Over the last years, attention in the manufacturing cycle has shifted towards Concurrent Engineering (CE). With this, the integration of the different product life cycle processes has become a focus in both research and industry. However, it is obvious that the integration of all manufacturing processes, taking into account all life cycle aspects from initial functional requirements to final di...

Software developers need to manage requirements. To do so, they can choose between “ultra-lightweight,” “lightweight,” and “heavyweight” requirements management tools. Ultra-lightweight tools are simple, flexible, and cheap but do not scale very well. Lightweight tools are also simple, flexible, and cheap but do not scale well. Heavyweight tools scale well, but are complex, inflexible, and cost...

The Unique Adequacy requirement of methods (UA) is proposed as a means of evaluating research in construction management. UA addresses the problems stemming from the significance of conscious action in constituting human organisation. These may be summarised as: first, that objectivity is a problematic concept in such studies; second, that the determination of meaning is their primary goal; and...

We present a modeling framework that supports the engineering of early requirements specifications for design of learner centric dynamic Learning Management System. The framework is based on i* modeling tool and Means End Analysis, that adopts primitive concepts for modeling early requirements (such as actor, goal, and strategic dependency). We show how pedagogical and computational requirement...

This paper presents four requirements for BDI-based agent programming languages to facilitate the implementation of autonomous robot control systems. The first requirement is to support the integration of these languages with robotic frameworks. The second requirement is real-time reaction and response to events. The real-time reactivity problem in the BDI architecture is discussed and a distri...

Requirements of a project are found to change in various ways during the course of the same. The effects of varying magnitude of requirement volatility on different project parameters like effort, schedule, etc have been well investigated. However, there has been no analysis on how different ‘patterns’ of requirement volatility influence selection of project management approaches and the result...

Software developers have been successfully tailoring software development methods according the project situation and more so in small scale software development organizations. There is a need to propagate this knowledge to other developers who may be facing the same project situation so that they can benefit from other people experiences. In this paper, use of situational method engineering in...

Wireless channels have a high channel bit error rate and limited bandwidth. The high bit error rate degrades the quality of multimedia transmission, and also increases the buffer size requirement at the client. In this paper, we propose a novel selective retransmission scheme for multimedia transmission over wireless ATM networks using the ABR service. Our objective is to develop a simple cost ...

The recent auctioning of wireless bandwidth in various countries indicates that the service provided by Telcos over these networks will be very expensive. A new type of architecture is currently evolving as a low cost alternative cellular wireless service by allowing the users to play the role of a wireless network operator. Some users of the current Internet may install a low cost base station...