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Background: The complexity of providing accurate software size estimation and effort prediction models is well known in the software industry, turning it into one of the most important research issues in empirical software engineering. Function points (...

This paper reports on our industry-academia project of using a functional language in business software production. The general motivation behind the project is our ultimate goal of adopting an ML-style higher-order typed functional language in a wide ...

The current world economic situation makes it necessary to develop new ways of establishing commercial relationships. One possible solution is to explore the advantages of virtual worlds, and for this reason online virtual trade fairs are becoming more ...

Online virtual trade fairs are becoming more popular in the business world. They enable companies to establish a economic trade relationship with their customers. This article presents a multi-user virtual trade fair developed using the technology of 3D ...

A business process, such as the process followed when ordering a book, describes the order of executing tasks (e.g., check inventory, verify credit card, and ship book). Business applications implement the business processes for the daily operations of ...

A business process, such as the process followed when ordering a book, describes the order of executing tasks (e.g., check inventory, verify credit card, and ship book). Business applications implement the business processes for the daily operations of ...

Most CRM products are focused more on sales management and reporting than on increasing revenue. This paper describes why they contribute so little to the bottom line and outlines the functionality that CRM systems must provide in order to have a direct ...

We discuss our experience in using model-driven techniques to build large business applications on a variety of architectures and technology platforms. Our foray into model-driven techniques began 12 years ago when our organization decided to develop a ...

Is it possible to motivate users of an application through software elements? Is it also possible to do so for business applications? Having a long lasting, monotone, little challenging work task does not motivate users a lot in continuing a task, ...

This article presents some examples of video content delivery and two-way video communication services and describes current trends in the digital media technology supporting these services. It also describes NTT's research efforts in subjects such as ...

Application development today is too labor-intensive. In recent years, very high-level languages have been increasingly explored as a solution to this problem. The Business Definition Language (BDL) is such a language, one aimed at business data ...