Implementation of methods for perceived quality evaluation is an integral part the automotive manufacturers’ strategic development plans. The correct definition requirements one significant factors influencing customer’s purchase intention. This study seeks to understand how customers perceive and prioritize attributes that are associated with geometrical materials a premium car market segment....

This paper describes how to rank refactoring patterns to improve a set of quality attributes of a piece of software. The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to express the relative importance of the quality attributes and the relative importance of refactoring patterns in regards to those selected quality attributes. This ranking of refactoring patterns can be used to focus the refactori...

We introduce a compact coding of image information which explicitly separates visual information into geometric information (orientation) and structural information (phase and colour) and temporal information (optic flow). We investigate the importance of these visual attributes for stereo matching on a large data set. From these investigation we can conclude that it is the combination of diffe...

How do actors involved in the acquisition of a capital good assess the importance of its attributes? And what is the role of expertise? Numerous instruments exist for measuring the importance attached to attributes, but little is known about the importance assessment process that precedes these importance judgments. Expectations concerning the behaviour of actors facing non-routine importance a...

We review the definition of evolvability as it appears on the literature. In particular, the concept of software evolvability is compared with other system quality attributes, such as adaptability, maintainability and modifiability.

Purpose This research investigates when and how brands influence attribute importance weights. Most past studies modelling consumer decision processes treated the brand of a product as an parallel to price, color or size product, result, those assigned equal (i.e. non-contingent) weight across for each attribute. In contrast, this study introduces brand-contingent attribute-weighting process, i...