The development of an application based on a set of best software engineering practices involves first their selection. This process may become complex due to the variables involved. This paper presents an Operations Research approach for the selection of best software engineering practices for the development of applications or computational systems considering a series of alternatives and sel...

BACKGROUND Personalized medicine technologies can improve individual health by delivering the right dose of the right drug to the right patient at the right time but create challenges in deciding which technologies offer sufficient value to justify widespread diffusion. Personalized medicine technologies, however, do not neatly fit into existing health technology assessment and reimbursement pr...

What makes small IT companies’ web development practices for e-commerce successful is essential for small IT companies. Usually they do not have the resources to initiate research on such issues alone. The authors report on their work in progress towards the design of a system for promoting improved understanding of the Critical Success Factors for web development that supports the accumulation...

In this commentary, I discuss the science of professional development. A great deal is already known about how to provide professional development that supports teachers' implementation of evidence-based practices and the factors that enhance or inhibit teachers' sustained use of the practices. I summarize the work of researchers who have achieved some success in facilitating teachers' learning...

Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) is the research and development unit of Siemens USA. The Software Engineering department of Siemens Corporate Research spends much of its time doing consulting for Siemens Business Units. As a result, we have been involved in a large number of software development projects varying in size, complexity, and domain. Many of these projects were developed with global...

Knowledge workers manage multiple tasks, collaborate effectively, and leverage the spatial organization of their work area; all of these practices have a relationship to the construct of activity. In this research, I have synthesized data about knowledge workers’ practices, findings from the development and evaluation of early activity-based systems, and theoretical understandings of cognition ...

Existing software engineering literature acknowledges that the existence of fundamental software engineering practices would improve the success rate of IT projects. These practices range from having clear organizational standards for performing software development activities, utilizing CASE tools, all the way to project management practices. The purpose of this research is to measure the degr...

This article‘s primary objective is to unfold how teachers translate education for sustainable development (ESD) in a school context. The article argues that exploring tensions, ruptures and openings apparent in this meeting is crucial for the development of existing teaching practices in relation to ESD. The article draws on doctoral research involving interviews with researchers and teachers ...

Academic software development practices often differ from those of commercial development settings, yet only limited research has been conducted on assessing software development practises in academia. Here we present a case study of software development practices in four open-source scientific codes over a period of nine years, characterizing the evolution of their respective development teams...