Software transactional memory — In computer science, software transactional memory (STM) is a concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory in concurrent computing. It is an alternative to lock based synchronization. A… … Wikipedia
Software visualization — [(Diehl, 2002; Diehl, 2007; Knight, 2002)] is concerned with the static or animated 2 D or 3 D [(Marcus et al., 2003)] visual representation of information about software systems based on their structure [(Staples Bieman, 1999), size (Lanza,… … Wikipedia
Software engineering — (SE) is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software.[1] It is the… … Wikipedia
Software patent debate — is the argument dealing with the extent to which it should be possible to patent software and computer implemented inventions as a matter of public policy. Policy debate on software patents has been active for years. [Cite book |last=Nichols… … Wikipedia
Software deployment — is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. These activities can occur at the producer site or at the… … Wikipedia
Software development effort estimation — is the process of predicting the most realistic use of effort required to develop or maintain software based on incomplete, uncertain and/or noisy input. Effort estimates may be used as input to project plans, iteration plans, budgets, investment … Wikipedia
Software analysis pattern — Software analysis patterns or simply analysis patterns in software engineering are conceptual models, which capture an abstraction of a situation that can often be encountered in modelling. An analysis pattern can be represented as a group of… … Wikipedia
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM) — Software and System Modeling (SoSyM) is an international, English speaking journal on Software and System Modeling founded in 2002 by Robert France and Bernhard Rumpe, is published quarterly by Springer. [ [http://www.sosym.org/ Software and… … Wikipedia
Software-defined radio — A Software Defined Radio (SDR) system is a radio communication system where components that have typically been implemented in hardware (i.e. mixers, filters, amplifiers, modulators/demodulators, detectors. etc.) are instead implemented using… … Wikipedia
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