The paper describes a method, which we used to evaluate the expected quality of software that was developed for a huge governmental system. The evaluation lasted nearly two years and was performed along with the software development process. The output that was expected by our customer consisted of a quality assessment accompanied by a set of recommendations on what to do in order to enhance th...

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Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) provides for developers the ability to easily reuse and assemble software entities to build complex software. It is based on the composition of prefabricated software entities called components. In this context, the selection step is very important. It consists of searching and selecting appropriate software components from a set of candidate componen...

The recent explosion of the Internet as a collaborative medium has opened the door for people who want to share their work. Nonetheless, the advantages of such an open medium can pose very serious problems for authors who do not want their works to be distributed without their consent. As new methods for copyright protection are devised, expectations around them are formed and sometimes improva...

Farzanegan et al. described quality of life evaluations of patients undergoing lumbar discectomy using the shortform 36 (SF-36) (1). They provided physical and mental health scores of patients which improved significantly 6 and 12 months after lumbar discectomy, leading to the conclusion that lumbar discectomy improves both the physical and mental health subscale of the quality of life in patie...

Background The main purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence healthcare quality in the Iranian context.   Methods Exploratory in-depth individual and focus group interviews were conducted with 222 healthcare stakeholders including healthcare providers, managers, policy-makers, and payers to identify factors affecting the quality of healthcare services provided in Iranian hea...