posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-04-02 - Investigations into Upward Planar Digraphs
We investigate the problem of testing digraphs for upward planarity. We show that a connected digraph is upward planar if and only if its biconnected components have upward planar drawings with certain... read more
posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-05-06 - An assessment of supports and barriers for female researchers in Science, ...
To date, there is a shortage of women in Science, Engineering and Technology both internationally and in Ireland. The Science Foundation Ireland Institute Planning Grant provided the opportunity to conduct... read more
posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-05-04 - Distinguishing characteristics of the IETF Standard Development Process ...
In this paper the characteristics of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard development process are examined. These characteristics help it to rapidly produce successful protocol specifications... read more
posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-04-03 - Thematic Review of Software Reengineering and Maintenance
The Software Architecture Evolution (SAE) group at the University of Limerick in conjunction with their industrial partner are currently researching a variety of software reengineering techniques to recover... read more
posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-05-03 - Component Reconn-exion: Component Recovery Using a Variation on Software ...
Component-based development presents itself as a means of improving software development productivity by enabling reuse. However, the problem exists that the majority of legacy systems are not implemented... read more
posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-05-01 - An Analysis of the Use of Friends in C++ Software Systems
A commonly held belief is that a friend is a violation of encapsulation and as a consequence its use would result in poorly designed and difficult to understand software. However, little empirical evidence... read more
posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-05-02 - Building Blocks of Upward Planar Digraphs
The upward planarity testing problem consists of testing if a digraph Γ admits a drawing such that all edges in Γ are monotonically increasing in the vertical direction and... read more
posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-05-05 - The Structure, Content, and Format of IETF RFCs
In this paper, the structure, information content, and format used by the Internet engineering task force (IETF) to produce request for comments (RFC) documents is examined. The structure, content, and... read more
posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-05-07 - What really happened after SPI assistance in Ireland?
This paper describes my planned research into long-term benefits of software process improvement (SPI) with respect to training and/or consulting improvement programmes on which I worked in 1994-1999.... read more
posted 24/03/09
UL-CSIS-06-01 - Applying ACO Metaheuristic to the Layer Assignment Problem
This report presents the design and implementation of Ant Colony Optimisation (ACO) based heuristic for solving the Layer Assignment Problem (LAP) for a directed acyclic graph (DAG). This heuristic produces... read more