Monthly Archives: September 2011

Unique Challenges of Global Software Engineering in Europe

Global Software Engineering (GSE) has become a global phenomenon and a huge number of researchers and practitioners have been exploring the challenges of developing software in global arrangement, also called global sourcing, and how those challenges can be addressed. However, … Continue reading

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Architecting in Global Software Engineering

Architecting and architectures of software intensive systems are known to have significant role and impact on software development processes and practices, and on the quality of the developed system (i.e., software or services). Hence, it is important that there is … Continue reading

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Building a private cloud for an academic environment

While the perceived and real technical and soio-technical concerns about public cloud solutions may be discouraging many organizations from migrating and/or using public clouds, many organizations are resorting to solutions involving private and community clouds. The increasing trend of private … Continue reading

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Cloud Computing – Adoption Barriers

Organizations and practitioners are well aware, and largely convinced, of the claimed benefits of cloud computing, however, they are concerned about the general lack of knowledge about the potential uncertainties and risks involved in adopting cloud computing. This is one … Continue reading

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Green Software Services

Given a significant amount of CO2 emission is caused by ICT, several efforts are geared towards making this sector more energy efficient – e.g., a huge amount of R&D resources are being allocated to make ICT systems and their use … Continue reading

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