EU Territorial Impact Assessment: Under what Conditions?: Final report

Report Commissioned by the Ministry of VROM. Since the start of the making of the ESDP, back in 1989, there has been interest in a ‘Territorial impact assessment’. This interest has been revamped now that the Territorial Cohesion green paper is out. Yet, at the EU level there is still little guidance on how a TIA might be done and on what it...

Using Cluster Analysis to Improve the Design of Component Interfaces

A short (4-page) version of this paper is published in: ASE 2008 - 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 15-19 September 2008; doi:10.1109/ASE.2008.54 For large software systems, interface structure has an important impact on their maintainability and build performance. For example, for complex systems written...