, Resource Allocation and Ethical Usefulness / Bruno de Vuyst, Alea M. Fairchild -- Software Piracy: Possible Causes and Cures …

I. Intellectual property rights / Richard Spinello, Herman Tavani -- II. Intellectual property rights in software …--justifiable from a liberalist position? Free Software Foundation's position in comparison to John Locke's concept of property / Kai …

in the fields of database systems and software development. It provides academicians, researchers, and database … elicitation technique selection / Miguel Aguiree-Urreta, George Marakas -- 6. IT value of software development / VenuGopal … transformation from IT implementations / T. Ariyachandra, L. Dong -- 18. Social networks structures in open source software …

"This book provides analysis, characterization and refinement of software engineering data in terms of machine learning … methods. It depicts applications of several machine learning approaches in software systems development and deployment, and … the use of machine learning methods to establish predictive models for software quality while offering readers suggestions …

A compilation of chapters from some of the best researchers and practitioners in the area of software maintenance, all … of whom share the goal of exposing recent techniques and methods for helping in software maintenance. The chapters in … as professors and students of Software Engineering, where software maintenance is a mandatory matter for study. …

. Conceptual model driven software development (CMDSD) as a catalyst methodology for building sound semantic Web frameworks …

the various aspects of intelligent software agents in distributed learning, including the methodological and technical …