Molecular diagnostics has become one of the dominant platforms in clinical laboratory medicine. Technological improvements, from automated sample preparation to real time amplification technology, provide the possibility to develop and run assays for a growing number of clinical questions. However, quality assurance and quality control issues have often remained underdeveloped but are still cri...

Cloud service intermediation is becoming increasingly recognized as a key component of the cloud computing value chain. Existing cloud service intermediaries already offer capabilities such as integration, customization or aggregation brokerage, but in the future, enterprises will require much more sophisticated capabilities going far beyond what is available today. The types of brokerage capab...

Software quality assurance has been a heated topic for several decades. If factors that influence software quality can be identified, they may provide more insight for better software development management. More precise quality assurance can be achieved by employing resources according to accurate quality estimation at the early stages of a project. In this paper, a general procedure is propos...

In spite of the controversy surrounding the practice of using offensive computer security exercises in information assurance curricula, it holds significant educational value. An exercise and architecture for an asymmetric (offense-only) security project, nicknamed “Blunderdome”, has been deployed twice at the University of Tulsa: once to graduate students in a security engineering course, and ...

In this paper we introduce and illustrate a systematic and rigorous approach for the elicitation and the modelling of assurance requirements inherent to business services offered by a service system. The approach is based on guidelines provided by the ISO 15504 norm which is applicable for the assessment of any type of process in order to check its compliance against assurance requirements. We ...

The evaluation of a conceptual model, which is an outcome of a qualitative research, is an arduous task due to the lack of a rigorous basis for evaluation. Overcoming this challenge, the paper at hand presents a detailed example of a multifaceted evaluation of a Reference Model of Information Assurance & Security (RMIAS), which summarises the knowledge acquired by the Information Assurance & Se...

The study examines the impact, added value and relevance of accreditation as a way assuring quality at an institution higher learning in field architecture. qualitative impact was examined through survey presented to students, teachers employers. A quantitative assessment carried out by reviewing academic indicators, such pass rate or weighted average per year, before after processes. private e...

S ystems engineering is regarded as an established sound practice but not always delivered effectively. Sixty-two recent successful space launches indicate that mission assurance can be practiced well. At the same time, recent U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and NASA studies of space systems [1, 2, 3, 4] document notorious major budget and schedule overruns, some exceeding 100 perce...