This chapter examines themost common technologies usedforteaching oncollege campuses and the mostcommon barriers toadvanced uses of technology tools. Survey results consistently show thatthemajor barriers toincorporating technology into higher education are lack offaculty time, faculty doubts about therelevancy oftechnology todisciplinary learning, andinadequate technical supportfor facultyproj...

Acquisition of software intensive systems demands significant work prior to establishing the contract. One of the significant challenges of precontract phase is acquisition planning. The activities such as estimation of required effort and determining proper structures for the acquisition project require unique approaches. In this study, experiences gained from two large innovative military app...

This study explores and develops concepts leading to the combination of best practices from open source software development (OSSD) projects with emerging capabilities for virtual system acquisition. Virtual system acquisition is an evolving approach to demonstrate significant improvements in reducing the cost and cycle time for acquiring software-intensive systems, while improving their qualit...

We present a nonconstraining and low-cost online signature acquisition system that has been developed to enhance the performances of an existing multimodal biometric authentication system (based initially on both voice and image modalities). A laboratory prototype has been developed and validated for an online signature acquisition. © The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attr...

As acquisition processes have become more complex, they appear to no longer be governable by traditional approaches. Missed budgets, delayed deliveries, and expensive canceled systems appear to becoming more prevalent. Numerous investigations have been conducted attempting to elicit the factors that prevented success. Those systems that succeed in terms of usability, budget, and delivery schedu...