Many software projects are inevitably associated with various types and degrees of uncertainty. It is not uncommon to see software project spiral out of control with escalated resource requirements. Thus, risk management techniques are critical issues to information system researchers. Previous empirical studies of US software firms support the adoption of development standardization and user r...

Multifaceted knowledge encompassing people’s qualifications, resource capabilities and compatibilities provides an empirical basis for organisations to learn from their experiences. This knowledge ensures improvement of project workforce quality, which is critical not only for modern processes but also to maintain a competitive superiority. However, many process modelling and project management...

The growth in electronic and digital publishing on the World Wide Web has led to the development of a wide range of tools for generating metadata. As a result, it can be difficult to select the appropriate type of application and the best metadata tool to support a project’s metadata needs. The Dublin Core Tools (DCMI Tools) Community recognizes this need and is developing an application profil...

Evaluation of Information Technology is mostly considered as decision making on Information Technology investment proposals. However a selected investment proposal still has to be implemented. Actual realisation of such proposals is not as straightforward as it seems. Therefore activities must be started to manage conformance to the initial proposal. One of such activities is ‘Software Product ...

Existing ADLs (architecture description languages) have an advantage of formally specifying the architecture of component-based systems. But ADLs have not come into extensive use in industries since ADL users should learn a distinct notation specific to architecture, and ADLs do not address all stakes of development process that is becoming diversified everyday. On the other hand, UML is a de f...

At Safecomp 2009, we presented a foundation for requirements analysis of dependable software. We defined a set of patterns for expressing and analyzing dependability requirements, such as confidentiality, integrity, availability, and reliability. The patterns take into account random faults as well as certain attacks and therefore support a combined safety and security engineering. In this pape...

background: computerized preventive screening software is a cost effective intervention tool to address non-communicable chronic diseases. shiraz smart screening software (ssss) was developed as an innovative tool for qualified screening. it allows simultaneous smart screening of several high-burden chronic diseases and supports reminder notification functionality. the extent in which ssss affe...

Functional programming languages are ideally suited for developing dependable software, but not much work have been done on modeling functional programs. Although UML is mainly based on concepts which are native to imperative object-oriented programming languages, this chapter shows how – through the profile mechanism – it can be used to model software that is to be implemented in a functional ...