There is still much that is unknown about the interactions among financial markets, and about the relationships between stock prices and exchange rates. This topic gains attention during financial crises, and many papers try to find empirical regularities emerging from financial data, or to study contagion processes. In this paper we present a study on the interplay between two stock markets and one foreign exchange market extending the framework provided by the Genoa Artificial Stock Market. There are four different trading strategies, and the agents are divided into two groups: those who trade in the stock markets and those who trade in the FOREX. We studied three market conditions: the FOREX dynamics, the behavior of the two stock markets together with the FOREX, and finally we conducted a what-if analysis for testing the effects of a inflationary monetary shock of one currency affecting all of the three markets

Several Content Management Frameworks (CMF), either open source or with a commercial license, are available to help the publication of huge amounts of information and to develop Web applications. Unfortunately, developing Web applications through a CMF is not exempt from cost and time overruns, as in traditional software projects, and currently there is no estimation model able to adequately measure the effort of Web application development. This work presents a new methodology for estimat­ing the effort of Web applications developed with a Content Management Framework (CMF). We present the new key elements for analysis and planning, needed to define every important step in developing a Web application through a CMF. Using those elements, it is possible to estimate the effort needed to build such an ap­plication in man-days. We also present the experimental validation of the proposed methodology per­formed on a 9-project dataset, provided by three different Italian software companies

We present a study of the effectiveness of estimating web application development effort using Function Points and Web Objects methods, and a method we propose – the Revised Web Objects (RWO). RWO is an upgrading of WO method, aimed to account for new web development styles and technologies. It also introduces an up-front classification of web applications according to their size, scope and technology, to further refine their effort estimation. These methods were applied to a data-set of 24 projects obtained by Datasiel spa, a mid-sized Italian company, focused on web application projects, showing that RWO performs statistically better than WO, and roughly in the same way as FP

Abstract. This paper reports the results from a survey concerning the use of Agile Methodologies (AM), techniques and tools for Web Programming. The survey lasted from October to December 2013, and involved 112 Web application developers from 32 countries. Its main purpose was to assess the usage of AMs, and of specific practices and tools, in the context of Web programming and of related technologies, such as Content Management Systems. The results confirm a broad adoption of AMs among Web developers, and the prevalence of Scrum among AMs.

Web applications are among the most popular and relevant kinds of application. Most Web applications are developed using a content management framework (CMF). CMF helps to accelerate the publication of large amounts of information and the development of Web applications. However, developing Web applications through CMF is not exempt from cost and time overruns, as in traditional software projects. Currently, there is no estimation model able to adequately measure the effort of developing a Web application.\ud This work presents a new methodology, called web framework points, to estimate the effort of Web applications developed with CMF. Web framework points is a hybrid methodology, composed of a sizing phase, which follows specific guidelines, and an effort estimation phase, obtained by applying a cost model to the size model of the project to estimate. The sizing of the project takes into account not only usual functional requirements, as in function points analysis, but also elements specific for developing a Web application through CMF. We also present the experimental validation of the proposed methodology, performed on a dataset of 29 real-world projects, of which 83% show an estimation error of less than 25%