315 research outputs found
Software maintenance: the need for standardization
Procedures are proposed to assist the Navy Management Systems Support Office in performing software maintenance. Hardware and software maintenance are contrasted. The key difference between the two -- the ease which software can be changed -- leads to the need for managing software change. Standardization of software is proposed as the method for managing software change. A model of software maintenance is advanced as the function for standardizing software maintenance. (kr)Prepared for: Navy Management Systems Support Office, Norfolk, VAhttp://archive.org/details/softwaremaintenanc00schnApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited
The state of software maintenance
A state of software maintenance survey is presented, indicating the incongruity of the simultaneous existence of important and neglect in this field. An overview is given of selected developments and activities covering the following topics: the "Maintenance Problem", models, methods for improving maintenance, metrics, maintenance information management, standards, maintenance of existing code, and surveys. The paper concludes with a prognosis of what is ahead in maintenance: a battle and tradeoff between the forces for maintaining the base of existing software and the forces for the evolution of new systems. An Appendix is provided for the reader who desires information about a software maintenance conference and a special interest group
An approach to software reliability prediction and quality control
December 5-7, 1972, Fall Joint Computer ConferenceThe increase in importance of software in command and control and other complex systems has not been accompanied by commensurate progress in the develop- ment of analytical techniques for the measurement of software quality and the prediction of software reliability. This paper presents a rationale for imple- menting software reliability programs; defines software reliability; and describes some of the problems of performing software reliability analysis. A software reliability program is outlined and a methodology for reliability prediction and quality control is presented. The results of initial efforts to develop a software reliability methodology at the Naval Electronics Laboratory Center are reported
Computer System Testing
Increasingly, the quantitative evaluation of computer software is recognized as critically important to the effective functioning of computer systems. At NPS, the model for statistically analyzing software error detection and correction processes during software functional testing has been developed. The model provides decision aids for controlling the quality ofcommand and control system software. The inputs to the model are error detection histories and the outputs are forecasts of the future behavior of error detection and correction processes
Spin reorientation in Na-doped BaFeAs studied by neutron diffraction
We have studied the magnetic ordering in Na doped BaFeAs by
unpolarized and polarized neutron diffraction using single crystals. Unlike
previously studied FeAs-based compounds that magnetically order,
BaNaFeAs exhibits two successive magnetic transitions: For
x=0.35 upon cooling magnetic order occurs at 70\ K with in-plane magnetic
moments being arranged as in pure or Ni, Co and K-doped BaFeAs samples.
At a temperature of 46\ K a second phase transition occurs, which the
single-crystal neutron diffraction experiments can unambiguously identify as a
spin reorientation. At low temperatures, the ordered magnetic moments in
BaNaFeAs point along the direction. Magnetic
correlations in these materials cannot be considered as Ising like, and
spin-orbit coupling must be included in a quantitative theory.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Analysis of computer performance in multiprogrammed processing
An analysis was made of the correlation between performance and resource usage variables of a given computer job and between the performance variables of a given job and the resource usage variables of other jobs in a multiprogramming environment. This analysis was performed in order to: (1) determine the mix and characteristics of jobs which lead to high performance, (2) provide regression equation predictors of performance for given resource utilizations, and (3) provide performance and resource utilization coefficients for use in a linear programming resource allocation model. The linear programming model is used to select an optimum job mix subject to production, resource usage and budgetary constraints. (Author)Nava1 Weapons Center,
China Lake, Californiahttp://archive.org/details/analysisofcomput00schnN60530 72PO-2-0056N
The Two-Dimensional Square-Lattice S=1/2 Antiferromagnet Cu(pz)(ClO)
We present an experimental study of the two-dimensional S=1/2 square-lattice
antiferromagnet Cu(pz)(ClO) (pz denotes pyrazine - )
using specific heat measurements, neutron diffraction and cold-neutron
spectroscopy. The magnetic field dependence of the magnetic ordering
temperature was determined from specific heat measurements for fields
perpendicular and parallel to the square-lattice planes, showing identical
field-temperature phase diagrams. This suggest that spin anisotropies in
Cu(pz)(ClO) are small. The ordered antiferromagnetic structure is a
collinear arrangement with the magnetic moments along either the
crystallographic b- or c-axis. The estimated ordered magnetic moment at zero
field is m_0=0.47(5)mu_B and thus much smaller than the available single-ion
magnetic moment. This is evidence for strong quantum fluctuations in the
ordered magnetic phase of Cu(pz)(ClO). Magnetic fields applied
perpendicular to the square-lattice planes lead to an increase of the
antiferromagnetically ordered moment to m_0=0.93(5)mu_B at mu_0H=13.5T -
evidence that magnetic fields quench quantum fluctuations. Neutron spectroscopy
reveals the presence of a gapped spin excitations at the antiferromagnetic zone
center, and it can be explained with a slightly anisotropic nearest neighbor
exchange coupling described by J_1^{xy}=1.563(13)meV and
J_1^z=0.9979(2)J_1^{xy}
Predicting Deviations in Software Quality by Using Relative Critical Value Deviation Metrics
Abstract We develop a new metric, Relative Critical Value Deviation (RCVD
Neutron scattering study of commensurate magnetic ordering in single crystal CeSb
Temperature and field-dependent magnetization measurements and
neutron scattering study of a single crystal CeSb are presented. Several
anomalies in the magnetization curves have been confirmed at low magnetic
field, i.e., 15.6 K, 12 K, and 9.8 K. These three transitions are all
metamagnetic transitions (MMT), which shift to lower temperatures as the
magnetic field increases. The anomaly at 15.6 K has been suggested as
paramagnetic (PM) to ferromagnetic (FM) phase transition. The anomaly located
at around 12 K is antiferromagnetic-like transition, and this turning point
will clearly split into two when the magnetic field T. Neutron
scattering study reveals that the low temperature ground state of CeSb
orders antiferromagnetically with commensurate propagation wave vectors
and , with N\'eel
temperature K. This transition is of first-order, as shown in the
hysteresis loop observed by the field cooled cooling (FCC) and field cooled
warming (FCW) processes.Comment: 7 pages,9 figure
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