[Context & motivation] This research preview paper presents ongoing work on the metamodel of a free software requirements modeling tool called reqT that is developed in an educational context. The work aims to make an initial validation of a survey instrument that elicits views on the metamodel of the reqT tool, which aims to engage computer science students in Requirements Engineering (RE) thr...

Over the past few years, Grid Computing technologies have reached a high level of maturity. One key aspect of this success has been the development and adoption of newer Compute Elements to interface the external Grid users with local batch systems. These new Compute Elements allow for better handling of jobs requirements and a more precise management of diverse local resources. However, despit...

In webcasts that involve both a local and remote audience, the amount of interaction with remote participants is typically very limited. Video conferencing offers a much higher level of interactivity, but is constrained by high bandwidth requirements and poor scalability. Our research aims to bring some of the advantages of videoconferencing to ePresence, an open-source webcasting infrastructur...

The application of wireless sensor network technology is very promising to meet the demand for real-time monitoring of multimodal transport processes. In such an application context, requirements like energy efficiency, cost efficiency, and satisfying users’ information needs have to be met. Within the demonstration proposed with this paper, we outline the basic application potential of wireles...

offshore employees (expatriates) working abroad are an important part of any organisational workforce, working and competing globally. the specific requirements of expatriates are quite different as compared to the local workforce of that particular company. these requirements range from base salary to the educational needs of their families, children, and spouses. the employers especially work...

The activity of requirements specification demands considerable efforts from professionals that execute it. To accomplish the activity, it’s not enough to obtain the requirements with customers. It is necessary to have a clear and complete understanding of customer’s necessities. Considering the issues associated to requirement’s registration and management, and the necessity of process’s optim...

malaysia, as a small and developing country, must reduce carbon emissions because the country is one of the top co2-emitting countries in the asean region. therefore, the current study implements two environmental tax policies; carbon and energy taxes, in order to examine the impacts of these policies on the reduction of carbon emission in the whole of the economy by applying a computable gener...

In this paper it is argued that open source developers and research projects carrying out user requirement analysis should collaborate at a closer level. In particular, we discuss how developers could take advantage of the knowledge generated by COSPA, a research project aimed at studying and supporting the introduction of open source software in the Public Administration. COSPA focuses on offi...