts of glyphosate was sprayed on foliar doses of 450, 675, 900, 1350 and 1800 g. e.a ha-1 either in single application at four leaf stage (24 DAE) and in sequential application (24 and 36 DAE) (50%-50%) at four and five leaf stages, respectively. Using an infrared gas analyzer (IRGA), fluorometer (pulse-modulated) and chlorophylometer, before and after herbicide application net photosynthesis (A), transpiration rate (E), stomatal conductance (gs), sub-stomatal CO2 (Ci), carboxilation efficiency (A/Ci), fluorescence (Fs), maximal fluorescence (Fms); yield of quantum efficiency (Y=Fm-Fs/Fms) and chlorophyll contents were monitored. In addition, water absorption was measured daily and biomass yield and water use efficiency (WUE) were estimated by harvesting plants at R1 stage. All measures of photosynthetic parameters (A, E, gs, Ci) and Fs, Fms and Y were affected by increasing glyphosate doses. Chlorophyll contents were reduced right after glyphosate use, however with decreased in chlorophyll content and carboxilation efficiency, (A/Ci) the values suggest that glyphosate might have interfering, in some way, in the synthesis of chlorophyll and/or in carboxilative metabolism of photosynthesis (Calvin cycle), which contributed to dry biomass reductions. Total amount of water absorbed and biomass production by plants were also decreased as glyphosate doses increased, with a more intense effect of single application, as compared to sequential. WUE was also significantly reduced with increasing glyphosate doses. Under single and sequential application, soybean plants need 13 to 20% and 8 to 14% more water to produce the same amount of biomass, respectively

Do plant species influence soil gas fluxes in tropical forests?

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A terminologia aplicada ao projeto INTAGRO na perspectiva da organização e difusão da informação e da representação do conhecimento.

Este trabalho apresenta a fase final do processo de mapeamento e representação do conhecimento com viés terminológico sobre o domínio da intensificação agropecuária no Brasil. Usando o Ambiente e-Termos e a partir da compilação de um corpus textual e da extração automática de termos efetuada, foi criada uma taxonomia com 639 entradas que representa os conceitos e termos deste domínio que juntos serviram de base para a tarefa definitória deste processo. Os resultados finais contam com 93 fichas terminológicas preenchidas e 470 trechos definitórios que representam o início do mapeamento deste domínio do conhecimento com motivação terminológica.CIIC 2012. No 12617