Evolving Pacing Strategies for Team Pursuit Track Cycling

Team pursuit track cycling is a bicycle racing sport held on velodromes and is part of the Summer Olympics. It involves the use of strategies to minimize the overall time that a team of cyclists needs to complete a race. We present an optimisation framework for team pursuit track cycling and show how to evolve strategies using metaheuristics for this interesting real-world problem. Our experimental results show that these heuristics lead to significantly better strategies than state-of-art strategies that are currently used by teams of cyclists

Multiple View Process Support within a Browser-based Environment

In recent years, software development companies have come to realise the benefits that can be gained through the formal definition of software processes. Subsequently, process centred software development environments (PCSDEs) have emerged as potentially useful tools within the context of the modelling and enactment of these processes. Particular interest in this area of research has been focussed on providing multiple views of software processes specifically tailored to suit the roles of people working within a project team. The use of PCSDEs, however, has been limited in industry; one reason for this is that people are generally reluctant to introduce new tools into an already cluttered workspace. This thesis details an approach to designing and developing a multiple view PCSDE that can be seamlessly integrated into an already commonly used tool -- a Web browser. i Acknowledgements Firstly, thanks go to my supervisor Chris Marlin, from whom I learned a great deal throughout the co..

A quality attribute driven method for software process evaluation

Trent Kroeger, Neil Davidsonhttp://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/serp/serp2009.htm

a defect typology to support software process verification and validation

Harvard University; University of California; University of Minnesota; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory UniversityApproaches to software process development that are based on the principles and practices of software engineering have been advocated by many researchers as a means to produce software processes that meet the needs of process users. Such approaches requi

Software and systems engineering process capability in the South Australian defence industry

It is well recognised that that there is a correlation between process maturity in large organisations and project success. In response to this, a number of process models and standards have been developed for the large-project environment. The Australian defence industry, unlike many overseas countries, relies to a much greater extent on small and medium-sized enterprises to supply equipment and services. Hence, the question has arisen about the scalability of overseas concepts to the Australian defence industry situation. To address this question, a research project has been undertaken to identify the current baseline of process capability for the South Australian defence software and systems engineering industry. This paper presents findings from the research project, including a general characterisation of the industry process capability and a discussion of the common perceived strengths and challenges of organisations within the industry. The project’s objectives, research design and findings are then compared and contrasted with similar research activities conducted in different parts of the world. Finally, the paper draws conclusions based on the body of work presented and suggests areas for future research and development to address industry needs.Elena Sitnikova, Trent Kroeger, Stephen Coo

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